Healthcare Technology Trends

In order to understand current health delivery services changes and formulate predictions, one must thoroughly comprehend the three developmental eras of the health care system. The evolution of our current health care system began in 1850, and has metamorphosed in three time periods, 1850 to 1900, 1900 to World War II (WW II), and WW II to 2009. Significant distinct and overlapping trends in disease prevalence, availability of health care resources, social organizations, and the public's knowledge and perception of health and illness and technology.

This article reviews the changes in policies and procedures over a 40 year period, regarding state and federal changes in health care. The article describes changes in

The purpose of this report is to examine the current state of health care as well as the impacts that new legislation will have on the United States healthcare system. Specifically, this report will inspect the immediate and long term effects of the healthcare reform bill HR 3590 that was signed into law on March 23, 2010 as well as investment advice on the medical care industry.

As the baby boomer generation begins to reach retirement age, there has been much speculation as to what affect they will have on the health care industry. The baby boomer generation is the group of people born between 1946 and 1964. At one point, there were more than 76 million of them, of which 4 million died before 2000. With all this in mind, I will discuss what specific effects they will have now they are getting to that “elderly” stage.

The population trends that are important to the planning, financing and delivery of healthcare is the growing population of cancer and other diseases. "As a nation, we have long struggled with issues of who has the right to access which health care services and under what conditions" (Williams & Torren, 2008, pp.74). Most of American citizen's do not get the healthcare that they deserve due to demographic's. Women mortality rates are starting to raise again due to certain disease's. "Breast cancer mortality in women is the highest in the highest age groups although declining mortality from other causes, particularly diseases of the heart and the cerebrovascular illness, at least in part, leads to a higher mortality from various cancers" (Williams

I personally feel the affect economics have on healthcare or the lack there of, can never be explained any clearer; unless you are experiencing it yourself.

The rise in costs of prescription medicines affects all sectors of the health care industry, including private insurers, public programs, and patients. Spending on prescription drugs continues to be an important health care concern, particularly in light of rising pharmaceutical costs, the aging population, and increased use of costly specialty drugs. In recent history, increases in prescription drug costs have outpaced other categories of health care spending, rising rapidly throughout the latter half of the 1990s and early 2000s. (Kaiseredu.org, 2012).

With the current shift to value-based care, the Kaiser Family Foundation has highlighted an increase in the number of outpatient visits, which have gone up 24%. Current advances in technology (minimally invasive joint replacement) and health informatics have allowed many procedures to be shifted out of the hospital and into outpatient settings. Fueled by robotics, more specialized surgeons, improved surgical techniques and instruments, and large EHR systems, the shift to ambulatory surgery centers are becoming more feasible. Many recent studies and data have shown that procedures performed in ambulatory surgery centers have decreased inpatient costs and decreased hospital stays. Some of the cost savings come from reduced hospital overhead that

There are many implications to healthcare based on different trends. The geographic, demographic, and psychographic trends are factors that have played to illness in our society during the twentieth century (Williams & Torrens, 2008). These implications include an increase in cost for geographic and demographic trends, an increase on the need for cultural diversity, an increase on the need for different options for elderly care, and creative means to reach customers instantaneously to deliver healthcare.

In this week's reading, the primary goal of screening programs is early detection of diseases in hopes to mitigate or even change the course of the disease or perhaps the treatment course and ultimately reduce mortality(Gordis, 2016). Conversely, early detection screenings may not be advantageous to the patient or ameliorate outcomes; therefore, from an epidemiological and clinical perspective, understanding the influences of disease development is vital (Gordis, 2016). Furthermore, aspects to take into account when analyzing study designs regarding the worthiness of screening programs, particularly nonrandomized trials, are biases such as lead times, length time, selection biases, in addition to overdiagnosis bias ( Gordis, 2016). As we have learned, RCTs are the 'gold standard'; however, executing RCTs on screening vs no screening is challenging due to cost and ethical issues (Gordis, 2016). Additional vital aspects to consider is the validity and reliability of screening tests; therefore, diagnostic accuracy is critical and making sure quality of screenings is important in that the tests are sensitive enough to detect disease during the period in which individuals who do not have symptoms of a particular disease and specific enough to lessen the incidence of false positives (Gates, 2014), which a high percentage of false positive was noted in the Nielen et al. (2009)

Numerous prescriptions move the treatment worldview toward counteractive action by permitting patients to stay away from costly hospitalizations and long term care. As indicated by an investigation, “The U.S. health care system could spare $213 billion every year if pharmaceuticals were utilized appropriately.” (American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, n.d.)

Two shifts that are expected in the U.S. Population over the next 50 years are the shift towards making healthcare more affordable and focusing more on the prevention of major health concerns. Making healthcare more affordable, would allow more Americans to access every part of health care and services. This would allow more health communication to go on and allow more communication between patients and caregivers. If healthcare was more affordable, maybe patients wouldn't wait until the symptoms they are having are an emergency room trip, maybe they would go into the doctor the first time they feel their heart skip a beat. It would allow their doctors to be provided more information from the patients history which in return would allow the

The coming change of Macro-trends according to Academic Health Centers (AHCs) as we begin looking at the threat to the United States’ health care which is already perceived the value of patient care delivered and a significant reduction in direct payments to physicians in AHCs (Garson and Levin, 2001). Healthcare has been a hot topic among politicians, the public, and the many industries that the repeal and replace Obamacare will influence by new laws (Murillo). The cuts that GOP expects to approve will affect Medicare programs believed that it is ok because seniors have subsidized care that will kick in when this happens. On the other hand, Murillo in his article believes that “new legislation is expected to help as many as 30 million more

When considering the baby boomer generation in the United States in general and in Phoenix, AZ in particular, there are a number of trends that should be kept in mind. The health care manager who wishes to implement a health and wellness program, for example, should take into account not only the specific components that such a program might include, but also marketing concepts and trends as these relate to the health care field. Hence, various marketing trends, as suggested by authors such as Hillestad and Berkowitz (2004), should be integratively considered with specific health trends among the baby boomer generation, as suggested by Blumenthal (2011).

Many people believe that medical tests are obsolete. That the results the tests prove are 100%. However, that is not the case. Although many tests are accurate, false negative or positives do occur. A false negative is when the test results, “indicates a person does not have a disease or condition when the person actually does have it” (livescience). False negatives have been seen in pregnancy tests or Lyme disease tests. On the other hand, a false positive test results, “indicates that a person has a specific disease or condition when the person actually does not have it” (livescience). Thus, to combat false positives or negatives physicians double check. Double checking is when they might use two different types of tests to get a confirmatory