Healthcare Standards Paper

Healthcare Standards Paper

Healthcare Standards Paper

In order to accelerate the creation of health care standards, members of government, academics who teach health care, and professionals in the field of health care and technology have to work together and collaborate to develop the standards that will work for all. Each plays a role in the finally delivery of health care to patients and so each should play a part in the formulation of the standards that are created that will govern how quality care is provided. As Reid, Comptom, Grossman and Fanjiang (2005) have noted, inter-collaboration among the various stakeholders and role players should include “calls for public- and private-sector investments in research and development, demonstration projects, new approaches to reimbursement, expanded outreach and dissemination efforts by public- and private-sector health care quality improvement organizations, actions to advance the development of health care data, software, and network standards and other components of a National Health Information Infrastructure.” Nursing instructors, doctors, health care professionals and legislators all have to work together to understand what the appropriate standards of care should.

As there are many vendors involved in providing care, quality cannot be ensured unless each industry takes part in the creation.

However, to promote this inter-collaboration and to accelerate the change, the role of government in the creation of health care standards should be more pronounced. The government is the body that has the power to legislate and the power to oblige the industry to create standards of health care that can be used in a meaningful way. The health care industry itself is simply too big to act on its own: it needs guidance and a call to action from the government, moved by legislation. As Schoenbaum, Audet and Davis (2003) put it, “ideally, leadership would emerge from within the industry, but that is unlikely in a system with so many independent components” (p. 185). The fact is that in the industry there are “more than 5,500 acute care hospitals, 18,000 nursing homes, 800,000 physicians, and myriad other health professionals; licensure boards and regulatory agencies in all fifty states and other jurisdictions; multiple accrediting organizations; hundreds of professional organizations, boards, and societies; hundreds of insurers; and thousands of self-insured payers” (Schoenbaum et al., 2003, p. 185). That means there are simply too many members within that industry for anything to get moving organically. To accelerate change, the government would have to organize the main…

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