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Meryln. Health policy timeline

Choosea health policy issue in the United States to create a timeline of evolution.

Researchevents related to the policy’s creation, development, implementation, and modification.

Createa 700- to 1,050-word timeline detailing the evolution of your chosen health policy. Include the following:

A summary of the chosen policy. In your summary, include the objective of the policy and a discussion of the role the policy has played in the evolution of the US health care systemAt least five key events tracing the policy’s path from inception to its current status.For each event, include a 75- to 150-word explanation of why the event was significant in the development of the chosen policy.

Includeat least two references.

Formatany citations consistent with APA guidelines.Document Preview:

Q1: Information Technology. Healthcare Case Study, Stage 1: Process AnalysisINTRODUCTION In healthcare systems, there are several areas that need improvements. This depends on the various hospitals, people or culture in a given area, beliefs and various reasons too. There are various models for improvement, in which, they have two basic components, for instance, it begins by addressing various fundamental questions, like, how can we know if a given change is an improvement?The second part is a vigorous cycle improvement cycle. In this second part of the QI plan we will be dealing with a specific healthcare performance area, discussing the various models of improvement, current technology and various benchmarks and milestone that can be taken for improvement in our plan(Strome, 2013). Sol:1 Improving quality Health literacy can be viewed as a degree to which individuals have a capacity to obtain, understand common information that deals with the health care facilities, this is also related to the basic information that is needed in making good and appropriate health care decisions. Quality improvement models are hence needed to attain a suitable health literacy in all of the health care facilities(Carnevale, 2012). We will concentrate on the three common models, which include the Plan-Do-Study-Act model, the lean model commonly referred to the Toyota model in the business world and lastly the six sigma quality improvement model. Quality improvement models Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) This method has been widely used by the institute of the healthcare Improvement for a wide range of improvement, this is done so that to make a positive change in the healthcare systems and affecting its outcomes for positive results and hence the use of the Plan-Do-Study-Act model(Carnevale, 2012). This model is capable of impacting and assessing various changes due to its cyclical nature. The primary objective of this model is to come up with a functional relationship between the…