Examining the Business Operations of Sonic Healthcare in the Australian Healthcare Sector

Health Systems Management

Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Main Context.........................................................................................................................................2
Business activities.............................................................................................................................2
Overview of the competitive landscape.............................................................................................3
Industry trends...................................................................................................................................4
Ethical issues.....................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................7
References.............................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
The health system of Australia is considered to be one of the best on the globe. It provides
safe, affordable and quality health care facilities to the people of the country. The healthcare
industry is also growing rapidly which is being supported by the government of Australia.
The main aim of the report is to examine an industry segment of the Australian healthcare
sector and evaluating its model of operations growth over the last ten years. The
environmental factors influence the business operations of organizations within the sector.
The organization also faces difficulties to compete in the competitive environment. Sonic
Healthcare has been taken for determining and analyzing business operations. It is the third
largest laboratory/pathology organization carrying out its operations in eight nations.
Main Context
Business activities
The cause of the disease is being identified by diagnostic pathology through morphologic and
clinical pathology findings. It is necessary for both the areas of pathology, in spontaneous and
experimentally-included illness. As per the experimental studies, the effect of spontaneous
illness and external agent test must be separated. Diagnostic pathology helps in investigating
the disease which is unexpected or any dead animal laboratory colonies. Toxicologic
pathology is a centre to help in diagnosing and preventing of the disease related to
spontaneous, a chemical in the veterinary diagnostic laboratory (Sonic healthcare, 2018). The
diseases which occur due to natural chemical should not be neglected, as these cases may
help in getting crucial information and understanding the mechanisms of toxicity of these
chemical or similar groups. Diagnostic pathology is being continued using complementary
data and morphology. The diagnostic process will include new data by decreasing the
turnover time and the cost of current technologies.
Sonic Healthcare is a world-renowned organization which provides health care service In
Australia, the USA, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland and New
Zealand. Sonic Healthcare is one of top 50 companies of the world in providing healthcare,
specializing in radiology, pathology and medical centres. The main division of Sonic
Healthcare is Sonic Clinic Service (SCS). It covers a wide range of health services such as
primary care research programs, community and home nursing service, health assessment
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