Our evolving systems of accountability must learn to encompass these many relationships and their sometimes disparate expectations. Managed care organizations, employers, investors, patients, government, and clinicians must all be accountable to each other for setting and achieving appropriate ethical expectations in health care delivery. For this reason, the E-Force Program is overseen by an Oversight Body , which comprises a diverse group of leaders from throughout the health care system, including clinicians, researchers, ethicists, managed care executives, public health and patient advocates, business owners, union members, and more. Creating valid, reliable, and feasible performance measures for ethics is ambitious. Yet the Institute for Ethics initiated this program in the firm belief that all participants in health care have a strong interest in maintaining the highest ethical standards throughout the health care delivery system.
Practitioners owe to their patients insistence on professional standards.
Employers desire to provide health care benefits that will attract and retain excellent and productive employees. Managed care organizations and insurers want to provide high-quality health care on a level playing field. And, above all, it is a laudable part of human nature to strive to protect and care for vulnerable patients, which is to aspire to high ethical standards. We expect that every participant in health care delivery will aim to achieve or exceed the expectations described by the E-Force program and measured using its novel Ethics Performance Measurement Toolkits. Click here to return to category.