Budgeting is the key to financial success in health care. Explain revenue sources outside of fees for services that a health care organization may use to increase cash flow. Do any of the revenue sources include investments? Include the four primary purposes for maintaining cash and investments.
You are currently working as an administrative assistant in the social services division of your health care organization and have been asked to prepare a presentation for an upcoming staff meeting. The staff meeting will focus on emerging health care issues that will impact your community in the future. Your presentation should focus on the…
You are the Chief Information Officer of a local community hospital. The hospital has an Electronic Health Record system and a number of departmental systems, such as a Laboratory Information System. The hospital’s goals and objectives include increasing the availability of its services in patient’s homes, making results of laboratory tests and other studies available…
You are the information security officer for a fictitious hospital or healthcare facility. Create a presentation for your facility’s board of trustees explaining the components of a healthcare information security program and why having such a program is important to the facility. Your presentation should include the following slides: Introduction Components of a healthcare…
In order for us to achieve the most value from big data, we will need to have interoperable health information systems. This will require standardization in our health information systems. The highest level of interoperability is semantic operability. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) defines semantic operability as technology that “provides interoperability…
MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY AND FINANCING The United States is one of the remaining countries in the developed world that does not have a single-payer health care insurance system in place. With the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act being uncertain, we hear continuing discussion as to whether the United States could (and/or should)…
What are the specific reimbursement methods used by each of the major third-party payers? 2. What are the specific incentives and the risks for the providers under the various payment types? 3. What are the differences between insurance-negotiated rates and the private pay fees charged to uninsured patients for health care services? Is there a…
The amount of data available to the healthcare industry has increased dramatically over the past decade. Making use of this vast amount of data to improve our analytical capabilities is referred to as big data. Big data has been used to improve the health of various population groups. Big data provides us with information previously…
MEDICARE ELIGIBILITY AND FINANCING Using the information in the background readings as well as some research in peer-reviewed sources of your own, create a professional-looking PowerPoint presentation of 13-14 slides (not including the title slide or the reference slide) which clearly summarizes each of the items below. Include thorough speaker’s notes to further expand upon…
HCS/475: Leadership And Performance Development Wk 4 Discussion: Decision-Making DUE Thursday 4/11 PreviousCh. 10: Ethics in Health Leadership NextWk 4 Group Presentation: Delegation and Problem-Solving Processes Discussion Topic An administrator of a nursing home faces many decisions. For example, before building an addition to the facility and beginning to plan the design, the legalities…