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Case Study: The Big Idea
Maria Ackley
Southern New Hampshire University
August 14, 2016
Dr. Beth Loftus
MGT 700-Critical Issues in Management
Case Study: The Big Idea
The case study will focus on how health care providers must provide guidance in creating a good way to making a change in service provision. It has been a challenge for health care leaders to reduce costs associated with service delivery to patients. Many attempts including reducing levels of frauds and errors, technological improvements to encourage patients to visit their units and use of lines that are practice guided, but have all flopped making the solution hard to come by. Formulating a new strategy for the providers that require providing the best services to patients at low cost remains the next important option.
Defining the Goal
To reform the health care system, the physicians should establish a goal that is clear and set broad goals that include every aspect of the necessary things to do. The primary target should be to improve patients’ value at relatively low cost and not to increase profits through increasing the volume of services. Health providers who offer the best services to patients will win the market share and the overall competitive advantage while the poor service providers may exit the market (Porzsolt, Kaplan, 2012).
The Strategy for Value Transformation
There are six interdependent and mutually reinforcing components to attain a high health care delivery system as discussed below each under a sub-topic. Every stage in the value transformation is essential and failure to honor any may lead to a complete fail of the system. All health care units must embrace the six components if they are to reap benefits of the strategy.
1. Organize into Integrated (IPUs)
The health care units should be structured around the patient and need to form an integrated practice unit based on providing a full care cycle for the patients. The IPUs should be concerned about the...