Action on IOM Report The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: To err is human: Building a safer health system was a wake up call for both the general public and healthcare providers regarding the...

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Health Care Reform
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Introduction
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is a self-governing, non-profit organization working outside of government to offer impartial and dependable recommendation to the public and decision makers. In 1999, an IOM report revealed that as many as 98,000 people die in hospitals each year because of medical e
ors. Medical e
ors generally have high costs and the report addresses how to prevent them. Within the report, recommendations allotted will be assessed to measure action impact. The paper will shed light upon overall up to date patient safety procedures to gauge whether the recommendations of the 1999 IOM report were incorporated into the American health system henceforth (“IOM of the National Academies,” n.d).
The Four IOM Recommendations
The first recommendation given was directed to Congress. By creating a Centre for Patient Safety, there will be a designated agency of the government devoted to monitoring and improving safety all through the system of health care delivery. This would form a national focus towards the creation of protocols to enhance knowledge about safety (Fraiser et al, 2012). The second recommendation advised that, under the mandatory reporting system, all States should be required to collect standardized information about events that lead to death and grave harm.
A third recommendation was aimed at the professional societies who should lead and encourage, if not demand standards of good practice amongst themselves oversight or safety net organizations are playing a major role in patient safety by implementing regulatory measures. Group purchasers of healthcare are in power to set financial incentives to healthcare organizations to make necessary changes. The fourth recommendation is that the healthcare workforce should work in collaboration with patients in order to create and fund adequately a system for monitoring patient safety.
Actions by the Healthcare System in response to the IOM Recommendations
In the year 2000, Congress allocated $50 million to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Researchers and organizations received the needed funding to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate new approaches to improve provider education in order to reduce e
ors. AHRQ has a large number of networks nation-wide and serves as a leading example in the medical field to provide empirical research data to better patient safety.
Not for profit and non-partisan organizations have been established to form grounds upon which reforms can take place. These organizations provide a leadership platform. States are able to communicate and come up with consensus reports. These organizations receive active participation from various volunteer state officials, therefore supporting feasibility of the second recommendation. A good example is the National Academy for State Health Policy (Snyder, Dolatshahi, Hess & Kinsler, 2012). Their research on outreach and enrolment activities of individuals and other social...