select two different states and locations (city or county) to compare the living wage estimates and poverty wage for a family with one adult and one child designated for the two states and selected locations. Make sure to find two states that have more than $2.00 difference in living wage estimates. Suggest at least two reasons for the differences.
Electronic Health Records Specialist Employment Opportunities
Complete Parts A and B of this worksheet.
Part A
Resource:Ch. 2 of Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices (3rd ed.)
Choose two of the following health information management professional roles based on the information contained in Ch. 2 of Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices (3rd ed.).
- Health records specialist
- Health records clerk
- Health insurance specialist
- Vendor sales
- Health data analyst
- Office secretary
- Other role approved by your instructor
Complete the following table for the twoprofessions you have chosen. Each box must contain 25 to 50 words per box that do the following:
- Describe how health records are used as well as the duties performed in the role.
- Explain the training and credentials needed for the role.
- List any professional organization(s) available for membership associated with the position.
- List the work environments in which these positions can be readily found.
| Role | Duties Performed | Training Credentials Required | Associated Professional Organizations | Work Environments |
| Role One | ||||
| Role Two |
Part B
Use the Internet or other means to search employment opportunities for the EHR specialist roles you selected in Part A.
Answer the following questions based on your search.
- What are the titles of the positions you found? What type of organization(s) are they found in?
- What experiences or qualifications do you have that would fulfill the requirements for these positions? Explain in 50 to 100 words.
- Suppose you were applying for the positions you found. Using 25 to 50 words for each position, list and describe three ways that you would use your education and experience to stand out from other candidates applying for the position. Be specific about qualities and strengths unique to you.
- List and describe three areas for improvement that might hinder your ability to get hired for these positions. For each area for improvement, describe a specific way that you are working on or will actively work on to overcome and strengthen this area. Explain in 25 to 50 words for each area of improvement in each position.
cost accounting
- Buffay Book Company has two divisions: The Brick and Mortar division sells books through more than 100 bookstores throughout the United States; the Internet division was formed 18 months ago and sells books via the Internet. Data for the past year are:
Brick and Mortar Internet
Division Division
Operating assets $ 172,200,000 $ 14,400,000
Total revenues 285,600,000 86,500,000
Net operating income 27,740,000 985,000
Cost of capital 13% 15%
# of full-time equivalent employees 900 360
- Compute the return on investment (ROI) of each division, and break down each division’s ROI into components that measure operating efficiency and the efficiency in asset utilization. Based on the information above, would you expect any difference between the ROIs of each division?
- Presented below are some average financial statistics (over the past three years) of two of Buffay’s competitors—Bing Bookstore, a largely brick-and-mortar book retailer, and Rainforest.com, which sells books (and all sorts of other things) over the internet. Given these data, how would you suggest improving the ROI of each division of Buffay Book Company? What other information would be helpful in measuring the performance of each division?
Bing Bookstore Rainforest.com
Net operating profit margin 0.0% 1.8%
Operating asset turnover 3.75 4.63
- The CFO of Buffay has solicited feedback on how to improve the system of performance measurement at the company, and has received the suggestions below. Evaluate each of the following proposals. Explain how these may (or may not) improve the performance measurement and evaluation system.
- a) Construct and implement two balanced scorecards, one for each division, and measure performance of both managers.
- b) Include a total-company financial performance metric (such as total-company ROI) in each manager’s compensation contract.
- c) Evaluate the performance of each manager subjectively.
- d) Establish a belief system by articulating the company’s mission statement (which has not been created).
Henri Fayol and Systematic Management
Strategic Management and Stakeholders
think about your own current or previous place(s) of employment and examine the function of strategic management within the organization. In your journal, identify the organization and its stakeholders. Explain how the strategic management plan takes the needs and demands of those individuals and groups into consideration when preparing budgets. In addition, explain two ways that the identification of stakeholders has increased the effectiveness of the organization or improved public relations.
Stereotypes Set by Culture and Society
Stereotypes Set by Culture and Society
Sociology came into existence in the 19th century to explain the enormous changes occasioned by the Industrial Revolution, urbanization, and an individualistic mind-set. Unlike agrarian communities, the emerging urban populations were large, numbering in the tens of thousands.
These city dwellers neither grew their own food nor knew each other. In characterizing individuals, they found it convenient to speak in categories or stereotypes. According to the structural-functional perspective, stereotypes served an important communication function, helping them to compare and contrast groups.
The social-conflict perspective, on the other hand, argues that stereotypes serve the needs of those groups and categories benefitting from social inequality. Stereotypes help dominant groups to contrast social categories and to justify subordinating the less powerful. Furthermore, by lumping subordinate groups into faceless statistical categories, members of the dominant group dissipate the guilt they would have felt were they dealing with the subordinate categories as individuals.
Based on your readings, the online lectures, and your understanding of the above-noted issues, prepare a response to the following question:
Is it possible to speak of ethnic groups in America in terms other than stereotypes?
Create a response in 3 paragraphs to the discussion question. Cite sources and include references in your response.
personal health
1.Do you think most students are proactive in improving and/or maintaining their own personal health? Why or why not?
2. Are you prepared to make positive behavior change to overall health? What do you think will be the biggest challenge to do so.
3. Go online and or in your local community centers, what are some activities you can commit to improve your health. If you are already actively involved what are you currently doing?
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? Why or why not?
2. Are you prepared to make positive behavior change to overall health? What do you think will be the biggest challenge to do so.
3. Go online and or in your local community centers, what are some activities you can commit to improve your health. If you are already actively involved what are you currently doing?
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Digital InvestigationsII
You are the senior forensic examiner and incident response team member for a large corporation responsible for protecting national security data and personally identifiable information (PII).
After a string of security incidents being reported by competing organizations, you have been asked to attend a meeting with the corporate executives, and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to discuss the current security practices and policies for intrusion detection and monitoring. Your efforts will ensure the same threats will be successfully detected, analyzed, and eradicated before they can affect the corporation.
The CTO is especially concerned intruders and attackers may possibly exploit weaknesses in systems used for common services, such as Web sites and e-mails, unless computer security and intrusion detection methods and policies are applied immediately.
Provide a technical synopsis of what you might state in this meeting about how the corporation will be conducting network and OS investigations using forensics tools.
Assignment Guidelines
Include the following for your technical synopsis in a Microsoft Word memo:
- A title page
- A report that includes the following:
- An introduction to the contents of the report
- Provide a high-level overview of why the organization must use IDS/IPS, WinDump, Snort and TCPdump tools for network monitoring and data capture.
- Provide a high-level explanation for how forensics investigators perform real-time computer imaging, image verification and authentication over the network using enterprise forensics tools
- A conclusion to the report
- A reference page in APA format
The report should be a minimum of 3–5 pages in length (excluding the title page) and neatly formatted. Sources should be properly cited in APA style.
Rights in Health Care
the definition of quality varies based on personal perspective, background, culture, and individual need. Regardless of definition, quality is demanded and oftentimes, not provided.
Focus your discussion on the following:
- Which of the following should define medical quality?
- A health care professional
- The government
- Third-party payers
- Illustrate what your definition of quality looks like.
Be sure to provide 2–3 scholarly resources to support your discussion. 400 words. APA format.
Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies
Choose two (2) public corporations in an industry with which you are familiar – one (1) that has acquired another company and operates internationally and one (1) that does not have a history of mergers and acquisitions and operates solely within the U.S. Research each company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- For the corporation that has acquired another company, merged with another company, or been acquired by another company, evaluate the strategy that led to the merger or acquisition to determine whether or not this merger or acquisition was a wise choice. Justify your opinion.
- For the corporation that has not been involved in any mergers or acquisitions, identify one (1) company that would be a profitable candidate for the corporation to acquire or merge with and explain why this company would be a profitable target.
- For the corporation that operates internationally, briefly evaluate its international business-level strategy and international corporate-level strategy and make recommendations for improvement.
- For the corporation that does not operate internationally, propose one business-level strategy and one corporate-level strategy that you would suggest the corporation consider. Justify your proposals.
- Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality 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; 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 page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
- Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.