Health Care: Unit 5 Live Chat
Innovation is introduction of new and improved concepts and ideas that are subjected to research, treatment and diagnosis improvement. The healthcare innovation focuses in achieving high quality, safety efficiency and reduced cost in health care administration . The information technology is the main driver to ensuring healthcare innovation is achieved. Different healthcare prevention innovations are essential in achieving a healthy life. These innovative approaches are essential in ensuring improvement in health care. These prevention innovations include behavioral and lifestyle, healthcare system and public and community.
Healthcare Innovation
Strategic innovation
Product innovation; this introduces the essence of goods and services innovation whereby health care should target in improving in its services. The medication process in the healthcare sector should meet high-quality in services they provide. Furthermore, prescription of drugs should be of high quality as the qualified physician should consider curative objective. Therefore, product innovation in healthcare focuses on the drugs and services offered in health centers.
Process innovation; the delivery system and process should focus on easing the customer’s struggle in achieving health care services. This includes the payment process, customer care and register location and data storage . The healthcare software and techniques should employ technology in coming up with appropriate system to improve in goods and services offered in hospitals.
Marketing innovation; this covers implementation of the innovative mechanism in packaging, promoting and attracting more customers. The healthcare considers redesigning their health care services with the aim of improving their service delivery and attracting customers.
Tactical Innovation
The tactical innovation includes;
Electronic personal health recording system innovation enables the healthcare to record and store information in secure and safe manner. This innovation is essential for easy location of the customer’s data during their revisit.
Developing healthcare informatics platform as the healthcare record enables physicians to access the customers’ history upon their visit. This system is trusted source and structure in a manner to prevent customers’ privacy and confidentiality.
High definition televised signals are applied in the videoscopes in surgery especially in internal examinations. This is essential especially in the removal of diseased gallbladders, performing colonoscopies and in search of tumors such as in stomach.
2. Prevention Innovation
Behavioral and lifestyle
Behavioral and lifestyle contribute in healthy life through exercising and diet. The behavioral and lifestyle covers the way of life and how people contribute to enhancing their livelihood. Behavior health approach shows emotional and mental wellbeing contributing to healthy life. Lifestyle health aspect indicates the things that people do and how they contribute to their health status. The daily activities have a great impact on the health care (Gidey, Taju, & Hagos, 2006). Addictive behaviors come from the continuous substance abuse and change the lifestyle. Therefore, it is essential to consider behavioral and lifestyle influence in health care and taking an appropriate approach in taking control in life.
Undertaking exercise and a balanced diet are the key behavioral and lifestyle approach to achieve a healthy life. This requires the involvement of a physician to ensure a positive response within the body systems. Exercise helps to improve the body functioning, reducing fat deposit and easing digestion process. The balanced diet ensures body gets all the required nutrients for healthy body functioning. Therefore, behavioral and lifestyle influences the health care depending on how people eat and exercises.
Healthcare system
Undertaking appropriate healthcare system contributes to ensuring a healthy life. These healthcare systems are supported in a medical and surgical system administered by professional physicians. The healthcare systems are essential resources that contribute to delivering health services and meeting the health need to the targeted population (Teperi, Michael, Porter, Vuorenkoski, & Baron, 2009). Different diagnosis requires different healthcare systems that are essential in ensuring high-quality health care.
The medical and surgical health care systems are essential in improving the patients’ health care. The surgical equipment is helpful in the surgical department of undertaking surgery. Medical equipment is essential in supporting life and treatment. Therefore, healthcare systems consist of this treatment equipment and helps in supporting health care.
Public and community
Public health is essential in the education community in the healthcare and how they can live healthily. It is subject to the water, sewage systems, and treatments to enhance public safety. The members of public are supposed to be enlightened on the importance of clean water and how to treat domestic consumption water. Hygiene is the best public health that helps members of the community to practice healthy and safety measures for a healthy life (Häkkinen, 2005).
Social capital such as Medicaid and health insurance is to the public and community segment. It helps in a sensitizing member of public on the importance of health insurance to assist while seeking medication. The insurance process helps in improving the community lifestyle whereby they easily access healthcare.
The environment is another concern for health care improvement. Building clean environment helps in supporting health care in a greater magnitude. The issues such as respiratory diseases are easily controlled in clean air circulation (Gidey, Taju, & Hagos, 2006). Their member of the community is supposed to be educated on the issues that result from air, water and soil pollution.
In conclusion, the healthcare is achieved through engaging preventive innovations that help in improving community wellbeing. The behavioral and lifestyle, healthcare systems and public and community approaches are essential in ensuring health care is achieved. Therefore, these innovative approaches help in enlightening people on their contribution to their healthy life.
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