Discuss how population health addresses social determinant issues using care tool and NOWPOW

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-Please discuss Northwell CareTool https://www.northwell.edu/about-us/our-organization/northwell-health-solutions/care-management-technology
– Please discuss how population health addresses social determinant issues using care tool and NOWPOW
https://medcitynews.com/2019/06/northwell-nowpow/
– Discuss experience using Power BI to illustrate data about NOW POW and the benefits of using POWER BI.. I’m going to attach a chart i made using power bi, it should be inserted in the paper
– Discuss how the meetings allowed me to understand how social determinants play an important role in health outcomes.

Outline at least 4 proposed solutions to your board of directors, and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each with regard to return on investment, break-even analysis, improvement in patient demand, improved patient safety and quality, and so forth.

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A number of quantitative methods are utilized to make decisions and recommendations in health care. Quantitative methods are used to analyze and predict the demand for patient services, to determine capital expenditures for facility and technology enhancements, and to guide the manager in implementing quality controls. Whether or not you are familiar with quantitative methodologies, as a manager, you are responsible for the outcomes of implementing the decision based on the method used.

Your agency or institution has noted a negative trend in profitability for a diagnostic imaging cost center over the past 4 quarters.

As a manager, you need to make some recommendations to take to your board of directors to reverse the negative trend. Your first priority is to find a quantitative method to help you in making decisions. Complete the following:

Choose a quantitative method (e.g., the decision tree model).
Describe the model that you are using.
Outline at least 4 proposed solutions to your board of directors, and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each with regard to return on investment, break-even analysis, improvement in patient demand, improved patient safety and quality, and so forth.
Summarize how the decision-making method helped you make objective recommendations to your board of directors.

Discuss the single most significant weakness in the U.S. health care system and its impact on the utilization of health care services

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  1. From your research on the World Health Organization website, discuss the single most significant weakness in the U.S. health care system and its impact on the utilization of health care services.

Make at least one recommendation for addressing that weakness from a marketing perspective.

Anticipate what major changes will take place in the health care industry over the next 25 years and how the marketing of health care will differ as a result of those changes.

Provide specific examples to support your response.

  1. Analyze the SWOT and Five Forces analyses and determine which would be more valuable from a marketing perspective. Provide specific examples of how you could use the results of either analysis to support informed marketing efforts.

Recall a situation in which you sought health care of some type (not including care for an injury or illness). Determine if your situation followed the five steps of the buying decision model and what role marketing may have played in your seeking care. How does a personal decision differ from an organization’s buying decision process? Provide specific examples and rationale to support your response

  1. Briefly describe a health care provider of your choice and determine the best methods to gather and respond to market intelligence on opportunities and threats specific to that organization. Include how internal records or data would be included in your evaluation. Explain your rationale. (Consider using the product or service that you chose for the Brochure and Email assignment.) The service used was Davita Kidney Care https://www.davita.com/treatment-services/home-dialysis HHD.

Referring to the same health care provider, determine the best possible methods for conducting reliable market research specific to the organization you selected. Explain your rationale. From the discussion preparation research, discuss how you would use the source you found on the Internet to craft a marketing strategy for your chosen health care provider.

  1. Go to the website of your chosen health care organization within 100 miles of your home. Review at least two of their social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, or YouTube). Critique their website and at least two of their social media platforms. Davita Kidney Care of Pinehurst NC

What recommendations would you suggest for improvement?

Do the website and social media platforms target the appropriate audience?

  1. Use the health care provider you selected to research for your discussion preparation. Discuss the best way for this health care provider to distinguish and differentiate its product or service offerings from those of its competitors. Provide specific examples to support your response. Davita Kidney Care of Pinehurst NC

Next, describe a novel product or service (please be as creative as you like) and briefly discuss a brand management strategy. Discuss the steps in the development process and identify the step that may pose a major challenge. Provide specific examples to support your response.

  1. Referring to the same novel health care product or service you came up with last week, determine how you would assess demand for the product or service and the cost to produce your product or deliver your service. Also determine how you would establish a price. Davita Kidney Care of Pinehurst NC

Provide specific examples and a rationale to support your response.

Describe a situation that would require you to adapt the price of your product or service.

Consider the impact of government and private payers on your pricing strategies. Provide specific examples to support your response.

Discuss how your water, vitamin, and mineral intake affect your health and wellness. What conditions are you at risk of developing based on your intake of the nutrients that you selected? Identify a behavior modification strategy and explain how you can use this strategy to improve your water, vitamin, and mineral intake. 

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Write an essay about your dietary habits.Write your essay for an audience who has limited knowledge of the subject. Be sure to define the terms used.

Create a table of your personal micronutrient intake and corresponding guideline for water, two vitamins, and two minerals of your choice. Include the sources of these nutrients in your diet (i.e. specific foods and/or supplements.)

Write a narrative to explain the data in the table

State the functions for water and the selected vitamins (2) and minerals (2).

Discuss how your water, vitamin, and mineral intake affect your health and wellness. What conditions are you at risk of developing based on your intake of the nutrients that you selected?

Identify a behavior modification strategy and explain how you can use this strategy to improve your water, vitamin, and mineral intake.

Discuss at least 2 personal challenges and barriers to meeting/not meeting guidelines. Explain how your physical and social environments affect your ability to meet the micronutrient guidelines.

Analyze the dual role of a manager and healthcare professional. Examine challenges that the health professional compared to those of a non-health professional, may face in terms of leadership style, and the impact these challenges have on organizational culture.

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Analyze the dual role of a manager and healthcare professional. Examine challenges that the health professional compared to those of a non-health professional, may face in terms of leadership style, and the impact these challenges have on organizational culture. The benefits of a health professional manager as an organizational resource may also be included. Explore the career trends of health professionals in organizational leadership positions, such as the types of health professional training that leaders tend to have in common, and the typical demographic background of health professional managers.

Focus on a specific contemporary trend in health care and be sure to include all of the following influences:
• Changes in client characteristics
• Regulation of the health care industry
• Reimbursement patterns and mandates
• Restructuring of health care organizations
• Impact of technology
• Ongoing social and ethical factors

Discuss the importance of fair and accurate financial reporting in the healthcare industry. Support your statements with research. Find additional resources (at least two) and provide an original post of at least 250 words

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Many of the regulations you have read about this week were developed from prior actions within the medical community that warranted changes to be made to protect patients, individuals, investors, and other stakeholders. The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 was born out of several accounting scandals at the time. One of these accounting scandals was HealthSouth Corp., the nation’s largest provider of outpatient surgery, diagnostic and rehabilitative healthcare services at the time (Sec.gov, 2003). Discuss the importance of fair and accurate financial reporting in the healthcare industry. Support your statements with research. Find additional resources (at least two) and provide an original post of at least 250 words

How can we significantly improve our ability to help people in need of mental health treatment? What should we do about the stigma that some attach to seeing a mental health professional? What about the equal stigma of being labeled as someone who is “mental?”

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Looking at one’s own mind can be tricky. For example, how do we know if what we are thinking and feeling is actually normal? Or if being sad is really depression? Or being happy is really a state of complete denial of reality?

In contrast to physical health, mental health does not have the same clarity of disease as breaking a bone, rupturing an artery, or having a viral infection. No – mental health is more…well, mental. It’s more in our heads, in our minds, and in the processes we use to think about things like mental health in the first place.

But despite its lack of clarity, mental health is a real thing nevertheless. For example, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has noted that: “Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are usually short-lived and pass within a couple of days. When you have depression, it interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you and those who care about you. Depression is a common but serious illness.” See: NIMH:

But it’s not just depression that is at issue. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (AADA),

It’s not uncommon for someone with depression to also suffer form an anxiety disorder or vice versa. Further:

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older (18% of U.S. population). Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only about one-third of those suffering receive treatment. So, bottom line is that mental health issues like excessive anxiety and depression are no joke – either at a personal level or at the macro level of the US healthcare system.

But while millions of people suffer from mental health issues, it is also noted above that millions of suffering people are left undiagnosed and untreated.

So what should we do?

How can we significantly improve our ability to help people in need of mental health treatment?

What should we do about the stigma that some attach to seeing a mental health professional?

What about the equal stigma of being labeled as someone who is “mental?”

How do we, as healthcare professionals, best reach out to those that desperately need assistance –without making anyone think we are looking for “crazy” people?

Overall – what is the best way to address the large and underserved need for mental health care?

What is the question to which this study helps answer? Does relaxation help academic performance? What was the primary purpose of the study? The primary purpose was to determine if meditation training affects performance on final exams.

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  • What factors affect our food preferences?
  • What benefits are associated with plant-based foods?
  • What benefits are associated with staying hydrated?
  • What benefits are associated with protein consumption?
  • What benefits are associated with resistance training?
  • What benefits are associated with aerobic exercise?
  • What benefits are associated with stretching?
  • What is a health risk that is associated with obesity?
  • What are some reasons why we have an obesity epidemic today?
  • What factors are associated with longevity?
  1. What is the question to which this study helps answer? Does relaxation help academic performance?
  2. What was the primary purpose of the study? The primary purpose was to determine if meditation training affects performance on final exams.
  3. Who were the subjects? 50 undergrad male & female college students between the ages of 18 and 24.
  4. Summarize the methods: 22 students received 5 weeks of meditation training once a week prior to the end of semester exams; 18 served as control group and received no training. Final exam scores of the two groups were compared.
  5. Summarize the results: Students who received meditation training earned on average an 8% higher score than those who did not receive the training.
  6. What is the complete citation? Anderson, A., Jones, B. and Brown, T. (2015). Exam scores and Meditation. Journal of Stress Management, 10(4), 114-121.

Interview someone who has a chronic illness or someone who has lived with a family member with a chronic illness. Ask questions about the emotional and financial changes that occurred as a result of the diagnosis and how the family adjusted to the person’s illness.

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The purpose of this assignment is to get you thinking about the experience of chronic illness. For this activity, you are required to interview someone who has a chronic illness or someone who has lived with a family member with a chronic illness. This interview should include questions that concern how the illness changed the person and the family. The stories of family experiences with chronic illness tend to be sad, but be sure to ask if there were/are any positive consequences associated with the experience. You should also ask questions about the emotional and financial changes that occurred as a result of the diagnosis and how the family adjusted to the person’s illness. Provide a written summary of your interview and how your discussion fits within the context of what you are learning about chronic illness in this course.

Describe the importance of healthcare coverage (insurance).  End with a clearly worded purpose statement for this project. Discuss two ways healthcare coverage is beneficial (helpful) for the vulnerable/ uninsured populations.

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Baccalaureate education includes learning opportunities of healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments (AACN, 2008).

Complete the Nursing Quality Indicators (NQI) virtual simulation activity to explore the impact of nursing designs on quality measures, including cost, systems, processes, and outcomes of various points of care. The goal of this activity is to think about basic quality and safety investigations that are used to create and measures outcomes of quality improvement processes.

Describe the importance of healthcare coverage (insurance).  End with a clearly worded purpose statement for this project. Discuss two ways healthcare coverage is beneficial (helpful) for the vulnerable/ uninsured populations.

Describe the purpose of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs).  Explain the impact of DRGs on length of stay and payment of services.  Discuss how payments for DRGs are now impacted by quality indicators and measures.

Select one of the patients from the cases you reviewed in NQI.  Summarize two care options provided by the plan that facilitates access for your selected patient.  Summarize two care options that limit access to care for your selected patient.

Repeat this activity with the same patient.  Summarize two care options provided by the second plan that facilitates access for your selected patient.  Summarize two care options that limit access to care for your selected patient.

Summarize at least four priority nursing interventions or considerations to promote self-care for your selected patient to provide high quality, safe healthcare considering nursing-sensitive indicators.  Provide a rationale for each of your selected nursing decisions.