Question

What can a health organization leadership team do to create a culture and a system that improves the healthcare information supply chain, improve patient care, improve community health status while remaining financially viable as a health organization? Consider the implications, positive benefi­cence and mass customization potential with the integration of health organization(s) or system(s) patient, population, processes (care processes and care support processes) and profitability data and its use in decision support applications.

Answer 1

Health organization leadership

An organization's leadership sets the tone for the entire system. Leaders' visibility makes them uniquely positioned to define the organization's quality goals, communicate these goals and gain acceptance from staff, make learning a priority, and marshal the resources necessary for the vision to become reality. Furthermore, leadership has the ability to align activities to ensure that individuals have the necessary resources, time, and energy to accomplish the organization's goals. By defining and visibly emphasizing a vision that encourages and rewards learning and improvement, leadership at all levels of the organization prompt its disparate elements to work together toward a common end.

CONSISTENCY, RELIABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY OF RESULTS

Although supportive leadership and culture are necessary elements for an organization to undertake continuous learning, these elements alone are not sufficient to create sustainable, transformational change. Continuous learning cannot proceed without concrete learning processes—that is, mechanisms that help the organization continuously capture knowledge and implement improvements. These mechanisms can take many forms and may even be borrowed from leaders in other industries, but they share some essential elements: conducting systematic problem solving and experimentation, transferring knowledge throughout the organization, learning from past experience and from others, and using internal transparency as a tool to motivate further improvements.

The following factors contribute to the improvement of patient care.

1. Trained Personnel. A well-trained 'Eye Care Team' is critical to providing high quality care with desirable outcomes. ...

2. Quality Eye Care.

3. Equipment.

4. Use of Proper Instruments.

5. Use of Appropriate Medications.

6. Use of Newer Technologies.

There are four ways to improve community health planning and create a program that effectively promotes safety, healthy lifestyles, injury prevention and early detection of health conditions.

1. Listen to the Community

It may be tempting to assume you know what types of services your community needs, especially if you’ve been working in the local healthcare system and interacting with community residents for several years. However, try to put your personal biases aside and instead ask the citizens what matters most to them. This can prevent the implementation of underused programs and wasted investments.

Surveys, phone interviews and focus groups can help you narrow down the services that will help the members of your community live better lives. Research methods that allow participants to make their own suggestions, rather than simply responding to a list of pre-selected questions, often yield the best results. The American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust’s guide, “Hospital-Based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health,” offers tips to help make the planning process easier.

2. Adjust Existing Programs When Necessary

After a program has been in place for a few months, evaluate its effectiveness and make the necessary adjustments. For example, if your fliers and posters about healthy eating didn’t change behaviors, you might decide a more hands-on approach is needed. Turning a vacant lot into a community garden offers a simple way to increase residents’ access to fresh produce and helps them get a little exercise at the same time.

Combating diabetes, obesity and hypertension with free exercise programs is an excellent idea, but transportation issues may prevent some residents from attending hospital-based classes. Offering the classes at local schools or other locations in the community can increase participation and address the issues that prevent residents from taking advantage of health programs.

3. Partner with Local Organizations

Costs are always a concern when creating new programs. Partnering with your local government, businesses and community groups is an excellent way to share expenses. For example, converting an unused railway into a walking and biking trail may be too expensive if your team bears the entire cost. But financial support from other organizations can help decrease the amount for which your facility is responsible, increasing the possibility of completing the project. Creating a partnership with your local municipality and recreational organizations can not only reduce your costs but also improve community engagement.

4. Make Engagement a Priority

If you don’t want the initial enthusiasm for your new programs to wane, it’s essential to make ongoing engagement a priority. Taking advantage of social media to publicize the programs and events can help improve visibility, while offering perks and discounts to people who attend programs may encourage their continued participation.

Improving your health planning efforts can help citizens take better care of themselves and reduce their misconceptions about healthcare in general. In addition to helping local residents, participating in innovative programs can reinvigorate your staff and may even help reduce turnover. Using the four tips in this post can support your efforts to truly make a difference in your community.

Maintaining financial viability

To maintain a viable financial status, you have to keep in check the timeliness of reimbursements, controlling the increasing cost of supplies, managing the operational cost, keeping unpaid bills low and shifting the infrastructure to value-based care delivery.

How to improve health organization profit

Step 1: Reduce supply costs by better managing vendors

Step 2: Involvement& efficient management of Physicians in reducing cost reduction

Step 3: Consider outsourcing the management of some services&new profitable service lines

Step 4: Consider partnering with local physicians to reduce competition for outpatient cases

Step 5: Grow case volume by attracting new physicians to your facility

Step 6: Consider partnering with local physicians to reduce competition for outpatient cases

Step 7: Consider hiring hospitalists to manage inpatient care

Conclusion

To conclude, High labor costs and lower reimbursement from commercial and Government payers are among the factors behind economic recession. If above mentioned seven point are followed then profitability of any hospital can be easily increased.