Week 3 – Assignment

Future Direction of Health Care
I work in the health field for over 24 years right know I’m finishing up the Medicaid and Medicare audit with the state

In a three- to five-page paper:

• Describe a minimum of five challenges from the list below that are defining the future strategic direction of health care.
  • Proposed health care reform and legislation
  • Information technology advancements such as the electronic medical record (EMR)/ electronic health record (EHR)
  • Accreditation, quality of healthcare, and organizational compliance
  • Economics, including third party payers, future funding, rising costs, the Medicare and Medicaid programs
  • Access to health care including the uninsured and those in the poverty levels
  • Public entities in controlling the demand aspects of health service
  • Market shares and advancing age of population
  • Maintaining a skilled workforce
  • Pay for performance
• Describe how an organization can adapt its direction and strategies to effectively address these challenges.

Your paper must be three to five double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published within the last five years. One source must be obtained from the Ashford University Library. All sources must be documented in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Answer preview

First, the Healthcare reform aims at making future healthcare more affordable and ensures that health insurers are held responsible. Also, the improvement is meant to help all Americans by making both the family budget and that of the economy stabilized.  On the other hand, the Healthcare legislation is the Affordable act which was enacted in 2010 with the purpose of providing healthcare insurance to all citizens of the U.S (Obama, 2016). In addition to, the ACT enables all Americans to have access to quality healthcare…

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