Deck 27: Healthcare War Room

Question 1

What message is the author attempting to convey in this chapter?

Answer 1

With the advancement of technology, revision of policies and increase in cases of critical illness among the patients, it has become mandatory to spread information related to healthcare industry.
The chapter highlights the need to improve and continuously work towards providing quality patient care. It provides methods like healthcare war rooms, artificial intelligence, telemedicine and professional exchange programs to adapt with the changing technology to ease the overall patient care experience. Techniques like adopt a hospital, importance of preventive medicines and partners in healthcare education programs have been discussed to reflect the ways to achieve the desired change in the healthcare industry.
The major terminologies and concepts that the chapter provides are as follows:
• Establishment of healthcare rooms i.e. a place where healthcare professionals brainstorm for new and unique methods of improvement.
• Adoption of telemedicine to deliver healthcare service by means of telecommunication technology.
• Creation of ambassadors worldwide to provide healthcare information around the world.
• Inculcate artificial intelligence to create an electronic tool for recoding patient's information, treatment plan and prescription in a computer program.
• Adopt a hospital to provide funding of capital needs or expanding services to a hospital in order to strengthen its capabilities in treating patients.
Thus, it clearly indicates the ways and methods to continuously improve the techniques of patient care and wellness programs.

Question 2

Discuss the various ideas for getting a healthcare war room up and running.

Answer 2

Healthcare war rooms are defined as a place where healthcare professionals brainstorm to improve quality of patient care. It enables to develop new techniques and ways to bring unique methods of wellness in healthcare industry.
Different ways to generate ideas and create war rooms are as follows:
• Use of telemedicine to deliver and connect remote areas.
• Encouraging ambassadors worldwide to share information, treatments and procedures all over the world.
• Adoption of artificial intelligence in order to use electronic ways of storing patient's information.
• Increase participation of diverse healthcare professionals form varied field to discuss current issues.
• Create distant learning to adapt worldwide best techniques of healthcare procedures.
By initiating advance techniques of improving health industry, it helps to build and create more opportunities of brining unique and better ideas in a healthcare war room.

Question 3

What are dream boards?

Answer 3

Dream boards are the ways to reflect the dreams that the hospitals chase and aim for. For any organization, it is important to establish and create future state that it wants to achieve. They enable the dreams to become reality by making every one aware and strive towards it.
Dream boards can be displayed on plasma screen televisions in a hospital to describe vision. Every dream that is fulfilled must be presented in a separate place called "Hall of Dreams". Thus, it is a board which depicts the dream that the organization wants to achieve.