Introduction
Healthcare services are essential services that require proper coordination and improved systems of operation that are set under innovative ideals. This is because the services are instrumental in enhancing individuals’ wellness and physical stability that promotes their productivity levels.
The services also ensure the development of healthy societies through effective mitigation of severe diseases that majorly affect individuals’ health status. Indeed, there is increased need to improve the quality of healthcare services in most settings by adopting innovative and proper coordination of activities.
This is essential in curbing the spread of various diseases such as malaria, cancer, tuberculosis and asthma. This can be achieved through effective administration of preventive and curative interventions to patients that have not been undertaken effectively due to poor coordination of activities.
Therefore, this report is relevant since it adopts improvement in the coordination of healthcare services in Australia as a conventional and innovative technique of advancing quality of Medicare to patients. The innovation is regarded as the lifeblood of economic and social integration in most nations, including Australia. This is evident since it defines the level of productivity that a nation can record over certain time.
Relevance and what instigates the development of the innovation
Clearly, inferior healthcare programs and poor coordination of activities have been impeding service delivery in the health sector. This has led to high rate of death due to ineffective response to patient issues and poor coordination of their treatment.
This is evident since most hospitals operate under inferior operating plans, deployment of resources and coordination of various activities that include drug procurement and systematic provision of therapeutic assistance to patients. The noted gaps that threaten to compromise the quality of medical services in health institutions have prompted the need for the adoption of an innovative system of operation.
Notably, the innovative technology that proves promising in steering service delivery in the health sector as identified by professionals’ remains the improvement in the coordination of activities (Allison 1997: 133).
Therefore, authorities and health officials are under obligation to improve coordination of activities in hospitals as an innovative technique to provide quality medical solutions to counter health issues in various nations. Due to this, this report’s main aim is to equip key stakeholders in the health sector with pertinent information pertaining to the significance of effective coordination of activities in hospitals (Allison 1997: 134).
Recent innovation in the health sector
Effective coordination of activities and support systems is central in any institution that aspires to record good performance. Coordination is a performance tool that ensures proper alignment of activities with the aim of meeting clients’ expectations. In hospitals, coordination is regarded as the lifeblood that sustains operations and delivery of quality medical assistance to patients’ in real-time (Paul and Robert 2007: 2).
Without coordination that entails sharing of information, formulation of policies and deployment of medical staff, patients cannot receive the best assistance. Therefore, the recent innovation that aims at improving coordination of activities in the health sector is essentially pertinent. It is bound to facilitate proper eradication or mitigation of various complications that have been ailing service delivery in the health sector.
The innovative concept focuses on laying down proper mechanisms of service delivery that are unique and conventional in nature. In particular, it seeks to enhance communication between departments, staff members and patients by creating an effective organizational structure. The structure will help in ensuring that there is a proper understanding between stakeholders.
It will create an effective channel through which information is to flow (Paul and Robert 2007: 5). This is vital since quality healthcare is dependent on the information that is conveyed by patients and medical officials pertaining to what one is ailing from and treatment procedures, respectively. Effective coordination of activities will also facilitate proper allocation of resources and management of cash flows.
It will also facilitate the development of proper procurement procedures of medical equipment. This is vital since procuring various medical equipments requires stakeholder input to aid acquisition of right equipments (Karima 2013: 168). Indeed, improving coordination of services in the health sector is a viable innovation that holds the capacity to enhance quality inpatient management.
This is evident since it provides a flexible framework of operation that relies on methodological approaches in delivering outstanding medical interventions. It is also meant to improve health outcomes apart from promoting the execution of effective intervention measures (Edward 2006: 95).
Innovative healthcare initiatives undertaken in Australia and the role of authorities
As noted, authorities in Australia have laid down viable strategies for enhancing quality service delivery in the health sector. The modalities that are being adopted, such as the improvement of coordination of services are set with a mission to build a healthy nation to steer development goals.
This is significant since no nation can achieve its objectives, including the millennium goals if its citizens are ailing (Edward 2006: 95). For that reason, authorities and health officials in Australia noted with great concern that the first step in achieving both economic and social goals is to improve healthcare systems.
They emphasize the need to adopt new systems of operations, purchasing of modern medical equipment and hiring of qualified medical personnel. They also cited the need for the improvement of coordination between stakeholders in the health sector as an innovative strategy. Despite the relevance of these initiatives, they cannot be achieved without proper coordination and understanding between key stakeholders.
This has prompted the need for health centers to improve coordination of services between departments. This entails sharing of patient data between critical departments that are involved in patient treatment such as registry, diagnostic and drug distribution departments (Karima 2013: 168).
It is an innovative approach that holds the capacity of facilitating timely response to patients. It will also ensure that patients are well taken care of since coordination guarantees effective patient administration.
Coordination of healthcare services, its characteristics, the logic for its introduction, its contribution to policy development and links between the service development, social and political change
Imperatively, the introduction of effective coordination of services is an innovative approach that remains critical in most settings. The initiative is considered as a viable and innovative approach since it seeks to revolutionize how activities are executed in the health sector, especially in Australia.
This is evident since it seeks to provide necessary incentives that will facilitate quality service delivery in the medical sector (Joyce and Wallace 2006: 59). Firstly, it is bound to enhance information flow between health stakeholders.
It is also set to improve the management of health institutions in Australia that has been facing immense coordination challenges. This will promote effective establishment of the available competence and limitations that can impede service delivery thereby, prompting the development of credible solutions.
Thirdly, the approach will steer the introduction and use of modern communication equipment that are efficient in coordinating activities. This will ensure that healthcare services are properly managed and that modern best practices are upheld. Rationally, effective coordination of healthcare services requires holistic and inter-sectoral collaborative approach.
It requires participation of key stakeholders who understand the challenges that affect the provision of quality Medicare services (Joyce and Wallace 2006: 68). This is vital in developing patient-oriented coordinating mechanisms that are economically viable and socially acceptable. The mechanisms must be financially sustainable and socially pertinent to cater for the interest of every stakeholder.
The approach is essential in the realization of this initiative since it holds the capacity of promoting the advancement of common health activities that are based on shared values or interests (Karima 2013: 168). It is also bound to promote collective policy formulation on issues that appertains to healthcare services in Australia.
This is a major step towards revolutionizing healthcare service delivery in Australia, where policy formulation on key issues has been facing various impediments due to poor coordination (Paul and Robert 2007: 2). Further, the concept is set with aim of promoting joint planning and collective delivery of services to patients in hospitals.
Conclusion
Indeed, effective coordination of healthcare services is essential in ensuring the provision of quality, affordable and timely nursing care to patients. It holds the capacity of enhancing individual’s performance levels since it promotes the development of viable mitigating measures to various detrimental diseases that affect individuals.
The initiative also helps in building proper collaborative healthcare coordinating mechanisms. The mechanisms aid policy formulation, planning and exchange of doctors between nations.
Reference List
Allison, B. (1997), Sustainable Health Care Financing in Southern Africa: Papers from an Edi Health Policy Seminar Held in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 1996, Washington, D.C: World Bank.
Edward, P. (2006), Organisational Development in Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations, Achievements, Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical.
Joyce, F. and Wallace, M. (2006), Encyclopedia of Nursing Research. New York: Springer Pub.
Karima, S. (2013), The Health Sector in Ghana: A Comprehensive Assessment.,Washington, D.C: World Bank.
Paul, B. and Robert. G. (2007), Bringing User Experience to Healthcare Improvement: The Concepts, Methods and Practices of Experience-Based Design, Oxford: Radcliffe Pub.