The Future of Health Administration: Navigating Policy and Technology

Abstract

Background
At the crossroads of policy innovation, technological advancement is health administration.With growing pains, such as increasing costs, an older population, and disparities in access, value-based care (VBC), Healthcare Equity initiatives, Telehealth, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and blockchain are found to be transformative.
Objectives
This study assesses these five initiatives in health administration from the standpoint of patient outcomes and cost savings as a result of integration in this area.
Methods
This was an observational study using a mixed-methods approach.They contain quantitative data (e.g., outcome improvement (%) and cost reduction (%)) combined with qualitative case studies.Data were obtained from healthcare systems in the United States and the United Kingdom.Challenges to implementation were rated on a scale of 1–10.Relationships among the variables were assessed using t-tests and correlation analysis.
Results
The program with the largest outcome improvement and associated cost reduction (35% and 25%, respectively) was telehealth, although implementation challenges for telehealth remained relatively severe (eight out of 10).Both AI and Blockchain achieved 30% outcome improvements, and VBC and Healthcare Equity achieved moderate gains (20% and 15%, respectively).Implementation challenges were negatively correlated with outcome improvements ( r = -0.72), highlighting barriers to resolution.
Conclusion
There is a pressing need for better outcomes and lower costs to be attained by integrating the best technological advances and policy reform into health administration.Telehealth, AI, and Blockchain are technologies that bring transformative benefits; however, policies such as VBC, and Healthcare Equity ensure that all are included.Long-term success requires overcoming barriers such as regulatory and infrastructural challenges.