PART A
Prepare a 6–8 slide (including a title slide and references slide) PowerPoint presentation that will be presented to a high school graduating class during a career day session. You will present about a digital health trend and how it impacts healthcare rules and regulations.
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Introduction
A healthcare ecosystem is a complicated and unpredictable network made up of people, organizations, and resources that work together to provide care and support for patients. This ecosystem includes clinics, hospitals, doctors' offices, healthcare workers, insurance companies, medical suppliers, technology, and, most importantly, the patients themselves. In the complex ecosystem, healthcare leaders must be brave when making decisions, encourage different groups to work together, pay attention to the community's needs, build a shared vision, and be flexible enough to change plans when things get uncertain.
Overview
The COVID-19 pandemic forever changed the landscape of the healthcare ecosystem, creating challenges with lasting impacts to patient rights, modes of care, fraud and abuse, ethical principles, legislation, and policies and procedures. The rapid changes caused by the pandemic accelerated the adoption of new technology. In the workforce, we will need to keep up with constant changes and challenges in the healthcare ecosystem.
To keep up with the challenges that lie ahead, it is important to keep close tabs ondigital health trends like the following:
- Artificial intelligence (AI).
- Big data and analytics.
- Blockchain.
- Cybersecurity.
- Interoperability.
- Internet of things (IoT).
- Medical wearables.
- Remote patient monitoring (RPM).
- Telemedicine.
- Virtual reality (VR).
As a healthcare leader, you can discover future innovation opportunities to proactively put in place the necessary tools and technology to address the following components of healthcare rules and regulation:
- Patient rights.
- Modes of care.
- Fraud and abuse.
- Ethical principles.
- Legislation.
- Policies and procedures.
Preparation
Before you complete the assessment, do the following:
- Review your definitions and readings.
- Recall that the healthcare ecosystem is a network of people, organizations, and resources that work together to provide care and support for patients.
- Review the healthcare regulatory bodies.
- Revisit the formal and informal components of healthcare regulation.
Instructions
For this assessment, prepare a 6–8 slide (including a title slide and references slide) PowerPoint presentation that will be presented to a high school graduating class during a career day session. You will present about one of the digital health trends above and how it impacts healthcare rules and regulations.
Create a PowerPoint slide presentation (including speaker notes) with either an embedded audio only or record an audio/video presentation (including speaker notes). Your recording should be 3–5 minutes long.
Use the Assessment 1 Template [PPTX]. As you are doing your planning for your presentation to the high school students, include the following key elements: clear and concise language, engaging visuals, relatable stories, interactive elements like questions or polls at the end, and focus on keeping the presentation dynamic and relevant to their interests in healthcare. Speak slowly and clearly, while using visuals that support your key points to maintain their attention. Use the required speaker notes for additional speaking content and avoid text heavy slides.
Your slide deck should include the following:
- Title slide.
- Define the healthcare ecosystem (2–3 sentences, 1 slide).
- Describe the four main ethical principles and provide an example for each (2 slides).
- Identify a digital health trend and how it impacts the healthcare ecosystem (i.e., impact on care delivery specifically relating to one of the components of the healthcare ecosystem) (1 slide).
- Using the same digital health trend from the previous slide, describe how it will impact formal or informal components of healthcare regulations (1 slide).
- Explain the role of the healthcare leader and why it is important to the healthcare ecosystem (1 slide).
- Reference slide.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should meet the following requirements:
- Written communication: Your slides need to include bullet points highlighting the key concepts. Avoid using block paragraphs or pictures only. Make sure your content is clear, persuasive, well organized, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Title slide: Develop a descriptive title for your presentation of 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet be professional.
- Length: 4–6 content slides, with a title slide and reference slide, with a recording of 3–5 minutes. Slides should be professional and appropriately balance text and visuals. Avoid making your slides too text heavy. Instead make use of speaker notes to include additional content.
- APA Formatting: Include citations and references in APA style.
Review The Healthcare Ecosystem Scoring Guide so that you understand how your faculty member is going to evaluate your work.
Submit your assessment as a PowerPoint presentation. Review the resource, Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX] for PowerPoint tips.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Explain healthcare laws and regulations from a local, state, and federal level.
- Define the healthcare ecosystem.
- Identify a digital health trend and how it impacts the challenges that healthcare regulatory bodies face in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Describe how it will impact formal or informal components of healthcare regulations.
- Explain the role of the healthcare leader and why it is important to the healthcare ecosystem.
- Competency 3: Explain how governing body and regulatory agency standards exercise oversight authority within a healthcare organizational setting.
- Describe the four main ethical principles and provide an example for each.
- Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with the expectations for healthcare professionals in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Address all the assessment components with writing that is clear, well-organized, and demonstrates proper use of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure, with minimal errors.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
- Write a 3–5-page paper describing a privacy breach.Collapse All
Introduction
Healthcare leaders must make sure that personal, confidential, and sensitive patient information stays safe to prevent unauthorized access, misuse, and breaches. Even with safety measures in place, breaches can still happen—either on purpose or by accident. These breaches can affect patient safety, cause financial losses, and lead to legal problems for individuals or organizations. Protecting data privacy helps maintain patient trust and confidentiality.Billing is a key part of managing money in a healthcare organization, known as revenue cycle management (RCM). This process begins when a patient makes an appointment and ends when the provider gets paid. For medical billing to work well, it is very important to have accurate and complete documentation during the patient visit. This involves changing medical procedures and diagnoses into codes, preparing and submitting claims, and resolving issues or denials to ensure that payments are received on time.Overview
Read the following privacy breach scenarios and choose one for your assessment.- Doctor’s Office: In a doctor’s office, an employee mistakenly sends an email containing a patient’s test results to the wrong email address. The email recipient, who is not authorized to see this information, now has access to the patient’s private health details.
- Billing Department: In the billing department of a healthcare facility, an employee is careless and leaves a stack of bills with patient names and treatment details on their desk overnight. A cleaning staff member, who is not authorized to see this information, finds and reads through the documents.
- Insurance Company: A cyber attack targets an insurance company’s database, exploiting a system vulnerability. Hackers gain access to thousands of patient records, including names, addresses, and medical histories, leading to a major data breach.
- Pharmacy: At a local pharmacy, a pharmacist discusses a patient’s medication loudly over the phone in a public area. Other customers in the store overhear the conversation and learn about the patient’s private medical information.
Preparation
Before you complete the assessment, do the following:- Review your definitions and readings from this assessment.
- Recall that HIPAA rules require that protected health information (PHI) be kept confidential through access controls, encryption, and regular staff training.
- Review the regulations related to privacy breaches.
- Revisit the role of the Internet in healthcare along with the formal and informal components in healthcare regulations.
Instructions
For this assessment, write a 3–5 page paper (using the Assessment 2 Template [DOCX]) describing the privacy breach you chose.Your brief will include the following:Background
- Describe your chosen privacy breach.
- Describe the unauthorized disclosure or access of protected patient information.
Privacy Breach Consequences
- Identify the possible outcomes from your chosen privacy breach and the laws that can potentially be violated.
Evidence-Based Recommendations
- Explain how the breach could be avoided in the future, using best practices you learned about in the readings.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should meet the following requirements:- Written communication: Use the Assessment 2 Template [DOCX]. Your workplace brief must be clear, concise, well-organized, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- Title page: Develop a descriptive title of 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet be professional.
- APA Formatting: Include citations and references in APA style.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:- Competency 1: Explain healthcare laws and regulations from a local, state, and federal level.
- Describe a privacy breach.
- Identify the possible outcomes from a privacy breach and the laws that can potentially be violated.
- Competency 3: Explain how governing body and regulatory agency standards exercise oversight authority within a healthcare organizational setting.
- Describe the unauthorized disclosure or access of protected patient information.
- Explain how the breach could be avoided in the future.
- Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with the expectations for healthcare professionals in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Address all the assessment components with writing that is clear, well-organized, and demonstrates proper use of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure, with minimal errors.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
- Write a 1–2-page reflection on what you observed in the Accreditation Visit media.Collapse All
Introduction
Accreditation is a process that reviews how an organization operates. It checks to make sure the organization is doing business according to national standards.Benefits of Accreditation
- A strong commitment to safety and providing quality care for patients.
- Improved safety and efforts to enhance quality.
- Better chances for hiring and keeping skilled employees.
- Certification for Medicare and Medicaid programs.
- A competitive edge over others in the field.
- A better reputation in the public eye.
- Meeting licensure requirements.
- Recognition from insurance companies and other organizations.
- Increased trust and confidence from the community.
Regulatory Bodies
Regulatory bodies are important in healthcare. Because there are so many laws, rules, and organizations that monitor the healthcare industry, it can be hard to understand them all. Regulatory bodies oversee healthcare organizations and providers to make sure they follow safety standards. These bodies check that hospitals, clinics, and doctors are keeping patients safe and delivering quality care. By monitoring these practices, they help protect everyone’s health and well-being.View the Accreditation Visit media. In the media, you will watch as the healthcare staff prepares for The Joint Commission onsite accreditation visit. After you view the scenario, you will answer four multiple-choice questions to check your understanding of the material, and then you will write a reflection.Preparation
Before you complete the assessment, do the following:- Review your definitions and readings from this assessment.
- Recall the importance of accreditation.
- Review the accrediting organizations and what roles they play in the healthcare ecosystem.
Instructions
After viewing the interaction in the Accreditation Visit media and answering the knowledge check quiz, you will write a 1–2-page reflection on what you observed. Your reflection should include the following:- Identify 1–2 areas of non-compliance that would put the hospital’s accreditation at risk.
- Identify the importance of a self-assessment in accreditation.
- Describe the preparation and behaviors needed for a successful accreditation visit, and how you would apply them to the discrepancies found in the scenario.
- Provide feedback on how you would handle the accreditation visit if you worked at the hospital.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should meet the following requirements:- Written communication: Use the Assessment 3 Template [DOCX]. Your reflection must be clear, concise, well-organized, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Length: 1–2 typed, single-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- Title page: Develop a descriptive title of 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet be professional.
- APA Formatting: Include citations and references in APA style.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:- Competency 2: Describe the concepts of compliance, continuous readiness, and accreditation in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Identify 1-2 areas of non-compliance that would put the hospital’s accreditation at risk.
- Identify the importance of a self-assessment in accreditation.
- Describe the preparation and behaviors needed for a successful accreditation visit, and how you would apply them to the discrepancies found in the scenario.
- Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with the expectations for healthcare professionals in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Address all the assessment components with writing that is clear, well-organized, and demonstrates proper use of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure, with minimal errors.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.