Healthcare Ecosystem
1. What is the whole structure that supports healthcare provision?
Answer: The healthcare ecosystem.
2. What is an organization of individuals, institutions, and resources that deliver services to clients?
Answer: A healthcare system.
Stakeholders
3. What is a group of people with a common interest, especially in business?
Answer: Stakeholders.
4. Who are the stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem?
Answer: Patients, providers, professional administrators, policymakers, and payers.
Patients and Providers
5. Who is the most common consumer in the healthcare ecosystem?
Answer: Patients.
6. What is an example of an advanced practice professional?
Answer: A nurse practitioner.
7. What health services include emergency, preventative, rehabilitative, long-term, hospital, diagnostic,
primary, palliative, and home care.
Answer: Health services include a range of care options.
Cultural Competence
8. Why is cultural competence important in health services?
, Answer: Because it ensures that clients' values and preferences are respected.
Quadruple Aim
9. Which of the following is a component of the Quadruple Aim of healthcare?
Answer: To improve the overall health of a given population.
Providers
10. What are the providers in the healthcare ecosystem?
Answer: A person or institution that performs a service, such as doctors, mid-level providers, nurses,
occupational therapists, physical therapists, and mental health providers.
Health Services
11. What does health services include?
Answer: Emergency, preventative, rehabilitative, long-term, hospital, diagnostic, primary, palliative, and
home care.
Payers
12. Who monitors payers organizations and accredits health insurance companies?
Answer: National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
13. Who helps improve and monitor providers' quality of care?
Answer: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
Government Organizations
14. Which government organization protects consumers from harm and ensures that states and national
health regulations are enforced?