Tag: Health Care Systems

Policies are constantly reviewed and considered to help improve the federal, state, or local health care systems. Each one has the potential to affect each of us on a daily basis, so careful consideration must be given when policies are proposed. It is important to understand the process of how a topic eventually becomes a policy.
Using your approved topic from Week Two, write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on the complete process of how your chosen topic becomes a policy. In your paper, include the following information:

• State the objective of the policy.
• Define the formulation stage.
  • Explain the process to formulate your policy and the involvement of stakeholders.
• Define the legislative stage.
  • Explain the legislative body’s approval process needed to gain support (i.e., funding) for the policy and how stakeholders influence legislators’ decisions.
• Define the implementation stage.
  • Identify the accountable parties and their roles in the various implementation stages of your policy.

Cite a minimum of 5 references.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Policies are constantly reviewed and considered to help improve the federal, state, or local health care systems. Each one has the potential to affect each of us on a daily basis, so careful consideration must be given when policies are proposed. It is important to understand the process of how a topic eventually becomes a policy.

Choose a health care topic for which a policy might be created. Be sure to look ahead and choose a policy topic that will be suitable for both parts of this assignment, due in Weeks Three, Four, and Five. Your topic should be rather narrow. For example, “women’s health” would be too broad, but a policy to encourage women to get mammograms would be narrow enough to apply the policy creation concepts discussed later in the class.

Submit a 350-word proposal for your chosen policy that explains your initial thoughts.

Obtain faculty approval for the policy that you have selected and on which you will complete your assignment for Weeks Three, Four, and Five.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Introduction

Managers of healthcare organizations have a lot to learn from the management practices and breakthrough ideas from other industries. Your Final Project Report should identify three “big ideas” that represent great opportunities to improve the performance of healthcare organizations.
Your Final Project should define the management practice or breakthrough idea, discuss the expected impact on improved patient outcomes, higher levels of customer satisfaction, lower costs, etc., and identify the critical success factors associated with implementing these programs in a health services organization. You should identify which of these management practices or breakthrough ideas has, in your judgment, the greatest, second greatest, and third greatest potential benefit for healthcare organizations. Clearly explain the rationale for your rankings.
You are free to consider any management practices or breakthrough ideas so long as they originated outside the healthcare industry. Some examples you might consider include:

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Time-based Strategic Management
• Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
• Core Competency-Based Strategic Management
• Service Level Agreements
• Virtual Teaming
• Just in Time Manufacturing Systems
• Team-based Organizations and Performance Management Systems
• Competency-based Human Resource Systems
• Outsourcing
• The Internet

Deliverable

Your final report should not be fewer than eight pages in length or more than twelve pages. In terms of organization, your final report should contain the following sections:

Executive Summary

For each management practice or breakthrough idea:

• Definition and Discussion of the Management Practice or Breakthrough Idea
• Expected Benefits for a Healthcare Services Organization
• Implementation Challenges and Critical Success Factors.