Future trends and innovations
In the contemporary world, there is increased advancement of technology trends and innovations that significantly impact different sectors of healthcare delivery. The future healthcare management is also likely to be affected by future innovations. Most of the innovations and trends that are likely to affect future healthcare delivery are still in idea generation, infancy, experimentation, or screening stages. It is important to assess and understand how future advancements are likely to impact different organizations for effective forecasting and strategic planning.
Many trends are likely to affect healthcare delivery in the next decade, but the most significant trend is developing technology. The healthcare system is focused on achieving the installation of more digital equipment to boost artificial intelligence. Furthermore, it will be easier to combine patients’ medical data through healthcare technological improvement, enhance health insurance coverage, and have proper financial information (Horn, 2017). The relevance of accurate financial information is to significantly reduce healthcare costs, improve healthcare delivery, and promote proper decision making in terms of delivery of health services.
Future technological advancement is also likely to improve the accessibility of healthcare services. Technology is likely to open up more avenues for researching proper ways of maintaining good health and effective initiatives of dealing with ill-health conditions. There is a lot of information about health in the digital platforms which people can easily access before consulting medical practitioners (Marx, 2020). Through the internet, doctors and other medical practitioners are easily accessible to patients by offering consultation services, especially for the patients affected with lifestyle diseases such as cancer and hypertension. For the future, more digital healthcare interventions are being developed to promote easier access to health information.
Technology helps in the prevention or reduction of errors in different industries. Therefore, further improvement of technology in the future will promote the significant reduction of medical errors that hinder healthcare delivery. The most common medical errors affecting patients include; misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, treatment mistakes, and poor medical devices. Each year, there are many reported cases of patients’ mortality because of surgical errors (Horn, 2017). To promote patients’ safety, healthcare technological advancements will help provide proper devices facilitating medical delivery and proper medical services. Future technological innovations will give nurses opportunities to be more familiar with their work and further develop their skills.
Healthcare delivery is likely to improve in the future because of the focus on further technological interventions. Technology has made the world like a small village whereby there is easier to access information through the internet and social media. Therefore, through technological improvement, patients’ access to medical information is becoming easier. Medical sectors face the problem of being overwhelmed with patients because of a lacking enough medical facilities. Therefore, technological advancement will help in saving the time of dealing with many patients. Technology promotes easier mobility of labor. In the future, technological improvements will help doctors access patients easily and take care of them. Improving technology will help patients to communicate with doctors at their different locations properly. Healthcare services are very expensive because of the difficulty in accessing them. In the future, nurses need to acquire training services to improve how they deal with their patients. There is currently a development of more software to help reduce healthcare problems that health facilities are not yet aware of.
References
Horn, H. (2017). undefined. Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 51(3), 203-203. doi:10.2345/0899-8205-51.3.203
Marx, E. W., & Padmanabhan, P. (2020). The future of digital health. Healthcare Digital Transformation, 39-62. doi:10.4324/9781003035695-2