Information Systems

The types of management information systems used across health care may vary by the setting, but they have in common the objective to streamline and enhance administrative processes and thereby support the institution’s ultimate goal of delivering optimal patient care.

In this Application Assignment, you will explore ways that technology might help address health care management problems with which you are already familiar from past coursework and/or professional experiences, such as issues in human resources, operations, organizational management, or financial management.

Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:

• Identify a specific management challenge in health care that you have learned about through coursework or professional experience. This may be an issue you have researched for an assignment in a previous course, but it need not be. (This week’s Learning Resources include numerous examples of these challenges; review these, as needed, for ideas.)
• Conduct an online search to identify and learn more about one management information system (or application) that can improve performance in this area. Find out about challenges to adoption that this technology might pose.
• Keeping in mind Chapter 13, “IT Alignment and Strategic Planning,” from the course text Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Management consider the various steps an organization would need to take, and the various stakeholders who would be involved, in planning for this system. What would be some of the barriers in planning for this system?

Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

• Briefly summarize the nature and purpose of the management information system you selected, and identify the specific health care setting in which it might be used.
• What challenge(s) would this system address? Describe how this system would lead to improvements in particular managerial functions. How would you expect this system to transform the organization?
• What are key organizational barriers to adopting this system?
• Discuss the ways in which this system might align with an organization’s strategic goals, the processes by which an organization would strategically plan for this system, and the primary stakeholders who would be involved.

Locate a print advertisement for a consumer product that is not nationally recognized.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Briefly (one [1] paragraph) describe the chosen advertisement, and explain where you located it.
2. Analyze the underlying assumptions that the authors of the ad seem to make about the consumers that this advertisement targets. Determine how the ad is using these perceived assumptions to evoke a consumer response.
3. Determine at least one (1) consumer group that the ad excludes, and provide a rationale for why the ad would not appeal to the group(s) that you have identified.
4. Evaluate this advertisement and its relationship with cultural values (i.e.: determine if the ad is designed to emphasize a set of values or if it is designed to change a cultural value in society).
5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA 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 assignment page length

Discussion 1

Select one (1) of the following topics for your primary discussion posting:

•Identify any challenges you have in setting up a time-series analysis in Excel. Explain what they are and why they are challenging. Identify resources that can help you with that.

•Explain how forecasting is used in the real world. Provide a specific example from your own line of work, or a line of work that you find particularly interesting

Discussion 2

Discuss LP Models

Select one (1) of the following topics for your primary discussion posting:

•The objective function always includes all of the decision variables, but that is not necessarily true of the constraints. Explain the difference between the objective function and the constraints. Then, explain why a constraint need not refer to all the variables.

•Pick any constraint from any problem in the text, and explain how to plot the line that corresponds to that constraint.

Compare and contrast In Cold Blood to another filmed depiction of the true crime genre, whether in feature film or TV series form. Have a debatable, persuasive claim and focus on specific points of comparison, using the Lesson in week 7 to guide your structure. Please consult MLA guidance to see how to cite television and film!

 

Identify and discuss the role of five major stakeholders in the U.S. healthcare system. Based on the evidence, what recommendations would you offer to stakeholder roles to effect positive affects in healthcare delivery systems?

Explain the difference between sectoral group, institutional group and promotional group. Provide examples of each. which type of interest group do you believe has the most influence over us politics? Explain why.

Explain why social movements have become more widespread in the past several decades. Provide examples of each explanation. Which reason do you believe is the most compelling and why?

Write a two to four (2-4) page paper in which you:

 

1. Analyze the National Infrastructure Protection Plan and Risk Management Framework, located at http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/NIPP_Plan.pdf, and conclude how it has been designed to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.
2. Determine the purpose of the feedback loop design and argue how it strengthens or weakens the model. Justify your response.
3. Decide if taking a “risk management” approach is suitable for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure. Support your response.
4. Choose the one (1) step that is the most important or has the greatest impact on the other steps of the Risk Management Framework and describe why.
5. Discuss two (2) criticisms of the NIPP model and suggest ways of dealing with those criticisms.
6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA 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 assignment page length.

Over three one-week periods, you will keep a diary of your purchasing activity. Very simply, this will include listing the products, the time, and the location where you made the purchase. You’ll do this on a daily basis over each of the three one-week periods. The effort is to capture specific products and/or brands in your consumer behavior patterns, and to those ends you can ignore most fresh produce (a head of lettuce, unless the brand is known, e.g., Dole bananas). Please do not collect data for 21 disparate days. We’re trying to find patterns in your behavior. The optimum collection period is 21 straight days, but the next best can be three separate seven-day-straight periods.

 

At the end of each seven-day period (seven consecutive days), you will identify three products you seem to “consume” most regularly or consistently. Thinking back on that week, answer the following questions in your journal for each product:

 

• Why did you select that product over a competing brand or product?
• Was it convenient, for example, or did you have to go out of your way because of desire? Was it on sale? Was it a perceived quality matter?
• Articulate your satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the product and/or the purchase experience.

 

Discuss your intent to continue that purchase (or note if you decided to change your purchase pattern and why).

Compare four products on the market today that are using product placement in TV, movies, and videogames. Point out the themes or trends that are present among these products.

 

From the  e-Activity, analyze what has made your brand selection marketable over time. Identify which external factors have occurred that have affected consumer behavior and the strategies involved in keeping the Best Global Brands on this exclusive list.

 

 

E-ACTIVITY——-Go to Interbrand’s Website and review its interactive charts. To access the interactive charts, first scroll to the bottom of the page and select “Rankings”, then select a brand to examine. Use the Internet to research what has made the selected brand marketable over time. Be prepared to discuss.