Summary: New Ideas Becoming Health Care Policies

New Ideas Becoming Health Care Policies
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October 28, 2013

New Ideas Becoming Health Care Policies
With new technology, new trends, current technology, and trends frequently changing, health care has evolved processes for health policies to continuously being added, reassessed, changed, and considered in order to help improve the United States health care system. There are several phases and transitions new ideas go through before it can be implemented into policy. In health care, every health facility plus more feels when there are changes in health related issues and policies, especially patients. This country needs well-informed, attentive, publically cognizant health care leaders and staff comprehensive of health
In any given organization there is a group of people that are responsible for implementing and brainstorming new ideas to make things better and more efficient, safe, and easier for patients. When these teams collaborate and discuss different issues and topics, anyone of the team members can bring it to the table for discussion. The beginning of a policy process is the formulation stage, the first, and probably the most challenging stage for using formal decision methods and analysis. This stage also contains research from different people, multiple organizations, and many types of interest groups. The reason of the formulation stage is to produce a formal model of an agreed verdict. This stage involves the input of information and ideas, framing the issue, determining the rationale and clarifying the desired result, selecting the appropriate strategies, along with planning and identifying needed resources. This phase also includes determining possible options, preferred options, and sometimes doubling back to tweak and adjust. There are also action instruments that are used in this beginning stage which are information gathering, information analysis, and consultation. Sometimes it can make the process seem like a maze. Just talking about a topic is pretty simple, however creating a detailed definition of an issue is a dose of reality
The policy process cannot continue to then next step without the prior step being done correctly, nor can it continue with leaders that do not have visions to see the potential outcomes. Each step determines whether the next process can continue, and each process is evaluated within itself to make sure that details evolve more clearly and organized for the next phase. The leaders are important as well because they make it possible to take the policy process to the next step. Health care is always changing and needs these trail blazer bureaucrats to streamline the process and work on new ideas. Health care policy processing is an orderly process of defining community health problems, identifying unmet needs and surveying resources to meet them, establishing priority goals, that are realistic and feasible and projecting administrative action to accomplish the purpose of proposed programs. This continuous cycle lead by health care professionals will ultimately improve organizations and most health care aspects for this