Quality in Healthcare



Introduction

Health care, as the name suggests refers to caring for health. It is the industry of the state whose purpose is the organization and provision of affordable medical services to the public to preserve and enhance its level of health. It includes all hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and human resources of doctors, nurses, engineers, technicians, medical devices, researchers and all who work in this area. It also encourages the supporting industries for medical services as an industry of medicines and devices, and others (Stamatis, 2007). It also includes medical research, education and creates opportunities for successive generations to support this sector.

There are various problems relating to quality that are evident in the field of health. The Quality of Health Care cannot be defined from the unique perspective of an actor in the health system. Each patient provider, insurer or governing body has a different perception which without contradicting and agreeing with that of others emphasizes that or those you value determinants.

Factors Required for Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Risk Management

All areas of quality improvement of health can be improved, and IPRO and other Organizations for Quality Improvement in the nation and territories have to make sure this happens. Other examples of other quality initiatives include:

Ensuring that transitions from hospitals to other medical facilities as health agencies and nursing home are more effective and safe.

Making sure that doctors provide preventive services and screening to help prevent patients' condition worse. For example, mammograms, flu shots, screening and early detection of cancer, etc.

Ensuring that health services in hospitals and nursing homes are provided in a safe manner and do not cause problems such as infections or ulcers.

Ensuring that Medicare beneficiaries are aware of and receive all the health services they need to stay healthy.

Six Sigma and Health Care

Six sigma is one of the core components of total quality management. In order to improve quality in the healthcare sector, six sigma should be well implemented with an integrated approach.

Objectives of Six Sigma and Health Care

Six Sigma is for health care is still a very young subject. The name Six Sigma comes from statistics and is the measure of the standard deviation. The higher the sigma level of a process, the more error-free is its performance. Six Sigma stands for the long-term goal of zero defects rate processes to be optimized (Hagland, 2009).

Application of Six Sigma

The application of Six Sigma in healthcare in essence is still in its infancy. However, mainly because the existing cost pressures and the quality of patient safety and satisfaction is the concept that is suitable only for hospital. Six Sigma is designed to reduce all forms of variations inside a range corresponding to customer satisfaction. The juxtaposition of the two approaches, both oriented process, allows to control precisely the overall improvement process taking into account all customer expectations for quality, timeliness and cost. The implementation of six sigma is essential to control the defects and quality issues in health care as discussed ...