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Running Head: INTEGRAL CONCEPTS IMPACTING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR     1
INTEGRAL CONCEPTS IMPACTING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR     2
INTEGRAL CONCEPTS IMPACTING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR
Abstract
    The report on the integral concepts affecting the healthcare sector sheds light on the major factors that necessarily influence the operations and services of this particular industry. The report has elucidated on the key legal and ethical issue along with technological progress that have largely affected the healthcare services provided by the caregivers. Furthermore, developments of service delivery models and protocols for complying with the changing regulations have also been discussed.
Table of Contents
Introduction    4
A Key Legal or Ethical Issue Affecting Health Care    4
A Key Advancement in Research or Technology Affecting Health Care    5
An Example of the Evolution and Development of Patient Care and Service Delivery Models    6
Key Efforts and Protocols for Ensuring Compliance of Health Care Organisation in a Changing Regulatory and Economic Health Care Environment    7
Conclusion    7
References    8
Introduction
    The healthcare sector across the globe has always occupied a substantial position that necessarily promotes the well-being of humans- physically or mentally. In the words of White, Dudley-Brown and Terhaar (2016), with the complexity of healthcare issues in humans, the entire healthcare sector has relentlessly evolved to establish the modern medical standards that offer the care users with advanced healthcare treatment. Over the years, a number of significant concepts have largely influenced the services provided by the healthcare sector. These integral concepts have
ought in a radical transformation in the entire sector that eventually pushed up the quality of healthcare services to the care users.
A Key Legal or Ethical Issue Affecting Health Care
    In the day-to-day activities in the healthcare sector, the caregivers and healthcare experts confront ethical and legal issues. These dilemmas related to the treatment of the patients, healthcare practices and other management matters often arise in the care setting. In the words of Pozgar (2019), the healthcare professionals exercise behavioural measures to deal with the ethical issues and rightly resolve them. Interestingly, the families of the patients also come across the legal and ethical issues. However, the proficiency of the healthcare professionals and care workers empower them to immediately respond to the ethical issues since these matters demand attention and decision making abilities. Among a large number of ethical challenges, one of the key legal and ethical issues that affect the healthcare sector is the confidentiality and the privacy of the care users’ data. A major legal and ethical issue in the healthcare domain involves safeguarding the private information of the patient. In the healthcare setting, the discussion between the care user and the healthcare professional is strictly a confidential data.
    The medical history of the patients and the medical tests, check-ups are also private data that cannot be subjected to any leaking. The medical condition of the care user is considered as private information that is restricted for accessibility to the healthcare professionals and the caregivers. Certain provisions related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that is also known as HIPAA strictly defines the precise information that...