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Competitiveness And Performance Effectiveness For Health Care IT Systems

Assignment 2: Competitiveness and Performance Effectiveness for Health Care IT Systems

 

Due Week 8 and worth 250 points

 

Write a six to eight (4-6) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Define  the fundamental responsibilities and key characteristics of the Chief  Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) within  health care organizations. Make one (1) recommendation where they can  utilize their expertise to assist with employee and patient  satisfaction. Support your response with related examples of such  expertise in use. 
  2. Suggest  two (2) developing technologies that health care systems should use in  order to improve health care processes and thus increase the quality and  lower the cost of health services. Provide a rationale to support your  response. 
  3. Determine  two (2) significant methods that health care systems should use in  order to prevent misuse of information and protect data privacy and thus  achieve a high level of security of health information. Provide a  rationale to support your response. 
  4. Suggest  one (1) strategy for health care organizations to train providers in  using technology in health care. Provide a rationale to support your  response. 
  5. Provide three (3) best practices for effective IT alignment and strategic planning initiatives. Justify your response. 
  6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar type websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

 

  • This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).  The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please  take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details. 
  • Be  typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow SWS or  school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions. 
  • Include  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover  page and the reference page are not included in the required page  length. 

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Examine the impact technologies have on health care information systems. 
  • Describe the basic components of a strategic information system plan. 
  • Describe  the major types and classifications of health care information  standards and the specific organizations that develop and regulate these  standards. 
  • Discuss the need for, and identify methods of, accomplishing the security of information systems. 
  • Evaluate the impact of strategic information system plans on organizational competitiveness and performance. 
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health information systems. 
  • Write clearly and concisely about health information systems using proper writing mechanics. 

The Press, Friend Or Foe?

Any time we have a response to a natural disaster or terrorist incident there will be extensive news coverage. Every decision will be public knowledge and can have political, economic, and even life and death consequences. In the textbook, Huder says as emergency planners it is important to understand the role of the press, what the public needs to know, and how we should manage the information flow. Decide whether the press is a friend or a foe in your local area. What are the basic rules that decision makers need to adhere to when talking to the press? How can decision makers and emergency planners enlist the press to support the emergency response? Should the public rely on the press to provide accurate information?

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. 

 
 
 

Literature Analysis

Write an essay 800-1000 words in MLA format comparing and analyzing the techniques used to “zoom in and “zoom out” in these two stories. Do you think the authors suggest the “big” things matter more or the “small” things?  

  

“The  Study” by  Hieu Minh Nguyen

For the longest time, the only memories I had
of that year were of Little Billy from the third floor, floating
dead in the pool & how angry the rest of the tenants were
when they drained & filled it with cement& how that summer, the unbearable heat dragged its endless skin
across our bones—memory is the funniest character in this story:
when I think of that year, no one has a face—the first memory
I had of being molested did not come until nine years later.
At first I thought it was a dream, a movie, white noise
summoning a narrative through the static—if it’s true
what they say about memory being a series of rooms
then behind some locked door: a wicked apothecary: her fingers
trapped in jars, her hair growing like wild vines along the walls.
Somewhere in this story I am nine years old
filling the loud hollows with cement to drown out the ghost.
They say, give us details, so I give them my body.
They say, give us proof, so I give them my body.
If you cut me open, if you dissect me, you will pull from me:
a pair of handprints, a nine-year-old boy, fossilized.

“Currents” by Hannah Voskuil, in Seagull Book of Stories 479

Gary drank single malt in the night, out on the porch that leaned toward the ocean. His mother, distracted, had shut off the floodlights and he did not protest against the dark.

Before that, his mother, Josey, tucked in her two shivering twelve-year-old granddaughters.

“I want you two to go swimming first thing tomorrow. Can’t have two seals like you afraid of water.”

Before that, one of the girls held the hand of a wordless Filipino boy. His was the first hand she’d ever held. They were watching the paramedics lift the boy’s dead brother into the ambulance. At this time the other girl heaved over a toilet in the cabana.

Before that, the girl would feel nauseated watched as the drowned boy’s hand slid off the stretcher and bounced along the porch rail. Nobody placed the hand back on the stretcher, and it bounced and dragged and bounced.

Before that, Gary saw the brown hair sink and resurface as the body bobbed. At first he mistook it for seaweed.

Before that, thirty-five people struggled out of the water at the Coast Guard command. A lifeguard shouted over Jet Ski motors about the increasing strength of the reptide.

Before that, the thirty-five people, including Gary and two girls, formed a human chain and trolled the waters for the body of a Filipino boy. The boy had gone under twenty minutes earlier, and never come back up.

Before that, a lifeguard sprinted up the beach, shouting for volunteers. The two girls, resting lightly on their sandy bodyboards, stood up to help.

Before that, a Filipino boy pulled on the torpid lifeguard’s ankle and gestured desperately at the waves. My brother, he said.

Before that, it was a simple summer day.

 
 
 

Competition, Marketing Mix, And Pricing

Assignment 2: Competition, Marketing Mix, and Pricing
Due Week 8 and worth 300 points
 

 

For this assignment, use the same health care provider as in Assignment 1.

 

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Determine the key characteristics of the users of the products and/or services of the health care provider you selected.
  2. Analyze the competitive environment of the health care provider you  selected and recommend a course of action for strategic marketing  success.
  3. Determine which tools of the marketing mix available to health care  providers would be most effective for the health care provider you  selected.
  4. Determine the best possible pricing strategy for at least one of the  products or services offered by the health care provider you selected.
  5. Provide at least three (3) qualified sources, e.g., peer-reviewed  journals, professional organization Website, or health care provider  Websites.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

  • This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).  The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please  take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow SWS or  school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required  page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Analyze the competitive environment of a health services  organization and identify a course of action that will allow for  strategic marketing success.
  • Analyze the users of the health care system.
  • Describe the various tools of the marketing mix available to health care providers.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services marketing.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health services marketing using proper writing mechanics.

Marketing: Consumer Decision Making

Think of a recent purchase that you made.  Write a 1-page paper relating your actions to make purchase to the steps of the consumer decision making process. 

Make sure you use each step as a header for your write-up.

 
 
 

Media Publication

Find a media publication with a health message. Share the link. What population is this publication targeting and how do you know? Do you think it is effective or not? Why?

Consumer And Business Market Research

Go to the US Census website, www.census.gov (Links to an external site.), and find the population of Hudson County by age.  Take those numbers and group them into their appropriate bracket from the following choices: Gray market, Baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, New millennial. 

 

Then use the attached directions to access the ReferenceUSA database through the library. 

 

Find the number of manufacturing firms in Atlantic, Bergen, Camden, Essex, Hudson and Union counties. (all located in New Jersey)

 

Follow the attached instructions (refUSAinstructions.docx) to access the website.  You will need to contact the library to activate your ID.

HIS 379

Nunn, Nathan and Qian, Nancy Qian. “The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas (Links to an external site.).” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, no. 2 (2010): 163-188. Accessed February 15, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25703506.

 

Fassnacht, Max, Stephanie Fink, Robert Jackson, and Michelle Warn. “The Anatomy of a Discussion Board (Links to an external site.).” Accessed February 15, 2016. https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofadiscussionboard/home.

 

Fassnacht, Max, Stephanie Fink, Robert Jackson, and Michelle Warn. “Critical Thinking: A Guide to Skillful Reasoning (Links to an external site.).” Accessed August 15, 2016. http://www.criticalthinkingandreasoning.org/evaluating-critical-thinking.

 

Reflect: Reflect upon the importance of cross-cultural interaction as discussed in the second discussion of last week and the written assignment. Modern historians have created the term “Columbian Exchange” to refer to the complex movement of people, animals, plants, trade items, diseases, ideas, attitudes, and technology from the “Old World” that consisted of Europe, Africa, and Asia to the “New World” of the Americas that commenced with Columbus’s arrival in the western hemisphere in 1492. The many manifestations of the Columbian Exchange had profound consequences, affecting the cultures and societies of the Atlantic World in wide-ranging ways. Consult “Critical Thinking: A Guide to Skillful Reasoning (Links to an external site.)” as you formulate your response. 

 

Write: How did the Columbian Exchange affect social, cultural, economic, political, religious, or ecological systems in the New World or the Old World? As part of your response, address the following issues:

 

  • Identify an example of something that was part of the Columbian Exchange.
  • Consider how this example impacted a specific region of the Atlantic World.
  • Consider how this example affected a particular society or societies.
  • Assess the significance of the changes wrought by the Columbian Exchange.
  • How can studying the economic, political, social, biological, or cultural significance of an element of the Columbian Exchange help explain multiple forms of interaction in the Atlantic World?

Fsmt 405

Week 2: LODD – Apparatus Ejection
Review the NIOSH – F2012-23: Volunteer Fire Fighter Dies After Being Ejected From Front Seat of Engine—Virginia  report.

Did the conclusions in this report offer recommendations for future prevention of similar incidents? What relation did established regulations and standards have to the events surrounding the fatality?

 

Did the conclusions in this report offer recommendations for future prevention of similar incidents? What relation did established regulations and standards have to the events surrounding the fatality?

 

The report from NIOSH covered all aspects of the crash thoroughly. They did include their recommendation for future preventions. In this incident, a fire engine was in route to a call when it lost control and the right wheel left the pavement. This caused the driver to lose control of the truck resulting in the crash. The passenger was ejected from the truck ending in a fatality.

 

So NIOSH broke the incident down into two main factors, resulting in the crash. The first was the driver and loss control of the truck. Now if you are in this line of work, we have all been in that situation where there was a “pucker” factor while operating a motor vehicle at a high rate of speed. We all have gotten amped up when responding to a hot call. In this situation the driver had experience operating the truck and some training. There were no known problems with the unit and none reported. NIOSH did recommend that all Fire departments should provide and ensure all drivers successfully complete a comprehensive driver’s training program, such as NFPA 1451 Standard for a Fire Service Vehicle Operations Training Program, before allowing a member to drive and operate a fire department vehicle (NIOSH 2013). That fire departments ensure their personnel are trained in maintaining vehicle control. They recommend all vehicles are checked regularly and maintained. recorded.

  

The second part is the passenger not secured by a seat belt. While the crash played a big part, not using their seat belt is main reason for the fatality. If the passenger was wearing his seat belt his chance of survival would have been tremendously higher. The NHTSA stated, “the national use rate was at 89.6% in 2018. Seat belt use in passenger vehicles saved an estimated 14,955 lives in 2017. Of the 37,133 people killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2017, 47% were not wearing seat belts (NHTSA 2018).

 

NIOSH recommend all fire departments should ensure that written standard operating procedures (SOPs) regarding seat belt use are established and enforced (NISOH 2013). That training is put in place for all personnel understand the guidelines of the SOP regarding the use of safety restraints.   

 

[email protected]. (2019, July 17). Seat Belts. Retrieved August 13, 2019, from https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/seat-belts

 

This forum is one of the biggest and careless thing we got used to doing because we are always in the zone and getting ready for the call that we don?t temper the simple and safe think to do and buckle up. And I?m one of the ones that usually always forgets especlity once I became a captain and worry about my crew and game planning the situation and how we are goin fro attack it. But as time went by and truck advancing with the alarms that tell you who doesn?t have there seatson and the siren goes on the whole until you get off. And most of the time because we are getting dress on the way because everyone wants to be first on scene to handle the call beat the other companies out.

 

In conclusion, the recommendations as always a good base to start off with but depending where you are located my need to add other steps. Like for example while station in Alaska we had to get to driving on ice, snow and muddy areas throughout the year which makes responding a little more stressful. And like the time at Portugal we had to deal with flooded area and cliffed edge road and dirt roads and cattle on the road. So training your personnel to environment is the best I learned to have a more successful and least accident situation while driving. But also there was time in Germany when we went from station to station we had to get onto the autobahn and maintain with traffic and being young military firefighters on autobahn in a fire truck. And in my career I had experience drivers/lieutenant that would leave the bay until everyone buckles. But I also notice the best way to get everyone to buckle is to be the role model as the captain and lead by example and your crew will usually follow suite. And our guys must remember our safety first before we can help and save someone or there?s property. And the pledge is a great way to spread the importance of the cause safety of our guys.

 
 
 

HIS 379

Prepare: Read

 

Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

  • Chapter 7: Uprooted: West Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade
  • Chapter 8: Bondage: The Atlantic Plantation Complex & the Cultures of Slavery

 

Fassnacht, Max, Stephanie Fink, Robert Jackson, and Michelle Warn. “The Anatomy of a Discussion Board (Links to an external site.).” Accessed February 15, 2016. https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofadiscussionboard/home.

 

Fassnacht, Max, Stephanie Fink, Robert Jackson, and Michelle Warn. “Critical Thinking: A Guide to Skillful Reasoning (Links to an external site.).” Accessed August 15, 2016. http://www.criticalthinkingandreasoning.org/evaluating-critical-thinking.

 

Reflect: The Atlantic World was intimately and intricately shaped by the use of slave labor and the associated slave trade that linked together Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Although slavery or other forms of coerced labor were not new to many areas of the Atlantic World, it changed in dramatic ways with the introduction and intensification of the transatlantic slave trade, which was central to commodities production, particularly sugar, in the Americas. Not only did the slave trade affect commercial activity, but also it resulted in social and cultural change affecting both the enslaved and slave-holding societies. Consult “Critical Thinking: A Guide to Skillful Reasoning (Links to an external site.)” as you formulate your response. 

 

Write: How can the slave trade and slavery be considered central to Atlantic World systems that connected Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries? As part of your initial post of at least 250-300 words, include a focus on a minimum of one of the following sub-topics by providing specific examples drawn from required and recommended readings:

 

  • How did the slave trade represent a continuation of extant systems of enslavement, yet at the same time, a transformation of these practices due to the specific demands of the Atlantic economy?
  • How did the experience of enslavement compare or contrast in at least two different areas of the Atlantic World?
  • To what extent were distinct African cultural identities preserved or changed by the experience of slavery in the Americas?
  • How did the slave trade affect different African societies?
  • What were some of the causes and consequences of the sugar revolution?
  • How did slaves exercise agency and self-determination, despite being subjected to bondage?
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