Question

Examine the impact of future trends on the field of health administration.

What are the major implications these future trends have for the field of health administration?

Discuss both the general impact of future trends and then what specifically are the implications for health administrators working in any of the major areas of the industry such as acute care, ambulatory care, and long-term care.

Answer 1

The future trends in the healthcare industry are :-

- cost deduction of services

- IT in health field

- more focus on privacy

- new health insurance policies

- lower price of medicine

- less human assistance in providing care

All these will have a major positive impact on the future health administration which will be both beneficial to health care sector and patient. These major implications will help the health care member to provide cost effective and quality care to the patient ,they can work easily through the use of technology and software's .

Patients will be able to avail quality care at affordable cost and take advantage of new health schemes . They can buy medicines at affordable rate due to introduction of new drugs based on research studies which are cost effective and accessible.For example , there will be modification in the triage system which will be fully automatic and computer will sense the category for easy and early provision of care to patients.

In intensive care unit the monitor will sense and alarm MI ,ventricular fibrillation and tachycardia and provide cardioversion after automatically sensing heart activity. All these functions are present today but they need human assistance and are divided, not together and need different equipment.