Yet another human factor affecting healthcare are today’s customers themselves. their reaction to a new initiative is often based information which they glean from a variety of sources which are out of the innovator’s direct control. Policy is an obvious force in healthcare innovation and can be identified as a common barrier to its growth. The risks of healthcare initiatives gone wrong understandably encourages policy makers to limit the amount of innovation that they are willing to allow for. While technology is clearly force that has driven healthcare forward, the competition that it generates
“Patient-Family” Centered Care versus “Disease-Based” Approach to Health Care Medicine faces several critical and conflicting challenges. The tremendous and changing cultural diversity of our population requires physicians to develop new skills in communication and negotiation with their patients. But managed care constraints, litigation, and growing regulatory pressures have compromised communication and trust between physicians and patients. This, along with the surge in technologic development, has driven the medical system even further toward a “disease-based” approach to health care that views individuals as “cases” and undervalues the sociocultural and humanistic aspects of patient care. The results are a diminishing faith in the medical establishment and the rise of alternative medical philosophies and practices.
In recent years patients started to look into other directions, since predictions for limiting expenses faded. Managed Care I believe can be bad for healthcare providers. With this said what exactly is Managed Care??? Managed Care is a system of health care that commands cost of services, manages the use of services, and measures the use of services, and measures the performance of health care suppliers. On an international foundation, the development of health care policy is aggressively being influenced by cost considerations.
The use of the disruptive innovations is the key to ushering in affordable health care. For example, Medco would be a health care disruptive innovation of which disrupted retail pharmacies with the use of drugs that lower cholesterol as a disruptive to angioplasty and just as angioplasty was a disruptive to open hearth surgery. Removing the status quo, disruptive innovations bring about change that is most beneficial to the patients. Five disruptive innovations that can transform the manner in which patients are treated include the following: First, Retail clinics are abnormal settings for patients to receive treatment. A hospital or doctor’s office is the most common location for providers, specifically medical doctors to diagnose and treat patients.
Many of the patients that were receiving treatment at MHC were doing so as an outpatient; which meant beds were going unused. The hospital was consistently losing money, as it was a competitive market. However, by acquiring the new technology and then turning around and selling it to other health care providers, it would really help the institution financially. MHC Primary Business Structure MHC’s primary business structure falls into the division of labor alignment. The division of labor structure demonstrates how the work is divided and organized within the organization.
Aetna provides health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability, and long term care benefits. The company offers a range of products and services under three categories: health care, group insurance, and large case pensions. Strong market position in the US healthcare combined with wide and deep product portfolio is enhancing customer base. However, significant reforms in the US healthcare industry, high dependence on outsourced vendors and increasing operating expenses, are likely to affect the company’s margins. The completion of a SWOT analysis of Aetna revealed that the company has several strength that will help usher the company into their next phase.
GB520-02 – Strategic Human Resource Management Unit 4 Case Analysis Working Together for Success: The Balanced Scorecard Solution at Peel Memorial Hospital Radica Jagan June 10, 2015 The situation being faced by Pell Memorial Hospital is one that is faced by many hospitals, especially in small cities. Hospitals face challenges as the economy changes, changes that may include layoffs, lack of qualified employees, lack of supplies and most importantly lack of funding. However, as Harber mentioned “healthcare entities attempt to remain focused on delivering high-quality patient care and aligning the key stakeholders to the newly created vision. In the midst of these challenges, management must ensure that it brings as much alignment, direction and purpose as possible into the organization” (Bruce W. Harber, Healthcare Quarterly, 1(4) June 1998). When it comes to goals and mission, Performance Management affects the organization directly.
The waters become murky, however, when one takes into account the amount of resources allocated to providing some services or procedures to certain patients. In Plato’s argument, he asserts that essentially, healthcare should be served in a manner that reflects the interests of the greater good. At what point does the greater good become more important than an individual though? Dr. Craig Wax asserts that in Plato’s society “physicians responded to the needs of the state by devoting resources to the workers, in the process ignoring the elderly, very young, critically ill, and those who were considered genetically inferior. Such practices can lead to vile immorality and atrocities.” By all accounts, empathy is one of the most important qualities in a humane society.
But understanding technology has been a real problem due to the fact that technology is always changing and evolving. This leads to more funds being put into training the staff and physicians to learn how to operate these machines effectively. It also doesn’t help that as the technology evolves, it becomes more expensive. Todd C. Linden, MHA, FACHE, President & CEO of Grinnell Regional Medical Center stated that CT scanners which made thicker slices of section of the diagnostic area of the body have been upgraded to produce thinner slices of sections. The prices of these technology advances have increased from a couple of hundred thousands of dollars to multi-million dollar pieces of equipments.
1. What are the image issues in this case? The first image issue in this case is the hospital’s name. Margaret, as the text states is not a commonly used name therefore some may be inclined to view it as an old-fashioned name. If the name is viewed as old-fashioned in the public’s perspective, this negative image may also trickle down to how the public views the hospital itself.