Comparative effectiveness research has proven itself to be an important component in health care for identifying the best and most cost-effective interventions and standardizing their use. “A Comparative Effectiveness Research System (CER System) is a mechanism for synthesizing research about different medical interventions and translating it into guidelines for or restrictions on the use of different types of therapies, in an attempt to maximize good outcomes for patients” (Jonas, 278). The main goal of the CER System is to maintain and standardize quality and of health care and control the costs. In the comparative effectiveness research system, researchers can compare the benefits and harms of treatments, procedures, medications, and many more aspects in healthcare to see which one is more effective in preventing, diagnosing, treating, or even monitoring patients conditions. Treatments and procedures can be very different depending on the situation, and the comparative effectiveness research system develops the most effective approach to every situation.
The biggest area for quality improvement in the scenario will focus on improvement for the patient. Areas that are lacking and can use improvement for this aspect are: systems that affect the patient, patient safety, and coordination of care. In the scenario listed patients are not being brought down on time for their therapies which in turn is affecting their quality of care by not receiving the utmost care. This could be due to a lack of communication between staff in the facility and could be improved with better provisions or more staff in place. Patient satisfaction is also being compromised due to these issues affecting therapy.
Some of the main benefits of using these guidelines and the biomedical model however can be more easily seen when looking at an infection like HIV and AIDS. The stigma that surrounds these infections is so great that sometimes sufferers are ashamed to seek help or advice. Using the biomedical model, the patients can seek help from a doctor knowing they won’t have any blame put on
Quality of Care and Physician Quality Reporting Initiative To explain the concept of payment/reimbursement based on quality of care is to first define what quality of care means. The simplest definition I could find states “Quality (of care) is a measure of the ability of a doctor, hospital or health plan to provide services for individuals and populations that increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge…” (Web Definition: Quality of Care, n.d.). The U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines ‘quality’ as “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. What this really means is that each individual consumer should receive the best possible health care available every time services are needed. Health care providers should provide care that meets the needs of each individual patient, including the use of appropriate advances in medical technology.
The Competitive Market Model and U.S. Health Care Pharmaceuticals Government involvement and its pros and cons Pharmaceuticals plays a key role in health care, with health care being a social right it proposes government to be involved in the drug markets. States are responsible for maintaining the product safety, quality, efficacy, and keeping health costs fair to the society. Price consideration may be under government intervention. When government intervenes in pricing, it sets a standard price for the drug throughout the country so that everyone can have equitable access to these medications. This also includes the affordability range, and it stops unnecessary consumption, limits price growth to avoid excess societal burden.
There are a lot of pros and cons of pay-for-performance in health care (see appendix for charts.) the chart will show what people think about pay-for-performance and the good they think it does for the health care system but it also shows the cons what people think is wrong with the pay-for-performance program. However, many are not satisfied by pay-for-performance including congress who are not on board with the Medicare reimbursement because the policy relies on the evidence-based medicine it is used to developed a “clinical practice guidelines and compensate health care providers according to their compliance with the best practices dictated by a
Because health psychology gives its emphasis to major approaches like the behavioural approach, the cognitive-behavioural, psychophysiological, clinical psychology, general systems theory approaches et al, these theories will always make a great positive impact on addressing human problem, because the main role of health psychology is to apply health psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the analysis and improvement of the health care system and health policy formation, the prevention of illness and disability and the enhancement of outcomes of those who are ill or disabled (APA Divison 38). Health Psychologist have been promoting health by running programmes and campaigns to help people achieve good health, i.e. making people stop smoking and reduce the amount of alcohol they consume, this used in applying the Antonovsky’s ( 1979) sense of coherence is a one theoretical concept. Healthy Psychologist have been able to apply
The fed has to set a lower reserve requirement, which allows banks to loan out more money, which generates more interest, which could lead to periods of inflation and could have worse consequences if the government does not react quickly enough. Inflation would decrease the purchasing power of an individual's money, which would lead to more saving and less spending. (Fried) Less spending would mean less money being injected into the circular flow of our economy and would lead to economic crisis. However, many critics also use this to determine how national debt does not have a huge impact on the economy. A huge national debt has no effect on the money market.
. ASSIGNMENT HEALTH ECONOMICS TOPIC:Contrast the role of information in competitive market and in the health care markets. Include in your answer a discussion of perfect information, information asymmetry. Market responses such as agency and the government’s role with respect to information in the health care market INTRODUCTION This paper interplay between the competitive and health care markets and the role of agency and government regarding health care market responses. The concept of health covers the psychological and physiological changes of human life.
Assignment 1: Health Care Economics Strayer University HSA 510 Sophia S. Medlin Dr. Pica-Branco Debate whether or not economics apply to health care. Be sure to discuss in what ways. Health is a vital part of living and in my opinion goes hand in hand with the way people decide to live their lives. When looking at the economics of health care it rewrites the overall study of how make decisions in regards to their health. When we examine the issue it mostly focuses on the people to people interactions; which in most cases are physician to patient, the entire health care system, and the health care policies defined by the government (Lawrence R. Wu, 001).