HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality

• School: UCLA
• Department: Health Policy and Management
• Course: HLT POL 100
• Professor: Marcy Boroff

Document Summary

Americans now know that high-quality, safe care is not automatic. Furthermore, the past 20 years have been marked by widespread efforts to assess and improve health care quality. Patient protection and affordable care act (aca) and the american recovery and reinvestment act of. 2009 (arra) created greater momentum toward ensuring quality care by (a) accelerating interest in linking payment for services to results and (b) creating multiple provisions that put providers on a path to high-quality, affordable health care. Quality is defined by the institute of medicine (iom) as the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge . The iom identifies six dimensions of quality: health care should be safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable (iom, 2001). A frequently used shorthand definition of quality is the right care for the right patient at the right time.