Landscape Analysis: What Are the Forefronts of Change in the US Hospitals?

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Infrastructure and Technology Management: Contributions from the Energy, Healthcare and Transportation Sectors

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Publication Date

2018

Abstract

Compilation of information is increasingly becoming more important for health organizations from financial and time aspects. By methodical study of adaptive systems, healthcare organizations can gain new insights of burdensome issues within the organization as well as healthcare delivery management. These actions have become more important with the changes in the healthcare environment in the last couple of decades where several external entities have impacts on healthcare organizations directly and/or indirectly. One of the most onerous tasks ahead of organizations is to anticipate these changes and prepare for them. Knowing the external environment can be the key to leading a successful and competitive health system. However, identifying and behaving toward all the external changes pose great time and resource challenges for organizations. Health organizations can posit the question of “what are the current external changes that have the power to affect them?” This study will take a look into emerging extrinsic changes for the US healthcare environment in different areas. A literature review will be performed in order to pinpoint the different contemporary change perspectives and their sub-criteria. In order to better illustrate these issues, Ishikawa diagram (cause-and-effect diagram) is used in this study.

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Chapter 6 of, Infrastructure And Technology Management, which is part of the book series; Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Published by Springer.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68987-6_6

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10.1007/978-3-319-68987-6_6

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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/27074

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