Medical Technology in AMS Redfern: A Stakeholder Perspective

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HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 3
OVERVIEW OF AMS REDFERN........................................................................................................4
SCOPE OF ITS HEALTHCARE ACTIVITIES.....................................................................................5
STAKEHOLDERS AND ITS PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION AND
UTILISATION...................................................................................................................................5
PHYSICIANS................................................................................................................................ 5
SHAREHOLDERS......................................................................................................................... 6
PATIENTS................................................................................................................................... 6
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED BY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY...................................6
CHALLENGES.............................................................................................................................. 6
OPPORTUNITY............................................................................................................................7
ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN RELATION TO USE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES..............................8
IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES IN FUTURE.........................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................. 9
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
In today’s competitive world, the technology has played a vital role in managing the personal
lives of the individual. This has definitely set out the scope for health care organization to be
most important among all the industries. The merger is highly responsible for saving numerous
lives and improving their conditions around the world (Baker and Silverton, 2014). The webinar
discusses about the Aboriginal Medical services Redfern organization. The key area of focus is
on the perspectives of the stakeholders on the vital use of the medical technology. The Medical
technologies can broadly remark as important role in sustaining health. This can contribute on
improving the health of the people all around the world. This cannot be overstated that the
dependence on the medical technology is the result of the brilliant innovations and improved
way of better diagnosis and patient care.
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OVERVIEW OF AMS REDFERN
The aboriginal medical service cooperative in Redfern (AMS Redfern) has appropriately
managed to provide the healthcare services to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities which are basically present in the central NSW (Marles et al., 2012). This has
culturally managed the services which deliver the predominant structure of the sensitive needs
of the community.
Figure 1: Organizational structure
Source: Marles et al., 2012
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This is multi-functional and non-for-profit organization which delivers a quality services and
community programs. The key objective of the organization is based on the concept of
Aboriginal community healthcare control and improving their standards across Australia.
SCOPE OF ITS HEALTHCARE ACTIVITIES
The scope of the healthcare services is relied on the decision-makers and primary source of
information. This can eventually bring about the change in the improvement of the health of
the aboriginal citizen (Bolton and Puranik, 2011). The key aim is to close to fill the health gap
between the aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities. This can be ensured the Sydney local
health district has managed to improve the health and well-being of the Aboriginal
communities. The medical services that are recorded helps in bringing about the change in the
plans and policies of the District. The social determinants of the health have been actively
reduced to health disparities with the vital use of the medical technologies. This has also
improved the inter-relationship between health and social determinants such as education,
income and employment status (Weightman, 2013).
STAKEHOLDERS AND ITS PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
ACQUISITION AND UTILISATION
PHYSICIANS
The physicians play an important role in ensuring the patient healthcare management. The
utilization of the resources and managing the balance between the primary care of the business
would help in generating revenue. The doctors do not have adequate time to review the patient
and therefore, they order them more tests in order to reduce the liability risks. This can
however increase the expenditure of the patients over the treatment facilities (Tayade and
Kulkarni, 2011). For example: The treatment of Diabetes can be done by electronic health
records. This has benefitted the patient by maintaining the records including the lab test
results, weight and blood pressure measurement along with imaging studies. This might be
possible to have computerized record systems through which enormous amount of time will be
saved with the integrated system that can be accessible to everyone’s in the healthcare
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provider team (Tayade and Kulkarni, 2011). This can be useful in emergency situations and
implementation of the correct treatment to the patients.
SHAREHOLDERS
The shareholders are different dimensions of stakeholders. They are distinct from an
assessment of quality and other features. The main perspective of the shareholder is to
promote the cost saving programs to meet the current style of practices (Govil et al., 2014). The
integrated model of providing the cost within a quality can be defined with the overuse, misuse
and underuse of services. This can be evaluated with the appropriate ideas and best available
evidence. They can collect the information about the quality of care which needs to be
delivered along with potentially managing the tools for the dissemination of guidelines.
PATIENTS
The patient community is likely to believe that more the medical care better is the treatment
interventions. The newer treatment methods have although provide a better quality of care to
the patients but has generally caused epidemic of medical errors (Patel, 2018). This has a huge
difference in the variation of the quality with the geographic locations. The patients are
unwillingly accepting the ideas of the getting the treatment from the high quality doctor who
utilizes the medical technology such as Assistive technology for hearing, vision and built in
accessibility.
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED BY MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY
CHALLENGES
Data management and security challenges
One of the key challenges present in AMS Redfern is threat to the data management and
security of the patient’s confidential data. This threat is developed by improvement in the
information technology which provides the access to the data through Internet of Things (IoT).
The key potential to store the data collected in the cloud requires the storage and retrieval of
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the information to be highly secured against the misuse of the data by unauthorized access
(Encinosa and Bae, 2011).
Cost-increased challenge
The medical example of the durg eluting stents at AMS Redfern has been considered to
understand the acquisition of the medical technology. The development of the stent
technology has however improved the utility and efficacy of Percutaneous coronary
angioplasty. This can bare the drug-eluting stents cost between $2500 and $3500 each. This has
increased the DRG payments to $1800 (Weightman, 2013).
Frequent change in the Legislations
The medical device used by the AMS Redfern has been framed by World Health Organization.
This rule has helped in providing the checkpoints to the step of growth and betterment in the
business (Baker and Silverton, 2014). This can abide and understand the rules through which
the tedious change in the legislation has affect the profitability, privacy and security or safety of
the medical devices.
OPPORTUNITY
New drug development
The key opportunity that will shake the healthcare organization is democratize the access to
data with the rapid development of drugs and reducing the cost. This can tackle the disease by
opening up therapies for the particular problem.
Predictive needs of Patient
The case of forecasting the patient’s needs or problem has been examined under this. The use
of the sophisticated tools such as for laser treatment, fixing teeth’s and others can optimally
handled by identified risk to the patients (Bolton and Puranik, 2011). It is highly recommended
that the preventive measures can be done through utilization of the database of the patient
information.
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Improving research
The utilization of the technology such as computer vision can help in meeting the critical data
and reducing the time and efforts to handle the patients. This can support AMS Redfern to
manage the queries of the patients. Further, they focus on the AI technology in order ot
improve the research efforts (Tayade and Kulkarni, 2011).
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ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN RELATION TO USE OF MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGIES
The ethical behavior of the hospitals and other industry tends to respond to the use of medical
technology. The doctors at AMS Redfern are responsible to protect the interest of the patient
through current management of the care environment. The patient’s, physician and other may
have obligations of beneficence while undertaking the patient to new treatment with medical
technology (Encinosa and Bae, 2011). The Individual practitioners are primarily responsible
ethical use of technology. The patients also have some ethical responsibility towards the health
and controlling cost. This can doctor are accused for prescribing diagnostic test which might
result in technological demand increment. This can be often times expensive through which the
insurance of the individual is covered.
IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES IN FUTURE
The emerging technologies help in representing progressive development within a field of
competitive advantage. The futuristic demand of the technologies such as body implants,
prosthesis, robotic surgery, tissue engineering and De-extinction has covered been dignified to
be present in the AMS Redfern (Patel, 2018). These technologies can help in understanding the
human clinical and commercial production along with research diffusion. This covers the organ
printing, tooth regeneration and other treatment range of diseases and injuries. Thus, the
futuristic demand of getting treatment with the support of these technologies can enhance the
profitability of the organization as well as improving the quality of the treatment along with life
extension (Patel, 2018).
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CONCLUSION
The study concludes on covering the aspects of the medical technology in the AMS Redfern.
This organization has majorly focused on the dental, mental health and clinics in the NSW for
the aboriginal people. There are many people who face the problem of not receiving treatment
on time. With the advancement in the medical technologies and low operating cost, it can help
in improving the quality of the treatment intervention as well as closing the gap between the
aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities. Thus, AMS Redfern can build the trust through
medical technology and build the evidence by ensuring the integrated planning and service
delivery.
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Encinosa, W.E. and Bae, J., 2011. Health information technology and its effects on hospital
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