In a broad perspective, management entities have to deal with the handling of financial transactions, marketing of products and services, incorporation and use of information technology, organization of human resources, strategic design, and the management of institutional operations processes. All these demand outstanding competence and knowledge related to each of the fields. Besides handling these basic processes of management, health care professionals have to deal with emerging factors that affect patients and governing institutions. Some of such encompass the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases as well as inadequacy of facilities (Holtz, 2013). To achieve substantial milestones in the provision of health care services, governments and health care systems must invest in overcoming problematic factors that hinder such success. These challenges include limited accessibility to health care services, overreliance on curative medical interventions for different problems, and the enhancement of technology in health care services.

A large number of Americans and other citizens across the world have limited or no access to health care services. This situation gets occasioned by the fact that world populations are constantly increasing. In developing countries, there are still parts with limited establishments of hospitals and other health care institutions. At the same time, most of such locations do not have developed access roads and communication structures (Brown, 2011). Other limiting factors related to access and provisions of health care services encompass financial inabilities, incomprehensive health insurance coverage, and disparities in systems that facilitate the functionality of multi-sector and institutional coordination. For increased efficiency and successful future health care provisions, governments and other institutions must increase citizen access to health care services (Holtz, 2013).

Another future challenge for health care management concerns the rates at which individuals over-rely on curative medical interventions for different problems. The most mentioned cases of diseases in this perspective include those caused by smoking, lack of exercise, and poor diets. Despite the fact that individuals can choose to live healthy lifestyles, most persons avoid the same intentionally because they believe curative medicines will solve any problem. This is to the extent that some of the individuals avoid affordable preventive care and healthy approaches to life (Pilichowski, 2012). In the future, health care systems may have to deal with these perspectives in order to decrease the influx of individuals seeking curative solutions to preventable problems. Changing such opinionated beliefs will ensure that health institutions achieve better health conditions for citizens through preventive and alternative approaches instead of overdependence on curative medicine (Kuhlmann, 2015).

Perhaps, the most outstanding future challenge for health care management involves the use and enhancement of technology in health care procedures. Most technology systems used in health care institutions were developed in the middle and late twentieth century. These experience various challenges and discrepancies in relation to current situations. At the same time, modern systems developed in the twenty-first century remain incompatible with those of the past (Pilichowski, 2012). To streamline health care technology and enhance the usability of systems, governments, private investors, and other stakeholders must invest in the development of health care systems. This can be achieved through collective approaches in which government funding and support from stakeholders engage in joint investment programs (Kuhlmann, 2015).

In conclusion, health care managers have to handle a number of issues to ensure the success of health care systems. These relate to handling of financial transactions, marketing of products and services, incorporation and use of information technology, organization of human resources, strategic design, and the management of institutional operations processes. The greatest challenges related to these include limited accessibility to health care services, overreliance on curative medical interventions for different problems, and the enhancement of technology in health care services.

References

Brown, M. (2011). Ethical issues and security monitoring trends in global healthcare: Technological advancements. Hershey: Medical Information Publishing.

Holtz, C. (2013). Global health care: Issues and policies. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Kuhlmann, E. (2015). The Palgrave International Handbook of healthcare policy and governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Publications.

Pilichowski, E. (2012). Ageing and the public service: Human resource challenges. Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.