Preparation and Planning is Key: Turning Trends into Strategies

Preparation and Planning Is Key: Turning Trends into Strategies
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Preparation and Planning Is Key: Turning Trends into Strategies
Costs and Transparency
 Focusing on quality patient outcomes and cost transparency would promote financial responsibility, so healthcare institutions are more transparent in healthcare reporting. Being transparent in reporting health information will make it easier to share information with other stakeholders and collaborate. Furthermore, transparent healthcare reporting on costs would require the healthcare organization to demonstrate value, and the best evidence should support decisions to maximize value. Awareness and knowledge of a healthcare pricing system help identify areas where costs can be reduced without compromising the quality of care and patient outcomes. Patients and their families will also be better placed to evaluate what care offers the best choices, interventions, and outcomes. 
Delivery System Transformation
The organization will focus on better preparation, including investing more in staff supplies and infrastructure, and the shortage is associated with slow response and training health care facilities. Effecting changes in the care delivery system require better prepared to respond to health emergencies such as the covid-19 pandemic. Besides increased investments, there is a focus on shared decision-making, telehealth communication, and improved access to care that will help confront future healthcare challenges (Wosik et al., 2020). Promoting patient-centered health care services with more focus on individualized plans will also help meet patients’ unique health care needs. There is a need for more focus on health care quality measurement and reporting to improve quality, outcomes, and patient experience. 
Data and Analytics
 Data collection helped suppress the spread of COVID-19, and data and analytics were used to predict the number of new cases. Thus, data and analytics were helpful when leveraged for early warning and epidemic surveillance. Similarly, data and analytics would help identify patterns and contact tracing, where there is also prioritization of people’s data securit...