Question

Do you believe that healthcare reform will change the way we use teams in the healthcare industry? If so, how will it change teams? If not, what holds the current team approach intact?

Answer 1

Based on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , the bigger chunk of population is covered under insurance and have access to care. ACA offers a long term focus on preventive care and with greater focus on health of the population. Thus, this has influenced health care professionals as well as the healthcare industry. For example, public health is the key focus and promoting the same into financial gains by the public health professionals by helping the community. In this, they lead the initiatives to help in making things simple, early disease detection and spread the news on physical activity and required nutrition to stay healthy. Health care administration has become more visionary by exploring the ways to reduce the health case cost and offer great deal of improved quality efficient operational services, in a more collaborative approach. Nurses also play a vital role in patient and system bases results. And health care reform offers more coordination and attention on patient transitioning, for this nurses should be well equipped and educated to take on the quality patient care. Therefore, health care reforms helps all the teams to get intact with the technology use which helps them to have online access to health related information and understand the related policies in more effective ways.