Institute of Medicine offers recommendations for HHS
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, December 17, 2008
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) made recommendations to Congress last week for how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can be improved. In its report HHS in the 21st Century, the IOM lays out some ideas for how HHS can improve. The report says that in its current manner, HHS does not function in its main goal: to protect the health of Americans. In order to achieve this goal, HHS should be restructured to face the issues that the 21st century has brought.
To face increasing healthcare costs head on, HHS should take the following five areas into consideration for improvement:
- Defining a 21st century vision
- Fostering adaptability and alignment
- Ensuring effectiveness and efficiency of the U.S. health care system
- Strengthening the HHS and U.S. public health and healthcare workforces
- Improving accountability and decision making
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