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How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts (PDF)

1. explains the organization, the issues that it was facing in 2011, and why those issues were important. Include any relevant information that you can identify, in particular about health policy.

1. Who are the stakeholders in the success of intermountain health?
2. What is your take on the current state of operational performance from 2011 to 2017?
3. List five health policy issues that you can identify based on the readings (Use the text as a backdrop to identifying relevant policy issues).
4. Describe what you see as the most critical emerging health policy issue that Intermountain has dealt with, or is dealing with.
5. Evaluate the health policy issue that you have identified:
   1. Please identified two sources with references
   2. Use the sources identified to support recommendations
   3. You can also use the articles
   4. Explain the context
   5. State the problem
   6. What other policy options can you identify?
   7. What evidence can you evaluate?
   8. What are your recommendations
   9. What outcomes do you expect?

Based on what you learned in answering the questions above, how do you see health policy in relation to the "business" of healthcare? What are your takeaways by looking at the journey of Intermountain health?