You are the nurse manager of a satellite home care facility. In preparation for speaking to the national home care convention, your new chief executive officer (CEO) has requested that you do the following:
Read 2 current (from within the last 5 years) research studies from peer-reviewed journals related to innovation in health care delivery so that you can speak to the national home care convention regarding your findings.
One must be related to research and development innovation in health care.
One must be related to customer-based innovation in health care.
Develop a report of your findings to hand out to your audience that includes the following:
Introduction that is thorough, clear, and concise
Summary of your findings from both research articles
Findings organized into bullet points
Conclusion that compares and contrasts the 2 types of home health care innovations
Needs to be 3 pages including my book. Will upload grading rubric in notes to writer later and the citation for my book to put under References
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Current innovations in healthcare delivery allow for improvement in the quality of care and patient outcomes. For example, innovations in healthcare provide solutions for treating diseases that were traditionally incurable (Flessa & Huebner, 2021). Endsley (2010) recognizes that today’s healthcare organizations should consider innovation as a primary strategy for addressing healthcare challenges, dealing with emerging consumer needs, and controlling costs. Home care facilities can benefit from research and development innovations as well as consumer-based innovations. Research studies from peer-reviewed journals support the increased use of innovation in health care delivery in relation to research and development as well as consumer-based innovations.
Research and Development Innovation in Health Care
The healthcare industry is constantly engaging in research and development to establish how innovative activities and strategies can facilitate the advancement of products and services that can help to improve healthcare delivery. For example, Wang et al. (2022) conducted a study to assess the effects of artificial intelligence on the control and prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. Artificial intelligence is a type of computer-based innovation that revolves around the development of smart machines that simulate human intelligence to perform tasks that are usually done by humans. In their study, Wang et al. (2022) utilized three sets of dependent variables and one main explanatory variable. The dependent variables include “the time to the peak of cumulative confirmed cases, the case fatality rate and whether there were severe cases, and the number of local policies for work and production resumption and the time span to having the first such policy (Wang et al., 2022, p. 767).” The study findings summarized below have significant implications for home care facilities.
Summary of Findings
- Artificial intelligence has positive effects on disease screening and detection
- The technology has significant impacts on the monitoring and evaluation of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Artificial intelligence can be used to assess the degree of spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in cities where there is a possibility of speedy spread
- There was limited evidence relating artificial intelligence to COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment
These findings lend strong support to the application of artificial intelligence in the detection, screening, monitoring, evaluation, and control of the COVID-19 pandemic in home care facilities.
Consumer-Based Innovation in Health Care
Some healthcare innovations primarily target patients who directly receive health care from medical facilities. Stahl et al. (2022) investigated the best strategies for the integration and implementation of virtual health solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic across health systems in the United States. The researchers define virtual health as the provision of health care using a wide range of information and communication technologies. The components of virtual health include live videoconferencing, store-and-forward care delivery, remote patient monitoring, and mobile health (mHealth). Stahl et al. (2022) conducted a mixed-method study between September 2020 and October 2020. The study findings summarized below have significant implications for home care facilities.
Summary of Findings
- The demand for virtual health increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic
- This demand is expected to increase even further post-pandemic
- Health systems are re-evaluating their processes and systems to allow long-term and sustainable integration of virtual health
- Healthcare leaders need to build and develop virtual health solutions to ensure success in the future
- Additional strategies that will help healthcare organizations to successfully integrate and implement virtual health solutions include; advocating for site flexibility, payment, and reimbursement parity for virtual health solutions
Based on these findings, home care facilities should integrate and implement virtual health solutions to increase healthcare access for patients and minimize costs, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusion
Artificial intelligence and virtual health are among the healthcare innovations that are transforming healthcare delivery in contemporary healthcare facilities. The emergence of complex diseases is posing challenges for health systems to invent strategies that will enable them to handle pressures from consumers and control costs. Home care facilities are equally on the move to integrate and implement innovations to meet consumer needs and control the costs of healthcare delivery. To be successful in their initiatives, these facilities need to understand the similarities and differences between artificial intelligence and virtual health innovations. These two innovations are similar in that both of them utilize information and communication technologies such as computers and mobile devices to support healthcare delivery. Additionally, both artificial intelligence and virtual health enable health systems to detect, screen, monitor, evaluate, and control diseases remotely. Again, both innovations require multidisciplinary collaboration and decision-making to ensure successful integration and implementation. Since they accomplish services that are provided by healthcare providers, both artificial intelligence and virtual health are likely to disrupt workflow and reduce the number of healthcare providers who are being hired to provide manual services. However, the main difference between the two innovations is that while artificial intelligence entails the use of smart computer-based machines to simulate human intelligence, virtual health encompasses the use of information and communication technologies to support the delivery of health care electronically. Home care facilities can benefit greatly from integrating and implementing these technologies.
References
Endsley, D. S. (2010). Innovation in action: A practical guide for healthcare teams. Wiley Global Research (STMS). https://coloradotech.vitalsource.com/books/9781119096290.
Flessa, S., & Huebner, C. (2021). Innovations in health care-a conceptual framework. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(19), 10026. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910026
Stahl, M., Cheung, J., Post, K., Valin, J. P., & Jacobs, I. (2022). Accelerating virtual health implementation following the COVID-19 pandemic: questionnaire study. JMIR Formative Research, 6(5), e32819. https://doi.org/10.2196/32819
Wang, T., Zhang, Y., Liu, C., & Zhou, Z. (2022). Artificial intelligence against the first wave of COVID-19: evidence from China. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 767. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08146-4.