Analysis of Finance Management in Auckland City Hospital Healthcare

This report provides an analysis of finance management within the healthcare sector, focusing on Auckland City Hospital as a case study. The report begins by outlining the hospital's vision and mission, followed by an examination of both tangible and intangible assets, including dialysis machines, hospital buildings, electronic medical records, and the workforce. It then delves into the impact of the political, economic, social, technological, and environmental factors on the hospital's operations. The analysis considers how government policies, economic resources, workforce dynamics, technological advancements, and environmental sustainability influence the hospital. Legal factors, such as the handling of patient data and financial allocation, are also addressed. The report concludes that the external environment aligns with the hospital's mission of improving healthcare and its vision of providing world-class care. This report is a valuable resource for students studying healthcare finance, providing a comprehensive overview of financial management and its challenges in a hospital setting.

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Introduction
This report analyzes the finance management in health care sector in Australia. The
health institution chosen to be used in the analysis of this subject is Auckland City
hospital. The vision of Auckland City hospital is “Healthy communities-World class
health care-Achieved together.” The mission of the hospital is “to improve the health
of the Auckland DHB population and all New Zealanders who access our services,
through quality health and services for the disabled.”
Auckland City Hospital has a variety of tangible and intangible assets which are used
by the hospital to facilitate its daily provision of health care services to patients. Some
of the tangible assets include; Dialysis machine, buildings housing the facility and
cash (Walshe & Smith, 2011). The intangible l assets include; electronic medical
records, workforce and certificate of need. The political environment has an impact on
the facility since the government policies and regulations regarding issues such as
electronic records and delivery of free medicine from the Government impacts the
operations of ACH (Information Resources Management Association, 2018). The
economic factors that affect the hospital touch on the resources such as buildings
owned by the hospital, land owned by the hospital as well as the workforce of the
hospital. The social environment impacts on the workforce of the hospital. The
technological environment impacts on the dialysis machines, blood screening
machines and the electronic data storage by the hospital. In Auckland City hospital,
the environmental factors impacts on the types of medicines used in the hospitals,
dumping of waste and environmental state of the hospital facilities where patients are
housed (Denton, n.d.). Legal factors affect the operations of hospital workforce, the
storage of patient data and management of finances allocated to the hospital (Crippen,
n.d.). The external environment of Auckland city hospital is in line with the vision
and mission of the organization since the resources are able to support the
achievement of the hospitals mission of protecting, promoting, and improving the
health care of communities in New Zealand. It also promotes the vision of “World-
Class Health care achieved together.”

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