For this Discussion Board, please complete the following: As a new healthcare leader you have been tasked with developing policy for local lawmakers, politicians, and business owners with regard to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for COVID-19. For this discussion, you will Explore the Covid Data Tracker and the Covid-19 Policy … Read more
The balanced scorecard (BSC), which was first introduced by Kaplan and Norton in 1992 has been gradually adopted by health care organizations (HCOs) as a tool to drive performance (Kaplan & Norton, 1992). This balanced approach takes into account the multiple variables that determine an HCO’s success without placing a greater emphasis on any … Read more
Students will choose a public health topic to use as their Health Communication project throughout the course. Carefully select a topic that can be used to create a health communication described in the final milestone. Include the following: Topic Why it was chosen Provide supporting evidence (data, source, etc)
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. Reliable data are needed for administrators to make the best decisions to improve … Read more
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria: Competency 2: Evaluate significant federal and state legislation that affects the scope of, access to, availability of, and reimbursement for health care services. Analyze the effects of specific legislation on health care facilities, health plans, communities, and … Read more
Please describe the history of public health. In your description, please be sure to identify at least 3 major discoveries and 3 persons who advanced the field. Also, be sure to explain the evolution of public health’s focus from acute to chronic diseases.
For this assignment, you will be provided with a spreadsheet containing projected numbers for two different patient services programs. You will need to download the Program Projections [XLSX] spreadsheet and use it to conduct your analysis. Instructions You are a member of the financial services department at Benson Regional Medical Center. The chief financial officer … Read more
Health care organizations (HCOs) often struggle with performance improvement and with effectively communicating performance improvement results to their internal and external stakeholders. It is equally important to communicate your successes externally for marketing and internally to continue to build on your successes. The messaging to these two groups, however, is very different. For this … Read more
The goal of this assignment is get a broad view of the technology landscape and what types of technologies are out there. Using mind-mapping software of your choice, create a mind map of the different healthcare information technologies and parse it out into different categories. Review the Mind Map document for an example of this … Read more
A common misconception is that a nurse has the same role and uses technology in the same way in every healthcare institution. But the reality is that a nurse in a hospital does not have the same role or use technology in the same way as a nurse at a healthcare insurance organization or a … Read more