Healthcare has been and will always be a place for controversies and augment. The weakness of the organization can open up opportunities for the organization to grow and impact the community. One of the opportunities Nebraska CHI can utilize is making use of telemedicine technology for areas lacking certain medicine specialties. This is where patient make an appointment with a doctor and they visit through Skype without the patient leaving home. This will reduce the cost of transport and unnecessary emergency room visit, the patient will not miss work and the rural patient can more easily obtain specialty services.
The second opportunity is leaders and providers from different hospital apart from CHI within the communities should come together to address the population health problem and share patient information. Sharing of patient information can be done through software known as NEHII to stop duplicate of service and reduce patient cost. The provider should also communicate with another provider from a different organization in term of patient care to get high quality of care. Sharing of information will improve patient safety by reducing medication and medical error, increase efficiency by eliminating paperwork and also provides the doctor with clinical decision support tool for more effective care and treatment. …show more content…
Information technology is making possible for providers and health organization to outsource to the countries. The provider is able to treat and monitor patient by phone and video this will cause so many doctors to lose a patient. With this new technology coming up a provider from Indian can see a patient here in American. Lack of reimbursement can occur