Health care planners

Health Care Planners and High-Tech Solutions

Health care planners may be more efficient and effective if they employed the notion of disease natural history and preventative levels to create services that intervene at the weakest link in the chain of progression of a given disease through client education. Instead, most people concentrate on high-tech solutions. In some cases, the adoption of specific technologies is not properly reviewed, and the choice of specific technology is the consequence of course training and for varied health and health care contexts rather than a conscious planned decision. Nonetheless, the latter technique is preferred by the majority of medical care facilities. One characteristic is that they tend to embrace medical care culture that use high technology to embrace the changing patterns of community health problems by using technology to study the pattern of disease occurrence since industrialization has increased the number of infectious diseases (Ginter & Swayne, 2013). Different approaches to disease prevention can be reached based on high risk approach which can only be managed by high technological standards e.g. screening for cholesterol in children using high tech medical equipment.

Heavy Budgeting in High-Tech Medical Care

Another characteristic of medical care that uses high technology solution is “heavy budgeting” (Ginter & Swayne, 2013). Where managerial budgeting of the system tends to be high due to increased training of the managers which is viewed positively to generate more efficiency in the health system management and purchase of related medical equipment.

The Concept of Natural History of Disease and Levels of Prevention

Health care planners could be more efficient and effective if they used the concept of natural history of disease and the levels of prevention since technological approach has some major setbacks in terms of heath management.

Financial Solvency and its Impacts on Health Care Institutions

Hospitals and other health care institutions whether voluntary or for-profit, need to be financially solvent to survive growing a market pressures in the US. This phenomenon has made non-profit based health facilities to manage their long term expenses. With this at hand, both positive and negative impacts on the same have resulted.

Destructive Social Arrangement and Increased Demand for Medical Insurance

Current trends in the health system has as a result lead to destructive social arrangement in that some people who cannot afford medical services now have to be left out in such cases as illnesses that require high standard care which is most likely to be provided in the profit based health institutions (Slone, 2014). Another effect in health care institutions that has resulted due to the need for financial solvency is an increased demand for medical insurance policy. Failure of the public with regard to insurance coverage has rendered health provision to the patients’ null. The Medicare’s so called prospective payment system has changed hospital incentives by paying set rates per case that are costly to most public recipients.

Positive Impacts of Financial Solvency on Health Care Institutions

Some of the positive impacts of such a change include, provision of new and up to standard health services due to innovation and ability to purchase the up to date technology and ability to provide additional services stimulated by development of new technologies and growth of health economy as a whole, and increased access to beds and physicians in some areas too, cost sharing benefits, in that cost based and charges based reimbursement is done for the non-profit institutions (Slone, 2014). Patient access to physicians has also increased due to increased number of physicians.

Changing Environment and Response to New Economic Incentives

The changing environment concerning heath finance has put pressure on all parties and the rapidness of their response to new economic incentives has changed.

The Role of Insurance Companies in the American Health Care System

The insurance company plays a huge role in the American health care system and absorbs a significant portion of the health care dollar. A single payer system whether it is a private company or the US government would eliminate the complex paperwork burden and free substantial funds that could be diverted to support care for the underserved, however, there has been so much resistance on the concept which is normally used by developed countries due to the following factors

Challenges in Keeping Current on Trends and Data

Keeping current on trends and data presents a significant challenge particularly in regard to trends and data presented in a book. Despite the availability of useful resources via the web to provide updated data and trend information, policy issues on health insurance have requirement on publication of data physically despite the current time (Ginter & Swayne2013).

Resistance to Eliminating Paperwork in Insurance Data Management

Despite the proposal by the American medical association concerning insurance data management especially on the paper work, the insurance claim that efforts to secure paper information is a steady means of data security and also tends to attract scarce workers and retain employees.

Health Care Cost Inflation and Reliance on Paperwork

The onset of health care cost inflation forces the US forces them to stick to paperwork as data backup, since boosting their technological system on data management and security would mean an additional cost on them and in turn lead to an even higher inflation rate. Rise of management care in most US health facilities has led to national health expenditures. Major developments may need to be done to take into consideration new models of data handling which may be preferred by provider organizations and adoption and utilization by health insurers may not be as rapid as.

Requirements for a New Data Handling System

A series of requirements that are satisfactory and appropriate network put in place during an insurance data handling and management during its infancy stage will ultimately enable I adopt new systems and eliminate paper work with ease.

References

Ginter, P., Duncan, W., & Swayne, L. (2013). Strategic management of health care organizations, San Fransisco, CA: Jossey-Bass,Wiley.

Slone, W. (2014). Megacities: The new global community. Place of publication not identified: Kendall Hunt

Saltman,R., Bankauskaite, V., & Vrangbaek, K. (2007). Decentralization in health care: Strategies and outcomes. Maidenhead, Berkshire, England: McGraw Hill.