HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

Health Care Administration (Outline for a Research Project)

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Health Care Administration (Outline for a Research Project)

Chapter One

This first chapter of the study will give an introduction about the topic as to aid reader to understand what lies in the topic, what are the aims and objectives of the study and what pattern the study would follow in order to complete achieve the objectives.

Introduction

Health care administration is one of the emerging fields of study as this field is related to manage, administer or lead network of hospitals, hospitals and health care system for any organization. Those who administer health care are considered as health care professionals; though this field is known by different names vary from one region to another, like health management, medical and health services management, health care management and health system management. However, this field is very crucial as it helps in managing all the issue related to health care system. For many years, the concept of delivering primary care services at the workplace has been posited as a cost savings for companies (NewYork Time, 1930, cited in, Chernichovsky & Leibowitz, 2010). Recent success stories have included a company in the entertainment industry that reportedly saved $1 million in the first 2 years of operation with a clinic for its 1,500 employees and dependents older than 14, and a government agency that estimates it saves $900,000 annually in health care and lost-productivity costs by providing an onsite primary care clinic for its 5,000 employees (Post-Gazette, 2006). By providing employees with health promotion and disease prevention services, including screening, early diagnosis, and uncomplicated illness treatment, a company's health care costs can be significantly reduced.

In addition, the convenience of primary care available at the work site can add to the location's productivity. In 2008, a major U.S. semiconductor company integrated primary care with traditional occupational health care services at several locations. This article will describes the process that is used by the company to build the business case for the program, the lessons learned from the pilot project, and the value of the service as measured by key outcome metrics.

Purpose of this study

Under this heading, the main objective of this study will be described. As this study will attempt to explore the ways to build a business case, which will help companies to manage the health care services more effectively with efficient provision system along with saving the cost associated with it.

Significance of the study

The significance of the research project will be discussed in this section as what value the proposed research project could add in the health care administration. The main purpose of health care administrator is to provide high quality care with reduced cost. In this regard, this study is very crucial as this research project will build a business case which will help the health care professionals in various firms to improve the provision of high quality health care along with reducing the cost associated with health care ...