Optimizing the complexities of unforeseen risk in healthcare with innovation and technology: a proposed framework

Abstract

Today, healthcare must be willing to take risks while advancing clinical transformation, starting from research to innovations, patient care technicians to physicians, management thinking lean to maximizing inventory flow, building a supply chain of healthcare workers to allowing engineering strategies, and building community facilities to establishing remote reusable facilities. In recent months, the ongoing pandemic (COVID-19) has changed everyone’s perspective globally. The United States healthcare system is linked with financial needs. The stakeholders must understand the growth and possibility of the unforeseen new medical risks, including how to challenge the dataset used for decision making, increasing the required acceptance level for the verification and validation of growing medical risk models, because healthcare is a stochastic system, forecasting always changes and so does the final decision of investing the cost. The global fear brought on by the ongoing pandemic is playing a major role in the economic and social consequences. Experts recommend that physicians must be willing to take over the key roles and lead these strategies, but at the same time better integration of engineering fields can play a huge role in helping physicians to understand the strategies. It is very important to help them craft a solution that healthcare workers can stick to. In this article, we propose three key frameworks (viz., health surveillance, workforce, and modular facilities) that would be helpful in creating a balance within the healthcare industry daily operation which is the paramount need of the “new normal” and sustainability. © Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy. All rights reserved.