Session 22

One thing I learned from today's class session was the Healthy People 2020 vision and mission. Learning this was inspiring to me because it shows that there are things being done to improve the healthcare system. As an aspiring OT, health is important to me, and I was excited to see that one of the missions was to improve practices based on best available evidence (as we have been learning in Evidence Based Practice). Another thing I learned was the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim. This was also encouraging to the profession of OT, as it discusses improving the patient's experience of care, health of populations, and reducing the cost of healthcare. These are three things that I think are most important to try and improve healthcare. This class session revealed to me that there are improvements being made in the health care system, and that hopefully we will see these improvements being implemented more and more over time.