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    The Effects of Economic Forces in Healthcare

    Discuss how economic forces in the marketplace affect the health care industry and health care management. Reference Nowicki, M. (2008), The Financial Management of Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations, (4th Edition), Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press

    Decreasing Healthcare Disparities

    The article Institute of Medicine. (2002, March). Unequal treatment: What healthcare providers need to know about racial and ethic disparities in healthcare. Retrieved November 27, 2008, from http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2003/Unequal-Treatment-Confronting-Racial-and-Ethnic-Disparities-in-Health-Care/Disparitie

    Assess leadership styles.

    Under what circumstances might a particular leadership style be more appropriate than another in a nursing or health care setting? Provide at least four examples.

    Providing services via telemedicine

    Could you please help with the following: How do you see the role of allied health professionals evolving within the healthcare system? How do you see the role using technology and providing services via telemedicine?

    Healthcare Management Systems Implementation

    In systems implementation, there are two broad stages of implementation: Pre-Implementation Preparation and Post-Implementation Upkeep. Discuss at least 2 different ways end-users impact each stage. What are some techniques that you can use to utilize the day-to-day business knowledge the end user has in each stage?

    Healthcare Management Information Systems

    Compare and contrast the following 3 information sources (business systems planning (BSP), in-depth interviews, and critical success factor generation). Discuss: When is it appropriate to use each? What limitations should the HMIS team be aware of when using this method?

    Allied health is overviewed.

    Allied health can be thought of either as a misnomer, an oxymoron, or a descriptive term. Some allied health professions with large numbers of practitioners may feel that their group is large enough to seek its own identity, thus it is not aligning with allied health. Physical therapy, occupational therapy, or radiologic technol

    PICO technique

    Integrating evidence-based research strategies into professional practice using the PICO technique. Reducing patient falls: Discuss how you would adapt the strategies of the PICO technique to reducing patient falls. a) describe briefly the scope of evidence practice in both clinical and administrative aspects of health

    Sarbanes-Oxley Act is summarized.

    Research the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and discuss how you think this federal legislation has influenced financial management for health care leaders.

    Effects of financial management are illustrated.

    Health care managers are charged with providing quality health care services to the community in efficient and effective ways. Managers strive to deliver quality care through their planning, organizing, and controlling efforts. Please explain how you think financial management influences these efforts for a manager.

    Health Mangement Information System

    Please help answer the following questions. Provide at least 200 words in the solution. How should one go about standardizing service nomenclature, such as the process service names and outcomes, in order to achieve a level of ease with implementing enterprise wide software? Why must people be sold on the software and be re

    Indicators to measure public health

    Identify at least 2 appropriate indicators for the following variables: 1. Religious affiliation 2. College success 3. Political activity 4. Poverty 5. Binge drinking 6. Fear of crime

    Technology in Healthcare

    I need to write a trend report in APA style for Technology in Healthcare. I need to have information about technology in the past, present, and future and how it has affected healthcare. Please let me know what references are used for the information.

    IT Strategy Development

    Imagine you came into a healthcare organization without an organizational IT strategy. Describe in detail how you would develop an IT strategy. Some questions to consider are: Who would be involved in the strategy meeting? How would you involved participants in developing a strategy? What questions would you ask? How wo

    The future challenges facing health care in the United States are explored.

    1. Identify and describe at least three of the most difficult issues facing health care in the United States today. 2. Identify and describe three ways that technology impacts health care. 3. Describe how health care at the international level will impact the United States health care system. 4. Describe th

    Biologic Processes

    Promotion of individual and population health, with emphasis on the biological factors is essential. It is essential because the public must understand the current events involving scientific findings and news report to situations which involve one's personal health. This includes matters of public health which may be illustrate

    Care coordination

    Please discusses types of care coordination and the challenges associated with each type. How do you see these challenges being addressed in your community?

    Trends in Medicare and Medicaid

    Analyze trends in Medicare and Medicaid. What impact are these trends having on access to care for low income elders and people with disabilities?

    Leadership case

    An emergency physician, who is a good clinician, also has an entrepreneurial spirit. Following the mantra of business to "find a legal need and fill it", he decides to establish a professional group of emergency physicians. He initially enlists the participation of several friends who are emergency docs, and they land a couple o