Health Care Setting Analysis

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Two concepts that will impact Healthcare and are very applicable to the health care setting I am involved in as a Clinic Manager, in a hospital-based clinic, at an academic healthcare organization, are the use of clinical pathways, and the influence of social networks on medical education. The use of clinical pathways including: integrated care pathways, and multidisciplinary pathways of care are one way of integrating best practice standards in healthcare. Based on empirical evidence, these treatment protocols are a standardized and implemented most frequently as a tool for intervening with complex, chronic, and high cost disease. It aims on the patient’s overall journey rather than each individual care specialty functioning independently.