Healthcare
Medicare and Medicaid patients
You are the Vice President for Network Operations of Regnat Populus Health System, comprised of three hospitals and two clinics. The system is located in “the Delta,” the most rural parts of Arkansas. You want to inform the In-House Counsel (Attorney) and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) about the value of telehealth. Prepare a short slide presentation, not to exceed 10 slides including the title slide, detailed notes and references slide.
Describe the Medicare and Medicaid populations serviced by the hospitals and clinics. Indicate how they will benefit from telehealth.
Find the laws of the state of Arkansas that pertain to telehealth. How will these laws impact your ability to implement telehealth services across the health system and clinics?
Electronic Medical Record System
This unit’s discussion will focus on sharing experiences that you have encountered so far in utilizing the EMR system in your pediatric clinical rotation. You should address how the system promotes safety, improves patient outcomes, monitors growth and development and includes pediatric-specific recommended core functionalities in Pediatric Electronic Health Records. Include your appraisal of the system and the Core Functionality in Pediatric Electronic Health Records. Please post your initial response and respond to your
Cost-benefit analysis
Compare and contrast a cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. Summarize the purpose, strengths, limitations, and assumptions that underlie each approach. Discuss how to apply these approaches in public health policy development, citing an example for each from the research literature.
Requirements: .doc file
Community health needs assessment
Activity 1: Conducting a Needs Assessment
Based on what you have learned about conducting a needs assessment, and the community you have determined to use, design a needs assessment survey. Use the checklist to help focus your survey.
Activity 2: Determine who will complete the survey and how it will be conducted. Your team will carry out the survey with the identified population. Be sure that the population is appropriate for the survey and for the assessment that the chosen community needs.
Activity 3: Conducting Focus Groups
Together develop standardized interview questions to use with focus groups to determine needs of the community. Use the checklist and examples to help focus your discussion.
Be sure that the focus group questions are relevant to the problem and audience.
Project Assignment:
Conduct a needs assessment of a chosen community (may be local, a city, or even a state). The needs assessment should be thorough and follow the guide in the Community Tool Box
It should also include a survey of a minimum of 20 participants in the targeted audience and a focus group.
Public policy issue
Choose a public policy issue that has an ethical component. Use a code of ethics relevant to public administrators to frame an ethical position that would be appropriate for a public administrator to take on that policy issue. Explain why the code of ethics you chose is appropriate.
I think maybe a good topic is Covid? Something current 🙂
Pay close attention to the requirements.
First identify a public policy issue and define it.
Then identify the ethical component of the issue and explain why there is an ethical component.