Category: Healthcare

Research the following and identify evidence-based healthcare information related to:
A specific healthcare organization and regulatory body.
A specific healthcare issue that impacts your chosen healthcare organization.
What role do stakeholders play regarding the issue?
What are some recommendations for resolving the issue?
Look ahead to the assignments in Module 2 to help guide your research.
Choose 6-10 authoritative sources of information about your issue. These do not all need to be peer-reviewed articles, but you should only choose sources that you’ve carefully evaluated and determined to have been created by experts. Be sure to make good use of the library’s databases.
Create an APA-formatted annotated bibliography. The Franklin Learning Commons Annotated Bibliography Resources site is a great source of information for this. You will find many helpful links, including tips and examples. The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is another useful resource.

Based on your answer to the Unit 4 DB, complete Part 2 of this assignment: As the facility manager, you have taken a few steps to streamline the process to provide patients with their health care information. Even with these changes, the medical records department remains a large cost expenditure for the health care facility because of breakdowns in the chart retrieval machinery, personnel costs, supplies, and maintenance of equipment that is associated with creating hard copies of the original charts. In 2–3 pages, address the following:
How could this department be incorporated into the Health Level Seven (HL7) electronic system in terms of application, collection, warehousing, and evaluation regarding the storing and retrieval of patient charts?  
Note: Use APA style and cite references published within the last 5 years.

Assignment Directions:
Create a 5- to 6-minute podcast that discusses two quality improvement projects you found from various settings that may be applicable to your chosen setting. (At least one must be from a different health care setting than the one you will use in your final project.) The podcast should be clear and easily understood, uses various inflections of the voice, captures the listener’s attention, and uses creativity to produce an enjoyable listening experience.
Discuss how these two quality improvement projects would be effective to use in the quality improvement project you will recommend in your final assignment, using information from your research to support your recommendations.
Discuss whether or not these were adopted from use in another industry, and why it was successfully leveraged in health care. (For example, was it based on the same principles?)
Requirements
Your submission, created in Microsoft PowerPoint presentation includes specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements to demonstrate mastery of the objective.
Your submission includes a highly developed viewpoint and purpose.
Your response is in Standard English and demonstrates superior organization.
Your communication is highly ordered, logical, and unified as well as original and insightful.
Your submission displays exceptional content, organization, style, and mechanics.
A separate page contains a list of references.
A minimum of three references are used.
In-text citations are included where appropriate, and references are listed for all sources used, following proper APA style.

essay explain what melanoma is, signs, symptoms, treatments, who’s more likely to get this type of disease, what’s the cause, and how can you prevent it.
basically an overview of everything about melanoma

Case Portfolio #4
Select a single prevention intervention (primary, secondary, or tertiary) for your topic This should be based on one of the three interventions proposed in Assignment 3
Answer the following questions in three pages.
What is the topic you are focusing on? Why is this important
What is your proposed intervention (primary, secondary, tertiary)? Explain what this intervention will entail.
What population or community is targeted for this intervention? Why?
What Health Behavior Model informs your recommended intervention? Explain how. (Choose at least 1)
Health Belief Model
Transtheoretical Model/Stages of Change
Socioecological Model
Theory of Planned Behavior
Others Not Discussed In Class: Diffusion of Innovation Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, Social Norms Theory… etc
5. What health promotion does the intervention focus on? Explain your recommendation– Why is this focus needed?
On an individual basis
Part of a targeted group by, e.g., gender, age, lifestyle or location
Initiated by the individual
Imposed on the individual
Changes to the wider environment in which we live
Population-wide health protection activities are provided 
6. What model of health education and promotion does the intervention operate under? Explain
Medical Model/Negative Health Model
Behavior Change or Modification Model
Informed Choice Model
Client-focused Model
Collective or Societal Model
7. What is the intended impact on the targeted community or population?
Formatting Guidelines:
Title page
3 pages of written content.
12-font, double-spaced
All writing must be original. Do not use quotes.
Summarize full sentences and paragraphs.
Use in-text citations.
Use APA guidelines. 

Prompt
For this milestone assignment, address the following in the article you have selected for the final project:
Describe the purpose of the study, including the research questions and hypothesis.
Identify whether the study design is experimental or observational. Support your identification with examples from the study.
Identify the methods used to collect the data and explain why the methods are appropriate based on the research question.
Identify the data collected as quantitative or categorical. Support your identification with examples from the study.
Discuss the weaknesses of the data collection method used. Support your discussion with specific details.
What to Submit
This milestone assignment should be submitted as a 1-page paper with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins, using APA formatting and citation style guidelines.
*****  Kenne, D., Fischbein, R., Tan, A., & Banks, M. (2017). The use of substances other than nicotine in
electronic cigarettes among college students. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment 11, 1–
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For this assignment, choose a case study that allows you to focus on standards for EHR data and technology, as well as the organizations that set the standards. Be sure to complete all assigned EHR course activities before you complete this assignment, so that you can add perspective from your growing EHR knowledge and skills to your analysis.
Instructions
Choose a case study from one of the links provided; provide the citation in current APA style and format; and give an overview of the case study you chose. Based on your reading of the case study, your experience in using the EHR in the course, and further research in industry or scholarly resources, write your case study analysis to meet the following criteria:
Identify standards that govern EHR systems and the organizations that set them.
Select one vocabulary standard and one classification standard and explain how the case study implemented that standard.
Distinguish types of data, data formats, and data reporting requirements.
Describe the purpose of data modeling and data dictionaries.
Explain how the case study addressed the following components: data architecture, databases, data warehouses, data modeling, data dictionary, and metadata.
Explain the importance of data usability and quality.
Explain the importance of consistency and design.
Determine standards for integration among applications.
Using your experiences with the assigned EHR course activities, identify documentation strategies that have been used. Explain how these strategies have assisted in the integration of data across applications.
Submission Requirements
Page length: 3–5 pages.
References: Follow current APA style and format for references and citations.
Writing: Create a document that is clearly written and generally free of grammatical errors.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 3: Evaluate the role that data and technology standards play in implementation and maintenance of an electronic health record (EHR) system.
Identify the standards that govern EHR systems and the organizations that set them.
Distinguish types of data, data formats, and data reporting requirements.
Describe the purpose of data modeling and data dictionaries.
Determine standards for integration among applications.
Competency 5: Communicate in a professional manner to support health data management.
Create a document that is clearly written and generally free of grammatical errors.
Follow APA formatting for references and citations.

related to Bonita et al., Ch 5 and 6
For this course, Discussions will relate to the Bonita, et al. readings on epidemiology for the current week and the Florida Department of Health Excel spreadsheet that has been provided.
For the week three discussion board post:
1: Identify a disease process reported in the Florida Department of Health Spreadsheet. (HIV, TB, etc)
2: Describe which of the four levels of prevention might apply to the disease process you selected.
Please do not attach a cover page for any of my discussion Post Thx 
APA , 3  to 4 paragraphs and two to three  references please
I will send the Fforida profile Sheet that will be used throughout the semester

In last week′s discussion, you identified a specific health care provider and analyzed one of their promotional materials. In this assignment, you will perform a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis on that provider.
Instructions
Preparation
Consider last week′s discussion and the feedback provided by your peers as you prepare for this assignment.
Consider how you would like to present your SWOT Analysis – PowerPoint or Word Document.
Deliverable
Do the following via your preferred delivery method:
Describe vital aspects of the provider to paint an accurate and comprehensive overview that includes areas such as its mission, market position, size, management, structure, et cetera.
Develop a SWOT analysis that accurately reflects and develops insights into the organization′s current state. It should include 2 strengths, 2 weaknesses, 2 opportunities, and 2 threats. Provide reasoning and support for each part of your analysis.
Analyze one of the four identified SWOT elements with respect to your provider′s ability to address the health care issue you identified in your first assignment. Examples are:
Strength: Adaptability. Analyze how the trait of adaptability would be useful to a nursing home′s response to an epidemic.
Threat: Staffing Shortages. Analyze how an increase in Fentanyl use in the local population might impact hospital staffing and training.
Weakness: Limited technology creates a connectivity challenge to being part of a health system or ACO.
Opportunity: Utilize excess space in their facility to network with a Hospice to afford inpatient support or create private state-of-the-art rooms for their labor and delivery services
Requirements
Your paper or presentation should include details that support your analysis. If PowerPoint is used, slides should be supported by detailed speaker′s notes.
You must cite a minimum of 3 credible resources to support your work. You can find sources through the Strayer Library using the library′s databases. To help with your research, additional resources are listed on the Course Resources page under Optional Resources.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Analyze management activities of a health services organization.

I need you to analyze research done by the Canadian Health Insurance’s GAO report titled “Lessons for the United States”. The link to this report is: http://archive.gao.gov/d20t9/144039.pdf
This essay is to analyze key research from my literature review- I chose the GAO report as it is the most detailed out of my sources. The full report is 90 pages long so of course I won’t make you read it, but I will give you what I wrote in my literature review regarding it, as well as key quotes from the report that I think are important.
The analysis essay needs to provide a “deep” and “focused” analysis of a specific aspect of the conversation you’re joining with my final research essay (it is regarding the feasibility of implementing a single-payer healthcare system in the U.S.)
Some information about the general field needs to be incorporated into the analysis. Avoid excessive summary–only provide enough information that the claims and interpretations are understandable. The goal with this assignment is to offer a unique interpretation/analysis of the data (I was thinking maybe analyzing the economic impact on healthcare-related jobs and industries, and propose strategies for transitioning workers or possibly exploring potential bipartisan compromises that could make single-payer more politically feasible).
Analyze specific claims from the source text and do your best to make sense of the research methods and any possible issues with the research (whether explicitly stated or not). Identify the evidence the author(s) are using to support their claims. Identify what is clever, intriguing, wrong, or insightful about what the author has presented. Make sure the essay progresses logically and that every paragraph addresses a particular claim and offers an analysis of that claim. 
Each body paragraph should go: Topic> Reference or citation > Interpretation > Commentary/So what does all of this mean?. Offer evidence and examples to support these claims.
I have included a file of what I wrote in my literature review regarding this source, as well as quotes I took from the report I feel are important/worth having in my final essay (the literature review and this essay will help make the final essay).