Challenges of Healthcare Management

Future Challenges of Healthcare System

“There are about 200 countries on our planet, and each country devises its own set of arrangements for meeting the three basic goals of a health care system: keeping people healthy, treating the sick, and protecting families against financial ruin from medical bills. Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Systems – Four Basic Models, 2010, www.pnhp.org”

Healthcare management is a field which expects to combine the best of medicinal and management technology to optimize the patient experience during precaution, prevention and cure of diseases and illness.

“Among the predictions made in the mid-1980s were that there would be a physician surplus, a growing number of elderly people, an increase in the number of people in managed care plans, restructured health benefits, new technologies, more for-profit health care delivery, rising health care costs, and a restrained federal government role. Catherine Desroches, Robert J. Blendon, Issues in Science and Technology, 2013, http://issues.org/”

Here, in this essay, we would be highlighting some of the issues that are rising fast and would become challenge to healthcare management.

Rising Health Care Costs

It was predicted almost three decades back that the healthcare spending would top to 14% approx. by 2000. However, as per recent statistics, it has already crossed 17% mark, although managed care was supposed to curtain the rising healthcare costs but it still falls short of the expected results. Public and private healthcare are expecting individuals to contribute more and more towards healthcare spending even if under the plan.

Disparity in Healthcare Facilities

Availability of different kind of health insurances are segregating services available to individuals with high and middle to low incomes. Signs have started appearing that people with high income levels are able to afford plans which provide them with access to better and wider range of...