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Noralina Almora

3/1/22, 6:48 AM

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The cancer care system is becoming increasingly complicated, with repeated hand-offs between general practice and specialized doctors, poor communication among providers, and a lack of understanding on a “medical home” (the ideal accountable care provider) for cancer patients. Patients and relatives frequently express concerns about information gaps, disjointed treatment, and a lack of emotional support. The process of responding to crucial cancer-related inquiries may be transformed by health IT in terms of speed, size, and breadth. Its intrinsic ability to thoroughly gather rich patient data and immediately assist care standardization allows it to do so. A 2010 IOM workshop report on Rapid Learning Health Systems7 for cancer recognized numerous factors crucial for enhancing care, including electronic registries, a national cancer database, and EHR–based technologies for point-of-care decision assistance (Putora, et al., 2020).

For example, a female

patient who speaks English as a second language may be hesitant to ask about the negative effects of various prostate breast cancer therapy choices. In this type of situation, the ideal IT system would be able to encapsulate and adaptively monitor the patient’s needs and attitudes, anticipate potential issues/doubts about diagnostic and therapeutic and other functioning, and generate treatment options in another language or one of the various formats.

Enrollment obstacles in focus groups can be decreased by enabling telephone participation, particularly for geographically separated persons such as those living in rural regions or those with very chronic conditions (Zajac, Woods, Tannenbaum, Salas, & Holladay, 2021). Furthermore, as the complexity of cancer therapy grows, so does the need for collaboration among health care specialists. Multidisciplinary meetings have been demonstrated to enhance survival and compliance to evidence-based guidelines in cancer patients. Effective communication is necessary while interacting with caregivers and family members. Family members, too, have options, and generalizations about their capacity and desire to care should be avoided. Those who take on caring duties should have their expertise and experience acknowledged and respected; they should be listened to and included in care planning.

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Naiviv Barcelo

3/1/22, 6:37 AM

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The best approach that healthcare providers are using in modern days to increase the health status of the community is through a prevention mechanism. Health prevention mechanism involves care providers carrying out teaching plans and helping community members understand ways that they can use to improve their quality of health. However, these health care prevention measures can be ineffective if the healthcare providers do not use efficient communication mechanisms.

One of the mechanisms used in the communication for disease prevention mechanism for the focus group would be through the social media platforms. The use of mobile and computer technology has increased in recent years and a lot of people are using either computers or their mobile devices as a means of communication (Corcoran, 2013). Therefore, using social media platforms that are found on computers and mobile technologies will help care providers reach out to a larger percentage of the population and teach them about healthcare improvement strategies.

The dynamics of a focus group of any health promotion strategy is that such groups usually have a common characteristic. In addition, the focus group is also more susceptible to various living conditions which affect their quality of health. The setting of the focus group for the research can be for people living in low-income areas which are overpopulated and with minimum areas of engaging in physical activities (Corcoran, 2013). Such people also find it difficult to afford nutritious meals which also affect their quality of life. The technology used to assess and communicate with the focus group is mobile technology. Mobile technology is the simplest form of technology to use and can also reach a higher number of the targeted population (Hansen et al., 2021). Care providers can enhance productivity and engagements between the care providers and the target group by ensuring that the target group feels like they are part of the health promotion strategies and ask about their opinions on some of the important topics that they are discussing.

References

Corcoran, N. (Ed.). (2013). Communicating health: strategies for health promotion. Sage.

Hansen, S. L., Pfaller, L., & Schicktanz, S. (2021). Critical analysis of communication strategies in public health promotion: An empirical‐ethical study on organ donation in Germany. Bioethics, 35(2), 161-172. 

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