The healthcare service industry has witnessed a drastic change from the ancient time. Now, the healthcare service is not confined only to quality treatment by quality and experienced consultants but it has transformed into a different state. The attained state is dominated by the use of various latest technological equipments to attain multiple benefits from it. Such benefits may include numerous objectives such as conducting the different kinds of medical testing and conducting a surgery in a more advanced & safest way (Waterson, 2014). On a same note, the current study is on the introduction of a new equipment to support the hip replacement surgery and the related scenarios surrounding to the implementation. Three of the 10 orthopaedic surgeons in the learner’s private hospital have decided to introduce the new equipment in the facility. However, it is challenging because of many reasons such as the absence of supports from the insurers and the financial capability of the firm. The implementation is required as this would enable doing hip replacement surgery on a routine basis. Very few of the management are in support of the change. According to those few in the management, the planned device may have some risk factors in it as well. The main purpose of this assignment is to document the plan to the Australian Jurisdictions in order to get the assessment done by them. This will help to understand the risk and benefits associated with the planned device (Magnuson et al., 2013). Additionally, the study focuses in the change management, which will revolve around the implementation of the planned device and communicating this to the stakeholders to get their consents as well (Cresswell & Sheikh, 2013).
It is necessary to get an assessment done from the trusted body on the newly planned technology for the health service. This is necessary because of various reasons such as it ensures a thorough study on the newly planned technological device. Such study will check whether there is any risk associated with the planned device. Additionally, the assessment will also study on the different benefits that the device has (Thokala & Duenas, 2012). In the current study, the Australian Jurisdictions has been chosen to have an assessment done on the planned technology in the learner’s private hospital. The chosen body will study the risks and benefits that may be associated with the chosen technological device (Delany et al., 2014). The technology selected for hip replacement surgery has been surrounded with numerous doubts that include but are not limited to such as the risks and benefits of the device. The assessment is needed in order to get the approval on the selected technology. The concept related to the device will be sent to the Australian Jurisdictions for seeking their approvals with the risks and benefits of the device.
The framework that will be used to communicate the needs of the planned technology is the Impact of New Health Technology Framework (IHPA). The Australian Jurisdictions will take care of the framework that governs its supervisory over the different important factors such as the pricing of the technology and precedence coding & categorization development. They review the viability of the technology based on the reports provided by the different stakeholders and the manufacturers of medical technology. The Jurisdictions also take care of the monetary values associated to the technology with the capability of the firm aspiring to have that. In such way, the jurisdictions are able to guide the aspiring firms towards necessary points (Gagnon, 2014). Following are the purposes that an assessment from the Australian Jurisdictions will serve (Kleijnen et al., 2012):
The assessment will ensure a safe and effective use of the panned technology for the private hospital where the learner is working. The hospital has several issues that have made the implementation a little complex. Such issues are their incapability to invest huge to purchase the desired technology and the risk & benefits associated to the technology. This is because of such reasons it is important to get the things assessed by a trusted body. Henceforth, the Australian Jurisdictions were believed for the purpose. The assessment is vital to understand the significance of the technology that have been planned. On the other hand, it is important to identify the advantages and the disadvantages of the planned technology that is implemented to ensure the improvement of the healthcare practice.
There are ample of benefits of the hip replacement surgery but before that it is important to understand that that all need a hip replacement surgery are. Hip replacement surgery is most commonly used for three purposes such as the following (Traina et al., 2013):
These are all the scenarios that produce the necessity to conduct a hip replacement surgery. The hip replacement surgery has numerous benefits of it. The surgery is aimed at increasing the mobility of the portion. It improves the functioning of the hip joint, which helps in providing relief from the pain. It ultimately improves the experience that one should have with its necessary parts of body. There are many who feel that their life is altered to a changed status where they can experience a more or less the like feeling that they had before undergoing the hip surgery. They feel mobility in their hip and the surrounding portion. Additionally, they do not feel any acute pain that they had suffered from before undergoing the hip surgery (Bruyère et al., 2012).
Despite the numerous benefits of the hip replacement surgery and the related experiences of some of those who have undergone the surgery, it has numerous risks associated to this as well. However, the risk of serious complications after the surgery is low, which is estimated to be nearly around 1 in 100 cases. Such complicated risks include blood clots and infection. One of the most complicated outcomes is in the joint where something wrong happens. The frequency of occurring is 1 out of 10 cases. The complicated outcome may include the following (Ramsayhealth.co.uk, 2017):
There are some other complications as well such as injuries to the vessels in nerves or blood, a differing appearance in the length of the leg. This may also result in the fracture of the leg (Ramsayhealth.co.uk, 2017).
The change management is very much required at the different healthcare centres. This is just to support a fact that change is always required in the health service standard. This is for the fact that it supports the scalability of a new height in terms of technology. Technology on the other hand is a continued process that needs to be looked on in order to respond to the different criticalities that all might come at the different private hospitals. However, the much needed technology to improve the treatment standard of a respective centre and to enhance its serving capability needs to undergo a thorough process that all challenge the implementation of the proposed technology in the physical premise (Lobach et al., 2012).
It then becomes imperative to counter the expected challenges that are there in the way of implementing the new technology in the hospital premise. Some of the challenges are such as the financial capability of the firm, human resource at the centre, quality maintenance of the technological device, strategic operations and the approval from the Jurisdictions. These are few challenges that are needed to undue in order to successfully implement the proposed technology in the hospital premise. The contemporary health care centres have to compete with the other competitors in the same industry. The fact is very simpler, which states that the one with more advanced infrastructure has the better chances of conquering the competition. This is for such reasons a strategic planning is immensely required in order to attain the viability for all the technologies needed to be an effective leader in the market. However, in such situations there are ample of challenges that arise such as an insufficient support of the financial body of the target centre, insufficient support of the team members, risks associated to the technology and the pricing of the technology as reported by the manufacturers (Leon, Schneider & Daviaud, 2012).
Additionally, there are other challenges as well to have a recommendation from the governing body that assess the new technology, so that, all the things could be assessed such as pricing of the technology, its benefits and the associated risks. The recommendation from the different jurisdictions in the different country makes thing mush easier for the concerned private hospitals in the respective country. Human resource is another challenge that is there when a plan is proposed to implement a new technological device in the hospital premise. Capable human resource will be needed to handle the operation of the newly implemented device. They will be responsible to take care of the operation. To meet with the requirement, there will be recruitment & selection process will be in place. This is another burden on the financial resource (Edwards et al., 2013).
Leadership is another challenge, which is making things difficult while implementing a new technology in a private hospital. The learner’s private hospital for example has minimal supports of the different orthopaedic surgeons who are there. Only three of the all the orthopaedic surgeons are in the favour of the implementation of the proposed technology. They may have their own reasons but this is actually troubling the implementation of the proposed technology in the concerned hospital. In the contemporary health care sectors, adequate leadership is missing there. There are the needs to have a sufficient funding and the human resource capabilities. However, there are only few that have all the requisite parameters in them. On contrary to this, there should be ample number of private hospitals, so that, it could become easily accessible to the common people. They will be able to easily reach to the destination hospital in quick time, which is very much required in emergency cases (Mason, 2013).
The implementation of the thought technology to support the replacement of hip surgery requires the involvement of a strategic plan, which will need the cooperation of significant stakeholders. Following are the some recommendation that will support the implementation of the planned technology in the learner’s private hospital:
There are different stakeholders related to the health care sector in Australia. Follow is the list of different stakeholders of the health care sector in Australia (Wong et al., 2014):
It is very important to educate the different stakeholders of the private hospital of the learner. The implementation of the proposed technology will require a thorough communication with all the stakeholders. Patients should be encouraged for the proposed new technology in order to gain their faiths on the technology. This is necessary to get the benefits of the technology in treating the needful patients and also in repaying the amount to the investors. The manufacturers should be communicated for knowing the price of the proposed technological device. Moreover, after getting approval from the Australian Jurisdictions, the respective hospitals will be able to negotiate the price of the technology. The hospital management in the case study needs an utmost communication, so that, the remaining surgeons of the hospital do also come up with their helping hand in the proposed use of technology for commencing the hip surgery. Financial investors should be communicated properly, so that, they do not get frustrated of the repayment policies of the respective hospital. The funding mechanisms should be well communicated, so as to receive no worries in repaying the loan amount. The Australian Jurisdictions should be approached to get their approval on the proposed technology and the related prices of the product. An improved communication will bring about better results. The local government of Australia should be educated on the adoption of the technology in the concerned hospital. This is necessary to avoid any shortcomings after implementing the device (Coole et al., 2013).
The implementation of the new service requires ample of the resources such as the financial resources, human resources and the legislative guidelines to bring some policies & procedures in place (Gavrilov & Trajkovik, 2012). Major resources include financial resources and human resources. Financial resource is required to purchase the proposed technology. This can be taken in the form of a loan from the investors and can be repaid according to the agreed terms. However, proper financial management is required to implement the technology in the healthcare sectors. It is important for the organization to manage their financial resources properly. In order to manage the financial resources it is important to improve the funding as well as the partnership working. Via partnership working the care organization will be able to enhance their resources. Human resource is also required to support the implementation process and to operate the selected device (Zingg et al., 2015). Human resources include the workforce management. In order to implement the planned technology workforce is essential. Technical experts are needed to access the technology and to utilize it properly. For this reason knowledge and skills are required for the worker. Different policies and procedures are also required in order to prevent the implemented technology from any kind of misuse. One of such policies can be educating patients adequately on the benefits & risks of the technology before putting them for any hip replacement surgery (Grant, Parry & Guerin, 2013). Providing training is mandatory for the care organization. However, it is important for the care organization to educate their staffs by arranging proper training program for them. This will increase their knowledge as well as their skill to make them efficient in their work. As a result, they will able to access and utilize the technology properly. An extensive training will also be required, which is needed to train the newly recruited professionals. The training will be approved by a local trusted body in order to train the professionals as per the industry policies. This will help the concerned hospital get skilled professional who can diligently operate the implemented hip replacement technology (Zingg et al., 2015). Apart from this compliance with the organizational policies is crucial while implementing new technology in a care organization. However, often the staffs fail to comply with the rules and regulation of an organization. Therefore, the new technology always associated with the risk if it not access properly (Coole et al., 2013). Hence, the professional should comply with the organizational policies and the rules and regulation in order to access the planned technology properly. Compliance is one of the major policies to improve the service process by avoiding any legal obstruction.
Conclusion
The adoption of the technology to conduct the surgery on hip replacement can be done in the learner’s private hospital if it is taken care with strategic planning and different policies & procedures. There should be an approval on the adopted technology from the Australia Jurisdictions. Additionally, effective communication with all the stakeholders is immensely required in order to prevent any unexpected consequences. Such consequences may affect the progress of the proposed service. Moreover, all resources should be appropriately dealt with such as training the professionals on the new technology. Furthermore, it should also be taken care with adequate policies and procedures in place.
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