Strategic Delivery of Healthcare: Adoption of Electronic Health Records
You will continue to build upon the strategic plan. Update your strategic plan based on your instructor’s feedback from your SLP submissions in Modules 1 and 2. Once the plan is complete, add the following sections to your strategic plan in 1–2 pages:
Stakeholders: In this section, identify 4–6 stakeholders that are directly related to your strategic plan. Explain the importance of each stakeholder (e.g., consumers in rural South Carolina diagnosed with cancer, lead oncologist, etc.)
Organizational Culture: Develop (in 1–2 paragraphs) a cultural strategy that will assist with the implementation of your strategic plan.
Note: At this point, your plan should be at about 5–7 pages, not including the title and reference pages.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to justify/support your strategic plan.
Support your report with peer-reviewed articles with 2 or 3 references. Use the following link for additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals: http://www(dot)angelo(dot)edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php.
You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your assignment: https://owl(dot)english(dot)purdue(dot)edu/owl/resource/560/01/.
For additional information on reliability of sources review the following source: https://nccih(dot)nih(dot)gov/health/webresources.
This assignment will be graded based on the SLP assignment rubric.
BHA370 Strategic Delivery of Healthcare SLP 3
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course
Instructor
Date
BHA370 Strategic Delivery of Healthcare SLP 3
Timeline
The focus is on the adoption of electronic health records in regions such as West Virginia, which the CDC (2022) reveal has one of the highest numbers of people diagnosed with diabetes. This implies that the mission statement will be “to improve patient safety and quality care of outpatient diabetes patients,” while the vision statement will be “to ensure West Virginia is diabetes free in the long run.” As such, there is a need to introduce a timeline that would facilitate the realization of the above objectives. The start date for this plan will be Apr. 10, 2023, up to Aug. 10, 2023. The focus is on approximately four months to accomplish the plan, especially the short-term goals. The plan runs for months because it involves the acquisition of medical and technological equipment and the need to train stakeholders, including patients and healthcare practitioners, regarding the benefits of electronic health records and how to apply them to achieve positive outcomes.
Short-Term Goals
To improve patient safety and quality care of outpatient diabetes patients (1st Short-term Goal)
Since the number of diabetes patients in West Virginia is high, there is a need to manage it efficiently to reduce the adverse impacts on one’s health, including the prevalence of chronic conditions such as cardiovascular complications and kidney, or worse, death. There is a need to improve patient safety and quality care, which revolves around minimizing instances of hospitalization and the costs one incurs in the process. This primary short-term goal will take about four months to achieve.
To reduce hospital visits (2nd Short-term goal)
Since the focus on EHR includes improving the organization and exchange of patient data, one can conclude that they can receive medical advice without necessarily adopting the in-patient hospital approach, thus increasing flexibility. This is also a cost-effective technique. This goal should take approximately two weeks to 2 months to achieve.
To manage diabetes symptoms efficiently (3rd Short-term goal)
In this regard, Veinot et al. (2010) allude that EHR is adopted to enhance clinical decision-making, improve communication among healthcare stakeholders and manage large amounts of data. This implies that healthcare practitioners have access to data that can facilitate research and containment of diabetes symptoms. In other words, since it documents diagnosis and interventions, the patient’s access to information on the management of symptoms is expected to be efficient. The anticipated duration for this goal is between 1 and 3 months.
Long-Term Goals
Long-term goals can be tied to the vision statement highlighted above.
To ensure West Virginia is a diabetes-free state in 10 years time (1st Long-term goal)
The goal for the future is to ensure that the state reduces the cases of diabetes in a decade’s time. This includes the adoption of EHR systems that facilitate documentation of diagnostics and treatment that can be shared among healthcare practitioners to improve healthcare outcomes among residents of West Virginia.
To reduce government spending on diabetes management (2nd Long-term goal)
According to the American Diabetes Association (2021), West Virginia spends approximately $2.3 billion on diagnosed diabetes. The long-term goal is to exploit EHR to reduce the costs spent on diabetes management, including hospitalization and other in-patient services that increase expenses. Additionally, the productivity of the workforce reduces in the event that diabetes cases are not effectively managed, which implies that the government does not collect appropriate revenues (Tabano et al., 2018). This is a long-term goal and will also take approximately five to ten years to achieve.
Goal
Start Date
End Date
1st Short-Term Goal
10/4/2023
10/8/2023
2nd Short-Term Goal
10/4/2023
2/6/2023
3rd Short-Term Goal
10/4/2023
10/6/2023
1st Long-Term Goal
10/4/2023
10/8/2034
2nd Long-Term Goal
10/4/2023
2/2/2028
Operational Plan
Short-term and long-term goals of the EHR implementation plan for diabetes patients require a road map that outlines how the goals will be completed. For example, the short-term goal involving improving patient safety and quality care can be tied to the fact that EHR is central to reducing the number of medication errors. This includes detecting risks such as adverse reactions or side effects tied to the adoption of a given diabetes medication (The Office of the National Coordinator, 2019). This is based on the fact it can record allergies and identify other problems tied to a medication. Under the management of diabetes s...