Module 06 Capstone Portfolio Assignment - Transferable Skills Reflection Assignment

Strategic plan

Strategic planning in healthcare is framing goals and creating objectives regarding where a company would like to be in the future. Then come up with a plan concerning specific strategies. The elaboration of a strategy to meet the goals and objectives allows staff at every level to have the passion and drive needed to motivate them. The advantage of Healthcare strategic planning is that it improves the key areas like the organization's culture, target and goals, risk management, capital planning, and cost accounting.

The healthcare industry is an active sector that keeps on changing rapidly. In the past decades, the industry has kept on planning for the future to overcome future challenges and become successful. When actions are coordinated and focused on specific outcomes, they are much more effective also planning can improve resource utilization. A healthcare organization's strategic plan allows for efficiency and flexibility in all business activities regarding the business size (Rathi, R. 2019).

Urgent Care Clinic (UCCO) is a medical facility group that provides clinical services to the community. UCCO is an essential aspect of the healthcare community by providing convenient services when a patient cannot go to a Hospital.

The problems that Barbara should focus on when formulating the strategic plan for the Urgent Care Clinic include focusing on the firm's financial goals and determining if the proposed changes will create many positive effects on the organization. The plan should be sharply analyzed and evaluated to give any positive impacts. The analysis will make sure that changes are made to have positive financial suggestions. Another situation that Barbara should consider is the need for the organization's population or the facility serves. The organization in its strategy should include the consumers' needs and plan on how to meet them. They should also study the chance of these needs changing; then, after that, they can come up with a plan to change the consumer's inconstant need.

Improvement of the overall process of providing quality patient care, Barbara should choose reliable electronic health records. These benefits should translate into improved quality of care and improved patient safety, which will reduce professional liability claims. However, history has shown that medical innovations are frequently going along with new risks. He should understand the various EHR systems by considering where the data occupy and where servers are located. There are two types of Electronic record systems: a remotely hosted system and a physician-hosted system. Barbara should recommend a remotely hosted system because data are stored in different servers, and the entity is responsible for storing, maintaining, and backup the data (Tucker, C. S. 2020).

In balancing between historical and current topics of healthcare, the market should be acknowledged before anything else. While adopting theories of planning for standards, and evidence-based practice should be used. Which will ensure that the action plan is blended with historical theories and current methods. Primary data to be used to gather information include conducting surveys and interviewing relevant stakeholders, and secondary data to be used include sources that have already been documented. All these sources are recommended for formulating strategic planning (Huyben, D. C 2020).

SWOT Analysis tables for a remotely hosted system

SWOT Analysis table for the physician-hosted system

References

Singh, M., & Rathi, R. (2019). A structured review of Lean Six Sigma in various industrial sectors. International Journal of Lean Six Sigma.

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