Triple Aim For Improving Health Outcomes

“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice.” Public Health Reports. Association of Schools of Public Health. n.d. Web. 14 July 2015. This paper claims that the PPACA will cut the number of uninsured Americans in half. The act attempts to provide nearly universal coverage and improve the quality and equity of said coverage through reforms to insurance standards and the marketplace. It also attempts to improve the quality of healthcare and the efficiency of its delivery by allowing consumers to edge the system into a more integrated state and measuring performance. It attempts to encourage preventive medicine by targeting chronic illnesses and funding community-based medicine. These changes will bring huge opportunities for improvement in the system, many of which are subtle and nuanced and will only be seen as the plan rolls into act over the next few

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee created six “Aims for Improvement” that healthcare should embrace in

The top objectives for Kaiser Permanente is known as the “triple aim” which is healthier populations, affordable care, and creating ideal patient care experiences. The objective of preventative healthcare for all members is pushed throughout Kaiser Permanente through the thrive campaign. This aligns with the triple threat equaling healthier populations and affordable care. The healthier the population the lower the utilization of services equaling lower premiums and rates.

The health care system must change to improve our nation’s health and takes strong steps to address the unsustainable growth of health care costs in America. We still have a long way to go before our health system become effective. We still have population that do not have insurance, have difficulties accessing their health care, or their needs are not met within the healthcare system. It is an investment in prevention and wellness and increasing access to primary care physician.

Increasing healthcare costs without a corresponding increase in health outcomes is something the United States has been dealing with for years. In fact, it is estimated that thousands of individuals die every year due to errors (To Err is Human, 2000). Finding a way to reign in those costs and increase health outcomes has been a hotly debated topic in United States politics. With the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) there is now a sense that containing costs maybe on the horizon. This paper will focus on the Triple Aim model to improving health outcomes. It will breakdown implementation of Triple Aim, define the key element population health, and provide an example of a Triple Aim success story.

The Triple Aim provides guidance for the creation of strategies to address the suitable delivery of health care services such as, improving patient care coordination and chronic disease management, preventative health, and eliminate the misuse of healthcare services. The fundamental idea with initiating the triple aim is to simultaneously work at all three goals to achieve better patient health and health care systems. According to Bucher & O 'Day (2014), Triple Aim is the answer to optimize health system performance and patient outcomes. An analysis of Triple Aim reveals several difficulties with implementation, the importance of population health, attempts to “bend the cost curve”,

Since the advent of health insurance in the 1950s, there have been many models of care that are come to the scene in an attempt to both control cost of care and improve quality of care. Insurance models came into being because the fee for service model used until then was proving to increase cost of healthcare without any measure of quality of services and care provided. Health insurance models have evolved from the basic hospital offered insurance to employer sponsored coverage plans. The US health system is broken both financially and quality wise with more than 20% of gross domestic product being spent on healthcare (Blackstone, 2016).

Health care spending grew 3.7 percent in 2012 and the traditional way medicine was practiced had to change (Edlin, Goldman & Leive, 2014). The Affordable Care Act and Population Health was designed based on the concept of “The Triple Aim” to foster change in patient care by providing better care for individuals, better health for populations and decrease the cost of health through improved care (Perez, 2014). As a result, population management has moved to the front by linking services, reducing hospital admission, risk stratification, pursing preventive medicine, ensuring medication review and lowering health care cost. Several organizations have follow in the pursuit of population management by forming Accountable Care Organizations

The cost and quality of health care and access to it is one of the foremost aspirations in national health care. And the overall main aims of reforming the American health care system is to reduce costs, enhance the quality of and access to health care [1].

The author compares the specific goals and claims of the Affordable Care Act with the actual experiences in the areas of its implementation. The assessment is made in terms of access, costs and affordability, and quality of care provided. The article uses secondary data to present the perimeters of the assessment. According to the findings, affordable healthcare cost has not been realized and over 37 million Americans are likely to remain uninsured even after full implementation of ACA in 2019. More millions are likely to remain underinsured as profiteering will dominate the culture of healthcare in the US. The author notes that there is need to address the for-profit and bureaucracy in the US healthcare system and concludes by laying out benefits and economic, moral and sociopolitical lessons from ACA within the first five

In 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and affordable Care Act into law, otherwise known as Obamacare. The goal of this law is to expand healthcare and effectively lower the cost of health care, but there are plenty alternatives that need to be addressed as well to lower the cost, like promoting health of the entire body to prevent disease and putting an end to nonessential tests and scans during treatment. Obamacare is expected to lower costs by $200 billion dollars in the first ten years and $1 trillion dollars in the decades after that. It is foolish to expect a solution to arise overnight, but there are many adjustments that can be made to actively work towards a more efficient health care system.

A health care system that improves on the 6 aims would ensure a fundamentally better care.

The health care delivery system of the United States is unique compared to the other developed countries. The health care system of United States relies on the development and implementation of new health care technology. The use of new technology in the field of health care will help to provide services with increased quality and efficacy (Shi & Singh, 2015). The external forces affecting the provision of health care delivery also has an inevitable role in the functioning of the system. The affordable care act (ACA) or “Obama Care” was signed into law by president Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 with the goal to give more Americans access to affordable, quality health insurance, and to reduce the growth in the U.S. health care spending (Ober & Craven, 2010).

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as “Obamacare”, has drastically altered healthcare in America. The goal of this act was to give Americans access to affordable, high quality insurance while simultaneously decreasing overall healthcare spending. The ACA had intended to maximize health care coverage throughout the United States, but this lofty ambition resulted in staggeringly huge financial and human costs.

There is an ongoing debate regarding the potency of the new health care reform—Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—from the outset of its proposal. Many attempts had been presented in the past years but the root of the issue remains prevalent today, that there is a lack of quality in its delivery and the cost of care is continuously increasing beyond national economic edges. In this manuscript, we will discuss several factors that can positively sway the long-term significance, impact, and structure of the United States health care system. Many are wondering whether the Universal Coverage, to which will give more control and