The Future Trends in Healthcare
The Future Trends in Healthcare
“Health care trends refer to statistical patterns identified in the health care industry. Government authorities and other industries examine and use trends to preserve or enhance the health and wellness of those in the community” (ehow, 2012).The health care industry has seen many advances and improvements in recent years and this trend will continue because of advances in technologies, diseases, medications and many more. “Health care trends allow analysts to identify what is currently going on and prepare for what will happen in the future. Trends are used as a means of creating projections. For instance, studying of the growing population of baby boomers and their medical conditions or medical issues like cancers, heart diseases, acute and chronic respiratory diseases, and many other health conditions are continue to rise. These continued growths will require quality improvements of new information system implementation that allow customer satisfaction and save money and time for everyone. The significance and need of quality that is enhanced came so far that the health system could be monitored for the six goals of safe patient care such as specific care catered or centered on the patient, timely scheduling of deliverance of care, equitable care, affordable and effective services, and efficient patient care. The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss about the importance of the future trends in health care. This entire paper will cover these topics such as:
• As an external delivery source in communicating patient specific information,
• Distance delivery and the impact on health care,
• Informational technologies such as e-mail, telemedicine and electronic transfer of records use in health care,
• The assessment of how these issues impact health care today and in the future.
Communication processes in health care have experienced dramatic changes through use of electronic means of communication. Over the
“Health care trends refer to statistical patterns identified in the health care industry. Government authorities and other industries examine and use trends to preserve or enhance the health and wellness of those in the community” (ehow, 2012).The health care industry has seen many advances and improvements in recent years and this trend will continue because of advances in technologies, diseases, medications and many more. “Health care trends allow analysts to identify what is currently going on and prepare for what will happen in the future. Trends are used as a means of creating projections. For instance, studying of the growing population of baby boomers and their medical conditions or medical issues like cancers, heart diseases, acute and chronic respiratory diseases, and many other health conditions are continue to rise. These continued growths will require quality improvements of new information system implementation that allow customer satisfaction and save money and time for everyone. The significance and need of quality that is enhanced came so far that the health system could be monitored for the six goals of safe patient care such as specific care catered or centered on the patient, timely scheduling of deliverance of care, equitable care, affordable and effective services, and efficient patient care. The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss about the importance of the future trends in health care. This entire paper will cover these topics such as:
• As an external delivery source in communicating patient specific information,
• Distance delivery and the impact on health care,
• Informational technologies such as e-mail, telemedicine and electronic transfer of records use in health care,
• The assessment of how these issues impact health care today and in the future.
Communication processes in health care have experienced dramatic changes through use of electronic means of communication. Over the
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