Week 1 Discussion 1
Research patient or health care organization privacy and security breach incidents.Select one health data breach incident that occurred within the last 3 years.
In your initial post,
- Summarize the selected health data security breach incident, and provide a link to your selected incident.
- Take on the role as leader of the health care organization featured in the news report. Develop short- and long-term strategies in health information technology (HIT) that can prevent future incidents.
- Include capital costs (e.g., purchase of new software, hiring HIT consultant, training, marketing, etc.) that are associated with implementing your strategies.
Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words. Support your strategies with at least two credible sources published within the last 5 years. Relevant professional experience may also be shared. All referenced materials must include citations and references in APA Style 7th edition format.
Discussion 2
For this discussion, you will take on the role of a HIT consultant. Address the following in your initial discussion post:
- Identify a critical issue in your client’s organization, which can be a health care organization of your choice.
- Propose one innovative technology to solve the identified issue for your client. This innovative technology can be telehealth, m-health, artificial intelligence, or another technology.
- Explain how your proposed solution could support one of the following:
- Reduce health care cost
- Improve quality of care
- Deliver high-value health care
- Decrease waste, streamline operations
- Address other organizational concerns
Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words. Support your strategies with at least two credible sources published within the last 5 years. All referenced materials must include citations and references in APA Style 7th edition format.
Week 2
Health care organizations are dynamic and complex institutions that involve continuous human interactions. Successful leaders demonstrate their ability to work well with others, understand the organizational issues, and improve the operational efficiency.read the corresponding leadership and management case scenario, and answer the questions. Your initial post should be at least 250 words. Support your response with at least two scholarly sources published within the last 5 years.
Case Scenario 3
State inspections of long-term care organizations happen at a minimum of once per year. Upon the inspection process, a multitude of violations can be incurred by the long-term care organization. With that said, the F-Tag system represents a very specific and individualized code of federal regulations. As an example, F880 represents infection control and F550 represents quality of life issues. Robert is the new appointed long-term care/skilled care administrator for a 180-bed facility. As the newly appointed administrator, Robert is tasked with improving upon the previous year’s state inspection outcomes and has decided to focus most of his attention upon the facilities deficient F550 quality of life scores. Robert decides to have a meeting with his management team and the resident council representative as he knows that quality of life aspects encompass a multitude of factors such as diet, patient activities, staff interactions, and a full understanding of patient expectations.
Where should Robert begin the processes internally and externally? Complete the following:
- Describe why Robert should establish a collaborative process, who he should establish the process with, and what collaborative processes should be implemented internally to improve the organizational policies.
- Describe why Robert should establish collaborative processes externally, who he should establish these processes with externally, and what collaborative processes he could implement externally to improve the organizational policies.
Week 3
The multicultural makeup of the U.S. population has challenged the health care professionals who interact with patients at a very personal level. A diverse health care workforce would assist in expanding health care accessibility for the underserved population in the United States, which can, in turn, reduce health care disparities and improve health outcomes. read your assigned diversity and inclusion case scenario, and respond to the directives. Support your response with a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published in the last 5 years. All sources must be cited using proper APA Style our initial post should be at least 250 words.
Case Scenario 3
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s projections, more than half of the children born in the United States will belong to a minority race or ethnic group by the year of 2020. Diversity is present in the professional workforce and the patient population. These changing demographics highlight the importance of cultural diversity in a health care profession in which the patient-provider relationship is key to determining the quality of care. It is imperative that health care professionals be diverse, well educated, and culturally sensitive to the patients that they serve. Strategic human resources (HR) management is a process of formulating and implementing HR strategies that are aligned with the organization’s mission, vision, goals, and business strategy.
Take on the role of the HR director in a community hospital in a metro area.
In your initial post,
- Propose at least three HR practices or strategies with an emphasis on patient-provider relationship to help your organization achieve competitive advantage in diversity and inclusion.
- Support your response with a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published in the last 5 years. All sources must be cited using proper APA Style.
Week 4
Researchers have documented systematic variation in Medicare spending and health services utilization across various geographic regions for decades. The findings also evidence that high Medicare spending is unrelated to health outcomes. Policymakers have changed Medicare payment systems to promote high-value care. As key stakeholders in the health care delivery system, health care organizations and providers play an important role in health care spending.
You are taking on the role of a new CEO of a hospital that was identified as having high health care cost and utilization. In the first meeting with the board, you are tasked to reduce health care spending and utilization in your hospital. Your board provides a list of factors influencing health care spending and service uses. Your board asks you to prioritize the list and select one of the most critical determinants to implement a strategic plan.
Some categories of the factors influencing health care spending and service uses are the following:
- The operating cost regarding the supplies needed to care for patients.
- Diversity within patient populations, patients’ current state of health, access to care, insurance coverage, and patients’ preferences for their care.
- Physicians’ decisions on what care to give and the availability of reliable medical evidence to guide those decisions.
In the next meeting, you are required to present your strategic plan to your board. Be sure to include the appraised factors in the list that you deemed the most important. Justify your rationales for your selections.
In your initial post,
- Propose your solutions to achieve a reduction in health care spending and utilization while maintaining quality of care.
- Support your response with a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published in the last 5 years. Be sure to cite your references using proper APA Style
Discussion 2
To understand the latest trends in quality improvement (QI), it is necessary to review articles related to health care quality from professional, medical, or health care journals. Research a health care quality improvement project in the library published in the last 5 years.
In your initial post,
- Summarize your selected article.
- Explain how you can apply the lessons learned from that quality improvement project in your selected article to solve the identified issue(s) in your current job or a health care setting.
- Examples of the lessons learned could be the entire QI project, QI tools, QI strategies, QI methodologies, QI team composite, which you can use to streamline workflow, redesign jobs, and more.
- Hypothesize the desired outcomes.
- Support your response with a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published in the last 5 years. Be sure to cite your resources using proper APA Style
Week 5
Choose two contemporary trends in the following area(s):
- Acquisitions and mergers,
- health care finance,
- health care law and ethics,
- health policy and regulation,
- hospital administration,
- long-term care,
- opioid epidemics,
- payors, or stakeholders,
- population health,
- practice management,
- quality management, or
- other trend approved by your instructor.
In your initial post,
- Describe your two selected contemporary health care trends in the past 6 months to 1 year in detail.
- Summarize the importance of your selected trends and possible impacts on a health care organization of your choice.
- Assess the advantages and disadvantages of a health care organization that rides on these trends.
- Support your response with a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published in the last 5 years. Be sure to cite your references using proper APA Style
Week 6
Use the https://www.ache.org/-/media/ache/career-resource-center/cat-competencies-assessment-tool.pdf to complete a self-assessment. In your initial post, reflect on your assessment results in the following ways:
- Identify at least two strengths and two weaknesses.
- Compose a 1-year professional development plan to address the identified weaknesses from your self-assessment outcomes
- Support your response with a minimum of two creditable sources that were published in the last 5 years.