EVIDENCE BASE IN DESIGNWhen politics and medical science intersect, there can be much debate. Sometimes anecdotes or hearsay are misused as evidence to support a particular point. Despite these and other challenges, however, evidence-based approaches are increasingly used to inform health policy decision-making regarding causes of disease, intervention strategies, and issues impacting society. One example […]

As a risk manager, you will review a variety of risk types across your organization. The ability to articulate these different risk domains and to mitigate risks within each is a key skill.       As you learned in Week 1, enterprise risk management (ERM) is part of an organization’s strategic plan and it […]

Explain the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws. What is the current benchmark for the organization and the numeric score for the underperformance? How is the benchmark underperformance potentially affecting the provision of […]

Prior to the attack of 9/11 and the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, responders took for granted that asking for and receiving help was a simple process. When the most severe disasters occurred, it quickly became apparent that no one was prepared, and that nothing related to getting help was simple.       Is your […]

Budgeting is the key to financial success in health care. Explain revenue sources outside of fees for services that a health care organization may use to increase cash flow. Do any of the revenue sources include investments? Include the four primary purposes for maintaining cash and investments.

You are currently working as an administrative assistant in the social services division of your health care organization and have been asked to prepare a presentation for an upcoming staff meeting. The staff meeting will focus on emerging health care issues that will impact your community in the future. Your presentation should focus on the […]

You are the Chief Information Officer of a local community hospital. The hospital has an Electronic Health Record system and a number of departmental systems, such as a Laboratory Information System. The hospital’s goals and objectives include increasing the availability of its services in patient’s homes, making results of laboratory tests and other studies available […]

You are the information security officer for a fictitious hospital or healthcare facility. Create a presentation for your facility’s board of trustees explaining the components of a healthcare information security program and why having such a program is important to the facility.   Your presentation should include the following slides: Introduction Components of a healthcare […]

In order for us to achieve the most value from big data, we will need to have interoperable health information systems. This will require standardization in our health information systems. The highest level of interoperability is semantic operability. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) defines semantic operability as technology that   “provides interoperability […]

MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY AND FINANCING The United States is one of the remaining countries in the developed world that does not have a single-payer health care insurance system in place. With the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act being uncertain, we hear continuing discussion as to whether the United States could (and/or should) […]