HSA-4030: Current Issues in Healthcare

Flaz, P. (2018). The Truth about Doctor Rating Sites. Prevention, 70(7), 58–65.
Social media has risks and benefits for both consumers of healthcare and providers. This article introduces multiple perspectives of those advantages and disadvantages that managers need to appreciate.

Klar, B. (2018). Balancing Innovation and Delivery. HFM (Healthcare Financial Management), 1–4.
Innovation brings exciting opportunities to advance quality and efficiency in healthcare and enhance the patient experience. This article presents the importance of seeking balance in adopting innovation with cost and patient experience benefits. Managers need to consider the adoption of technology from a variety of perspectives. Read this article to find out more.

Mahdi Tavakoli, Jay Carriere, & Ali Torabi. (2020). Robotics, Smart Wearable Technologies, and Autonomous Intelligent Systems for Healthcare During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Analysis of the State of the Art and Future Vision. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2(7).
This article will get you thinking about many of the emerging technologies that are changing the landscape of access to care and the use of sophisticated information system tools to drive managerial decisions making.

Shah, A. B. (2020). Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Can Regulation Catch up with Innovation? RAIL: The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law, 3(1), 41–46.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a significant application of technology that is impacting healthcare delivery in many ways. Read this article to discover some of the most important changes that are taking place in healthcare because of AI.

Vanderhoff, M. (2020). AI: HUGE POTENTIAL, OR AN IMPENETRABLE BLACK BOX? Artificial intelligence offers many benefits to health care professionals and likely will be a key component of future practice -- but it’s not without its drawbacks. PT in Motion, 12(5), 20–26.
This article will expand your thinking about some of the potential risks and challenges of AI that managers will need to consider.

Video Conferencing Services Provider, IVCi, Discusses the Top Healthcare Technology Innovations that Occurred in 2019. (2019). PR Newswire.
Hear from the experts about the recent top technology innovations in this media article.