Healthcare

Running head: HEALTHCARE
Healthcare
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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HEALTHCARE
Various activities are helping to shape up the health insurance systems. These
activities include use of the electronic health records (EHRs), the use of the tele-health
service and computerized physicians based order entry (CPOE) (Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (Health IT), 2019). Moreover, in order to
increase the access of healthcare under the provision for the health information technology,
the Government of United States of America (USA) has come up with several insurance
policies and health acts namely Affordable Care Act and HIPAA (Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996). The government is also taking active effort in
promoting advance stage health interoperability (Wager, Lee and Glaser (2017).
As a health formation technology manager, in a hospital, the vital technical skill set
that I will seek for a new hire include the skills for the effective management of the digital
data and information related to population health and individual health. The skill sets will
also over proper handling of the telehealth approach and use of the social media in order to
promote or to increase the level of patient participation in self-management strategies. Lastly
I would like to focus on the specific skills set like data analysis and health information
exchange (HIE).
The reason why I am giving preferences to the above-mentioned skill set is based on
my knowledge about new challenges faced by the healthcare industry. According to Wager,
Lee and Glaser (2017), the main challenges faced by the healthcare industries, that create a
barrier towards the comprehensive health utilization include lack of proper knowledge on the
health insurance providers and lack of proper guidance coming from the Center for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS). However, CMs is working effectively in order to bring
change in the healthcare system by proposing regulatory revision to streamline the
management of healthcare by 2016. The changes include broader strategy in order to relive
the regulatory burden, increase the provision for the local leadership and increasing the state