Review the article attached on focusing on the Six Aims for Improvement presented in the landmark report “Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative.”

Review the article attached on focusing on the Six Aims for Improvement presented in the landmark report “Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative.”

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· Consider these six aims with regard to your current organization, or one with which you are familiar. In what areas have you seen improvement? What areas still present challenges? As a nurse leader, how can you contribute to improving the organization’s achievement of these aims?

· Select one specific quality or safety issue that is presenting a challenge in the organization. Consider at least one quality improvement strategy that could be used to address the issue, as well as which of the six aims for improvement would then be addressed.(Please use attached article to answer this part).

· Reflect on your professional practice and your experiences with inter-professional collaboration to improve quality and safety. How has inter-professional collaboration contributed to your organization’s efforts to realize the IOM’s six aims for improving health care? Where has inter-professional collaboration been lacking?

Question:

Post a description of the quality or safety issue you selected and a brief summary of the impact that this issue has on health care delivery. Describe at least one quality improvement strategy used to address this issue. Then explain which of the six “aims for improvement” are addressed by the strategy. Finally, explain how inter-professional collaboration helps improve quality in this area.

The two Aims I choose:

a).Quality of Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions:(Have seen Improvement at my organization). Health care for mental and substance-use conditions has a number of characteristics that distinguish it from overall health care, such as the greater use of coercion into treatment, separate care delivery systems, a less developed quality measurement infrastructure, and a differently structured marketplace. These and other differences raised questions about whether the Quality Chasm approach is applicable to health care for mental and substance-use conditions and, if so, how it should be applied.

Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series (2006) examines those differences and finds that the Quality Chasm framework is applicable to health care for mental and substance-use conditions, and describes a multifaceted and comprehensive strategy to do so.

b).Encouraging Information Technology Implementation 🙁 Still a challenge at my organization ): Authors of the Quality Chasm report underscore the importance of a dramatically improved information technology infrastructure to support a 21st century health system.  Building blocks for such a system include an electronic health record system and national standards. Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record (2003) identifies eight care delivery functions that are essential for such records to promote greater safety, quality and efficiency.

Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care (2003) provides a detailed plan to facilitate the development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding, and classification of patient safety information.

This report addresses key areas related to the establishment of a national health information infrastructure, including: a process for the ongoing promulgation of data standards; the status of current standards-setting activities in health data interchange, terminologies, and medical knowledge representation; as well as the need for comprehensive patient safety programs in health care organizations.