Evolution of Laws MMA was signed by President Bush in 2003. The MMA brought about sweeping changes that increased enrollment and improved access to Medicare Plans. Similarly, the PPACA was signed into law by President Obama in 2010. The law is expected to significantly increase access to Medicaid for the uninsured, low-income families, and individuals.…
Work Teams Imagine that you have been charged with transforming the performance of a team at your workplace. Specifically, it is under-performing, and your supervisor wants the team to be high-performing within six months. Based on the information in Chapter 18 of Organizational Behavior in Health Care and your own research develop a presentation for…
Benchmarking is gaining a lot of attention in healthcare industry these days. Benchmarking allows healthcare managers to assess and measure the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs, strategies, etc., and their comparison with standard measurements, or similar measurements of its peers. The objectives of benchmarking are (1) to determine what and where improvements are…
https://www.healthit.gov/playbook/ This week you will work on the system implementation phase of the final project, which requires completion of the following steps: Site preparation: What are the physical locations where workstations, printers, servers, and other hardware will be installed? User preparation: How will you provide users enough information about the system being installed to gain…
This week there are three tasks to do. First, you will work on the user training phase of the system implementation, considering the following in 3-5 pages: Planning for training Contents of training Methods of training Location of training Schedule of training Resources needed Training the trainer Conducting the training Additional periodic ongoing trainings Computer-assisted…
Part 1: For this assignment you will select someone to interview about their career in healthcare that works either on the administrative side (e.g. office manager, practice administrator, billing and coder, medical office coordinator) or the clinical side (e.g. nurse, counselor, doctor, dentist, pharmacist, social worker, home health aide) of healthcare. Interviews may be conducted…
You are the manager of a busy hospital unit. Your unit has been tasked with selecting and implementing upgraded technology on your hospital unit. As the unit manger, address the following in your selection of technology and implementation plan: Examine the features of the new technology that are important in reducing or preventing…
COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is a pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in…
Managed Care and Public Policy Various types of managed care organizations have emerged due to forces imposed by the state and the federal governments, such as the HMO Act of 1973. For the Week 1 discussion, address the following: Evaluate the impact of one federal and one state-level public health policy. Compare and contrast the…
Choose a relevant adverse event that could happen at your healthcare facility. You are welcome to use something you have seen happen at your own organization, or something that could happen to any healthcare facility. You can use the HVA example from module 4 to see some different types of events you might want to…