41293Productivity Recommendations Last week, you familiarized yourself with the Physician Care Services, Inc. case and selected metrics that would help you to evaluate the organization’s productivity, with an eye to determining whether they could be successful in the current environment of health care reform. Based on...
41275Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ycQufrgK4 Question: Research and describe the incidence and prevalence rates of people with pancreatic cancer in the United States. Compare the effectiveness of the current technique for diagnosing pancreatic cancer to the technique described in the video. Describe how this new technique...
41274Answer the following questions: Define the following groups of terms: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention Prepathogenesis and pathogenesis How does screening for disease align with the three levels of prevention – primary, secondary and tertiary? Define the following terms that are related to screening tests: Reliability and validity Sensitivity and Specificity Predictive value...
41270Discuss the impact of the Medicare D drug benefit and how the benefit affects the market, positively or negatively. ...
41271"Suppose you have decided that spirituality does have a place in health care practice, what arguments would you make to the CEO for increasing opportunities for spirituality in your hospital? What specific policies, environment changes, or in-service education would you like to see?" ...
41268To prepare: Select an ACO from the website ACOs in North Carolina in this week’s Learning Resources. http://innovation.cms.gov/ Identify evidence-based services/initiatives that the ACO is using. Consider the following: Is the ACO using services/initiatives that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recognize and for which they offer reimbursements? How...
41256To prepare for this Discussion: • Review the CDC’s National Organization Policy Resources (found in the Learning Resources) and select a health-related policy that you feel should be changed. https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/policy/national-organizations.html Consider how this policy might be changed in order to bring about a health-related behavioral and/or a...
41247Discussion: Health Care Reform Initiatives Healthy People 2020 can be viewed as a strategic approach for improving the health of the US population over a ten-year timeline, applicable nationally, regionally, and in states, counties, cities and towns. … The Healthy People strategy was designed to define...
41220To prepare for this Discussion: • Review the CDC’s National Organization Policy Resources (found in the Learning Resources) and select a health-related policy that you feel should be changed. https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/policy/national-organizations.html Consider how this policy might be changed in order to bring about a health-related behavioral and/or a cultural...
41215Assignment: Productivity Metrics Note: For the Weeks 5 and 6 Assignments you will use Case 3: Physician Care Services, Inc., from the Middleboro Casebook. In the Middleboro Physician Care Services, Inc. case, you are asked to examine the operations of an ambulatory, non-emergent care clinic which treats...