Category: Healthcare

Define culture and define health. Include in your discussions how language, sexual identity, age, race, ethnicity, disability, socioeconomics, and education are part of cultures and influence human health.

512 week 1

Read chapter 1 and 2 of Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity
Understanding People, Reducing Disparities
by Mark Edberg.

Define culture and define health. Include in your discussions how language, sexual identity, age, race, ethnicity, disability, socioeconomics, and education are part of cultures and influence human health.

Additional to your book, you can use this reference: NIH: Cultural Respect

https://www.nih.gov/institutes-nih/nih-office-director/office-communications-public-liaison/clear-communication/cultural-respect

Describe your understanding of how the system of surveillance of infectious diseases in the United States works? Compare and contrast at least 2 different diseases.

532 Week 1

Describe your understanding of how the system of surveillance of infectious diseases in the United States works? Compare and contrast at least 2 different diseases.
Use as a reference:
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Theory and Practice
by Nelson

Determine the allowable costs for all departments (patient care and non-revenue producing overhead departments). Non-allowable costs (such as gift shop, cafeteria, research, physician private offices, and volunteers) are taken out.

Financial Compliance and Ethical Decision Making

Critical Access Hospital: https://www.cms.gov/outreach-and-education/medicare-learning-

network-mln/mlnproducts/downloads/critaccesshospfctsht.pdf
Cost reports are typically prepared using commercially available software and filed electronically.

Determine the allowable costs for all departments (patient care and non-revenue producing overhead departments). Non-allowable costs (such as gift shop, cafeteria, research, physician private offices, and volunteers) are taken out.

Allocate the allowable costs of overhead departments in a step-down fashion to patient care departments and non-allowable departments. One of the outputs of this process is the ratio of cost to charges, a rough proxy for a cost accounting system.

Determine Medicare’s share of fully allowable costs based on payer mix (Medicare share of patient days).

Determine net settlement to/from Medicare by subtracting reimbursable costs from the interim payments.

What are some of the things that you might expect the CDC to do on a regular basis related to epidemiology?

go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC website and review the mission, vision, and major responsibilities of the CDC. Based on what you have learned about epidemiology this week and your research into the CDC, answer the following questions?

What are some of the things that you might expect the CDC to do on a regular basis related to epidemiology?

What do you think are some of the major challenges facing the CDC? Provide a rationale for your answers

Discuss whether the proposed course of action would be permissible under current fraud and abuse regulations.Explain common issues related to the use of EHR and healthcare fraud.

Select two of the case studies located in the course textbook at the end of Chapters 21, 24, 25, or 27, and answer the questions associated with those case studies in a cohesive, APA-formatted paper.

Chapter 21:

Recommend where would you start to improve the user experience.
Pharmacists are asking for your help due to struggles with non-integrated systems. What methods would you use to examine this issue?

Describe how usability should be incorporated as part of the purchasing process for this institution.
Chapter 24:

Describe how the effort of changing preadmission testing data collection from paper to the Electronic Health Record System (EHR) can be approached.

Using Patient Safety and Quality Research Design (PSQRD) methodology,

Identifying area of quality improvement in the hospital setting, recommend a process plan and identify the expected outcomes.
Chapter 25:

Discuss whether the proposed course of action would be permissible under current fraud and abuse regulations.

Explain common issues related to the use of EHR and healthcare fraud.

Discuss how the proposed EHR could potentially facilitate healthcare fraud.
Chapter 27:

Describe the timeline of the program and its potential financial impact on the individual healthcare providers who are involved in meaningful use.

Explain the process that providers must complete to avoid payment penalties.

Explain the timeframe for the provider to achieve modified stage two and stage three measures.

Explain the importance of community resources for the prevention and treatment of substance use and addictive disorders.

Identify and describe federal and local community resources for the prevention and treatment of substance use. This assignment contains two parts:

Part One: Resource Directory

Identify two federal and five local community resources for addiction and substance use. Create a table of the seven resources that will serve as an information directory. Include the following for each resource:

Part Two: Impact of the Resources

Write a paper of 500-750 words evaluating the impact that the federal and community resources listed in your directory have in the prevention and the success of addiction and substance use disorders treatment.

BS Addiction Counseling

2.1: Explain the importance of community resources for the prevention and treatment of substance use and addictive disorders.

Describe industry best practices for meeting accreditation requirements. Other Accrediting Organizations (2–3 pages)

Develop a descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words

Analyze the key Joint Commission standards that apply to this organization.
Accreditation Best Practices (2–3 pages)

Describe industry best practices for meeting accreditation requirements.
Other Accrediting Organizations (2–3 pages)

Select one accrediting body other than the Joint Commission and analyze the benefits of its accreditation for the organization.
Conclusion (3–5 paragraphs)

Identify one way the Triple Aim is being measured in your local community or state. Provide a clear example.In what ways is this initiative working to achieve the Triple Aim?

Module 8 discussion
Module 8 | Assignment

Review the following information from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on how to measure the Triple Aim from a source:
Endo, J. A. (2016). Measuring to achieve the Triple Aim. Retrieved from: http://www.ihi.org/communities/blogs/_layouts/15/ihi/community/blog/itemview.aspx?List=7d1126ec-8f63-4a3b-9926-c44ea3036813&ID=311 (Links to an external site.)

After exploring how to measure the Triple Aim, respond to the following in your discussion post:

Identify one way the Triple Aim is being measured in your local community or state. Provide a clear example.

In what ways is this initiative working to achieve the Triple Aim?

Identify areas in this initiative that need improvement to meet the Triple Aim.