Health Care Trend And Challenges LT B
Health Care Trend and Challenges
Team B
Victoria Allen, Amanda Bryan, Acqumeckia Cheneau, Reketa Clardy,
Kelli Dixon, & Alice Hulsey
HCS/449
February 16,2015
Renee Gorby
Health Care Trends and Challenges The innovation of new healthcare trends and challenges will contribute to increase in medical expenses to improve patient health. According to, the video Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a fee explains, concierge services are offered to patients where physicians are providing preventative measures and helping build relationships with patients. Expanded Medicaid is a new trend in healthcare. The program now covers individuals under that age of 65 whose income is up to the 133% of the federal poverty level. Expanded Medicaid is not available in all states ("Medicaid Expansion & What It Means For You", n.d.).
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is among the latest trends in health care technology to meet the needs of patients. An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a patient’s medical information which is stored in specialized software. A patient’s EMR includes the patient’s entire medical history, including past and current illnesses, test results, prescriptions, and allergies. Implementing electronic medical records (EMRs), allows the medical staff to better serve the patients and provide quality care (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are beneficial to healthcare clinics, for the upgrade in technology allows the health care providers and staff to give quality service to the patients. Challenges that healthcare is facing is rising healthcare costs. There are many factors contributing to the rising costs of healthcare, but one in particular is the baby boomers. The baby boomers consists of those that were born during World War 2 and will be turning 65 years or older in 2010-2030. The population of adults 65 and older totaled 40.3 million in 2010, which is expected to
Team B
Victoria Allen, Amanda Bryan, Acqumeckia Cheneau, Reketa Clardy,
Kelli Dixon, & Alice Hulsey
HCS/449
February 16,2015
Renee Gorby
Health Care Trends and Challenges The innovation of new healthcare trends and challenges will contribute to increase in medical expenses to improve patient health. According to, the video Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a fee explains, concierge services are offered to patients where physicians are providing preventative measures and helping build relationships with patients. Expanded Medicaid is a new trend in healthcare. The program now covers individuals under that age of 65 whose income is up to the 133% of the federal poverty level. Expanded Medicaid is not available in all states ("Medicaid Expansion & What It Means For You", n.d.).
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is among the latest trends in health care technology to meet the needs of patients. An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a patient’s medical information which is stored in specialized software. A patient’s EMR includes the patient’s entire medical history, including past and current illnesses, test results, prescriptions, and allergies. Implementing electronic medical records (EMRs), allows the medical staff to better serve the patients and provide quality care (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are beneficial to healthcare clinics, for the upgrade in technology allows the health care providers and staff to give quality service to the patients. Challenges that healthcare is facing is rising healthcare costs. There are many factors contributing to the rising costs of healthcare, but one in particular is the baby boomers. The baby boomers consists of those that were born during World War 2 and will be turning 65 years or older in 2010-2030. The population of adults 65 and older totaled 40.3 million in 2010, which is expected to
References: National Center for Health Statistics. (20014, January). Health Care in America Trends in Utilization. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/healthcare.pdf - Alice Hulsey PBS News Hour. (n.d.). Concierge Medicine Greater Access for. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v4AiG3YaAV-w - Acqumeckia Cheneau U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (n.d.). Medicaid expansion & what it means for you. Retrieved from http://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip/medicaid-expansion-and-you/ - Victoria Allen Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2009). Health care information systems: A practical approach for health care management (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey Boss. Devor Susan,(2014,Febuary) Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/the changing-health-care-world-trends - Kelli Dixon