Title: Definition of Health Care Policy | Healthfully
Headings: Definition of Health Care Policy
Definition of Health Care Policy
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Federal Policy
State Policy
Local Policy
Emergency Coordination

Content: Health care policy targets the organization, financing and delivery of health care services 1. Connected to all of this is a myriad of details concerning the licensing of health professionals and facilities, health information privacy protections, measures of health care quality and mistakes, malpractice, electronic medical records and efforts to control health care costs. Federal Policy
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Many federal agencies have health care policy responsibilities. The Department of Veteran’s Affairs oversees a system of hospitals and clinics 1. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services consists of multiple agencies that tackle various aspects of health care policy 1. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sets policy for these two major programs. The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring the safety of drugs. The National Institutes of Health oversees health care research ranging from mental health to AIDS to alternative medicine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitors collects data on health and investigates outbreaks of illness. Concerns about the growing numbers of uninsured, the high costs of health care, and reports by the Institute of Medicine, among others, on health care quality, led to passage in 2010 of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA.