Important Factors to Continuous Quality Improvement
1. Discuss
the impact of managed care on the U.S. health care delivery system.
2. Discuss
the importance of high-performing teams to quality improvement efforts and the
approaches used to improve the outcomes produced by these teams.
3. Discuss
the implementation of continuous quality improvement into healthcare
organizations, and about CQI and the transformation to the “learning”
organization.
4. Discuss
the impact of information management and technology for CQI in health care
organizations and why it took so long to realize the need for this technology.
5. Discuss
the involvement that the Care Delivery Organizations, Managed Care, Purchasers,
and the Quality Improvement Collaborative have in the CQI process of Primary
Care Practices.
6. Discuss
the barriers of implementing the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) process
into primary care organizations.
7. Discuss
the barriers that have been identified regarding the technological approach to
computerized order entry and the electronic health records.
8. Discuss
the impact of “health care disintermediation” of CQI in healthcare
and the alternatives suggested for the “re-intermediating delivery”
by the physicians.
Your discussion should be based on information from data,
research, literature, and discussion of issues and trends. You must clearly
identify the topics that have the greatest impact on Continuous Quality
Improvement in our health care system and support your discussion.





