What are the top three things you learned in this class and why? Make sure to address both healthcare quality and informatics in your response.   How can you apply these learnings? How is what you learned in this class relevant to your current and/or future work?   Submit as a Word document. Refer to […]

Provide a response of about 350-500 words that reflects on what we have covered in this class and your experience. Address the following key areas:   What are the top three things you learned in this class and why? Make sure to address both healthcare quality and informatics in your response.   How can you […]

Analytics Use Case This assignment provides practical experience with thinking through how analytics could be applied in a specific situation. A use case is simply a structured scenario. Below are two examples of use cases. While the scenarios are different, the websites provide examples of what a use case is and how used.   Use […]

Applying a Performance Improvement Methodology In this assignment, you will be stepping through a full cycle of performance improvement. Your work on this research paper will provide you an opportunity to take a deep dive into a performance improvement methodology and apply it to an authentic value-based care performance problem.   For this research paper, […]

Statistical Process Control (SPC) Activity   Coory, M., Duckett, S., & Sketcher-Baker, K. (2008, 2007). Using control charts to monitor quality of hospital care with administrative data. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 20(1), 31-39. doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzm060   Perla, R. J., Provost, L. P., & Murray, S. K. (2011). The run chart: A simple analytical […]

Value Stream Map Activity There are three parts to this assignment that you will submit in one Word document.   Select a simple healthcare process with which you are familiar, identify the key steps to the process, and draft a process map. You can use any tool you would like for this (e.g. Word, PPT, […]

Benchmark – Integrating Health Care and Public Health Systems When conidering public health and health care systems and the services they provide, it is important to think about how these systems and services are integrated. Systems thinking tools are helpful to consider the various links, feedback loops, and decision points within a system to identify […]

Evaluating a Global Health Issue The Global Burden of Disease study is conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and published in the Lancet journal. It captures and analyzes data on many major causes of mortality and morbidity from almost every country. The study allows researchers and practices to compare countries and also […]

DQ1 Defining international or global health is important and some consider global health synonymous with public health. Select one of the following two statements:   1. Global health is public health requiring similar training and research methods.   2. Global health is a separate discipline requiring specific training and research methods.   Identify at least […]

DQ1 The textbook states, that often orphanages “ignore the power and presence of local communities and extended families in caring for orphans. Not only that, but many times exacerbate the challenges faced by orphans because they contribute to the cycle of ‘attachment and abandonment,’ owning to the short-term nature of these volunteer efforts” (p. 191). […]