Healthcare Administrator Functions within Systems Implementations
Overview
This paper examines the dual role of healthcare administrators as both managers and leaders, emphasizing the importance of participative leadership and visionary management. It analyzes critical challenges in Electronic Health Records (EHR) system implementation, specifically unexpected costs and missed deadlines, and proposes planning strategies to mitigate these risks.
What this coursework covers
- Part A: Healthcare administrator management and leadership functions, including participative leadership and visionary capabilities
- Part B: Challenges in EHR implementation such as cost underestimation and deadline delays, with proposed solutions through planning and focused management
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Healthcare Administrator Functions within Systems Implementations
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Healthcare Administrator Functions Within Systems Implementations
Part A
A healthcare administrator is both a manager and a leader. The management and leadership functions of a healthcare administrator include being able to listen and being visionary. For instance, participative leadership is highly productive. As such, an effective healthcare manager should always allow team members to participate in the decision-making process by seeking their opinions while still maintaining the overall decision-making authority. According to Dahnke (2013), allowing team members to participate in sharing their opinions enables them to feel engaged, appreciated, and heard while still respecting the manager or leader who also respects them. Besides, working in the healthcare industry requires healthcare managers and leaders to be visionary. The healthcare system has numerous setbacks and challenges. As a result, a visionary healthcare manager is capable of solving the challenges while still focusing on the organization’s goals and objectives.
Part b
The two worst things that can negatively affect the healthcare system’s implementation process include the unexpected costs and missed deadlines experienced when adopting the EHR “Electronic Health Records.” Such challenges affect the healthcare system adversely. Unexpected costs result from the unawareness of the healthcare organization on the aggregate amount the EHR system costs. Miles & Asbridge (2014) explain that in most cases, healthcare managers and leaders underestimate the aggregate cost of EHR implementation, including infrastructure and training costs.