Future Direction of Health Care, health & medical homework help

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In a three- to five-page paper:

  • Describe a minimum of five challenges from the list below that are defining the future strategic direction of health care.
    • Proposed health care reform and legislation
    • Information technology advancements such as the electronic medical record (EMR)/ electronic health record (EHR)
    • Accreditation, quality of healthcare, and organizational compliance
    • Economics, including third party payers, future funding, rising costs, the Medicare and Medicaid programs
    • Access to health care including the uninsured and those in the poverty levels
    • Public entities in controlling the demand aspects of health service
    • Market shares and advancing age of population
    • Maintaining a skilled workforce
    • Pay for performance
  • Describe how an organization can adapt its direction and strategies to effectively address these challenges.

Your paper must be three to five double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published within the last five years. One source must be obtained from the Ashford University Library. All sources must be documented in APA style

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Running head : ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN HEALTHCARE

Challenges and Future Strategic Directions in Healthcare
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ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN HEALTHCARE
Challenges and future strategic directions in healthcare
There are many challenges affecting healthcare, and that is slowly changing the
strategic directions of many organizations. Notably, most of these challenges are based on
dynamic factors such as market forces, stakeholders, and new industry demands. Due to these
changes, many organizations have in the past experienced challenges in adjusting to the new
environments, which has been a cause for changing of ownership, leaning operations,
expansion, as well as many other changes in healthcare organizations. In fact, these changes
have led to a number of changes as well as imminent changes in the current and future
strategic directions in healthcare. The following paper will discuss some of these challenges
as ways in which they can change future strategic directions in healthcare.
Proposed health care reform and legislation
There are various changes undergoing in both the federal and state healthcare policies.
The proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017, which is set to replace the current
Affordable Care Act (ACA), is set to create a number of changes in the industry. First, the Act
seeks to reduce the federal budget on health care by $119 billion in the next decade
(Goodman, 2017). Unfortunately, this is set to be achieved through a reduction of the
Medicaid expenditure, which will see the number of uninsured increase by 23 million.
Secondly, the bill seeks to lower the premiums for lower and healthier generations while
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