Management Effective in Healthcare Organizations

Management Effective in Healthcare Organizations

The present environments for healthcare organizations contain many forces demanding unprecedented levels of change. These forces include changing demographics, increased customer outlook, increased competition, and strengthen governmental pressure. Meeting these challenges will require healthcare organizations to go through fundamental changes and to continuously inquire about new behavior to produce future value. Healthcare is an information-intensive process. Pressures for management in information technology are increasing as healthcare organizations feature to lower costs, improve quality, and increase access to care. Healthcare organizations have developed better and more complex. Information technology must keep up with the dual effects of organizational complication and continuous progress in medical technology. The literature review will discuss how health care organizations can provide effective care by the intellectual use of information.

Literature Review

Traditionally, powerful people in organizations are defined as those who are strong, aggressive, knowledgeable, somewhat ruthless, intelligent, insightful, and empathetic. According to this view, anyone who possesses these traits and characteristics can effectively navigate the jungle that healthcare administration has become. However, on closer inspection, simply possessing these personality is not enough. Powerful people are not born powerful. Rather, powerful people have a talent for dramatizing, communicating, using, and exploiting whatever resources they possess. Being powerful is a skill. Success and excellence in healthcare management invariably engage in bringing various power resources to bear on any particular situation, in the right way and at the right time. The management of an information system effectively does not happen over night. The manager must make certain that it take place in a organized way.

Market-driven healthcare restructuring has directed to the development of integrated delivery systems through mergers and changes in systems of imbursement for services. Healthcare organizations are undergoing the most important reorganizations and modification to meet the increasing demands of improved healthcare access and quality as well as lowered costs. As the use of information technology to development medical data increases, much of the critical information required to meet these challenges is being stored in digital design (Austin & Hornberger, 2000). Web-enabled information technologies can present the means for larger access and more useful integration of healthcare information from unlike computer functions and other information resources (Starkweather & Shropshire, 1994). Information management is the effective, efficient, organization-wide planning, directing, and control of information within an integrated technology system.

Managing information technology in a business today is very different. Managers in healthcare organizations should treat information as a major type of resource required to do business (Munsch, 2001). Healthcare organizations face increasing pressures to do more with less, so how well they accomplish objectives is often a process of how they optimize the limited information technology resources they hold and not the pressure to cut information technology budgets. Statistics from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's annual Center Information Officer Outlook Conference survey indicate an unfilled demand for 800,000 information technology professionals in the United States alone, a shortage that the healthcare sector shares with the financial and manufacturing and other service sectors (Austin & Hornberger, 2000).

The trend toward managed care has broadened the geographic areas of the perioperative environment and increased the need to share health care information. Many information systems provide data that are so aggregrated that they provide no meaningful indicators for management planning or control purposes. Useful information must be unbiased and not collected or analyzed in such a way that it meets self-fulfilling prophecies. The rapid advances in the speed and capacity of computing devices, coupled with the pervasiveness of the Internet, ditigal storage, wireless and portable devices, and multimedia content are causing major changes in the way we lvie and work (Munsch, 2001). Information should be understandable so that all elements or components of a system are visible to those responsible for administering that system. Technology is time consuming