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Trends in Health Care

Trends in Health Care. Ed Phippen Washington State Hospital Association STEM Conference March 10, 2011. Outline. High level issues Specific challenges that could impact education Emerging/promising occupations. Revenue (or lack thereof). Fewer people have insurance

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Trends in Health Care

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  1. Trends in Health Care Ed Phippen Washington State Hospital Association STEM Conference March 10, 2011

  2. Outline • High level issues • Specific challenges that could impact education • Emerging/promising occupations

  3. Revenue (or lack thereof) • Fewer people have insurance • Bad debt/charity care increased by more than 300 percent between 2002 and 2009 • 2009-2010 state cuts to health care • Approximately $780 million

  4. Labor shortages are gone. For how long? WSHA/HWFI 2010 Hospital Work Force Survey, September 2010

  5. Boomers Turn 65 Beginning This Year

  6. Health Care Reform • Coverage (??) • Quality – preventable errors • Enhanced data collection • Standards of care • Cost • Demands to curb health care inflation • Increasing focus on population health – but who will pay? As our case is new, we must think and act anew Abraham Lincoln

  7. Integration • University of Washington, Northwest Hospital, Valley Medical Center • Hospitals and ambulatory clinics • Rural-urban hospital partnerships

  8. Care design? • 14 days 4 days 4 hours • Cost pressures • Staffing shortages • Baby boomers

  9. Some Specific Challenges • Electronic medical records • Efficiency tools such as Lean or Six Sigma • Cross disciplinary team work • Cultural/linguistic competency Accept the challenge so you can feel the exhilaration of victory! George S. Patton

  10. What Factors Could Influence Emerging Occupations? • Creating efficiencies • Helping staff work at the top of their scope of practice • Impacting patient/population health • Staffing shortages

  11. New/Potentially Growing Occupations • Health IT • Anesthesia technology • Community health worker

  12. Questions?? Ed Phippen Washington State Hospital Association 206-216-2552 edp@wsha.org

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