Delivery of Healthcare

Week 9 Assignment

Improvement Plan- Part 2

This week, you should continue your Improvement Plan: Part 2. As you work on your Improvement Plan, be sure to incorporate peer-review feedback (as appropriate). This week, focus on the areas of:

· Information technology (value-based care model)

· Be equitable (IOM Aim)

· Your country’s comparison to the value-based care model

To prepare for this Assignment:

· Refer to your Community Profile and Continuum of Care document that you developed in Week 3 and return to your continuum of care scenario.

· Return to your Improvement Plan: Part 2 document, which you should have downloaded in Week 7 and continued to update during the past 3 weeks.

· Revisit the peer-review feedback that you received during the past 3 weeks and update your Improvement Plan based on the feedback you received.

Submit your Improvement Plan: Part 2 to address the following:

· Summarize the original continuum of care plan submitted in Week 3, as well as the healthcare settings that you identified.

· Propose at least one improvement for each of the following value-based care elements and IOM Aims.

· Week 7: Systems integration

· Week 7: Be efficient

· Week 8: Geography of care

· Week 8: Be timely

· Week 9: Information technology

· Week 9: Be equitable

· Compare your community’s model of healthcare delivery to the delivery model of other countries that closely align with the following value-based care elements, including an explanation of what lessons—positive or negative—your community could learn from the other countries:

· Week 7: Systems integration

· Week 8: Geography of care

· Week 9: Information technology

· Provide a summary and conclusion for your paper.