Electronic Health Record systems

Week 1:

Assignment 1: Paper and Presentation required.

You will write a paper and corresponding presentation.  The paper should be a minimum of 800 words and not more than 1000. Use sub-heads to divide up your paper.  The purpose of this excercise is to get you all in a good place to move forward in the class.  I have read almost all of your critical papers from HAP 301, I have taught this class before and I think it is best for all of us that we start fresh.  Moving on from this assignment we will dive into the different aspects of healthcare management from a business perspective.  Culminating in a basic business plan that will include a break-even and/or feasibility analysis, e.g. bringing on more staff, leasing new equipment.   I am not an English major and I am not expecting you to write perfectly worded essays. This is a business course.  If you end up summarizing and using lots of bullet points, that is fine-and-dandy.

The presentation should not exceed 5 minutes. Practice before you present. Put your talking points in the powerpoint notes section (note: often there are problems w/ the audio/codec so if there are notes then I can just read through them). It makes your life and my life much easier. Make sure to double-check that your presentation works, replay to yourself.

Electronic Health Record systems

Topic: MACRO Analysis of the US Health Care System

Description: Use you knowledge from HAP 301 to give a macro/top-level review of the US Healthcare system. You can use any sources you want as long as they are legit. You can use the supplied textbook, journal articles, videos (e.g. CMS has a ton that are helpful).  Make sure to insert your take on the significance. Note, there isn’t a right or wrong answer.  Every penny has two-sides and each of these elements can even be multifaceted.  I will not be grading you on your position, I just want to see that you understand the dynamic.  For example, about one quarter of all Medicare spending goes toward care for people during their last year of life.

Items to include

Patient Populations with corresponding segments, ex, gender, age groups, top 10 disease states

Give ratios, counts, segments, you can use charts and graphs

Overview of Payors, e.g. Commercial/Private, Medicare, Medicaid

• Don’t forget healthcare spend on each

Don’t forget to mention Medicare Advantage      

• Make sure you complete the pie, that you account for the overall spend
• Make sure the include the ACA markets and how they are subsidized both federally and at the state-level.

Make sure to include forecasts on the growth of healthcare spend

• Make sure to include forecasts on the Medicare Trust going belly-up.  This is a major point
• Overview of Healthcare Services
• Hospitals

Out-patient clinics

• Private and Group practices
• Health clinics
• Make sure to include their overall percentages of healthcare delivery.
• Make sure to note the Tax implications for each, e.g. For-profit and not-for-profit w/ their designations

Upstream and Downstream stakeholders (just a general overview here, all I want to see is that you are aware of the different systems, consider adding counts of customers)

• Electronic Health Record systems
• AllScripts
• Cerner
• EPIC
• GE Centricity
• Praxis
• Diagnostics

Medical Devices

• Pharmaceuticals

Additional Notes:

• Everything must be referenced in APA style
• You must do your own research
• This is a general overview of the Healthcare system, a look from 30,000 feet.  Don’t spend too much time on any one area, they are all important. As the course progresses we will dive deeper into each section w/ an emphasis/perspective on Healthcare Management.