Good Case Study About Primary Care 2025: A Scenario Exploration

In my opinion health care in 2025 will see a continuance in improving technology, improved delivery methods and lower costs for services. A visit to the emergency room illustrates the tech savvy changes and cost cuts. A patient enters the first set of doors and is asked to swipe their health card to enter the service room. The quick sweep of the electronic strip attached to the card has already begun the process of opening the patient’s full health records. As the patient walks in the door a display of individually packaged sterile swabs are found near the room’s entrance. The patient swabs the inside of their cheek with the swab and replaces the lid as they continue towards the desk. The triage secretary greets the patient and takes their sample and inserts it into the lab for processing. The secretary hands the patient a form to sign that was already brought up from the patients records. Since this particular patient has a communicable disease the red light flashes on his chart and the secretary asks the man to put on a mask and gloves then directs him to the influenza room down the hall second door on the left. The patient has already had a preliminary diagnosis, a full scan of their sample and is about to see a nurse to begin treatment minutes after entering the emergency room. The cost of his visit so far is less than a dollar for the swab, no doctor’s or nurse’s time yet. The patient enters the influenza room, and the nurse straps a wireless bracelet on him that quickly begins to check and monitor the patient’s vitals. Only now is the man asked what brought him to visit the hospital. The flu. The man’s health record shows a low-income health insurance provider and suggests that he is given X brand flu medicine in X sized bottle and takes X dose every X amount of hours. The nurse smiles, prints the suggestion document and asks the man if he has any other concerns. She then gets his medicine and begins to demonstrate the correct dosage. She places the rest of the medicine in a paper bag and sends the man home for plenty of rest and fluids. His trip to the emergency room lasted less than 10 minutes and cost less than $10. The patient has the best possible medicine, and his bill emailed. His insurance provider caters to low-income employees but still bill’s clients for half the cost of non-required health care. The man has already received an email that repeats the instructions given to him at the hospital including when he should take his meds, what foods he should be consuming and what foods to avoid. He is asked to respond to the email within three days to ensure he is recovering as expected.
One visit to the emergency room demonstrates just how efficient heal care technology has become with Electronic medical records (EMRs) attached to a patient's card that links to their health care provider as well. Patients see fast service, no wait times and only see a doctor when their health requires a physician. A cheek swab is used by a secretary quickly to diagnose many health problems that are cluttering our current medical waiting rooms. Payments and billing transactions occur by the second due, mostly to the improved EMRs. Emails are sent home with patients following a patient-centered medical home model (PCMHM) of health care. The costs of health care are minimal, no expensive staffing issues, minimal administration costs. In the year 2025, efficient health care services and minimal costs due to technological advancements, per second billing and no waiting time become the standard in healthcare.

References

Ginter, P., Duncan, W., Swayne, L., & Swayne, L. Strategic management of health care organizations (7th ed.).
McClelland, M., Asplin, B., Epstein, S. K., Kocher, K. E., Pilgrim, R., Pines, J., & Rathlev, N. K. (2014). The Affordable Care Act and Emergency Care. American Journal Of Public Health, 104(10), e8-e10. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2014.302052