Assignment: Machine Learning is Essential Where Artificial Intelligence is Applied Responses

Respond to the following discussion post as a peer making a comment. Health care process improvement is one of the essential drivers of a transformation strategy that aims to improve the quality of care while lowering costs and errors. Besides Six Sigma, two other health care improvement process strategies are:

1)    Improve Hospital Patient Flow with Machine Learning-

Health systems can leverage machine learning and predictive models to improve patient flow for different departments throughout the organization. Improving hospital patient flow results in reduced patient wait times, reduced staff overtime, improved patient outcomes, and improved patient and clinician satisfaction. To approach this issue, health care organizations can build a data science team, create machine learning pipelines to aggregate all data sources, and form a comprehensive leadership team to govern data.

2) Transform the Delivery of Care in the Emergency Department-

Overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) has been associated with increases in inpatient mortality, length of stay, and costs for admitted patients. Emergency department wait times and patients leaving without seeing a qualified medical provider are indicators of overcrowding. To approach this issue, it is essential to revise high-impact workflows, revise staffing patterns, and improve patient experience (Young, 2022). Additionally, another solution would be to educate patients on when to go to the ER. The current health care organization that I work at continues to educate our clients about when to go to the ER to prevent overcrowding,

References:

Young, S. (2022, January 27). Healthcare Process Improvement: 6 Strategies. Health Catalyst. Retrieved February 20, 2022, from 

While healthcare’s move from a fee-for-service to a  (VBC) model has been taking hold over the past decade, the financial strains and uncertainty of COVID-19 have placed increasing urgency on cost management. As health systems emerge from the acute phases of the pandemic, financial recovery rests on understanding the true cost of their services.

Critical cost insights in the post-COVID era will include the following:

• Reliable understanding of an organization’s services’ impacts on patient outcomes.
• The tools to negotiate payer contracts as well as understand and adapt to the impact of new and changing pricing schemes.
• Disparate data sources including claims, clinical, cost, and geospatial data to make intelligent strategic decisions (e.g., make versus buy, capital planning, mergers and acquisitions, etc.).

An effective costing solution is a critical asset in the newer payment landscape, in which increasing capitation will place more importance on the strategic use of resources to deliver quality care. Yet, building the right healthcare costing tool comes with significant challenges that only advanced and expert-driven technology can resolve. Organizations can best prepare for the inevitable changes under VBC with an  (ABC) solution that delivers detailed and actionable cost data across the analytics environment, supporting service-line reporting, contract modeling, strategic decision making, and clinical process improvement.

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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