Saturday, January 25, 2014

Health care delivery operations. An answer to the countries health care crisis

Health care delivery operations are extremely complicated due to the quantity and variety of medical professionals, medical instruments, testing and treatment.  For a single person to enter into an emergency room, all these things need to be used with speed and accuracy.  Complications can lead to lawsuits and lawsuits lead to less profits and higher delivery costs for hospitals and clinics.  In such a complicated and sensitive system, how does health care operation consultants view such an organization.  Well the answer is from the patients perspective.  health care delivery can be organized in such a way to maximize the through put of patients and/or speed of health care services.  There is more than just one trade-off, that needs to be acknowledge by the health care system,  for an expert in operations to address the growing concerns in health care delivery.
Since health care costs have been sky rocketing for what seems to be for the entire existence of the modern health care system,  health care organizations, economists, and various other experts have tried to adjusting the payment structure to address political and economic issues.  This is not a win-win situation but just a shift in cost that that avoids improving the operations.Operation experts do not restructure payment plans to address higher costs but offer insight to how things can be done more efficiently and effectively.
The evolution of supply chain management and logistics has come to a point where it can address the complications of the health care industry.  Advanced health care operation analytics and the existence of new “big data” structures to track and monitor operations can be combined to address the rising costs of health care better then a change in payment structure. Health care Executive (especially hospitals and large clinics) need to acknowledge the vital role a health care operations consulting firm can play in delivering high quality operational improvements with speed and accuracy.

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