Improve Quality & Reduce Cost – PPACA & MACRA

Description

For this module’s individual assignment, you are to write a 3-4 page paper (est. paper body/written content) in proper APA format on the topic listed below:

Describe some of the primary initiatives contained within the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (PPACA) and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and their implications for the use of information technology as a vehicle to improve quality and reduce costs. In your essay, please report on three specific initiatives that work to get this done, and how HIM/HIT is infused into operational processes to achieve these intended quality/value outcomes.

Conclude the mini-paper with your personal opinion and/or beliefs regarding the initiatives you summarized and if you believe they are (or will) work to improve our healthcare system.

Here, many student responses will vary, especially due to the vast amount of PPACA (2010) and MACRA (2015) initiatives involving HIT/HIM.