Description

Enhancing Healthcare with Innovation: A Strategic Plan for Hospital Technology Use

Prompt
Develop a 5-10 year strategic plan for achieving specific health care quality and safety improvements. Use either an AI approach or your SWOT analysis and a chosen strategic planning model.

Note: You will use your care setting environmental analysis as the basis for developing your strategic plan in this assessment.

You have been asked to select one of the potential improvement projects you noted in your analysis and create a full, 5–10-year strategic plan to achieve the desired quality and safety improvement outcomes. You will develop your strategic plan, using either an AI approach (addressing the design stage), or by building on your SWOT analysis and applying a strategic planning model of your choice.

How you structure your plan should be based on whether you are taking an appreciative inquiry approach or using a specific strategic planning model. Regardless of the approach you choose, the requester of the plan has asked that you address the key points outlined below in the strategic plan requirements. In addition, your plan should be 5–8 pages in length.

Write clearly, with professionalism and respect for stakeholders and colleagues.
Integrate relevant sources of evidence to support your assertions.
Cite at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence.
Format your document using APA style. Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]. Be sure to include:
A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.
A running head on all pages.
Appropriate section headings.
Properly formatted citations and references.
Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult to focus on the substance of your analysis.

Strategic Plan
Develop strategic goal statements and outcomes that reflect specific quality and safety improvements for your care setting. You should have at least one short-term goal (just-in-time to one year) and one long-term goal (five years or longer).
Determine realistic timelines for achieving your goals.
Explain how your short-term goals support your long-term goals.

Note: For plans based on an AI approach, the goal statements and outcomes are provocative propositions that may be refinements of the positive, yet attainable, goals that you proposed during the dream phase of your inquiry. For plans based on a SWOT analysis, the goal statements and outcomes are specific, measurable, and applicable to the area of concern in your analysis for which you proposed pursuing improvements.

Justify the relevance of your proposed strategic goals and outcomes in relation to the mission, vision, and values of your care setting.
Analyze the extent to which your strategic goals and outcomes, and your approach to achieving them, address:

• The ethical environment.
• The cultural environment.
• The use of technology.
• Applicable health care policies, laws, and regulations.

Explain, in general, how you will use relevant leadership and health care theories to help achieve your proposed strategic goals and outcomes.
Consider whether different theories are more applicable to the short-term or long-term goals of your strategic plan.
Evaluate the leadership qualities and skills that are most important to successfully implementing your proposed plan and sustaining strategic direction.
Identify those leadership qualities and skills that are essential to achieving your goals and outcomes and sustaining strategic direction.
Identify those leadership qualities and skills that will have the greatest effect on the success of your plan.

Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Influenza (flu). http://www.cdc.gov/flu/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). National pandemic strategy. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy/index.html
Program Sustainability Assessment Tool. (n.d.). Understand sustainability. https://sustaintool.org/psat/understand/#strategic-planning
Provides information on strategic planning and links to additional resources.

Honigsbaum, M., & Blower, P. (n.d.). How pandemics spread – Mark Honigsbaum [Video]. TEDEd. http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-pandemics-spread

Clarke, S. F. (2017). Strategic operational planning: Why healthcare organizations need to adopt this dual approach under population health management. Journal of Medical Practice Management, 33(1), 15–18.

Bleich, M. R., & Hessler, C. (2016). Appreciative inquiry and implementation science in leadership development. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing,47(5), 207–209.

Giltinane, C. L. (2013). Leadership styles and theories. Nursing Standard (through 2013),27(41), 35–39.
Merlino, M. (2019). 20/20 vision: Creating our future. AORN Journal, 109(4), 425–426.

Solution

Introduction

Hospital administration may invest heavily in technology, but its eventual success largely depends on its staff using functionalities innovatively and effectively. Since a strategic plan ensures optimal technology use among all hospital staff, hospital leadership should always aim to develop a culture that encourages innovative technology use. This need is particularly crucial in the rapidly evolving healthcare settings. Innovative technology use in hospital settings is a promising development. However, sustained success relies on staff developing the capacities necessary to utilize its functionalities and features. Therefore, the primary objective of this strategic plan is to cultivate and enhance innovative technology use across the hospital.

Vision

To have a forward-thinking healthcare facility that sets standards in integrating innovative technological solutions to improve healthcare quality and safety through staff empowerment, enhanced patient care, and effective integration of technology into existing clinical and operational practices.

Mission

To provide world-class patient care across the facility by equipping all hospital staff with the requisite technological skills and support to innovatively enhance care safety and uphold the highest standards of quality.

Core Values

These core values will serve as guiding principles as the institution works toward achieving the provided vision:

• Efficiency – The adoption of innovative technology should streamline workflows to realize maximum value from technological investments.
• Innovation – All stakeholders should continually advance their skills in technology use to improve care delivery and enhance patient experiences within the hospital.
• Patient-centered care – The hospital should leverage technological systems to personalize patient care and engagement in their healthcare journey.
• Staff empowerment – The hospital administration should implement supportive measures to drive the successful adoption of innovative technologies among individuals and organization-wide.

Appreciative Inquiry (AI)

Basing this strategic plan on AI aligns on the emphasis of advancing existing strengths that the hospital possesses…

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