scholarly journals It's Time for Private Sector Business to Come to the Health Care Table

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-205
Author(s):  
Gary J. Salamido
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
To Come

Digital Leadership: Attributes to modern healthcare leaders (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah T Alanazi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
It Adoption ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
To Come ◽  
Outstanding Leadership

BACKGROUND Living in this digital era requires widespread adoption of information technology in modern health care industry. OBJECTIVE The aim of the current research was to study key attributes and behaviors related to successful leaders need to achieve vision and successful IT adoption. METHODS A Delphi technique with three rounds was held and guided by structured questions. Part of the study conducted online due to COVID-19 guidelines on distancing norms and lockdown in some areas. The answers of the participants were evaluated on the five- point Likert scale. RESULTS The findings showed that leadership qualities in health care sector resemble those required in other sectors. For digital innovations in rapidly changing healthcare space, leaders need to play more proactive role, be visionary, more dynamic, and lead by example to take the organization to the next level. CONCLUSIONS Leaders need to come out of their ivory towers, understand the fast-evolving scenario where the outstanding leadership qualities are essential to prove one’s mettle; outshine others; and create strong foundation for adoption of modern efficient customized digital technology in the fast growing health care sectors.

Creating a competence profile of a new profession: social service agents in welfare centers

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-380
Author(s):  
Riitta Forsten-Astikainen ◽  
Pia Heilmann
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
Context Specific

Purpose This study examines in detail how a new occupational group in a field creates and defines its professional competences. The background of the study refers to a new way of organizing social and health care services that requires new type of expertise. The authors examine the professionals of this new sector – service agents and the competences – they need in a multi-professional networking organization. The goal of this organizational pilot project is to gather both experience and practical knowledge of how the “gatekeeper” model can work between the customer and the service provider. The purpose of this paper is to learn the service agents’ perspective on their own work, namely, how they create their work, what their visions of the future are, and what can be learned from the new organizing model. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data collection and small-scale exploratory study of a new profession: eight service agents and their two supervisors were interviewed to raise awareness of what professional competences these new job contents require, how service agents can influence the content of their work, and what competence needs will emerge in the future. Findings The key findings indicate that service agents lack the courage to modify their own mission. When a new profession is created, they are uncertain about how to create self-content on their own terms. They assume they need a certain degree and to know something more than they already know. They do not dare define their own new professional territory, but rather wait for that definition to come from their organization or society. However, the results also show that some service agents have a hidden willingness to be creative even when there is a lack of courage. There is a need to take more initiative and for agents to think freely outside the box in this new situation. Research limitations/implications The number of interviewees is small and the context specific. However, the study gives an indication of the factors that need to be taken into account when the dissemination of the model starts. Originality/value The paper describes the results of the pilot project of a new profession and a customer-oriented model in the social and health care sector.

Technical Perspective of Authentication Policy Extension for the Adaptive Social Services and e-Health Care Management

2013 ◽  
pp. 719-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masakazu Ohashi ◽  
Nat Sakimura ◽  
Mituo Fujimoto ◽  
Mayumi Hori ◽  
Noriko Kurata
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Health Care Management ◽  
Health Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Federated Identity

The substantiative study of private information box project of Japanese e-Government proved the effectiveness of the New Authentication Extension Technology to combine different social infrastructures to create new Secure services between Public Sector and Private Sector (Citizen). However, there are still issues to cope with outside of the realm of technology including accountability of each participants and the level of the service, OpenID and SAML are key federated identity protocols. Both SAML and OpenID define mechanisms in support of expressing assurance information on protocol messages, Authentication Context and the Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE), respectively. In deployment scenarios that require proxying from one of the protocols to the other, it becomes necessary to map to and from the corresponding assurance mechanisms. This chapter provides theoretical study of Social and e-Health Data secure exchange methodology on this mapping and related issues.

Business Value Analysis at Yes Bank

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-250
Author(s):  
Vineet Chouhan ◽  
Pranav Saraswat
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Business Value ◽  
The Political ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
To Come ◽  
Power And Influence

This case is related with the biggest 2020 scam by one of the major new private sector banks (i.e., YES bank). The case is related with the misuse of the power of banks in providing the benefits to one person, due to the power and influence granted by the political party leaders that influence providing unlimited loans to one person and further the acts of the bank officials that led to the partial breakdown of the banking system in India. Further, the case deals with the major accused and the shell company's creator as DHFL. The present analysis put lights on the future lessons to be learnt by various sectors in order to prevent heavy losses and loss of customer faith (being the most vital component). It starts by giving a background of the crisis that led the RBI to come into picture. It also shows the effectiveness of the actions of RBI for YES bank. At last, it points out the importance of independent management and the roles of auditors and other regulators in dealing with this crisis.

Re-Balancing the Roles of Public and Private Health Sectors in Wales

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Malcolm John Prowle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Health Care Provision ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Budget ◽  
The Uk

In 1989 the UK implemented a form of political devolution to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland such that certain public policy areas, including health, became the responsibility of devolved Parliament or Assemblies and not the London based Parliament and Government. In the case of Wales, the Welsh Government is faced with a series of daunting challenges in relation to the future provision of health care but, unlike the situation in England, has rejected any significant increase in the involvement of the private sector in health care provision. The magnitude of the challenges faced in coping with the impacts of financial austerity on the Welsh health budget suggest there may be a role for the private sector to play in relation to the provision of health care in Wales. This paper explores those potential roles concerning: the supply of services to the NHS in Wales, the supply of health services to the Welsh population and the financing of Welsh health services.

THE DIFFUSION OF NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR OF THE U.K. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-628
Author(s):  
Yvonne G. Doyle ◽  
R. H. M. McNeilly
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Private Health Care ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Care System

Eleven percent of the U.K. population holds private health care insurance, and £2.2 billion are spent annually in the acute sector of private health care. Although isolated from policy discussions about new medical technology in the National Health Service, the private sector encounters these interventions regularly. During 18 months in one company, a new medical technology was encountered on average every week; 59 leading edge technologies were submitted for authorization (18 on multiple occasions). There are certain constraints on purchasers of health care in the private sector in dealing with new technology; these include fragmentation of the sector, differing rationalities within companies about limitations on eligibility of new procedures while competing for business, the role and expertise of the medical adviser, and demands of articulate customers. A proactive approach by the private sector to these challenges is hampered by its independence. Poor communication between the public and private sectors, and the lack of a more inclusive approach to policy centrally, undermine the rational diffusion and use of new medical technology in the U.K. health care system.

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