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This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers<br>America vs Germany<br>America vs Canada<br> MHA 620 Week 1 Assignment Compare and Contrast U.S. Health Policy<br> Review the health polic(ies) of each of the following countries. Then, choose a country from the following list to compare and contrast with the current U.S. healthcare system: <br>• China <br>• England <br>• Germany<br>
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MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 1 DQ 1 Understanding the Role of Health Policy FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 1 DQ 1 Understanding the Role of Health Policy Health policy is simply a health plan that has been written with specific strategies or objectives to accomplish the overall goal of the plan. Health policy (popular or unpopular) plays an important role in the delivery of healthcare services. Please review Chapter 1-Introduction in its entirety to understand the premise of health policy.To successfully complete this discussion an understanding to the role of policies in health care is imperative. In a minimum of 250 words discuss the following questions: • What is the premise of healthcare policies? (consider the following: past/current policies that impact provider-insurer shift) • Is healthcare access a “human right” or a “privilege”? Provide a rationale. • Who are the major players in health policies? • How does health policy impact society?
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 1 DQ 2 Effects of Current Health Policies FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 1 DQ 2 Effects of Current Health Policies Health policies must undergo policy processes of analysis prior to implementation. Pre-process, intra-process, and post-process all have major impacts on healthcare organizations and consumers. Based on the policy many people may face economical or social change, which could either be just/unjust. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: • Evaluate the ACA’s impact on healthcare quality and cost. • How does the ACA impact society as a whole? • Highlight the relevance of the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP), as it relates to the ACA.
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 2 Assignment Process of Identification & Definition (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers MHA/620 Week 2 Assignment Process of Identification & Definition Review the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health in Chapter 7 of your textbook. Then, write a research paper fulfilling the following requirements. · Why is the definition of health important to health policy? · Define the term “target population” as it relates to health policy. · How do societal influences impact the identification and definition process of policy? · Research a healthcare organization and highlight how their policies align or misalign with the WHO’s definition of health. The paper
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 2 DQ 1 Health Policy Options FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 2 DQ 1 Health Policy Options Health Policy Options. The U.S. spends more money per capita on healthcare when compared to other developed countries. Both state- and federal-level alternatives highlight access to care and cost of care. The ACA has impacted all health policy options. Review Case 5, “Key Features of the Affordable Care Act, by Year,” in Chapter 5 of your textbook. Then, review alternate scholarly sources (Asford’s Library or scholarly health policy journals) and discuss the following questions in a minimum of 250 words: • Are the key issues of the law highlighted? Provide a rationale. • What are the key changes to the implementation of the ACA over the years?
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 2 DQ 2 Organizational Strategies of Adopting Health Policies FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 2 DQ 2 Organizational Strategies of Adopting Health Policies Organizational Strategies of Adopting Health Policies. Policy adoption can be very challenging to healthcare leaders. Many organizations employ consultants to assist with the implementation of new policies. There have been significant changes to health policies over the past few years that have forced providers to institute implementation strategies, ensuring that they remain competitive and profitable. Review the “Global Medical Coverage” case (Chapter 6 ), and discuss the following questions in a minimum of 250 words: • Does Blue Ridge Paper Products’ (BRPP) policy differ from a traditional employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)? What are the implications? • Are there any ethical concerns in the case? Why? Why not?
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 3 Assignment Evidence-based Medicine Policy Analysis (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers MHA 620 Week 3 Assignment Evidence-based Medicine Policy Analysis Evidence-based medicine (EBM), previously translational medicine, can be defined as improving care based on empirical research and/or hands-on practice. The EBM’s approach is based on either direct patient care (bottom-up) or an experiment translated into guidelines (top-down). EBM is used in either in conjunction or as quality assessment tool(s) for continuous quality improvement (CQI). The healthcare leader must utilize the evidence to promote healthcare quality. · Explain the process of evidence-based analysis. · Highlight the major players and their roles in EBM policy (i.e., government, providers, patients, etc.).
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Technology Policy Analysis FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Technology Policy Analysis Technology has proven effectiveness in speed of information transmission, which leads to prompt healthcare service delivery, prompt treatment of illnesses and better health outcomes. Policies drive the success of health technology through practice standardization. However, cost, safety and security, ethics, and legality have all been target areas of health technology policies. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: • Define health technology policy. • What are some key terms in health information technology? List and define two. • What organizations safeguard health policies? List at least two organizations and a policy they safeguard. • Provide a brief description of the U.S. Food Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) role in health policy.
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 3 DQ 2 Analyzing Political Feasibility FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 3 DQ 2 Analyzing Political Feasibility For a healthcare organization to be politically viable they must have influential stakeholders. In that, the stakeholders must understand limitations and be able to adopt accordingly. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: • Highlight and present one key player/stakeholder (i.e., federal, state, or local) in political health policy in your state. • Choose two (2) state/local/federal healthcare organizations. Then, compare and contrast their political viability in terms of one/more of their health polic(ies).
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 4 Assignment Implementation of Strategy (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers MHA 620 Week 4 Assignment Implementation of Strategy Healthcare organizations require astute handling of strategy implementation. The processes must be followed with a contingency plan in place for failed strategic objectives leading to the goal. · Review the stages of implementation in Chapter 13 of your textbook. · Review “340B Drug Pricing Program Oversight” case in your textbook (Chapter 13). · Provide a written analysis of the implementation phases that were used/excluded in the “340B Drug Pricing Program Oversight” case.
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 4 DQ 1 Economic Viability Policy Analysis FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 4 DQ 1 Economic Viability Policy Analysis Healthcare organizations must be economically viable to implement and maintain policies. Cost-benefit analysis measures viability and highlights when or where changes need to be made to ensure financial sustainability. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: • Find a healthcare company (department or company-wide) of your choosing and examine the financial policy within that company that supports or negates sustainability (i.e., cost, benefit, and outcome). Provide a rationale for your position.
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 4 DQ 2 Process of Value Analysis FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 4 DQ 2 Process of Value Analysis Assessing value in health care is based on outcome. The policy that is implemented to analyze value must be one that is specific to the healthcare organization, and must address the value issues (i.e., past, current, and forecasted). It is important to note that ethics and values are both inclusive and exclusive of each other in terms of policy; from both the stance of “professional decision-making” and “policy analysis.” In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: • Review the “General Requirements for Informed Consent” in Chapter 12 of your text. • Create an Informed Consent (for a hypothetical human subject research) using items 1 – 8 under Section A.
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 5 Assignment Maintaining the Loyalty of Stakeholders (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers MHA 620 Week 5 Assignment Maintaining the Loyalty of Stakeholders To maintain political, governmental, staff, and patient loyalty, the healthcare organization must provide a sense of organizational stability and view of the legislative landscape. In Chapters 14 and 15 we have researched and investigated the need to align both public opinion with staff trust. The political landscape is the basis for healthcare policy, guidance, state, local, and community support (both fiscal and legal) engaging in political trade-offs to stabilize the healthcare industry (such as in the cost, pharmaceuticals, insurance premiums, and organizational ROI in the healthcare industry). Healthcare organizations must provide the necessary guidance and advocacy for stakeholders in the setting of both state and federal legislature as a voice of reason, authority, and integrity.
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 5 DQ 1 The Trade-Off Analysis FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 5 DQ 1 The Trade-Off Analysis In considering healthcare system trade-offs, politics plays a major role. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the current Medicaid system in the United States based on individual state policies is important to the political and legal platforms each state faces. As organizations seek to implement HMIS and IT program development, upgrades, and evaluations the organizations must be capable of separating the IT failures, budget overruns, and exogenous changes in enrollment that affect the healthcare system. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: • Who is responsible on the state political level to propose legislature to overcome healthcare organizations concerns (trade-off) relating to patient enrollment and budget overruns? • What is your state’s responsibility in preparation for healthcare change such as the ACA?
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 5 DQ 2 Overcoming Public Disinterestedness FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 5 DQ 2 Overcoming Public Disinterestedness Understanding the responsibility and concerns of healthcare is important in creating policies that leadership can use to streamline success. If strategic leadership is not realized over time, healthcare organizations’ political influences may face challenges and create public disinterestedness in health policies. These issues create restrictions on the healthcare organization’s ability to meet its financial budget, gain community’s trust and involvement, and secure political influence(s). This negatively impacts the overall performance of the healthcare organization. The ideas of process innovation, risk taking, health building analysis, and governance greatly impacts “sense-making” for those being led.
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 6 DQ 1 The Past, Current, and Future of U.S. Health Policy FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com The Past, Current, and Future of U.S. Health Policy Health policy reinforces decision-making and planning processes that aim explicitly at societal health improvement. Policy, if implemented meticulously, allows healthcare leaders to forecast based on financial, political, and societal trends. Policy also provide objectives and contingency plans to facilitate growth through definition and/or redefinition of the company’s mission and vision (McLaughlin & McLaughlin, 2014). In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following: o Choose one of the following processes and apply it to ACA: § Policy Analysis Process of Identification & Definition § Policy Analysis Process of Health Technology Assessment § Policy Analysis Process of Evidence-Based Medicine
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 6 Final Policy Research Paper (Policy response to the problem of suicide in Australia) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 6 Final Policy Research Paper The final policy paper is cumulative and covers Chapters 1 - 16 of McLaughlin and McLaughlin (2014) textbook. To complete the final assignment you are required to use at least eight (8) peer-reviewed sources with at least two (2) from Ashford University Library. Click to watch Kaiser Permanente Overview of U.S. Health Policy. • Choose four policy analysis processes and apply each one to a policy case (you may use a previous week’s case) or choose from the list below: o TransPacificPartnershipAgreement o PolicyresponsetotheproblemofsuicideinAustralia o Cross-national analysis of expenditure changes in 27European nations 1995–2011 o Proposition 63: Should Other States Follow California’s Lead?
MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 MENTOR Career Begins/mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 6 Final Policy Research Paper (Proposition 63 Should Other States Follow California’s Lead) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mha620mentor.com MHA 620 Week 6 Final Policy Research Paper The final policy paper is cumulative and covers Chapters 1 - 16 of McLaughlin and McLaughlin (2014) textbook. To complete the final assignment you are required to use at least eight (8) peer-reviewed sources with at least two (2) from Ashford University Library. Click to watch Kaiser Permanente Overview of U.S. Health Policy. • Choose four policy analysis processes and apply each one to a policy case (you may use a previous week’s case) or choose from the list below: o Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement o Policy response to the problem of suicide in Australia o Cross-national analysis of expenditure changes in 27European nations 1995–2011 o Proposition 63: Should Other States Follow California’s Lead?