The Future of Healthcare Based on your learning over the past six weeks, identify the factors that will be required for future change in the health care industry pertaining to quality improvement, patient safety, and risk management. What are the obstacles in improving quality of care? How ought financing of quality initiatives take place and whose responsibility is it for oversight? What role, if any, should patients participate in future initiatives? ANSWER:

Since healthcare is transitioning into electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR), there will need to be rules in place to protect patients private information. President Barack Obama has mandated that all medical records in the United States be converted into electronic format in 2014. Medical...