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Trends in Healthcare. Unit One Diversified Health Occupations Page 14-25. Objective. Identify at least five current trends or changes in health care. Introduction. Most of you have probably heard about AIDS. What do you know about this disease? What rumors have you heard? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Trends in HealthcareUnit One Diversified Health OccupationsPage 14-25
Objective• Identify at least five current trends or changes in health care
Introduction• Most of you have probably heard about AIDS. What do you
know about this disease? What rumors have you heard?
• How has this disease changed and how has it affected health care?
Introduction Continued• Many events lead to changes in health care
• Changes occur almost every day
• Health care workers must be aware of these changes/trends
Cost ContainmentDefinition: trying to control the rising cost of healthcare and achieving the maximum benefit for every dollar spent
Technological Advances
• organ transplants, • artificial hearts• computers to
examine internal parts
• advanced technologies which allow people to live longer
Aging Population
• Increased pharmaceutical products,
• more chronic diseases
• more frequent health services
Other Reasons:
• Increased lawsuits,
• Expensive malpractice insurance
• Unnecessary diagnostic tests or labs
Methods Used to Contain Costs
Diagnostic Related Groups
(DRGs)
Combination of services
Outpatient services
Mass or bulk purchasing
Early intervention and
prevention
Energy conservation
Home Health Care Geriatric Care Telemedicine
WellnessAlternative and Complementary
Therapies
National Health Care Plan
Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs)• Attempt by Congress to control costs for Medicare and Medicaid
• Payment based on diagnosis
• Certain amount paid for each disease condition
• Agencies providing care for less can keep extra money
• Agencies accept loss if care costs more than payment allowed
Combination of Services• Agencies combine services to avoid duplication
• Share clinics, labs, etc….
• HMOs and PPOs are examples of sharing services
• Care can be provided to a larger number of people at a decrease in cost per person
Outpatient Services• Patients receive care without being admitted to hospital or
other care facilities
• Hospital care is expensive
• Reducing the length of hospital stays or decreased need for hospital admissions lowers the cost of healthcare
• Examples: surgery, XRAY, Diagnostic Tests
Mass or Bulk Purchasing• Buying equipment and supplies in larger quantities at
reduced prices
• Combine purchases of different departments
• Large corporations placing large orders of supplies can be bought at lower costs
Early Intervention and Prevention
• Providing care before acute or chronic disease occurs
• Preventing diseases is more cost effective than treating
• Methods of Prevention include education, immunizations, yearly exams, and incentives for people who participate in certain programs
Energy Conservation• Monitor use of energy to control costs and
conserve resources
• Major expenses: electricity, water, gas, etc…
• Methods: energy efficient facilities, heating/cooling systems, insulation, repairing water leaks, energy saving light bulbs, etc..
Check Your Understanding… • What is an outpatient service?
What are two examples?
• Why should we prevent illnesses, versus treat them?
• What are three methods of energy conservation?
Home Health Care• Rapidly growing health
care career
• DRGs result in shorter hospital stays and therefore patients need to be cared for at home
What would be an advantage of home
health care?
• Cost containment because its less expensive
• All aspects involved: nursing, physical therapy, respiratory and occupational therapy, social services, nutrition, etc…
Geriatric Care• Care for the elderly
• Rapidly growing because baby boom generation and longer life spans
• Will lead to growth of adult day cares, retirement communities, assisted living, and LTC facilities
Telemedicine• Uses video, audio, and computer systems to provide
medical/health care services
• New technology allows interactive services between health care providers
• EMTs at the scene of an accident can transmit medical data to the ER physician who can plan ahead
• Surgeons using a computer robot can guide a remote controlled arm to performs surgery many miles away
Wellness
• State of being in optimum health with balances relationship between physical, mental and social health
• People aware of need to maintain health and prevent disease
• Recognize importance of activities such as exercise, good nutrition, weight control, etc…
Check For Understanding• What is home health care? Identify three types of
services are involved?
• What is geriatric care? Discuss the reason for needing more adult day cares, retirement communities, and assisted living communities ?
• What is telemedicine? Describe a scenario of it’s use
Alternative and Complementary Methods of Health Care
• Most common health care system in the US is the biomedical or “Western” system
• Based on evaluating the physical signs and symptoms of a patient, determining the cause of disease and treating the cause
• Alternative Therapy:• Methods of treatment
used in place of biomedical therapies
• Complementary Therapy:• Methods of treatment
used in conjunction with conventional medical therapies
• Use ancient philosophy to determine a persons body type• Prescribe diet, herbal treatment, exercise yoga, massage, minerals and living
practices
Ayuredic Practitioners
• Use ancient holistic based healing practice that Chi (energy) flows through every living person in a pathway to link the organs and connect them to external universe
• Use acupuncture, acupressure, tai chi and herbal remedies
Chinese Medicine Practitioners
• Believe the brain sends vital energy to all body parts through nerves in the spinal cord• Misalignment of vertebrae places pressure on spinal nerves which results in disease
and pain• Use spinal manipulation, massage and exercise to adjust position of vertebrae and
restore flow of energy
Chiropractors
• Believe in ability of body to heal itself through the actions of the immune system• Use minute diluted doses of drugs made from plant, animal and mineral substances to
cause symptoms similar to disease and activate immune systemHomeopaths
• Help individual obtain trance like state with belief the person will be receptive to verbal suggestions and make behavior changeHypnotists
• use only natural therapies such as fasting, special diets, lifestyle changes, and supportive approaches to promote healing
• Avoid use of surgery or medicinal to treat diseasesNaturopaths
Check For Understanding . . . • Differentiate between Complementary
and Alternative Care Therapies.
• Identify TWO types of CAM therapies. Briefly describe these.
National Health Care Plan• High cost of care and large number of
uninsured have created demand for national plan
• Many have been proposed
• Goal is to ensure that all Americans can get health coverage
• Related problems include the cost of creating system
Pandemic• Exists when outbreak of disease occurs over
widespread geographic area and affects high proportion of the population
• Major concern today is that worldwide pandemics become more frequent
• Possible concern of Influenza Pandemic in the future
• Governments are creating pandemic influenza plans to protect the people
Check for Understanding• Explain how having a national health
care plan might affect a pandemic?
• Which pandemic is a possible concern for the future? Why?
Let’s Apply What You’ve Learned• Will new trends have an effect on your
role as a health care worker? Why or Why Not?
• If salaries were increased for health care professionals, what changes or trends might occur?
Guided Practice… • Lets Look at the workbook page provided…. We will do the
first question together
• Then, try the second question on your own at first. Then we will discuss it