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Tracy is the risk manager at ABC Medical Center, a 300-bed urban teaching facility. One morning, she receives a call from Jerry, the medical director of surgery, asking her to come immediately to one of the operating rooms where a patient had been scheduled for an amputation of the right foot. As Tracy approaches the OR, she reviews the preoperative care required for all patients having surgery. The identification of the patient, the verific ...

Other / Other 22 Jun 2016

The health care industry has evolved over the last decade. The health care market has been impacted by changes in technology as well as the financial and economic evolution of the industry. Imagine you have been given the opportunity to participate in a health care seminar as a guest speaker. You have been asked to discuss the evolution of the healthcare industry from a technology, finance, and economic perspective. Write an 1100 word paper ...

Other / Other 09 Jun 2016

What role will you, as an individual health care consumer and health professional, play in the future development and revision of health care policy? 200 words How will society, through health care policy, deal with future issues such as cloning, genome mapping, and end-of-life issues? 200 words What are the most urgent health care policy issues that must be addressed as society deals with issues challenging health care delivery, such as ba ...

Other / Other 31 May 2016

Create a 12- to 15-slide presentation on the Medicaid Expansion. This presentation will require a deeper examination of this one topic as it is an emerging issue/trend in today's industry. As part of this presentation, you're required to: • Identify and describe the topic of consideration. • Identify and discuss the emerging issues and trends surrounding the reasons for why the topic was included in the Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ...

Other / Other 30 May 2016

What is the difference between presidential, congressional, and state roles in health care public policy debate, establishment, and implementation? 200 words How might special interest groups contribute to the rising costs of health care? 200 words What are the current health care policy issues the state of Virginia? Is the state of Virginia doing anything to enhance any health care issues, and is the state doing enough? 250 ...

Other / Other 24 May 2016

Legislators are busy individuals and do not have extra time to sort through pages and pages of documents. Nevertheless, you feel it is important to meet with your legislator to obtain his or her support on your policy so it can be presented for approval. They have little time and need a brief, concise overview of what the policy entails and why they should support its passage. Resource: Electronic Medical Records Create an informational to ...

Other / Other 22 May 2016

Using your chosen topic from Week 2 (Electronic Medical Record), write a 1,100word paper on your topic becomes a policy. In your paper, include the following information: Define Evaluation stage: Explain the evaluation process that would be used to determine if your stated policy objective(s) could be met. Define Analysis stage: Explain what factors could prevent your policy objective(s) from being achieved. Explain what factors you feel c ...

Other / Other 17 May 2016

Policies are constantly being reviewed and considered to help improve the federal, state, or local health care systems. Each one has the potential to affect each of us on a daily basis, so careful consideration must be given when policies are proposed. It is important to understand the process of how a topic eventually becomes a policy. Choose a health care topic for which a policy might be formed. *Note: be sure to look ahead and choose ...

Other / Other 17 May 2016

What are the roles of various interest groups in health care public policy and equal access? How have they influenced policy? 250 What best practices and benchmarks can we learn from other countries that have universal health insurance, and what lessons have we learned? 250 What are the major activities in the evaluation, analysis and revision stages? 250 ...

Other / Other 17 May 2016

complete the Health Care Reform matrix below. Listed in this matrix are some of the topics addressed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act policy. You are required to describe the issue, in your own words, and list 2-3 points about each topic under each heading in the matrix 500 words ...

Other / Other 17 May 2016