3. Challenges of Hospital Management
• The situation of hospitals at the end of the last century
could be defined as transitional; between a stable model
of partly predictable changes and the new schema of the
healthcare environment and hospital management we
know today. Hospitals are evolving within this new
framework and the challenge for the management will be
to define a relevant strategy, readable by all teams and at
the same time manage uncertainty and constantly adapt
to internal and external changes.
Paradoxically, in a world with uncertain futures, the years
2010 to 2020 will herald an integrated view of the
management of health organisations.
4. CONSTRAINTS FACED BY HOSPITALS
• The many challenges and constraints faced by hospitals will inevitably
question their management.
• The first uncertainties that hospital managers will face regard the use of
the hospital during the next decade. Indeed, the progression of chronic
diseases correlated with the increasing age of the population may suggest
that the rate of hospital use will increase. At the same time, the
reorganization of care could lead to the management of a large proportion
of patients outside the hospital. Everything will then depend on the
number of years without disabilities of the elderly population, as well as
access to healthcare services for a part of the population. Concerning the
need for care, in the upcoming years we will fluctuate between the
development of personalized medicine, such as expensive targeted
therapies for cancer and the use of mass medicine, which could be
boosted by the resurgence of infectious diseases.
• Thus, the hospital, by the universality of its missions is often disrupted in
its organization, torn between emergency care and planned management
of patients. These two aspects of hospital activity can be illustrated by the
uninterrupted admissions into emergency departments and outpatient
surgery.
5. CHANGING ROLE OF HOSPITAL : 2020
• The growth of hospital organization is slow but steady.
• Gone those old days concept of ‘poor house’ where the relatives leave their
patients to suffer and die.
• Then came the era of evolution of Hospitals where sick patients were kept
overnight for treatment and cure.
• Since then the role of the Hospital is gradually changing from cure to health care
and further to community care.
• Change of Hospital role is related to change in technology and
• more knowledge about the cause of disease and its prevention superadded by
many legal bindings and challenges.
• The modern Hospital has become a complex organization with new roles and
extensive functions.
• With the change in hospital role, the manager’s viewpoint in hospital management
is also changing.
• Let us find the changing role of the hospital and how new functions have been
added to expand the Hospital’s role through a PowerPoint presentation.
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6. ROLE OF HOSPITAL
• Hospitals systematically deliver high quality
services, placing people in the center. It means
patients and communities are empowered for
their health. It also means adopting a longer-
term perspective beyond saving lives to
enhancing the quality of life of patients.
31. Ten 10-Year Trends for the Future of
Healthcare
• 1. More Patients
• 2. More Technology
• 3. More Information
• 4. The Patient Will Be the Ultimate Consumer
• 5. Different Delivery Model
• 6. Opportunity for Innovation
• 7. Costs Will Increase
• 8. Uninsured Will Increase
• 9. Providers Will Be Paid Less
• 10. Need for a Healthcare Reform