...THE FUTURE CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT Timan Wainaina Essay March 5, 2016 Health care management denotes the management of clinical information technology and human resources to deliver optimal health care. The health care sector is a very extensive one because it encompasses preventive care, emergency services, follow-up, and rehabilitation. Forecasting the future of health care may be seen as an imperfect and challenging exercise. However, it is important in order to improve quality health, revenue, reducing expenses, and improving customer satisfaction. Based on past experiences, the health care industry is on the brink of an inevitable change. This essay examines some of the trends that are likely to pose future challenges to the delivery of health care throughout the world. The first threat likely to be encountered by the sector is the rising health care costs. The costs are expected to hit the roof due to increased expenditures in the sector. Some of the dynamics that may lead to an increase in health care expenditure include a rise in the number of medical practitioners’ remunerations and increased state budgets for financing research...
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...Future Challenges for Health Care Management The scope of health care management encompasses administrating how services get delivered to patients, persons delivering services, locations to which services get delivered, and the financing of all involved procedures. In these, institutions like nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, public hospitals, and private clinics get involved. At the same time, groups of service providers and associations play instrumental roles in controlling the quality of services and procedures of implementation (Gururajan, 2012). Thus, health care management encompasses the organization and administration of individual physicians, associations, involved institutions, and control of funds. Quintessentially, the challenges that affect the health care industry concern the functionality of one of these elements. It is worth noting that the industry has continuously faced various challenges related to diseases, aging, health care insurance, and human resource limitations (Benington, 2014). The future challenges for health care management include securing adequate finances for health care operations, training adequate human resources, managing an increasingly aging population of patients, and controlling emerging chronic diseases. Despite the fact that most world economies have grown substantially, health care sectors have remained underfinanced across the world. Perhaps, the nature of services in this sector requires large recurrent amounts of money to...
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...Messaging to Prepare for Future Challenges Effective communication according to the businessdictionary.com is a two way information sharing process which involves one party sending a message that is easily understood by the receiving party. Effective communication by business managers facilitates information sharing between company employees which can substantially contribute to its commercial success. In comparing and contrasting the internal messaging or communication that was used in maximizing the my blueprint concept, I would look at its early set up in 2005, which involved a meeting among the managers in discussing and setting targets for the next five years. In this first meeting the managers were expected based on the responsibility to make plans for their specific business areas where these plans and presentations would be reviewed by senior management. The means of communication or messaging was in an upward and downward form as in a hierarchical atmosphere. However, in 2009 and with recasting the role of the CEO as a means of evolving from a spider to a starfish, a leader realized through evaluation that it would be better to have peers evaluate these presentations and plans from the managers which led to the creation of the my blueprint portal. This turned the process from that of a top - down process to a peer to peer review. The process of communication here even though internal, took a different turn where the ...
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...Messaging to Prepare for Future Challenges XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX MBA6006 – Leading Innovation in The Global Organization Allan Pevoto June 10, 2012 Table of Contents Page Introduction 3 Compare and Contrast 3 Effectiveness of Internal and External Messaging 4 Leaders Use of Messaging 4 Conclusion 5 References 6 Introduction This paper will touch on the many ways HCL Technologies uses messaging while fostering innovation and creativity. Nayar has taken on a different approach in the ways of leading the organization and allowing more internal input from others all while slowly being an authoritative figure himself by sharing the responsibilities. He delivers meaningful messages to the employees in new inventive ways that has the business world turned upside down. Compare and Contrast HCL Technologies recognized what areas in the business they lacked in and where they had an immediate need for improvement. Hence the reason why they allowed Axon to come in and “took charge of running many other parts of HCLT businesses”, (2010, p. 25). Nayar knew how beneficial it was to allow Axon to help fine tune HCLT’s weak points and align them to the point where Axon already had reached. Nayar knew that Axon has a stronger consulting background...
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...Messaging to Prepare for Future Challenges With the growth and expansion of HCLT, there are a few tweaks that need to accommodate these changes. Mr. Vineet Nayar wants to ensure that he’s not just the CEO, but he wants to incorporate all of his employees (or at least those willing) into the fold. We all know that communication is a must have in any business. Without communication, it can lead to many problems from the bottom of the company all the way to the top. With electronics becoming as flourishing as they are in the business world, one must find ways to connect and communicate when face to face isn’t possible. A vital means of attending to company concerns is through effective internal communication - downward, upward and horizontal. It helps increase job satisfaction, safety, productivity and profit and decrease absenteeism, grievances and turn over (Murphy, Hildebrandt & Thomas, 1962). At this point in time, Mr. Nayar is trying to expand the communication levels in his company. Portals are designed to provide more direct and easy access to information which promotes self-service, allowing employees to focus on their work and freeing HR resources for more strategic and value-added functions. (Felix, S., 2001) With that, he implemented a section under his value portal entitled My Blueprint. My Blueprint is an addition from the value portal which originally was for employees to build business relationships with their customers. Employees could generate and...
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...Challenges for developing leaders for the future Author: Alok Bhardwaj Affiliation: IBS Ahmedabad Ph no :9426222681 Email id :13alok.bhardwaj@ibsindia.org Niyati Patel Affiliation: IBS Ahmedabad Ph no :9408532152 Email id :13niyati.patel @ibsindia.org Prof. Pankaj M Madhani Faculty ( Finance and Strategy) IBS Business School, IBS House, Opp. AUDA Lake Science City Road, Off. S.G. Road, Ahmedabad – 380 060, India Tel : +91-79-654 30148, 654 30149, Mobile : + 91-9662122075 Email : pankaj@ibsindia.org Leaders will have to be multilingual, flexible, internationally mobile and adaptable. But, most crucial of all, they must be highly collaborative and have strong conceptual and strategic thinking skills. The real thing leaders do is create environments that drive performance. Leaders engage and enable people. Leaders of the future will need to be adept conceptual and strategic thinkers, have deep integrity and intellectual openness, find new ways to create loyalty, lead increasingly diverse and independent teams over which they may not always have direct authority, and relinquish their own power in favor of collaborative approaches inside and outside the organization. It's that simple, but it requires a shift of focus from solely outcomes, production numbers, and revenues to motivating people so they're passionate about helping the company achieve its goals. There are six challenges which the research paper focuses , that leaders...
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...The Future Challenges for Health Care Management Name Institutional Affiliation The Future Challenges for Health Care Management Introduction Health care is one of the fundamental aspects of a developed country given that it is a requirement of every single citizen. Many countries over the world exhibit a similarity in the managing health care. Modern health care management systems result from past strategies that were implemented to address past challenges. It is therefore misleading for health care managers to think that the future is going to be stable. Apparently, health care management is facing many challenges that call for proactive approaches in addressing those problems at present and in the future. The aim of this paper is to discuss the future challenges facing health care management. Past researches indicate a change in the demographics, particularly an increase of the elderly. As of 1990, the elderly hit 31.2 million and increased to 35 million by 2000. According to statistics collected in 2010 in US, the number of the aged reached close to 40.3 million people accounting to 13% of the whole population. Future projections indicate that this group of people will hit close to 88.5 million accounting for 20% of the US population by the year 2050. This increase presents economic challenges bearing in mind that the elderly are prone to chronic illnesses. Chronic diseases are expensive to treat and therefore the health care management needs to inject more financial resources...
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...• • • • • • The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States • Donna Kester • Dr. James Driscoll • HSA 500 • December 7, 2011 • The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States Identify and describe at least three of the most difficult issues facing health care in the United States today. One of the most difficult challenges that our healthcare system faces is in long term health care policies such as Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare is the federal program for the elderly and disabled. It covers many of the costs associated with acute medical care but covers very few long term care services. Medicaid is a federal and state health program which covers long term care but only for those people who are poor or have become poor paying for medical care (Williams & Torrens, 2010). Although long term health care services are less of a priority compared to other health care services, problems in the current long term care system are due to the controversies and lack of responsibility of the state and federal governments. Even though we have seen tremendous growth in home-care services, nursing homes continue to dominate the service system. State and federal governments continue to struggle to manage costs of the different services they provide and continue to quarrel over their respective financial responsibilities. Another difficult challenge is life style diseases. The life style diseases...
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...S.S.N.M.M COLLEGE OF NURSING SEMINAR ON UNIT PLAN SUBMITTED TO; SUBMITTED BY; PROF:MRS.SAMPATH ANEESH S P VICEPRINCIPAL 1st yr Msc Nursing SUBMITTED ON: 11.11.2011 INTRODUCTION With in the last two decades , more and more educators have come to accept the unit as the basis of organization of learning. They recognize the facts that learning in units more effectively meets the needs of the students than traditionally daily lesson-assigning and lesson learning procedure. The concept of unit learning is still in the stage of development. Consequently , it has come to mean different things to different teachers . the situation has caused the evolution of various names which are used to differentiate between the several interpretations ,such as contract plan , Dalton plan ,project method , unit assignment ,Winnetka plan and others . The basis of unit idea can be traced to JOHANN FRIEDRICH HERBART (1776-1841) . herbart stressed 4 essentials in learning process 1. Clear apprehension by the student of each individual fact . 2. Association or comparison of the facts. 3. Systematization...
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...The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States Gregrey McDaniel Professor: Manuel Johnican, PhD Strayer University HSA 500 11 June 2011 Identify and describe at least three of the most difficult issues facing health care in the United States today. One of the most difficult issues facing the United States health care system is combating diseases. Even with mortality rates continuing to decrease and with life expectancy rates continuing to increase, these trends are masking concerns with specific diseases, injuries, and population groups. The diseases that still give us a formidable challenge include many varieties of cancer, some kinds of infectious diseases, and influenza. The second difficult issue is health disparities. These disparities are widespread. Differences in how patients receive treatment and the access to treatment are measurable through financial, physical, and attitudinal indicators. Disparities affect all groups of our population. These disparities are related to race, sex, language, genetics, age, and income. We all could benefit from a more efficient system which removes or minimalizes disparities. The third difficult issue facing the health care system in the United States is paying for health care. In the United States, we have had insurance as the biggest payer of health care for many years. There has been evolution in the types of insurance and how they manage aspects of the business. Insurance companies have been held...
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...WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF INDIA’S PETROLEUM PRODUCTS REFINERIES? Ruqayah Olowonirejuaro* ABSTRACT: The petroleum refining industry is a vital link in the energy chain in many developing and industrialised countries as it plays a key role in providing energy for all sectors of any economy. The structure, economic conditions, and developments in the industry are therefore important matters of national interest. In recent times, significant changes have taken place in India’s refining industry with resultant challenges. This paper seeks to evaluate the challenges faced by India’s petroleum refining industry in view of its recent performance and discuss the industry’s future outlook. Pricing is identified as a most important challenge which if addressed and combined with other complementary remedies could help maximize the industry’s potentials. * The author is currently an MSc candidate in Energy Studies specialising in Oil and Gas Economics at the CEPMLP, University of Dundee, UK. She has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc Hons) Degree in Accounting from Igbinedion University, Nigeria. She is a student member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and the Energy Institute (EI). Email: oruqayah@yahoo.com TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS............................................................................................................iii LIST OF FIGURES..................................................................
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...The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States Liz M. Santiago Dr. Watson HSA 500 March 11, 2012 Identify and describe at least three of the most difficult issues facing health care in the United States today. Our health care system is complex in the way it is setup and the way it operates. There are many key issues that face the health care system in the United States today. Three of the most difficult issues include diseases, health disparities and paying for health care. As we are capable of preventing diseases through preventive medicine and advanced technology, the mortality rate of the United States will continue to decline. Although this may be true, macro trends such as illnesses, diseases, injuries, and population groups are of concern. “Differential morbidity and mortality between men and women, among different ethnic groups, in different age groups within the population, by geographic region, and in other important population comparisons raise red flags about our limited successes for certain populations, and the challenges that we face” (Torrens & Williams, 2009). Health concerns such as hypertension, obesity, injuries and chronic diseases surround individuals in the United States today, regardless of their race, gender, income status or geographical location. Although a steady income, health insurance and access to care may exist for some individuals across the United States, health disparities are still...
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...China-ASEAN Economic Relations: Development And Future Challenge. Abstract: In recent 15 years, The development of China-ASEAN trade and economic relations has of great significance, not only for both sides but also for the whole East-Asia region. This paper to discuss the latter that is regional implications of 15 years’ development of China-ASEAN trade and economic relations and find the problem and challenge in China-ASEAN trade relations, as well as provide some further consideration for both sides’ trade and economic relations. Introduction Since the economic reforms and open-door policy of1978-79, China's economy has been growing rapidly and more particularly since 1990 when growth has averaged 10% a year. China's external trade has been growing at an even faster rate of 15% a year since 1990, and it has also annually drawing from the lessons of the financial contagion of 1997. Economic links between ASEAN and China through trade, investments and tourism have prospered throughout the 1990s. Perhaps, equally important, China's maintenance of the value of the renminbi (RMB) during the economic crisis of 1997, served as a regional anchor preventing what could possibly have been successive rounds of competitive devaluations. This clearly prevented the crisis from becoming more acute for ASEAN countries and yet this put China’s own exports at risk, as much cheaper goods from the crisis-plagued region competed with Chinese goods. Another important milestone that contributed...
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...Academy of Management Executive, 2004, Vol. 18, No. 2 ........................................................................................................................................................................ Managing ethically with global stakeholders: A present and future challenge Archie B. Carroll In the early 2000s, the era of corporate fraud and corruption defined by the ethical wrongdoing of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Arthur Andersen, and HealthSouth captured the world’s attention as never before. It soon became clear, however, that the U. S. had not cornered the market on questionable ethics. The Dutch firm Ahold and Italy’s Parmalat quickly shared center stage with scandals of their own. Domestic business ethics will continue to be a top priority. But global business ethics will demand cutting-edge thinking and practice as companies strive to expand their products, services, sales, and operations throughout the world. Regardless of what is happening in individual countries, whether at home or abroad, the primary venue for ethical debates in the future will more and more be the world stage. The primary venue for ethical debates in the future will more and more be the world stage. Globalization characterizes the international setting of business transactions in which U. S. and world multinational corporations (MNCs) will increasingly participate over the next several decades. Despite setbacks such as the attacks upon the World Trade Center in 2001...
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...FINANCIAL SYSTEMS FU TURE CHALLENGES IN GROWING COMPLEX E NVIRONMENT DISSERTATION Roszak Sabrina Msc BC & IS Management 1 MSC IS&BCFinancial SYSTEMS FUTURE Challenges in growing complex environment DISS Acknowledgements It is not an easy task going back to school after seven years of work experience. And it is much harder going back to school being a young mum. For this reason, my deepest gratitude goes to my family who has always supported me and helped me in this initiative. Especially, I would like to thank my parents who always believed in me, my husband who encourages me and over all, my son, whose love gave me all necessary energy and strength. I would also like take the opportunity to thank all the teachers from the MSc, especially Ms. Hirzmann who encourages me in my professional choices and future carrier and my professor Mr. Parmantier who helped me complete this dissertation. F inally, I would like to express my gratitude to Mrs. Jalabert, SBM MONACO Finance Director for her time spent answering my questionnaire. 2 MSC IS&BCFinancial SYSTEMS FUTURE Challenges in growing complex environment DISS Glossary BI: Business Intelligence BSC: Balanced Scorecard CFO: Chief Financial Officer CPI: Cost Performance Indicator CPM: Corporate Performance Management CR: Corporate Reporting CRM: Customer Relationship Management EPM: Enterprise Performance Management ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning FASB: Financial...
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