Strayer Future Economic Issues Impacting the Health Care Sector

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Use the Internet or Strayer online databases to research five of what you believe to be the most important and pressing economic issues that confront the United States health care industry today and will continue to do so into the next decade.

INSTRUCTIONS

Provide a review of these issues in a 10–12-page paper in which you:

  1. Provide a detailed description of the issues that you have researched.
  2. Analyze the most significant economic effects of the researched issues on the health care industry. Provide at least two examples of these issues to support your response.
  3. Suggest specific strategies that relevant entities/stakeholders may use to address the selected issues from an economic perspective. Justify your response.
  4. Determine the strategic manner in which the United States can apply best economic best practices from other countries in addressing these issues.
  5. Assess the likelihood of government and or private sector effectively addressing the issues.
  6. Use at least ten current references. Five of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Mental Deterioration Case

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Case Study: Mr. M.

It is necessary for an RN-BSN-prepared nurse to demonstrate an enhanced understanding of the pathophysiological processes of disease, the clinical manifestations and treatment protocols, and how they affect clients across the life span.

Evaluate the Health History and Medical Information for Mr. M., presented below.

Based on this information, formulate a conclusion based on your evaluation, and complete the Critical Thinking Essay assignment, as instructed below.

Health History and Medical Information

Health History

Mr. M., a 70-year-old male, has been living at the assisted living facility where you work. He has no know allergies. He is a nonsmoker and does not use alcohol. Limited physical activity related to difficulty ambulating and unsteady gait. Medical history includes hypertension controlled with ACE inhibitors, hypercholesterolemia, status post appendectomy, and tibial fracture status postsurgical repair with no obvious signs of complications. Current medications include Lisinopril 20mg daily, Lipitor 40mg daily, Ambien 10mg PRN, Xanax 0.5 mg PRN, and ibuprofen 400mg PRN.

Purdue Automation of Health Information & Human Anatomy & Physiology

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INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to all posts; response to classmates should be thoughtful and advance the discussion, response should make and/or frequent informed references to unit material or scientific literature, follow APA style if resources are used, 75 word minimum in response per post

HI150 Automation of Health Information

CLASSMATE POST #1

A data dictionary for healthcare is used to standardize definitions and ensure the information collected is consistent. The data elements include the field name which is the assigned number for each patient who is provided a service; the field definition which has the time the patient was discharged; the field length refers to the account number for the patient which is 10 digits and, the element value that identifies the type of insurance the patient uses (Kavanaugh, Sayles, 2018).

Examples of text data elements would be the name of the patient, clinical staff providing services, medications and SOAP notes completed by the physician. Some of the information that would have a date would be the age of the patient, the patient identification number, a phone number, and the dosage of medication(s) to name a few. The data element I would recommend would be allergies or drug sensitivities that a patient has. This information would be helpful throughout the patient’s care. The data element I recommend can have three fields, drugs, foods or materials, like latex, which is often used in the care of patients.

Healthcare Emergency Management

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Develop a hospital emergency management committee. How is it structured?

What is their purpose and responsibilities?

Who should be on your EMC and why?

Remember;

every week there will be 1-2 questions that must be answered by each student. The answers should be at least 3 substantive paragraphs, well developed, referenced, and properly formatted. “Substantive” means that the writer has added to the dialogue with referenced facts or pertinent personal experience leading to a reasoned argument that advances the scholarly discussion. Learning to efficiently locate and properly reference the literature is a key component of any master’s level course. Discussion question answers must include at least one reference that is not from the assigned reading.

Long Term Health Care Brochure

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Instructions

Long-term care decisions are often complex and highly emotional. Selecting the right environment for yourself or a loved one can be negatively impacted by a lack of understanding of available options.

Noting the seemingly life-long academic pursuits of members and a rapidly approaching benefits open season (LTC insurance), the human resources director of the UMGC Premier Student Association (UPSA) has decided to develop an educational brochure (http://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/g2028.pdf ) addressing LTC choices for UPSA members. She has tasked you with developing the explanatory text for the brochure. The overview should be concise and informative. It should address the full range of LTC services, including alternative service venues, palliative care, and hospice. While an overview, the document should be sufficiently detailed to assist in guiding LTC decisions. That is home in on the most important information needed for the reader to make an educated decision.

Provide the recommended text in Word Publisher or Word. Images or pictures are not required. Provide a list of references used to create the brochure in a separate word document using APA formatting.

Medical Office Management

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Imagine walking into a physician’s office where no one is working the reception area. You walk into the waiting room, and there are no seats to wait in, and you have no idea what’s going on—phones are ringing and people are running around everywhere. Everything is complete chaos! This doesn’t sound like a business anyone would want to work for or visit as a patient or customer, right?

For a healthcare office to run smoothly, many different parts must work together to meet a common goal. For all the interrelated parts to work together smoothly, policies and procedures need to be in place that not only tell employees their roles, but also tell the entire staff how the business works as a whole.

Good office managers are organized leaders who know how to rally a team. This includes eliciting feedback and allowing staff to be part of decision-making processes, delegating tasks, and effectively planning meetings that accomplish goals.

Medical office managers are also often responsible for marketing the services provided by the physician office or other facility. Today, marketing isn’t just about sending postcards with information about the office. With technology playing an increasingly important role in our lives, marketing the business also involves knowledge of websites, social media, and online newsletters and announcements.

Logic Model Template

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In order to develop an organized process that supports program development to resolve a health care administration issue or barrier, it is important to identify the resources, stakeholders, and outcomes. Use the “Logic Model Template” and create detailed inputs, outputs, and outcomes for your identified health care administration issue or barrier. Make sure to consider any legislation or regulation that governs your field or your programmatic development. You will use your logic model to develop your research paper.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Lyme Disease in the United States Research

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Identify a zoonotic or vector-borne disease prevalent in a specific region of a developed or developing country. Complete a two-part informative assignment that includes both an illustrated and written component discussing the incidence and response to the disease.

Part I

Illustrate the following for the identified zoonotic or vector-borne disease:

  1. Create a diagram or flowchart: Describe the chain of infection (agent, host, and environment). Include the reservoir, routes of exposure, disease transmission. Illustrate the symptoms and identify susceptible populations.
  2. Identify one or more surveillance reports using the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) or National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) resources and discuss the methods used in data collection.Use a table or graph to present data from the report. Summarize the information of the report, including the burden of the disease and the morbidity and mortality rates in the region.

Part II

In a 500-750 word paper, evaluate the incidence and response to the identified zoonotic or vector-borne disease.

  1. Describe public health interventions used to treat or prevent the disease.
  2. Using One Health as at least one reference, discuss predictions for the future spread of the disease and how it will impact human, animal, and ecosystem health in this region.
  3. Propose strategies for containment and prevention. Discuss the necessary agencies and stakeholders important to addressing the issue.

Cybersecurity Issues in Healthcare

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Assignment Content

  1. Research and select an emerging health care issue. This can include but is not limited to the following:

    • Opioid crisis
    • Escalating drug prices
    • Cybersecurity issues
    • Behavioral health care
    • Aging population
    • Health care employee burnout
    • Health care information transparency

    Using the information you’ve learned in the course, discuss how you would design a policy for the health care issue you selected. Remember to take into consideration the various aspects of the policy development cycle and level of implementation (federal, state, or local).
    Respond using 525 to 700 words to the following prompts:

    • What is the issue, what is the problem associated with the issue that you want to work toward solving, and who are the main stakeholders who can influence the success of the policy?
    • Why is this issue important and what is the target population?
    • How would you suggest implementing the policy and at what level (federal or state government)?
    • How would you propose the policy be evaluated and when would the evaluation occur?
    • What possible courses of action (revisions) would likely be needed if the evaluation of the policy suggests that the proposed policy is not fulfilling its intended purpose?

Healthcare Data Collection & Statistical Tools

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prevention and has a number of benefits in health care. Several of the benefits include patient focus, increased quality awareness, decisions based on data, implementing predictable health care processes, reduced costs, fewer errors resulting in increased patient safety, and improved processes that result in improved health care outcomes and better quality care. However, every process varies. In SPC terminology as it relates to a control chart, a common cause variation does not suggest that a process functions at a desirable or undesirable level, but whether the nature of the variation is stable or predictable within certain limits. A special cause variation is a negative finding, and any changes made in a health care organization should not be made until it identifies and eliminates special causes. A control chart will tell a health care organization if a variation is a common or special cause and how to approach an improvement process. If it is a special cause the health care organization should investigate it and eliminate the variation, not change the process. If there is a common cause variation, the implementation of a process change is what will address the variation. Control charts will reveal whether the change was effective (Joshi et.al, 2014).

In this Discussion, you will look at these statistical tools for quality improvement and describe the differences between common cause variation and specia