Question

Can you healp me describe the commonalities among different strategic planning models and applications in health care?

Answer 1

STRATEGIC PLANNING MODELS-

A strategic planning model be defined as a collective term for a number of components that contribute to the strategic planning process. Strategic planing is a process of anticipating the future, assessing present conditions and making decisions and actions to achieve particular outcomes set within a policy.

The parts of strategic planning model includes - structure, frameworks and governance.

1) Structure - for creating Goals.

2) Frameworks - for helping to decide what we actually want to work on.

3) Governance - to help you to manage and track the strategy.

.STRATEGIC PLANNING IN HEALTHCARE -

Strategic health planning involves creating objectives and setting goals for the future, and then planning to achieve these objectives.

The strategic health plannings are of two types -

1) At macro level - It aims to improve overall health based on a broad approach or directed specifically to one or more dimensions of the population health.

2) At micro level - The process of strategic management for deciding on the vision, mission, goals and objectives of the organization and on the formulation and implementation of strategies that are to be followed in attaining them.

COMMONALITIES among different strategic planning models and applications in health care -

* To provide resources and tools to providers and plan to encourage implementation of activities and strategy to help improve health care access and increase access to preventive services, home and community based services and social supports, and care management in areas and populations with high chronic disease burden.

**To REFORM, STRENGTH AND MODERNIZE the nation's health care system.

1) Promote affordable healthcare, while balancing spending on premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket costs -

• Promote the use of high-quality, lower-cost healthcare providers, such as community health workers and community organizations, where appropriate.

• Promote better coordination and efficiency in post-acute care by discharging patients to appropriate settings, including home and community-based services and skilled nursing facilities, using site-neutral payment rates.

• Expand access to high-quality, safe, affordable generic medicines by streamlining the generic drug application review process, enhancing the development and review of complex generic drug products, and otherwise facilitating entry of lower-cost alternatives, to increase competition in the market for prescription drugs.

• Provide information on the prevalence, causes, and consequences of high healthcare financial costs, including social factors that exacerbate costs.

• Promote and implement lifestyle change interventions and intensive case management to reduce risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals.

2) Expand safe, high-quality healthcare options, and encourage innovation and competition -

• Strengthen the development, implementation, and reporting of measures for reducing health disparities.

• Promote research on how to recognize variation in quality of healthcare provision due to circumstances outside the control of the provider.

• Develop improved methods and strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections and combat antibiotic resistance.

• Collaborate with healthcare systems and community partners to facilitate the spread of evidence-based clinical practices and the appropriate incorporation of innovations that advance patient care.

• Conduct, fund, and apply research on the role of other risk factors and their impact on health, as appropriate, to improve health outcomes, including access, quality, and safety.

3) Improve access to healthcare and expand choices of care and service options -

• Promote patient access to new and innovative medical products by conducting timely, patient-centered reviews for coverage.

• Enhance care quality and efficiency by exploring the effectiveness of new models of care and advancing coordinated and integrated health and long-term services and supports for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

4) Strengthen and expand the healthcare workforce to meet the diverse needs -

• Conduct monitoring, occupational forecasting, data collection and analysis, and general research on the healthcare workforce to identify the characteristics, gaps, needs, and trends, and determine where to target resources to strengthen the workforce.

• Increase awareness and promote use of clinical decision support and patient-provider communication tools, and share evidence-based practices and training opportunities to provide safety and scientific knowledge to the workforce.

• Incentivize healthcare providers to work in underserved and rural areas, including Tribal communities.

THE FINAL GOAL OF ALL STRATEGIC PLANS AND APPLICATIONS IS -

"HEALTH TO ALL"