eLearning for undergraduate health professional education
The World Health Organization's Department of Health Workforce in collaboration with the Department of Knowledge, Ethics and Research commissioned this report to provide countries with evidence to inform and guide the adoption of innovative, technology-enabled models into health professional education, so as to augment capacities to scale up production, enhance quality and relevance of training, and adopt equity-focused policies.
Interprofessionalism in Practice: What are the Barriers and Incentives?
In this presentation, Everette James, JD, MBA, shares his experience regulating the hospitals and nursing homes as Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, where he led expansion of the scope of practice for advanced practice professionals. He discusses the research underway at the University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute to measure the impact of team-based care delivery in both inpatient and community settings.
Promoting interprofessional collaboration: Pharmacy students teaching current and future prescribers about Medicare Part D
BACKGROUND: Nearly all health professional students and prescribers, regardless of specialty, will care for older adults who are enrolled in or eligible for the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit. Given the growing numbers of older adults, the increased burden of chronic disease, and the escalating costs of health care, health professional students and prescribers across disciplines should learn strategies to promote cost-effective prescribing and collaborate with pharmacists who are experts in medication use and costs.
The triple aim: Care, health, and cost
Improving the U.S. health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care. Preconditions for this include the enrollment of an identified population, a commitment to universality for its members, and the existence of an organization (an "integrator") that accepts responsibility for all three aims for that population.
Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America
America's health care system has become far too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Pervasive inefficiencies, an inability to manage a rapidly deepening clinical knowledge base, and a reward system poorly focused on key patient needs, all hinder improvements in the safety and quality of care and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness.
Aligning expansion of graduate medical education with recent recommendations for reform
Connecting the dots: Interprofessional health education and delivery system redesign at the Veterans Health Administration
Health systems around the United States are embracing new models of primary care using interprofessional team-based approaches in pursuit of better patient outcomes, higher levels of satisfaction among patients and providers, and improved overall value. Less often discussed are the implications of new models of care for health professions education, including education for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other professions engaged in primary care.
The case for a National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
On 10 September 2012 United States Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, announced the selection of a National Coordinating Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. Her announcement confirmed that the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center would lead the center in partnership with other educational and health care delivery sites around the country.
An Examination of the Healthcare Workforce Issues in Rural America
In the Eigth Annual Report of the Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages (ACICBL), the committee writes that health care professional shortages, insufficient numbers of faculty members, demographic changes in the rural population, a strained delivery system, and emerging health care needs affecting quality of care combine to make unprecedented demands on the rural health care system.