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This 3-page paper answers questions about health care including differences between nonprofit and for-profit delivery and how organizations are preparing for changes brought about by health care reform. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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changes in licensing and regulatory factors? Though the question doesnt specify what organizations and what industries, well assume the issue here is health care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act (PPACA) also known as health care reform, was passed in early 2010, and is considered to be the most sweeping health care reform of its kind since Medicare.
However, its still uncertain how this will impact health care organizations. Orzsag and Emanuel (2010) remark that from what they dub as a
"green eyeshade" point of view, the bill will definitely reduce costs. But its up to organizations themselves to reform actually delivery of health care to help bring down long-term cost
growth (Orszag and Emanuel, 2010). PPACA does this by providing "dynamic and flexible structures" to help organizations change their systems and to
help eliminate cost-eaters such as fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid, and insisting on implementation of electronic health records (Orszag and Emanuel, 2010).
This latter is somewhat interesting - interesting that health care organizations, until recently, havent really gotten on the technology bandwagon to make use of electronic systems. Though HER is
anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they design and implement information systems. Working with any kind
of information technology can be challenging; it involves changing staff attitudes and procedures and sometimes such changes are not necessarily welcome. Furthermore
PPACA will require health insurance companies to change the ways in which they operate. They will have to make allowances for more portability and pre-existing conditions - and because no
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