Historical & Benchmark Developments
The year that Medicare and Medicaid legislation was established.
1965
Regulation and licensure occurs at this level of government
State
The type of reimbursement structure that incentivizes volume over value.
Fee for service
This demographic aspect of the US population is contributing to workforce shortages.
Aging.
A form of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, is how the WHO defines this.
Health
Type of political system that balances power between the federal government and the states.
Federalism
The Department of Health and Human Services
Medicaid and Medicare are examples of this type of insurance.
Public
Initiatives that have been prioritized over the last couple of decades to ensure that the health care workforce reflects, and can adequately address, its population
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Uninsured individuals are more likely to go here for routine health care.
Emergency Department
Association that repeatedly lobbied against the establishment of universal health care legislation.
American Medical Association
System of laws, policies, power distribution, and economic structures that shape the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age
Political Determinants of Health
This type of payment system set a dollar amount based on the average cost of treating a particular illness or disease, intended to reduce lengths of hospital stays.
Diagnosis Related Groups
Burnout
The various non-medical conditions that influence health.
Social determinants of health
The first private insurance company.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
The US Supreme Court, in part based on the ideals of federalism, struck down this provision of the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional.
Mandatory Medicaid-expansion
These include the US's spending on health care by type of goods or services delivered, for example.
This type of hospital system is primarily responsible for training future health care workers.
Academic medical centers
The three things that comprise the IHI triple aim.
Improving population health, improving patient experience, and decreasing per capita costs.
The establishment of this type of organization in the 1970s was intended to drive down spiraling health care costs and increase quality
Managed Care Organizations (MCOs)
A collaborative decision-making strategy that systematically evaluates the health, well-being, and equity impacts of policy choices across non-health sectors
Health in all policies
This act attempted to improve the quality and continuity of care beyond the acute episode that resulted in the initial hospitalization.
Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
This defines the procedures, actions, and services that a licensed health care professional can legally render based on their education, training, and state regulations.
Scope of practice
This problem-solving theory is premised on understanding individual parts of a system as well as how these parts interact through recurring patterns to produce a whole
Systems thinking theory