How Regulatory and Organizational Guidelines Shape How Leaders Make Decisions in Health Care

Regulatory and organizational guidelines play a mandatory oversight role in healthcare. Regulatory and organizational guidelines are implemented to ensure that healthcare leaders and other providers are responsible and make rational decisions. The provisions of regulatory and organizational guidelines provide guidelines on how healthcare decisions should be made and, therefore, influence how leaders make decisions in healthcare. One major influence of regulatory guidelines on how healthcare leaders make is providing principles to which the decisions must abide. This means that healthcare leaders must focus on such principles to ensure the decisions made meet the set ethical standards of the healthcare industry.

Regulatory and organizational guidelines also influence how healthcare leaders make decisions by establishing compliance standards specifically applied in the healthcare industry, such as in applying new technologies in healthcare (Reddy et al., 2020). The regulations and standards may be about health procedures, quality of care, safety standards, or ensuring patient and user privacy in adopted healthcare technologies. Healthcare leaders must shape their decision-making processes per these established compliance standards for their healthcare organizations to remain compliant with set regulations. Additionally, regulatory and organizational guidelines provide timely information on new evidence, changes in the healthcare industry, or new compliance requirements, which, in turn, influence how leaders make their decisions on the current and future operations of their healthcare organizations.