Comprehensive Report: IOM's Six Domains of Healthcare Quality

This report provides an analysis of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) six domains of healthcare quality, focusing on patient safety, timeliness, effectiveness, equity, efficiency, and patient-centeredness. The paper discusses the importance of these domains in healthcare, emphasizing the role of techn...Read More

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Abstract
This paper will discuss the safety of patients and the quality of services that patients
should get. The paper also discusses the impacts of the quality of healthcare to be received by
patients, concerns on equity and efficiency of the services to patients. It also discusses the
manner in which healthcare is provided and the categories of quality measures on healthcare
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Professional Sources of Information on IOM
The Institute of medicine is associated with the nationalized academies of science. It
serves as a nonprofit institution committed to providing good leadership on health care (Baker,
2017). It provides an excellent basis for leaders and managers to achieve access to existing
research and publications initialized on health care (Harrison, 2016). The Institute of Medicine
defines healthcare quality in the following aspects.
Safety
Patients need to be taken care of by healthcare providers intended to help them. This is
supported by various technologies (Baker, 2017). Systems can ensure the correct patient gets the
correct drug in the precise dose through the exact direction at the accurate moment (Harrison,
2016). A strong document management structure can alert providers so as to bring dogmatic
agreement and general eminence care.

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Timeliness
Reducing the duration of patients to be treated has got a huge impact on quality (Testa &
Simonson, 2017). Technologies and tracking schemes streamline patient traffic and clinical
processes which can assist ascertain timely liberation of care.
Effectiveness
To ensure optimal outcomes all care should be based on evidence while shunning
underuse and abuse (Harrison, 2016). Statistics analytics and other organization technologies
admits the information of the patient controlled in the report and contrast it in order to sketch the
results of patients with alike profiles (Guyatt & Feeny, 2015). This enables providers prescribe
effective treatments for patients.
Equity
Health care should be provided to all patients regardless of sex, ethnicity, geographical
position or socioeconomic rank (Harrison, 2016). Current technologies like telemedicine as well
as isolated patient monitoring can impact the maximum rank of care (Baker, 2017). Providing
quality health Care is so much important. Technologies help providers reduce their workload.
Health content services help providers connect to content to deliver good care.
Efficiency
Providers must minimize wastage in order to deliver quality care to patients. Wastage of
equipment supplies energy and ideas should be abolished (Guyatt & Feeny, 2015). Intelligent
data capture, automated workflow, and document management system can help reduce the cost
of paying for such.

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Patient Centeredness
Health care should be given in a deferential way and well to patients. Discrete data,
clinical documentation and all medical images are used as sources of information deliver patient-
centered care (Testa & Simonson, 2017). Clinicians access all patients’ information from core
platforms so as to provide good information to deliver care.
Types of Quality Measures on Domain of Health Care
Stand for quality in health care develops and supports specific recommendations for
policymakers considering health care reform.
Alliance forces for quality which helps committees work toward sustainable health care quality
through alliances.
National priorities partnership engages patients and families in managing their health.
Conclusion
The Institute of Medicine describes healthcare quality through the above aspects. Patients need
to be taken care of by healthcare providers to ensure high-quality care. Effectiveness, equality,
and efficiency should be enhanced while delivering care.

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References
Baker, D. W. (2017). The meaning and the measure of health literacy. Journal of general
internal medicine, 34-40.
Guyatt, G. H., & Feeny, D. H. (2015). Measuring health-related quality of life. Annals of internal
medicine, 118(6), 118-143.
Harrison, A. F. (2016). RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in health and disease.
Biochemical Journal, 66-76.
Testa, M. A., & Simonson, D. C. (2017). Assessment of quality-of-life outcomes. New England
journal of medicine, 45-56.