scholarly journals Leveraging Academic-Service Partnerships: Implications for Implementing the RWJ/IOM's Recommendations to Improve Quality, Access, and Value in Academic Medical Centers

ISRN Nursing ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Anne Xippolitos ◽  
Marie Ann Marino ◽  
Norman H. Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Academic Service Partnerships ◽  
Future Of Nursing ◽  
Current Health Care System ◽  
Iom Recommendations

Transformation of the current healthcare system is critical to achieve improved quality, safety, value, and access. Patients with multiple, chronic health conditions require integrated care coordination yet the current health care system is fragmented and complex. Nursing must play a key role in constructing a system that is value based and patient focused. The Robert Wood Johnson/Institute of Medicine (RWJ/IOM) report on the future of nursing outlines strategic opportunities for nursing to take a lead role in this transformation. Partnerships across academic institutions and health care systems have the potential to address issues through mutual goal setting, sharing of risks, responsibilities, and accountability, and realignment of resources. The purpose of this paper is to present Stony Brook University Medical Center's (SBUMC) academic-service partnership which implemented several of the RWJ/IOM recommendations. The partnership resulted in several initiatives that improved quality, safety, access, and value. It also characterized mutual goal setting, shared missions and values, and a united vision for health care.

Full Disclosure When Bad Things Happen

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherri Lee Simons
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Full Disclosure ◽  
Care Systems

SINCE THE RELEASE OF THE Institute of Medicine report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” much attention has been focused on redesigning health care systems and implementing safer practices.1 At the same time, health care providers continue to grapple with the ways in which institutions and caregivers respond when preventable injuries occur.2–5

scholarly journals Cooperate, coordinate, communicate or collaborate?

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Sandra G Leggat
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Individual Outcomes ◽  
System Components ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Competitive Behaviour ◽  
Improve Health

IN HEALTH CARE we use these ?C? words regularly ? describing what health professionals, patients, consumers, politicians and managers need to do to improve health care systems. A snapshot of each of these is provided below. The Institute of Medicine?s Crossing the Quality Chasm report suggested that cooperation among clinicians was a priority.1 Yet game theorists have long shown that cooperation results in better individual outcomes than competitive behaviour. 2 Driven to achieve the best outcomes, people will choose to cooperate more often than they choose to compete. Most recently, game theory analysis has even been applied to the evolution of cancer, with the resulting conclusion of ?malignancy from cooperation?3 ? tumours grow because it is the nature of cells to cooperate. Given this tremendous innate ?force? for cooperation, why is there the appearance of less cooperation among health system components than we would like?

160: Cost-Effectiveness of Medical Management Strategies of Nephrolithiasis in Different Health Care Systems

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 42-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yair Latan ◽  
David M. Wilhelm ◽  
David A. Duchene ◽  
Margaret S. Pearle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Medical Management ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Care Systems

Barriers versus promotion: Culturally sensitive healthcare for elderly Turkish migrants in Austria and Germany

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Nevin Altıntop
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Turkish Migrants ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Individual Care ◽  
Care Systems

What is the perception of Turkish migrants in elderly care? The increasing number of elder migrants within the German and Austrian population is causing the challenge of including them in an adequate (culturally sensitive) way into the German/Austrian health care system. Here I introduce the perception of elder Turkish migrants within the predominant paradigm of intercultural opening of health care in Germany as well as within the concept of diversity management of health care in Vienna (Austria). The qualitative investigation follows a field research in different German and Austrian cities within the last four years and an analysis based on the Grounded Theory Methodology. The meaning of intercultural opening on the one hand, and diversity management on the other hand with respect to elderly care will be evaluated. Whereas the intercultural opening directly demands a reduction of barriers to access institutional elderly care the concept of diversity is hardly successful in the inclusion of migrants into elderly care assistance – concerning both, migrants as care-givers and migrants as care-receivers. Despite the similarities between the health care systems of Germany and Austria there are decisive differences in the perception and inclusion of migrants in elderly care that is largely based on an 'individual care' concept of the responsible institutions. Finally, this investigation demonstrates how elderly care in Germany and Austria prepares to encounter the demand of 'individual care' in a diverse society.

Modernization, Globalization, Trends, and Convergence in Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiri Noy ◽  
Patricia A. McManus
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Public Private Mix

Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross-national differences. As predicted by modernization theory, we find convergence in overall health spending. The public share of health spending increased over this time period, with no convergence in the public-private mix. The findings indicate robust heterogeneity of national health care systems and suggest that globalization fosters human investment health policies rather than neoliberal, “race to the bottom” cutbacks in public health expenditures.

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