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Given that emerging trends have such an impact on healthcare delivery, it is important for managers to be able to prioritize which trends will have the most significant impact.  A healthcare manager can easily get caught up in trying to adapt to all of the various emerging trends in healthcare.  In doing so, the manager may lose focus of the most impactful and significant trends at his or her particular organization.

In this assignment you will have the opportunity to identify the trends that you think are most significant and impactful to today’s healthcare organization.  You will also be given the opportunity to provide a rationale or analysis of why these are important.  This exercise will help you understand how to prioritize and determine which emerging trends are most significant to the delivery of healthcare today and in the future.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

• Identify the impact of emerging trends on the delivery of healthcare.

Resources

• Article: The 5 Mega-Trends That Are Changing the Face of Health Care
• Video: Computers Smarter than Physicians? Future Health Care/Med Tech Trends

Background Information

Consider the various emerging trends that you have analyzed so far in this workshop.  Realizing that there is a multitude of emerging trends, consider the ones that you think are most significant and impactful to healthcare delivery.

Instructions

1. On The Atlantic website, review the article “The 5 Mega-Trends That Are Changing the Face of Health Care”.
2. Watch the video, Computers Smarter than Physicians? Future Health Care/Med Tech Trends.
3. To complete this assignment, develop a list of four emerging trends that you believe will have the most impact on the delivery of healthcare in the next decade.
   1. These trends should be different from those identified in the 1.2 Discussion activity.
   2. Be sure to consider epidemiological, economic, policy, and technology trends.
4. Below each selection on your list, write a summary paragraph explaining your rationale for choosing this trend.