Healthcare Delivery System Analysis

The structure of healthcare delivery systems and the related information technology, finance, and the risk management issues differs in each country and even in some states. The challenges that one healthcare system in one nation faces might not be the same challenges that another nation faces. Each nation has solutions to their healthcare problems that might not work for other healthcare systems around the world. With all of the nations around the world, the access, cost, and delivery of healthcare, are topics that need to be reevaluated. In order to make this change, we need to start with each specific country and then down to each states healthcare systems. This student has learned what the healthcare systems around the globe consist of,

With the information technology side of things, this plays a huge part in how healthcare functions today. This is because with all the advancements in technology that is being made, this allows for the healthcare professionals to spend less time on the things that the technology can do for them, but comes at a cost. Which, this then leads into the finances aspect of healthcare systems. Healthcare as everyone knows has become very costly, and for some unaffordable. That cost rises when new technology is added to improve the hospital’s performance. This is a cause and effect cycle because the equipment that the hospitals need to provide patients with the quality of care they expect, comes at a cost. Due to the costs rising because of the new equipment, the cost of healthcare as a whole rises for the patients. These patients are essentially paying the rise for the new equipment and better healthcare. After having information technology and finance relate to the structure of healthcare delivery system, this brings in risk management and the issues that come along with. Risk management is the process of making and carrying out decisions that will help prevent adverse consequences and minimize the negative effects of accidental losses on an organizations (Carroll, 2001). With the costs rising for the new equipment to offer better healthcare, this essentially ensures the patients that there will be less accidental losses or mistakes that are going to be made. So not only is the patient receiving better quality of care from the technology the hospitals have, but they are expecting that the physicians and nurses provide the same level of care they deserve. This comes with complications because if the physicians and nurses are not exceeding the quality that the patients expect of them or they make any mistakes, this is where medical malpractice suits come into the