MGMT 340 CC Health Care Management and Health

MGMT 340 CC Health Care Management and Health

MGMT 340 CC Health Care Management and Health

Discussion 13- Describe the various skills and competencies needed by healthcare managers to effectively lead HCOs. What responsibilities do HCOs have in promoting health and in providing quality care? Use your text or another outside resource to support your response. You must cite at minimum one source at the end of your initial posting.

Remember to include an open-ended question at the end of your post to further engage the class in discussion.

Discussion 14- Describe Health Information Technology (HIT). Explain government’s role in HIT. How does HIT impact healthcare and what are the challenges to implementing it in the future? Additionally, what are the positive and negative aspects of EHR? Use your text or another outside resource to support your response. You must cite at minimum one source at the end of your initial posting.

Remember to include an open-ended question at the end of your post to further engage the class in discussion.

Discussion 14a- Consider the benefits offered by your current employer, or a past employer, and relate those to the benefits described in Chapter 8. How well were your benefits explained when you had a question or if you had an orientation? If you could tell your human resources manager three things that would improve the way in which employees are educated regarding those benefits, what would you recommend? (Remember, even if you think you work for an organization that “doesn’t give you benefits,” there are benefits the government requires your employer to provide.)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.