Competency
Analyze the challenges of economic and noneconomic barriers to improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing access to healthcare.

Scenario
Reforming healthcare delivery to improve the quality and value of care is essential to address escalating costs, poor quality, and increasing numbers of Americans without health insurance coverage. Reforms should improve access to the right care at the right time in the right setting.

You have been hired as an expert consultant for the American Medical Association (AMA) to deliver a presentation to a physicians group regarding various barriers to improving, reducing costs, and increasing access to healthcare. The AMA’s meeting is entitled “Healthcare Reform: Understanding the Obstacles that Hinder Us.”

Instructions
Research the following:

Three economic barriers to improving quality in healthcare
Three noneconomic barriers to improving quality in healthcare
Three economic barriers to reducing costs in healthcare
Three noneconomic barriers to reducing costs in healthcare
Three economic barriers to increasing access to healthcare
Three noneconomic barriers to increasing access to healthcare
Create a voiceover PowerPoint presentation, providing the physicians group with the information you’ve gathered on the economic and noneconomic barriers to improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing access to healthcare in the United States.

Resources

APA formatting for the reference list, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required. APA help is available here.

Click this link for help on creating a PowerPoint presentation.

Click this link for help on creating an audio recording for a PowerPoint presentation.