Category: Healthcare

What have you learned about the ACA revisions? How has this affected each of the 50 states that were required to either “opt-out” or implement Exchange programs? How did the revisions affect the New York State?

What have you learned about the ACA revisions? How has this affected each of the 50 states that were required to either “opt-out” or implement Exchange programs? How did the revisions affect the New York State?

 

Describe and discuss the origins of nonprice competition among hospitals.Describe and discuss conditions under which hospital cost shifting can occur and its causality.

Hospitals – The Affordable Care Act and the Impact on U.S. Healthcare Providers

Discuss why hospitals are predominantly nonprofit.

Describe and discuss the performance of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals.

Describe and discuss tax-exempt status for nonprofit hospitals.

Describe and discuss the effects of managed care on health care providers.

Describe and discuss the origins of nonprice competition among hospitals.

Describe and discuss hospitals’ transition to price competition.

Describe and discuss hospital price competition in theory and practice.

Describe and discuss the theory of hospital cost shifting.

Describe and discuss the relationship between hospital prices and profits.

Describe and discuss the origins of claims of hospitals cost shifting.

Describe and discuss conditions under which hospital cost shifting can occur and its causality.

Describe and discuss price discrimination and its application to hospitals.

What do you think are two challenges of moving to a care model based on informed, shared decision making which puts the patient’s needs first?

Money Driven Medicine

After watching video….. respond and number each response

In your own words, what is patient centered care? What do you think are two challenges of moving to a care model based on informed, shared decision making which puts the patient’s needs first?

The personal stories in MDM provide powerful arguments about why it is important for patients and their families to become their own advocates. From the film, what have you learned about being an informed patient? ( Be specific about the storytellers and their stories so know which examples you are talking about.)

Clearly, this is not a newly released documentary. looked for more updated ones which provided a wideangle lens on healthcare in the US, but could not find one that had anything different to report. Many of you work in healthcare or are caring for others and have some valuable real life experiences to share.  use your experience and wisdom to comment on:

What, if anything, do you think has changed in healthcare since the 2009 film?
b. Has delivery of healthcare improved or suffered?
c. If you could fix one thing, what would it be?

What did you find to be the most difficult portion of conducting a community health needs assessment?How can hospitals use needs assessments, asset maps, and other public health tools to plan community health interventions?

Population Health Management

How can hospitals use needs assessments, asset maps, and other public health tools to plan community health interventions?

What is your impression of how hospitals have implemented population health management techniques to date?

What Is Population Health, Anyway? – A Five-Part Series

https://www.sfdph.org/dph/hc/HCAgen/2019/May%207/CHNA_2019_Report_041819_Stage%204.pdf

Considering all topics presented, what is your impression of hospital community benefit and do you ultimately believe that hospitals should be responsible for conducting community health needs assessments?

How did you deal with gaps in the knowledge base?

What did you find to be the most difficult portion of conducting a community health needs assessment?

What policy recommendations would be made to improve/assure the integration of ethical/privacy laws and regulatory measures to achieve optimal organizational effectiveness?

Case Study for Hospice Case: Pierre

As the Ethical Leadership and Management Program Director of the hospice service agency that provided services to Pierre, you discovered that Personal Health Information (PHI) was shared with the family’s pastor prior to obtaining written consent from Pierre. Address the following concerns:

What ethical and privacy laws were violated?
What policy recommendations would be made to improve/assure the integration of ethical/privacy laws and regulatory measures to achieve optimal organizational effectiveness?

How are the concepts highlighted in these three modules different from your experience and education?What do you have to know or do differently to be successful in the Canadian health care system, culture, and context?

ORIANTATION TO CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM/ IPHE101

How would you apply the determinants of health to Mrs. Holmes case? Remember to focus on the determinants of health and not solutions or care plans.

What level of health care did Mrs. Holmes access and why?

How would you describe Mrs. Holmes’s health?

Identify at least three determinants (reasons) for her health.

Health” is very complex and political, social and economic forces affect health. Respond to the following questions regarding determinants of health.

Is it possible to prioritize determinants of health?

When you last practiced, did you consider determinants of health when you interacted with patients? If yes, which determinants were considered?

How much can patients control? What determinants can a patient control?

How do we work with patients and clients to support the changes that are necessary for improved health?

To what degree can health care policies influence determinants of health?

For the following two patients, discuss what resources are available in your province and what strategies you would consider in providing care or information. Use a problem-solving approach and discuss how you would respond to the patient’s concerns. Discuss the communication techniques you would use. Refer to the determinants of health in your response.

How are the concepts highlighted in these three modules different from your experience and education?

How does this difference challenge you?

What do you have to know or do differently to be successful in the Canadian health care system, culture, and context?

Using the Analysis Toolpak, present the correlation coefficient between Age and Pain Score.Is it high or low? Is it positive or negative? Is it what you were expecting to be?Explain your answer.

Descriptive Statistics

Provide your answers in an Excel file. Any questions that ask for explanation can be included in a separate tab within the same Excel file.

Using this, provide the mean age of those patients visiting the ED in the United States in
2016.

Using the Data Analysis ToolPak, provide the descriptive summary of the “Age Variable” including mean, median, mode, minimum, maximum, age, skewness,Dariance and standard deviation. Describe your results in 3-4 sentences.

Perform a descriptive summary of the “Pain variable” including mean, median, mode,minimum, maximum, age, skewness, variance and standard deviation. Describe your results in 3-4 sentences.

Using the IF function (nested IF), classify the pain variable into three categories
a. Mild if pain score is between 0 and 3
b. Moderate if pain score is between 4 and 7
c. Severe if pain score is between 8 and 10.

Using the COUNTIFS function, create a cross-tabulation with gender and pain categories
[Mild, Moderate and Severe].
Cross Tabulation between gender and pain categories. Present the frequencies and the percentages. Describe your cross-tab in 4-5 sentences.

Using the Analysis Toolpak, present the correlation coefficient between Age and Pain Score.

Is it high or low? Is it positive or negative? Is it what you were expecting to be?Explain your answer.

Present a scatter plot to show the correlation between Age and Pain.

Provide two sets of variables in the dataset might you be interested in seeing a relationship? Explain why?