Question

Analyze the ways the health-care system fails to meet the minimum standards for human health care

Answer 1

The health care systems have some limitations in delivering High quality health care.Some of the major limitations are

• vision—Only a few models of collaboratories in health care are available, and these are not well known.

• Rewards—Limited incentives and resources exist to establish collaboratories.

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and security— Following patients over time and across settings requires careful attention to privacy and security issues.

• Measurement—Only a limited number of patient-based “gold standard” metrics exist for gathering both generic and condition-specific information.

• Standardization—Resistance exists among many clinicians to using standard, fixed-field data entry, and there are concerns about wasting time and doing work that is not value added.

• Patient role—It is a new role for the patient to act as a primary reporter of key information using standard approaches. Exercising this role will require changes in patients' expectations and an understanding that their information-providing task is essential for their own care as well as for improving care and advancing science.

These challenges suggest the need to develop demonstration programs to evaluate,validate, and refine the system.