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ANALYZE HEALTH CARE PRACTICES THAT CREATE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST FOR THE STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED

ANALYZE HEALTH CARE PRACTICES THAT CREATE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST FOR THE STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED

Health Care Practices

For this assignment, analyze at least three health care practices that create conflicts of interest for the stakeholders involved (e.g., physicians who receive samples from drug representatives). For each practice analyzed, develop and propose one strategy (or strategies) that would eliminate these conflicts. From an ethical standpoint, include your overall recommendations for eliminating conflicts of interests in the three areas that you selected with specific evidence and support from the literature.

Your paper must be five double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  Utilize a minimum of two to four scholarly sources that were published within the last five years, and cite them in APA format.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Determine key roles that human resource management plays in the health care field.

FUNCTIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN TERMS OF THEIR LEVEL OF SUPPORT TO THE HEALTH CARE FIELD

Assignment 1: Human Resource Management Overview 

Using the course readings, articles, and your personal experiences, address the role of human resource management.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Determine key roles that human resource management plays in the health care field.
  2. Evaluate three to five (3-5) functions of human resource management in terms of their level of support to the health care field, and then select which one you believe is the primary function in furthering the health care field.
  3. Analyze the role of human resource management in an organization’s strategic plan.
  4. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.  Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
  • Thoroughly determining key roles that human resource management plays in the health care field.Thoroughly evaluated three to five (3-5) functions of human resource management, and then thoroughly selected which one you believe is the primary function in the health care field.Thoroughly analyzed the role of human resource management in an organization’s strategic plan.Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.

Identify and analyze the various elements that comprise your health care industry’s trends and policies

IDENTIFY AND ANALYZE THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS THAT COMPRISE YOUR HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY’S TRENDS AND POLICIES.

Examine how strategic thinking and planning affect the internal and external environments specific to your health care services by completing the following:

  • Identify and analyze the various elements that comprise your health care industry’s trends and policies
  • Define and explain the economic and business conditions, premises, policies, and other related forces that form the basis for generating change in your health care organization.
  • Identify and analyze specific issues revolving around health care management and policy analysis specific to your selected organization.
  • Examine the different types of markets in the health care system and the determinants of supply and demand in each market specific to your selected organization.

Your two-page report should contain an introduction and a conclusion. Resources and citations should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.

Grading:

Identify health care industry trends and policies.

12%

Analyze identified health care industry trends and policies in relation to a selected health care organization.

13%

Explain economic forces that drive change in a selected health care organization.

13%

Describe business forces that drive change in a selected health care organization.

13%

Describe forces other than business forces that drive change in a selected health care organization.

13%

Analyze health care management and policy analysis specific to a selected health care organization.

13%

Examine supply and demand in each market specific to a selected health care organization.

13%

Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions, and create a document that is clearly written, generally free of grammatical errors, and follows APA (6th edition) style and formatting guidelines for references and citations.

10%

What is an electronic medical record (EMR)?

DESCRIBE HOW AN EMR SYSTEM CAN ADVANCE THE STRATEGIES OF A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER ORGANIZATION

Health Information System

Textbook for  Reference: 

Wager, K. A. (2013). Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management, 3e

Instructions: I rather hear about your experiences, experiences of others you know, opinions and ideas when answering the following questionsMust write up from 75  to 150 word count.

  1. What is the systems-development life cycle? Why is it important to the selection of an information system?
  2. The SDLC (system development life cycle) involves several phases.The implementation phase can be the most challenging and it is the phase that is at most risk of failure.  Why is the implementation phase at such risk for failure?
  3. Third is the Implementation Phase; in this phase, the system is installed and evaluated in the organization’s operational environment.”

What are some common challenges that occur during the “go-live” or implementation stages of an information technology project? Other than staff training, how can these challenges be minimized?

  1. The SDLC also needs to be in alignment with the strategy of an organization. However, creating a cost-efficient information technology system that is in alignment with strategic goals of the organization can be a major challenge. Which department in a health care organization is frequently in charge of planning the development of an information technology system? What is their primary role?
  2. Determining the scope of an information technology project can be overwhelming. What is a good first step in identifying the scope of an IT project?
  3. What is an electronic medical record (EMR)? Describe how an EMR system can advance the strategies of a health care provider organization
  4. Imagine you have been selected to consult for a prestigious health care organization. Your ultimate goal is to develop a proposal to present to the board of the organization. At their last meeting, the board asked you to prepare a proposal on how the organization might adopt a technology trend to improve the quality of the health care delivered to organization members.

Research various types, uses, and effects of technology across the health care industry.

Write a 350-700 word summary describing various types and uses of technology across the health care industry and their impact. Also, identify the technology trend you will recommend for the health care organization.

Cite at least two peer-reviewed references from the University Library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Discuss the ethical or legal requirements and responsibilities that a health care organization has in ensuring that its facility is licensed, certified, and accredited.

DISCUSS THE METHOD(S) OF REIMBURSEMENT THAT YOU BELIEVE WILL WORK BEST FOR THE HEALTH CARE FACILITY THAT YOU HAVE PROPOSED TO BE DEVELOPED

Apply business principles to the management of the healthcare organization

POWER POINT

15 Slides

You have been asked to present your proposed health care facility to the board of directors. Based on your previous assignments, you are to put together a PowerPoint presentation of 15 slides with 300–400 words of speaker notes per slide that includes the following:

The type of health care facility (Week 1)
Discuss the type of facility that you are recommending and the rationale behind your recommendation.
Discuss the type of health care delivery that is provided at the facility.
Financing the organization (Week 2)
Discuss the method(s) of reimbursement that you believe will work best for the health care facility that you have proposed to be developed, and explain why you chose that method.
Discuss the pros and cons of the reimbursement method(s) you chose.
Discuss the impact that the method(s) may have on the financial operations of the facility that you chose.
Medical technology (Week 3)
Discuss the financial and health benefits that can be realized by implementing an electronic health record (EHR).
Discuss the estimated cost of implementing an EHR and the estimated cost of managing an EHR over the long run.
Discuss current security concerns surrounding health information technology (HIT) and the EHR.
Ethical and legal considerations (Week 4)
Discuss an accrediting body that will provide accreditation to the facility you are proposing.
Discuss the ethical or legal requirements and responsibilities that a health care organization has in ensuring that its facility is licensed, certified, and accredited. When discussing licensure requirements, ensure that you research requirements based on the state in which you reside.
Quality measures (Week 5) (This will be a new section as part of your project)
Research and describe at least 3 measures that you plan to use in your facility that are currently used to gauge quality in health care.
Set realistic benchmarks for each proposed measurement, and explain the rationale behind the benchmarks that you set.
Note: You should include a minimum of 3 references with the new content for Week 5.

Determine a key process in the delivery of health care services that would be more efficient and effective through the application of a specific model of HIT.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE FUNCTIONALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF THE COMPLAINT-PUSH MODEL AND DATA-PULL MODEL WITHIN THE PROCESS OF HEALTH CARE SERVICE DELIVERY.

Discussion 1- Compare and contrast the functionality and efficiency of the complaint-push model and data-pull model within the process of health care service delivery. Recommend a strategy improving the effectiveness of each method for delivering patient care. Determine a significant aspect of a complex health care system that represents barriers to a more rapid diffusion of HIT. Next, suggest how these barriers can be removed or minimized. Support your rationale.

Discussion 2- Determine a key process in the delivery of health care services that would be more efficient and effective through the application of a specific model of HIT. Support your response. Analyze the barriers to the implementation of HIMS in a complex adaptive system (CAS). Propose a strategy to help reduce the level of resistance from the clinical staff during a transition from CAS to HIMS innovations. Provide a rationale to support your response.

health care organizations / providers that have recently had a significant information technology failure

USING THE INTERNET OR STRAYER UNIVERSITY DATABASES, RESEARCH HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS / PROVIDERS THAT HAVE RECENTLY HAD A SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FAILURE AND DETERMINE THE KEY FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE FAILURE

Information Governance

Using the Internet or Strayer University databases, research health care organizations / providers that have recently had a significant information technology failure, and complete this assignment.

Write a seven to eight (7-8) page paper in which you: 1.Determine the key factors contributing to the failure in question. Next, analyze how the failure impacted both the organization’s operations and patient information protection and privacy. 2.Analyze the leadership team’s reaction to the failure, and indicate whether the leadership took sufficient measures to deal with various stakeholder groups impacted by the failure. Provide support for the rationale. 3.Take a position on whether the health care provider that you identified should either develop a custom application or select a proprietary system. Provide support for the rationale. 4.Recommend at least three (3) best practices that any organization could adopt in order to avoid such a failure in the future. Provide support for the recommendation. 5.Suggest how health care leaders can use project metrics and portfolio management to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness. Provide specific examples to support the response. 6.Analyze a government intervention into health care businesses, meant to ensure that health care and patient information is secure and thus to minimize information breaches and technology failures. Argue for or against such intervention. Support the position. 7.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Compare and contrast the functionality and efficiency of the complaint-push model and data-pull model within the process of health care service delivery

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE FUNCTIONALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF THE COMPLAINT-PUSH MODEL AND DATA-PULL MODEL WITHIN THE PROCESS OF HEALTH CARE SERVICE DELIVERY.

Innovationin HIMS” Please respond to the following: •Compare and contrast the functionality and efficiency of the complaint-push model and data-pull model within the process of health care service delivery. Recommend a strategy improving the effectiveness of each method for delivering patient care. •Determine a significant aspect of a complex health care system that represents barriers to a more rapid diffusion of HIT. Next, suggest how these barriers can be removed or minimized. Support your rationale. “HIT Management and Implementation” •Determine a key process in the delivery of health care services that would be more efficient and effective through the application of a specific model of HIT. Support your response. •Analyze the barriers to the implementation of HIMS in a complex adaptive system (CAS). Propose a strategy to help reduce the level of resistance from the clinical staff during a transition from CAS to HIMS innovations. Provide a rationale to support your response.

examine the influence of individual ethics on decision making within the health care industry.

EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL ETHICS ON DECISION MAKING WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY.

Complete the Ethical Self-Assessment located at http://www.ache.org/newclub/career/ethself.cfm.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the influence of individual ethics on decision making within the health care industry.

Include the following in your paper:

Identify the four major ethical principles.Discuss what you learned about your own ethical decision- making process from the self-assessments.Examine the effect of professional ACHE standards on your ethical decision- making process.Explain how your individual ethics influence your decision- making process.Examine the influence of individual ethics on professional decisions.Analyze the relationship of these principles to current health care issues.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources (HR) in health care organizations

ANALYZE THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS.

Imagine that you have applied for the position of Manager of Human Resources at an acute care hospital in your community. The hospital is planning to expand its services to meet the needs of a growing community. As part of the application screening process, you have been asked to write a document that outlines the steps you would take, as the manager of HR, to improve the effectiveness of HRM in this organization.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1.Analyze two (2) current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact your hiring decision as HR manager. Provide support for your analysis. 2.Suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization. Justify your response. 3.Recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question. Provide support for your recommendation. 4.Recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization’s managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal. 5.Determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community. Provide support for your rationale. 6.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. •Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

•Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources (HR) in health care organizations. •Evaluate the effects of major employment laws on HR functions in health care organizations. •Evaluate the competencies necessary for effective health care human resources management. •Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management. •Write clearly and concisely