HA425Unit3Assignment.docx Historical Evolution of Healthcare HA425 Operational Analys

HA425Unit3Assignment.docx    Historical Evolution of Healthcare   HA425 Operational Analysis and Quality Improvement  Purdue Global University  Introduction   Quality improvement programs were not initially intended for the healthcare system, but for the manufacturing industry. The healthcare organization quickly saw this as an opportunity to use those same models to improve their own systems. You can define health care quality as a system of healthcare services for individuals that increase the likelihood of a desired health outcome.There are six goals to achieve the desired outcome. Those include; safety, effectiveness, patient focus, time, efficiency, and equitability. (IOM, Sadeghi, 2012)You will need to use CQI programs to execute and accomplish those goals.   Part 1 Origins in US CQI  Healthcare quality has been around for decades, due to pioneers such as Florence Nightingale, Ernest Codeman, and Avedis Donabedian. Each bringing their own ideas to what quality of healthcare should look like. Out of those, Donabedian brought about the idea that healthcare needed a systematic approach. He provided three elements that were crucial to the delivery of care, structure, process, and the outcome. This began a framework for the measurement of quality.   As healthcare quality have evolved, it has adopted some modified versions of the manufacturing industries quality improvement measures. However, this has not been an easy road. Due to the broad nature and significant differences of the healthcare indust