Category: Healthcare

Create a budget for your grant proposal, using the categories described in this week’s material (personnel, supplies, equipment, travel, and other.). 
Write a budget justification for each line item in your budget.

For the Organizational Communication Plan assessment you
will create a 2-3-page executive summary that outlines an analysis of
patient satisfaction data and puts forth a communication plan to improve
organizational performance and improve patient satisfaction.
Introduction
Upon completion of the strategic planning process, further
strategic thinking is required to determine how to achieve the goals
identified. Implementation of the strategy requires setting objectives,
and development of plans and budgets that translate into specific action
plans (Ginter, Duncan, & Swayne, 2013). Action plans must be
developed to link the department or organizational unit, such as
surgical unit, human resources, to the overall strategy (Ginter, Duncan,
& Swayne, 2013).
The value chains within health care organizations are
comprised of those departments or components that create value and
ultimately a competitive advantage for the organization (Ginter, Duncan,
& Swayne, 2013). Innovation in the health care industry will change
the way in which clinical care is delivered. New business models will
develop in response to patient demands (Davey, Brennan, & McAdam,
2010). The inability to respond to the demand for innovative health care
and new business models will result in the organization losing their
competitive advantage. Justifying the need for a new business model
requires the organization to understand the needs of the market in which
they deliver services (Davey, Brennan, Meenan, & McAdam, 2010).
Reference
Davey, S. M., Brennan, M., Meenan, B. J., & McAdam, R.
(2010). The health of innovation: Why open business models can benefit
the healthcare sector. Irish Journal of Management, 30(1), 21–40.
Ginter, P. M., Duncan, W. J., & Swayne, L. E. (2013). The strategic management of health care organizations (7th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Demonstration of Proficiency:
Competency 1: Apply theories and best practice in strategic leadership to drive improvements for health care systems.
Describe the key stakeholders and the importance of addressing their needs.
Competency 2: Apply theories and best practices in human
resource and workforce management to solve organizational issues in
health care systems.
Analyze operational issues.
Recommend current best practices to improve processes and solve operational issues.
Competency 3: Analyze the components of high performance teams to enable the achievement of the departmental strategic vision.
Describe effective communication strategies a
leader may choose to employ when communicating the strategic vision of
the organization to key stakeholders.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly,
professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity
of others and is consistent with health care professionals.
Demonstrate effective communication through writing and proper use of APA style.
Communicate in a professional and effective
manner by writing content clearly and logically, with correct use of
grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Instructions:
For this assessment, assume you are employed as a strategic
planner with Metropolitan Health. Mission and vision are important to
the strategic planning process of a health care organization.
For this assessment, consider the following mission and vision statement.
Mission: Metropolitan Health’s mission
is to be the leading provider of the highest quality health care through
education, research, and clinical practice.
Vision: To be the most trusted health care provider of choice for patients of the Sunrise region.
You have been asked to review the most recent patient survey
data and develop an executive summary that addresses the data and
develops a plan for improvement.
You interpret the data and find that the data
from the previous twelve months of patient satisfaction surveys at
Metropolitan Health indicate patients are dissatisfied with their
overall patient experience. Areas identified as leading causes for
dissatisfaction are related to the following:
The inability to ask their provider questions.
Difficulty in making appointments.
The lack of courtesy and respect from staff.
Note: Eighty-five percent of the patients
who completed the survey have been seeking services from Metropolitan
Health for over three years. Sixty percent said they are not likely to
recommend the facility to their friends and family.
Now that you understand the data stated points, develop your
executive summary that presents the following to the executive team:
Analyze operational issues (that is, analyze the data).
Where does the data for this scenario come from?
If available, what other data sources would you like to consult for your analysis?
How can this data be used to analyze operational issues for Metropolitan Health?
What areas, or themes emerge as the main issues from the data?
How might these issues negatively impact Metropolitan Health if not addressed?
Recommend current best practices to improve processes and solve operational issues.
Compare and contrast best practices for improving patient satisfaction.
Make recommendations on improving communication and reducing knowledge gaps between staff and patients.
Describe the key stakeholders and the importance of addressing their needs.
Describe who the stakeholders are.
Discuss implications of not communicating to stakeholders.
Describe effective strategies for communicating the strategic vision of the organization to key stakeholders.
Justify the need for the communication plan.
Describe the approaches and tools for a health communication plan incorporates the mission and vision.
Describe how the communication plan will be evaluated.
Additional Requirements
Structure: Assessment should be formatted as an executive summary. It is suggested that you make use of the following template:
Executive Summary Template [DOCX]
Length: 2–3 pages (not including the reference page).
References: Cite at least three current scholarly or professional resources.
Format: Use APA style for references and citations.                 

Over the past decade, the number of procedures performed in office-based settings by, surgeons, gastroenterologists, ophthalmologists, radiologists, dermatologists, and others, have grown significantly. At the same time, patient safety concerns have increased and include issues such as proper patient selection, safe sedation practices, maintenance of facilities and resuscitation equipment, facility accreditation and practitioner licensing, and the office staff’s ability to deal with emergencies and complications.
Do you feel there are stringent guidelines for safe practices in office based surgeries? Why or why not?
What types of surgeries do you think are acceptable to have performed in an office based surgery setting?
Would you elect to have a medical procedure performed in an office based surgery setting? Why or why not?

Develop a section (3–5 pages) of a proposal to study whether a group
of physicians provided quality of care related to an identified disease
or condition and population. Include a plan to manage the information
from collection to destruction and an analysis of legal considerations.
INTRODUCTION:
For this assessment and others in this course, you will assume the role
of an office manager for a physician group. In most fields—whether it’s
manufacturing, the service industry, or health care—organizations are
looking for ways to improve the quality of service they provide to their
customers. Keeping an eye on quality helps them remain competitive in
the marketplace and stay in business. Otherwise, their customers will go
elsewhere. This is especially true in the health care field, where
people’s health and lives are at stake.
PREPARATION:
Your physician group is no different than other organizations. It
wants to find ways to improve the quality of care it provides to
patients. This, in turn, helps the physician group remain profitable and
stay in business. As a result, the senior leaders of your physician
group have asked you to provide a documentation review of the quality of
care provided by the office. As the office manager, you are the one
responsible for the management of the health information within the
office and the review of information to determine whether providers met
quality of care standards. Determining this will require you to:
Identify a disease or condition served by the physician group.
Determine what patient information is needed and where to retrieve it.
Compare your overall office data to the national benchmarks.
Typically, in the workplace, the physician group’s specialty area
(cancer, diabetes, dermatology, et cetera) would dictate the disease or
condition for which you would be collecting information. For the purpose
of this assessment, however, you may select the disease or condition
that interests you from this list:
Asthma.
Diabetes.
Myocardial infarction.
HIV/AIDS.
Cancer.
Select the disease or condition that is important to you and that you
want to study. Perhaps you have the disease or condition. Perhaps a
family member or friend does. Remember you will be working with this
condition in the remaining course assessments.
Now that you have determined the disease or condition you are going
to study, you will need to begin collecting protected health information
(PHI) for the patients treated by your physician group who have the
condition you are studying. You will need to consider carefully the
privacy, security, and confidentiality of the information within the
patients’ office records. Determining how you, as the office manager,
will maintain data security is a key aspect of your work. You are
responsible for knowing and understanding the types of documentation,
applications, and information systems used within and outside of the
office. All information moves through a life cycle from creation to
destruction. Regulations, policies, and procedures strictly control this
ongoing process. The office manager needs to know this life cycle and
where to locate information when it is needed.
For this assessment, you will write a section of a proposal about how
the documentation on previous patient care will be retrieved, from
where it will be retrieved, and how that data will be kept secure during
retrieval and review. Remember that you are focusing on retrieving and
analyzing existing documentation within the office.
For this section of your proposal:
Identify the disease or condition and the population that will be the focus of your study.
Explain your plan to manage this information from collection to storage to destruction.
Identify legal considerations and a plan for compliance for the PHI you are collecting.
In later assessments in this course, you will continue on with your
proposal and begin to plan for how you will compare the office data you
have collected to the national benchmarks. Remember: You will not be
able to actually do this comparison. You are simply preparing a proposal
for senior leaders about how you would go about performing this work.
Please read the scoring guide for this assessment to better
understand the performance levels relating to each criterion on which
you will be evaluated.
INSTRUCTIONS:
You will not be writing the entire proposal for this assessment; only
parts of it. You will add to your proposal in later assessments and
complete it in Assessment 3. Be sure this part of your proposal includes
all of the following headings, and your narrative addresses each of the
bullet points:
Introduction
Identify the disease or condition from the following list for which you will review the quality of care:
Asthma.
Diabetes.
Myocardial infarction.
HIV/AIDS.
Cancer.
Explain the reasons for your choice.
Information Collection
Complete the following:
Determine the patient population to be reviewed.
Evaluate which information system or systems best provide the needed information.
Determine the specific documentation you are looking for. Explicitly
state the reasons for each and all of your choices. Be sure to answer
all of the following questions in your narrative:
Do you want to review information only from your office? Or do you
also want to review information for hospital admission and/or emergency
room visits?
Do you wish to review all patients who have ever been treated for
the selected condition? Or only those treated within a specific time
frame? Will you only review patients within certain demographic
parameters?
What type of documentation do you want to review? This may include:
History and physical (H&P).
Discharge summary.
Progress notes.
Labs.
Radiology.
Others.
Identify where you are going to find the information you need. Which
information system or systems would be best to use, and what
information can you collect from each system? Possibilities include:
Pharmacy.
Point of care (POC).
Results management.
Computerized physician order entry (CPOE).
Determine the type of system or systems (financial, administrative, clinical, et cetera) you would use.
Information Life Cycle
Complete the following:
Describe how you plan to manage this information from collection to
destruction. Be sure to address all of these questions in your
narrative:
How will the information be collected and documented? By whom? In what context?
How will the information be stored?
How will you control access to the information?
How can you ensure the documentation meets interoperability standards?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of integrating your office information with an HIE?
What challenges exist regarding the standardization of health information?
When and how will the information be destroyed?
Legal Considerations
Complete the following:
Differentiate between the legal aspects of health information
confidentiality, privacy, and security, as it applies to your proposal.
Apply laws governing health information confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Determine whether the information you are retrieving requires the use of PHI.
If not, why not?
If so, summarize how the PHI will be used.
Plan for how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA) will impact health care personnel, policies, and procedures in
your proposal.
Conclusion
Briefly summarize the value of the documentation review you are proposing to be performed.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Your assessment should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Your paper does not need to
be in APA format. It does need to be clear and well organized, with
correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, to support orderly exposition of
content.
Title page: Develop a descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet maintain professional decorum.
References: Include a minimum of two citations of peer-reviewed sources in APA format.
Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and references page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
COMPETENCIES MEASURED:
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your
proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide
criteria:
Competency 1: Determine stages of the information lifecycle embedded within health information management technology functions.
Apply steps of the health care information life cycle.
Competency 2: Apply laws governing health information confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Differentiate between required confidentiality and security measures.
Apply laws governing health information confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Competency 3: Assess system applications used to operationalize health information.
Evaluate which information system or systems best provide needed information.
Competency 6: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly,
professional, respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of
others, and is consistent with the expectations for healthcare
professionals.
Write clearly, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, and good organization.
Apply proper APA formatting and style to references and citations.

INSTRUCTION The secure exchange of health information between providers, patients, and other stakeholders is essential for delivering high quality care. Protecting the privacy and security of patient data must be a top priority in the development of plans for an HIE hub. For this assignment, you will identify the core privacy and security requirements that should be incorporated into an HIE hub’s policies, procedures, and technical infrastructure. Instructions
Research best practices for HIEs recommended by organizations like the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and relevant security/privacy laws. Consider the key controls and safeguards that should be implemented to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure of patient information through an HIE hub. Paying particular attention to related HIPAA and adjacent government regulations, create a 4 to 5-page instructional booklet detailing key privacy and security requirements for your proposed HIE chronic disease hub from Lesson 2. Length: This assignment must be 4-5 pages (excluding the title and reference pages). References: Include 5 scholarly resources.

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Unit 4 – Individual Project (150 points)
Due: Sun, Jul 7 |Printer Friendly Version
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A chief executive officer (CEO) of a local healthcare organization in your area is determining whether merging with the other healthcare organization in your city is the right move. The CEO knows that understanding the competitor, identifying their weaknesses, and assessing the impact of both organizations’ strategic moves can set a competitive advantage. Address the following in a 3–5-page paper (not including the title page and references page):
Discuss the importance of competitive advantage and why understanding the competition is important.
Explain the concept of competitor analysis.
Construct a brief competitor analysis that will provide information on competitors in your area, their strengths and weaknesses, and their possible strategic moves.
Identify and discuss obstacles that might hinder your ability to conduct an effective service area competitor analysis.
For this assignment, use your city or area as the backdrop.
Note: Use APA style to cite at least 3 scholarly sources from the last 5 years.
Please submit your assignment.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your textbook, all course resources, and any external research and resources you have gathered.

There are many different structural units of the body. Medical professionals are required to know these structural units. Different types of professions are required to know the positions and planes of the body for their healthcare practice. Select a structural unit of the body.
Research the unit.
Provide 10 medical terms that are associated with your chosen structural unit.
Identify 2 health care professions that provide care, diagnosis, or treatment of your chosen structure.
Post must be a minimum of 3 paragraphs.
Use 3 credible resources. One may be your textbook, the other two must be considered scholarly. Cite them in APA format at the end of your discussion post.

I need the following for my thesis :
1- I did the survey and I need someone to do the data analysis and write discussion and results parts.
2-I have written the introduction, literature review, and methodology, I need just to review and correct any mistakes.
3 – I need also to add a list of contents and finalize the thesis as the template I will provide the writer with.

Assignment Description:
Write a 2000-2500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. There should be five sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.
What are GIS, GPS, and LBS?  How are businesses using these applications to compete?
Why would a company want to implement mobile device management?
How could a business use a blog, a wiki, and a mashup to improve communications?
What are the benefits and challenges associated with Web 2.0?
What are the three challenges associated with Business 2.0? Explain it?
The following specifications are required for this assignment:
Length: 2000 –2500 words; answers must thoroughly address the questions clearly and concisely.
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA style. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment.
References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources to answer the questions. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources to support your claims.

Imagine that you need to explain to a community of stakeholders the difference between a quality improvement approach and a process evaluation approach.
1) What would you summarize as being unique to each approach?
2) What are the similarities between the two approaches?
3)How would you decide which approach to implement?
4) What challenges rest with each approach?
Refer to the information you learned this week on Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and the tools used in the approach, as well as the process evaluation and the data collection methods used in that approach.