Consumer-Driven Health Care

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Part 1:

a:Consumer-Driven Health Care

As a current or future health care executive, it is important to weigh the variety of things that consumers consider when making the decision to subscribe to health services offered by your health care organization. For what are your consumers looking, and what drives them to choose your health care organization? What are some of the items on which you need to reflect that consumers will use to drive their decision to utilize your health services?

Review the resources reflect on those considerations consumers keep in mind when selecting a health care organization to meet their health care needs. Think about what aspects of health care delivery in your health care organization, or one with which you are familiar, might be considered most important for a consumer to take into account when selecting where to receive health care.

In 2 or 3 paragraphs describe two different things that a consumer might consider when evaluating whether or not your health care organization will meet his or her health care needs. Provide a detailed explanation of each item and rationale for why a consumer would look at these items when making a decision. Be specific, and provide examples.

b: Medical tourism

Medical tourism is a much more common practice today for receiving affordable health care services. As the cost of health care continues to rise in the United States, increased numbers of potential patients are flocking to other countries to receive affordable health care services. While medical tourism might affect the financial posterity of your health care organization, it too might be a reflection of an industry’s commitment to fostering increased access to affordable health care services. From your perspective as a current or future health care administration leader, is medical tourism a social good?

Consider the potential benefits and consequences of medical tourism from both a consumer and a health care administration leader’s perspective.

In 2 or 3 paragraphs explain how the role of medical tourism might relate to social change. Be specific, and provide examples for both the consumer and the health care administration leader.

References:

Healthgrades Operating Company, Inc. (2016). Healthgrades. Retrieved from http://www.healthgrades.com/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (2016c). Hospital compare. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.ht…