HEALTHCARE

Healthcare Management

Healthcare Management

Introduction

The paper aims to emphasize on the role of the role of ICT in healthcare organization along with the role of administration in relation to the other management functions and the need for this role in the organisation. Furthermore, the importances of unification and standard practices as well as policies are provided in the paper. Moreover, a recommended plan for implementation which would allow all changes to happen as quickly as possible is discussed in the paper as well. The challenges to the health care system are increasing. The words - health care reform and professional shortage for a few years are all the rage. Funds must be managed and new policies are implemented. From pure administrative management it is towards service-oriented management (Lesser, 2000). The idea is to provide the best patient and to produce as little cost as possible. Technologies have provided support for healthcare professionals for has taken on new mechanisms and devices have evolved favorably diagnostic and therapeutic methods.

This Digital Health Practice, assembly techniques, practices, attitudes, ways of thinking and new values that develop as a result of growth in the digital space, expanding the scope is related to the intensive use of ICT for health. All these ICT for health are also border areas and currently investigated. The World Health Organisation - WHO has already begun to define the ICT for health as health or health digital electronics (e-Health) adding to the scope of consumer health and wellness. The significant advancement of information technology and communication recently allowed its application to the health sector in many ways, providing quality and safety benefits as well as significant cost savings. Therefore, in recent years has developed an international debate on the benefits of the application of ICT to the health sector (Bryan, 2002). The development of information technology and Communication Technologies (ICT) opens new possibilities for improvement not only in these fields, but also in the relationships between professionals and patients, communication between professionals themselves and between them and the management bodies, involving all factors that influence it. All these improvements impact on the citizen-patient who is the final recipient and last beneficiary of the application of new technologies to health (Flower, 2009).

Background

The health sector is characterized by its extreme importance and need for a large portion of the population. This depends directly on the services provided by not having access to alternative private health plans. In recent years, it has been observed that the implementation of quality programs in hospital organizations are developed in order to develop and improve the efficiency of the services. Governments of various countries instigate competition among hospitals, they limit the total payment of invoices, to encourage better management of organizations, procedures to limit and divert some costs for users. These actions have been instituted with the aim of reducing the costs of health care. Some organizations may pose obstacles to the introduction of quality programs (Cross, 2008). The intervention programs are fundamental in administrative hospital organization and ...