Healthcare delivery services are at a critical juncture across the globe particularly due to the proliferation of innovations driven by healthcare-related research and the explosion of digitisation of information driving access to patient information as well as access to healthcare related knowledge base.

The past healthcare delivery models just will not deliver the quality and affordability of care required for future. and hence transformation is essential and urgent. in the past healthcare within each country has evolved based on the political and social landscape. In a broad sense, these are classified into private or publicly funded services or a combination of both. Each government depending on their political lineage tries out different policies to help improve healthcare for their population. However, irrespective of the funding models used fundamentally care models remain in the hands of medical professionals and the healthcare facility managers. From a financial perspective, the main difference between private and public healthcare tend to be the focus on profitability or cost reduction.

Irrespective of the nature of the financial outcome ( i.e. cost reduction or profitability improvement); All need to have a mechanism to transform healthcare models as innovations are introduced to the health services. Fundamentally such transformation will depend on patient flow patterns within each facility and the demand for the services offered and capacity to service within a facility. Detailed understanding of all these aspects is required so that one can make informed decisions to make improvements.

AskA Health services can help existing healthcare facilities, as well as transform service models, adopt innovations. Our solutions are designed to help healthcare delivery services achieve high quality and excellent financial outcomes.

AskA Services are modularized to support health services based on data and delivery models. Our techniques, expertise and experience can help with decisions relating to the successful transformation of new ways to connect people, process, technology and information and at the same time, assist in delivering on the promise of providing better care at lower cost to more patients.

Our future posts will focus on topical issues of healthcare services and the factors that need to be considered for improving the service quality and affordability. We welcome any suggestion for a topic of interest from our existing clients, interested parties and subscribers to this forum. Please drop us a comment below or contact us.