Transparency, Accountability, And Implementation Of SWOT Analysis In Healthcare

Strength and Weaknesses of Healthcare Sectors

The process of transparency, accountability, and implementation allows the opportunity to evaluate the sector and understand the possible changes needed to be made from the organisation. The resources are used in a variant way and working ability and approach will be redefined through the process. The priority of business acceleration in health care services are under the experiment and all the difficulties are formulated in way of the solution through this process. Health-related results are not always directed in positive moves, rather facilities from the healthcare sector are highlighted in this paper.

The thesis statement underpins the negative approaches of health care facilities and recommends some positive outcome from this. The transparency will be maintained in ethical ways and there are some specific revised approaches for the development of the sector.

Discussion

The strengths of medical equipment and technologies help the sector to facilitate aging health care and development. The quality will be high through that process. There are some innovations in the medical field and that approach helps in the healthcare aspect (Sturmberg, O’Halloran & Martin, 2013). Weakness of healthcare sectors needs to be analysed as these are the major responsibility to overcome and make some positive consequences through this. The policies are for every facility and sector has to include that for the sake of healthcare development.

The workplace culture of employees is the first weakness found in this research. They are not involved enough with the organisation. The service policy is violated through this system. Intrinsic motivation may be violated in that case and that is the reason employees are not motivated enough to work with the organisation.

There are some specific incentive policies needed to be introduced like extra pay, the extra week off, or change in shift time will help employees to regain their enthusiasm for the active work culture. As mentioned by Harris et al., (2013) team management is another policy approach that needed to be changed. In healthcare, motivation in teams is not as high as they deal with patients’ illness. There must be some situational engagements and financial advancement for employees to motivate them. This extrinsic motivation allows them to associate with the company in longer terms.

Misunderstanding of concepts within employees is another challenge that sector is facing in modern time. Communication and inter-relation behaviour is the key approach in the sector. Employees come from different cultural backgrounds, thus they have a different set of arguments and planning as well. Their cultural amalgamation and ethical approach need to be revised as the policy implemented for the sustainable condition of employees retention, where the problems will be mitigated through this and sector will ensure the service quality (Chen, Ou & Hollis, 2013).

Adopted policies or the new type of patient care not always productive for the patients. This is a step of experiment and enhancement of the standard medical quality that ensures the patients’ safety. There are some major gaps in service areas in business. The number of employees is not enough in that case and different services are get struggled by that process (Joshi, 2013). Staff problems are huge in that case as the retention policy or the increment after years or incentives and even the promotional process of ranks is not proper to order.

Workplace Culture and Its Weaknesses

From the time of Social Security Amendments of 1965 to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010, some expectation of employees are fulfilled and that ensure their retention policies, but still, there are some loopholes that create threats for the development of the medical world in the US (Gajanayake et al., 2012). The total healthcare spending is $2,504,800,000,000 for the population of 313,376,398 people. The percentage of income in 8.6% and median annual income is like $53,034 and that comes for the moderate stage of health care services. The policy may not affect some sections, but the change in the behavioural approach of employees demand that change.

Healthcare administrations nowadays trust strong Healthcare Knowledge Management Information Systems (HKMIS) to deliver consistent data that report on health scheme presentation. Unidentified service line may not reach towards the patients’ trust and belief, thus the situation will be critical for the organisation to earn revenue and pay their employees (Burgess& Radnor, 2013). The unfamiliar issue is quite normal in healthcare sectors and that can damage the reputation also. Organisation sustainability is under the threat in such situations. On a different point of view, weaknesses regarding inner issues that hamper the operational competence and adversely affect the presentation of a healthcare organization.

The approach of the medical field is now based on technological advancement. The policy approaches are changed time after time and in case of international business exposure, the major struggle has faced by the company. This is an experimental process for the organisation and that based on local strengths (Sahama, Simpson & Lane, 2013). This will be a vulnerable outcome in business as the amount of support is needed for the organisation is not coming towards this end. The development will be initiated if the proper planning of marketing and implementation takes place.

The transparency in policy will be there, as the phase of development in the international business arena will be high. The emerging partnerships are creating the problem in transparency and legitimate responsibility is not taken by both the companies (Kieft et al., 2014). The will experience a non-attached development phase for the sector, and that will be recommended through the process of legal and legitimate singing and process management.

Public policy

Public policy is a tool used by the government to maintain order and cater to the needs of its citizens. Public policy is a general term used to refer to a collection of mandates, regulation, and laws which are developed through a political process. In recent years that has been a rising cost of healthcare provisions thus raising demands on how healthcare systems should be designed and the involvement of the government in healthcare (Cruttenden et al., 2005). The rising cost of healthcare systems has not risen in United States but the world as a whole. Some countries have ended up privatizing and also regulating prices (Cruttenden et al., 2005).

However, in a market-oriented economies rise in healthcare services has increased the number of people getting insurance covers. For example, in the United States, significant changes in the health care systems have taken place after a series of evaluations, analysis, and debates. Now every citizen in the united states is required by law to have health insurance. The federal government went ahead to craft prices for legislation, insurance mandates, and bills to come up with an effective way in which the American citizens receive health insurance.

Incentive Policies for Employees Motivation

However, health policy does not only cover the insurance policy we have discussed but can be explained as all policies that pertain to the overall health of a particular group of people. For example when HIV/AIDS was first discovered in 1986 governments had to come up with policies on how they will handle the diseases and also educate the public about it. There is another segment of public policy thought to be very important it includes the legal policy. It consists of laws used to determine what is right or wrong

University of Pittsburgh medical centre

For decades know the University of Pittsburgh medical center has been providing health services for people in Pittsburgh. The company is known to have 650000 employees and more than 25 hospitals in Pennsville.The hospital in collaboration with the universities has also tried to come up with different strategies in which they can mitigate the various issues affecting the healthcare system. However, having many doctors means that the hospital is in a position to reach a wider audience. However, workers in this institution are thought to be overworked.

These reduce their effectiveness’s. The hospital is in collaboration with many experts who do a lot of research on various health policies they include foundations, organisations, and governments (International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications, and Zhicai Zhong,2013). The hospital is known of drawing experts from various departments such as social sciences and health in conducting some policy research projects. however, they receive a lot of support from other people such as health economists, political scientists, information scientists and biotechnicians  

 The hospital in collaboration with other center is ment to deliver analysis based on evidence to the nation, policy maker’s locals and the states (International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications, and Zhicai Zhong, 2013). What makes these center unique is that it has well-trained experts. Due to the increase of health care costs across the United States Pittsburgh medical center helps in offering affordable medical care to the citizens of united states.

In 2010 Barack Obama made affordable care act a law. The primary focus of the act was to make sure that every USA citizen has a health insurance coverage to solve the problem where healthcare services are associated with high cost. This has been one of the primary aims of the University of Pittsburgh medical center (Solomon, Solomon and Elnora,2000). Through proper research, it is easier to come up with conclusions on patients and save them the cost. It also assists the government in coming up with policies in the health care system that are not costly to the economy at large (Sciullo, 2002). However out of the research done in this facility affordable care act has faced some legal challenges after proponents assert that this law might cause considerable problems in future given the fact that the size of the size of the health care system is large and complex (Wheelan, 2010).

The University of Pittsburgh medical center has not only helped in coming up with health policies that help in reducing the cost of care, but it has also given recommendations on how to improve the quality of care (Sciullo, 2002). Employees are known to provide health insurance.  The other significant providers of health insurance are the federal governments and the state who provide Medicaid for low-income earners and Medicare for those people who are disabled. In the year 2013, about 48 percent of Americans had been insured by their employees.Medicaid is thought to have 16 percent of people while only 15 percent had been enrolled in Medicare.

Misunderstanding of Concepts Within Employees and Communication

Issues affecting UPMC

The healthcare policy combined with the rise of health IT such as precision medicine and artificial intelligence have a significant effect on how UPMC delivers health care services

• Presidential healthcare policy

Over the lasts decades, HealthCare has become a vital topic in the p[political block(Cruttenden et al., 2005). Healthcare officials in any political administration always try to come up with their strategies (Cruttenden et al., 2005). Continuous changes of the health policies by the government have affected how UPMC delivers healthcare services because of lack of consistency. 

• Private equity investment in healthcare

PE investment firms are ready to invest around $1 trillion to the health industry (Sciullo, 2002). This might affect the UPMSC since such interventions should be the on the supplier.

• Artificial intelligence

This involves the use of technology. The purpose of technology by physicians in this hospital is very challenging because of the culture of autonomy and decisions making. Having computers dictate how health care services need to be delivered is difficult for medical for practitioners (Sciullo, 2002). However, technology is useful especially when it comes to dosage error reduction and robot-assisted surgery

• Precision medicine

Precision medicine is still developing. Precision medicine is usually based on treating people according to their biology. Through this, it will be easy to cure diseases. However, this method will affect UPMC because of lack of revenue considering the fee for service model. It is based on the fact that these will eliminate the need of patients visiting the hospital continuously

• Retailers as primary care physicians

 Some health care clinics such as the CVS offer patients with care services at a little cost. This has made hospital such as the UPMC to check how they use PCPS making them concentrate more of their resources in coming up with emergency care facilities.

• Millennials as consumers

Today’s workforce is made up of about 83.1 millennials(Sciullo, 2002). Their health needs are different from the previous generations. For example, many of the millennials prefer retail health clinics rather than hospital such as UPMC. This generation is also health conscious thus it chooses to have some annual check-up in their health and also p[preventive care (Cruttenden et al., 2005. They mainly rely on technology, and this will force traditional systems such as the one being used in UPMC to be changed.

Administration

The administration of UPMC hospital can be said to be normative. The normative administration is necessary when fitting together both administrative and political policymaking.It is easier to establish this linkage by examining central concept. The real normative literature calls for the citizen to participate in decision making. Employees in this organization are always allowed to air their views. Patients also can make recommendations to the services offered in the organization (Sciullo, 2002).  Moreover, this theory assumes the environment responsible for shaping administration behavior. However, administration is critical because managers determine the effect public input has on decisions. It is also known for determining participation forums. Thus despite applying normative theories in this organization, managers need to be given the chance of administering the hospitals. Thus all suggestions from both the public and administration need to be weighed effectively. This will ensure effective management of the organization.

Gaps in Service Areas and Staff Problems

Recommendations

Hospitals need to embrace technology and educate their staff on how to use it. However, they have to distinguish which decisions can be made by use of technology and those that cannot (Cruttenden et al., 2005). This will assist the organization in reaching a wider audience and catering to the millennial generation. It will also ensure that diseases are treated early enough

On the other hand, because the government keeps changing healthcare policies, Hospitals need to have their systems in place to ensure consistency. There will always be a lot of hindrances whenever there is no consistent health policy.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre SWOT Analysis

Swot analysis help in defining an organizations strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It helps in knowing what makes a company stand, some of the activities it was engaged in to get there, and how it can continue improving its performance.

Swot Diagram

Strengths	Weaknesses
It is the largest non-governmental employer meaning it has more opportunities  for advancement   It also has a good flow of revenue It has about 600 doctors thus they can easily reach patients thus expanding their target audience It engages in charity activities with the communities, therefore, building a good relationship   It makes use of social media platforms to reach out to its customers	The company is only based in Pennsylvania   thus reducing their target audience The has a very demanding work environment employees ever complain about poor salaries Most doctors are overworked therefore at times they may not be competent enough
Threats	Opportunities
UPMC need to expand in other parts of Pennsylvania  and even other states  They need to make use of their resources effectively  The fact that they are associated with the Pittsburgh university they can find students to work as employees or even interns	The company is facing primary completion from other organizations in Pittsburgh that means the company has to work extra harder  proper relationships with insurance agents and customers at large

Conclusion

Therefore the paper can be concluded that a perception of the healthcare sector is changing as the deliverance and approach is quite modern nowadays. The phase of technical advancement helps in healthcare but the weakness and threats extract from the SWOT analysis are recommended in the form of developing the infrastructure of the sector. The motivation processes are implemented and transparency in this sector develop the process and manage the difficulties in a legitimate manner.

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