Healthcare in the New Millennium
The Future Trends of Healthcare Delivery
The objective of this work is to present a new and improved healthcare delivery system for the new millennium. Future trends in healthcare and how they affect disease management, financial management, technology and the social aspects of health care delivery will be given consideration as well as integration of personal knowledge of the historical, social, ethical, technological and financial aspects of health care service delivery expressed as a vision for health care delivery in the United States.
Never before at any time in history have the challenges for the delivery of healthcare been so great. Neither has history witnessed the rash of serious new diseases emerging on a daily basis. The provision of quality, cost-effective patient care while managing to balance the needs of employees and physicians as well as trustees is a monumental challenge faced by healthcare executives. For the management who will rise to the challenge presented by healthcare provision in the millennium there must exist a basis of "management teams and technology to facilitate decisions based on evidence-based decision making." (SAS, 2005)
Many Issues and Challenges
Issues such...
In fact, the issues facing the healthcare industry are so varied and diverse that this work has chosen the issues of the nursing shortage as its' focus. The reason for this choice is that according to the World Health Education Initiative one of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry is the shortage of nurses which is stated to have a dramatic negative impact on the U.S. Healthcare delivery system. The urgency is illustrated in the fact that approximately 90% of healthcare organizations lack sufficient nursing staff to provide basic care and much less are the organizations able to accept new admissions. (Joint Commission Report, 2004)
Federal Mandate HIPAA 2010 Deadline Looming
The 2010 deadline set for the HIPAA security compliance of implementation of electronic medical records is drawing near. While aspects in healthcare such as mandatory reporting of errors, quality…
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