Introduction
Processes are an integral part of any organization and business as they are the tool that helps achieve results. They can be defined as a sequence of tasks, which form a workflow. Effective processes in healthcare are necessary for boosting efficiency and achieving better patient outcomes (Johnson & Sollecito, 2020). Variations are particularly important for the healthcare industry since they allow assessing the efficiency of care provision.
Main body
As applied to care delivery and utilization, variation may be regarded as an opportunity to cut expenditures while bringing greater value to clients without affecting the quality of care. In terms of the key processes, those are the attempts to find ways to cut down costs without sacrificing quality. Delivering high-quality patient care is the central process, and organizations need to focus on the clients in that matter. This can be done by analyzing the lessons learned from the use of treatment and therapies that were not effective.
The potential variation causes include the need to adapt to the various issues clients can have, the types and forms of diseases that require care, and the complexity characteristic of the healthcare industry. As for the causes, it is quite difficult to say which of those are more crucial; nevertheless, the issues faced by clients should always be regarded as the most important ones (Howell & Stevens, 2019). In particular, a specific drug or therapy might be effective for one patient and be useless for another or cause an undesirable reaction in them, such as allergy.
Conclusion
The business environment of healthcare institutions can be dynamic and changing if organizations have vertebrae of steps of how to evolve (McFarland & Wehbe-Alamah, 2018). They should make projections in terms of areas in which they can grow and use those to get the sources needed for growing this expertise or competitive advantage.
References
Howell, M., & Stevens, J. P. (2019). Understanding healthcare delivery science. McGraw Hill Professional.
Johnson, J. K., & Sollecito, W. A. (2020). McLaughlin & kaluzny’s continuous quality improvement in health care (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
McFarland, M. R., & Wehbe-Alamah, H. B. (2018). Leininger’s transcultural nursing: Concepts, theories, research & practice (4th ed.). McGraw Hill Professional.