Question

The fast pace by which technology is evolving creates a competitive challenge to health care services providers, furthermore, the complexity of healthcare processes and the autonomy of healthcare independent practitioners blended with the stringent need to provided a patient centered care shapes the need to develop a careful, comprehensive and flexible healthcare planning mechanism to ensure a satisfactory healthcare system.

1. Identify these determinants as well as other factors that may play an influential role in shaping an effective health care planning. Discuss as well the influences of these determinants on the outcomes of healthcare care planning process.
2. Propose strategies to address two challenges that you had identified in the course of your synthesis

Answer 1

Technology has played a crucial role in shaping an effective health care planning:

1. a health care system has exponentially grown with the effective use of technology in health services, health care professionals deliver a satisfactory and quality patient care with the use of technology.
2. Increase in patients safety, decrease in medical errors, quality health care delivery.
3. Easy and fast storage of information about patient care and reports, just with click of a button information is right on your finger tips.
4. planning for patients healthcare is become much easier and effective.
5. Reducing healthcare costs,Advance findings of epidemics, Avoiding preventable deaths, Improving quality of life.
6. Reducing healthcare waste, monitoring acute health care needs,Improving efficiency and quality of care and Developing new drugs and treatments for various health related issues, remote monitoring system.
7. Shorter patient waiting times, Improved access in rural areas.
8. Improved efficiency, leading to savings, mobile health care, faster and accurate use of robotic technology.
9. Tailoring treatment plans to individuals and anticipating the onset of certain diseases offers promising benefits for healthcare efficiency and diagnostic accuracy.

improve the health and well-being of patients.

b) example:

better doctor and patient communication:

easier and faster means of communication through technology, sharing files regarding patients condition in emergency situation to provide quality care by faster communication to various departments in hospitals. Aiming to connect and merge technology for better health.enhanced inter communications.

digitalise health information or data:

health records being digitalised to provide medical assistance, maintenance of records on cloud, large data capacity in one place, no scope of misplaced reports, quick transfer and view, providing quicker solutions, easy billing and assistance to medical informatics.