Question

Create a power point presentation of 5 slides discussing the following, what are the differences between long term and short term facilities

how are home health agencies different from both long term and short term

how does technology impact the delivery of health care services

Answer 1

Slide 1:

• Provides variety of settings for care services.
• It includes medical and non medical care process.
• It refers to physical as well as mental care services for senior people.
• It is helpful for those patients who have been suffering from chronic diseases.
• It offers broad spectrum care services.
• Various life insurance services provide long term economic care assistance, sometimes even after death.
• Healthcare units need to apply multidisciplinary care teams.
• Clinical and communication skills are important factors to deal with the chronic patients.

Slide 2

• It is a temporary care facility.
• Short term facilities are target oriented care service.
• Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy are the types of short term care services.
• Various short term med claim services are available in the market to provide money back policies.
• It offers small spectrum care services.
• It is important to recover from the post surgical illness.
• The mortality rate is very low after short term care services.
• Short term treatment usually concentrates on the specific disease.
• Multidisciplinary care teams are not required.

Slide 3:

• They deliver the healthcare services at home.
• No requirement of hospitalization
• Help patients to improve their health condition in the homely atmosphere.
• The nurses of home healthcare services work alone with the support from the central offices.
• Clinicians provide unique medical settings for each patient.

Slide 4:

• Homecare services provide home based health treatment. Long and short term services provide hospital based health treatment.
• Irregularity of taking medicine is often observed in home based healthcare services. Strict resume has to be followed by the patients in the long and short term care services.
• Hygiene City is not maintained properly in the home based care services. But strict hygiene city is maintained in the hospitals.

Slide 5:

• Implementation of the technologies in the healthcare services helps to gather all the big data related to the treatment processes for future prospects.
• Technological application helps to improve the digital communication in the hospitals.
• It also ensures the improvement of the telemedicine services through video conferencing with the patient family members.
• Mobile software applications enable healthcare services availability to the patients.