Give a summary of the informatics system of your choice, including its history and background, the founding organization, and how the system currently interacts with the U.S. health care system. Identify the potential opportunities and limitations.

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Health Information Technology Topic (Selection and Rationale)

Supportive Submission #1 requires you to research, choose, and identify the health information technology system.

Give a summary of the informatics system of your choice, including its history and background, the founding organization, and how the system currently interacts with the U.S. health care system. Identify the potential opportunities and limitations.

Conduct outside research to identify a system of your choice. Some examples include electronic documentation systems for health care organizations, mobile applications, and telehealth (including patient portals, personal health records, remote monitoring, etc.).

If you select an application for a mobile device, there will need to be enough research and discussion to write an entire report on its main components, reliability, and influence on population health.

Do you feel obesity and food addiction can be compared to drug addiction? Paleo Diet do you feel this is a realistic way of eating for our generation?

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Body Composition/Causes Of Obesity

1.)Do you feel obesity and food addiction can be compared to drug addiction?

2.)Paleo Diet do you feel this is a realistic way of eating for our generation?

3.)What do you think about the polar bear and/or the turning the tide analogy?

4.)Also share ways that you have reduced fat in your diet and/or what type of physical activity you enjoy.

 

 

What is access to care? How does service availability affect access to care? How do affordability, physical accessibility, and acceptability of services affect access to care? What are some barriers to access to care?

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ACCESS TO CARE

-Description
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate access to care and how health care reform improves access to care for all populations.

Write a 1,250-1,500 word paper answering the following questions: note do not combine questions; each is graded Iindividually

1) What is access to care?
2) How does service availability affect access to care?
3) How do affordability, physical accessibility (delivery), and acceptability (quality) of services affect access to care?
4) What are some barriers to access to care?
5) How is equity of access measured?
6) What are two health care reform measures that have been implemented in the last 10 years to increase access to care? Describe each health care reform measure.
7)Were these health care reform measures successful in increasing access to care? Why or why not?

PAPER MUST INCLUDE
-Title Page
-Outline with subheadings:
-Title
-Introduction and purpose
-Access to Care
-Service Availability
-Affordability
-Physical accessibility (delivery)
-Acceptability (quality) of services
-Barriers
-Equity of access
-How is equity of access measured?
-Two Health Care reform measures implemented in the last 10 years to increase access to care? (Describe each health care reform measure).
-Were the health care reform measure(s) successful in increasing access to care? Why or why not?
-Conclusion (optional)
-References (URL REQUIRED)

Explain what elements are essential in the delivery of long-term care and the effectiveness of the current U.S. health care systems in addressing the needs of an aging U.S. population.

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TOPIC 5 DQ 1

ONLY ATRCILES ACCEPTED FOR THIS ASSIGMENTS ARE ATTACHED (PDF). Reference with URL required.

Explain what elements are essential in the delivery of long-term care and the effectiveness of the current U.S. health care systems in addressing the needs of an aging U.S. population.

Describe one general trend related to health care financing reorganization associated with one of the following: free market, government financing, or employer-based. What is your opinion on the outcome?

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TOPIC 5 DQ2

ONLY ATRCILES ACCEPTED FOR THIS ASSIGMENTS ARE ATTACHED (PDF). Reference with URL required.

Describe one general trend related to health care financing reorganization associated with one of the following: free market, government financing, or employer-based. What is your opinion on the outcome?

Write a summary of your thoughts about that particular article along with making notations from the article to support your summaries.

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The Action of Drug

Write a summary of your thoughts about that particular article along with making notations from the article to support your summaries.

Explain if the Standards reflect the variety of roles that social work has in health care. Provide evidence to support your answer.

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Analyze Practice Standards in the Healthcare Field

For this week’s assignment, utilize the NASW Practice Standards for health care settings that were included in this week’s resources. Review and analyze this document, and then prepare a critical analysis.

Think of how social workers enact interventions to help clients resolve issues when formulating your responses to the following questions:

Explain if the Standards reflect the variety of roles that social work has in health care (based on the current readings and class materials). Provide evidence to support your answer.

Considering what you have read in your other assigned readings this week, explore the relevance of the Practice Standards in today’s ever-changing field of health care.

If you were a newly graduated MSW who was entering the profession as a hospital social worker on an intensive care unit, highlight standards that would be your strengths, and then provide a detailed explanation of why.

Highlight the standards you would need to strengthen (areas for improvement), and then provide a detailed explanation of why.

References: You should cite and reference the NASW Standards documents.

Required Text: Dziegielewski, S. F. (2018). The changing face of health care social work: Opportunities and challenges for professional practice, 4th ed. New Yorchok, NY: Springer Publishing Co.

 

Does media directly influence individuals/populations? What form of online/media formats do you think are most effective in positively impacting actions/behaviors/and decisions to improve overall health and well-being?

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Health Communication Discussion Post #3

Discussion Post #3: Uses and Gratification Theory

The following information is an easy read and provides a platform for thinking about how individuals/patients/populations access and use online media/channels to access health-related information while exploring the impact on decision-making approaches.

Read through the information provided and proceed with composing YOUR thoughts for the Discussion Post. Additional research is NOT required!

  • Brief Overview of the Uses and Gratification Theory

Understanding how people acquire and utilize health-related information has long been recognized as important in health communication. As health professionals, it is important to explore and understand why and how people utilize digital health information. The understanding of the practices better equips health professionals with strategies or approaches in communicating and leverages ways that promote health and wellness. Since online health information rapidly supports immediate access to information, whether evidence-based or opinion-based, individuals access social media to obtain information impacting their health-related decisions.

The Uses and Gratification Theory (UGT) suggests that “audience” members actively pursue specific or selective media to satisfy their own needs. Based on your reading, UGT focuses on the “why” and “how” media and channels are used to achieve their own goals (e.g. for information, entertainment, consensus building). The process for health communication perceives the media user (individual) as an active participant that chooses content and makes informed media choices for exposure to information impacting their decisions/actions. It is common for media users (individuals) to avoid or negate media that is not aligned with their values, attitudes, beliefs, or financial investment decisions.

Think About/Ask Yourself:
Note: You are NOT answering these questions in your discussion post. The questions are presented to encourage health industry professionals to think about their current practices or individual practices associated with accessing health-related information online/media/social media.

*How can the use of media/online information support an individual’s/patient’s inquiry about health-related issues or concerns?
*From a professional perspective, do you encourage individuals/patients to use media/online sources to obtain health-related information and support?
*From a professional perspective, do you encourage individuals/patients to use media/online sources to provide various levels of support in exploring and understanding actions/behaviors needed to achieve their health goals (improved health and well-being)?

The use of social media applications for health-related support purposes can result in a variety of benefits or gratifications that can be categorized under descriptions such as, not limited to, informational support, emotional support, belonging support, and active support.

Keep in mind the following:
Informational support: Informational support addresses shared experiences among others. The sharing of experiences may assist in reducing fears and boosting confidence as they address the challenges associated with their health issues or concerns.
Emotional support: The impacts of emotional supported included in the media/online connection address areas such as hope and reassurance, increased control in managing the concerns and overall situation and the opportunity in gaining a different perspective.
Belonging support: Belonging support reduces feelings of isolation and produces a sense of belonging even though the connecting is merely online through media usage.
Active support: Active support is referred to as the support received when helping others and validates personal meaning in one’s own experience.

READ CAREFULLY

Discussion Post Questions:

Note: You ARE answering these questions in your discussion post.

Section 1:
Media Influence (Category #1)
Question(s) #1: Does media directly influence individuals/populations? What form of online/media formats do you think are most effective in positively impacting actions/behaviors/and decisions to improve overall health and well-being? For example: Is the online/media in the form of social media messages and/or is it evidence-based content that most deeply influences individuals/populations? Why? (Think about your experiences)

 

Social Support & Awareness (Category #2)
Question(s) #2: How do individuals/patients use social media for social support purposes linked to a specific health issue or concern? How does accessing information raise awareness of resources and/or services aligned with their health-related issues? (Provide an example and include the site of reference – Examples: an organization focused on lowering high blood pressure; combating drug-use; reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Identify an area of interest, listed or not listed in the examples. This is STUDENT’s Choice!

 

Personal/Professional Media Practices (Category #3)
Question(s) #3: Think about how YOUR current social media/channels influence your values, attitudes, beliefs, and financial investment decisions. How many social media sites are you engaged in and actively participate regularly in? Does one site take precedence/priority over the others? Why?

Explain how the program achieves its desired outcomes. Is there a gap between the expected and actual program outcomes? Explain why or why not. Would you change any of the outcome measures?

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3-3 Program Critique

Overview
This assignment is an opportunity for you to critique an actual program plan and its evaluation. This critique will get you thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of the program and how to apply the learnings to your own work.

In this assignment, you will critique a health or healthcare program from the literature. Before you begin working on this assignment, please visit the module Resources section and explore the provided program critique reading resource. Then, analyze the information based on expected and actual outcomes, the effectiveness of the program, and the areas of improvement.

This activity will help you analyze the identified program’s flaws and/or shortfalls and understand how these could have been avoided or addressed. Your analysis will help you to take preventive measures while planning your own program for the course project.

Prompt
Write a program critique analysis that critically examines a health or healthcare program intended to meet a specific health need.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Program Outcomes:

Explain how the program achieves its desired outcomes. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Is there a gap between the expected and actual program outcomes? Explain why or why not.
Would you change any of the outcome measures?

Program Effectiveness:

Describe whether you consider this program effective or ineffective, including examples and evidence to support your claims. Consider the following question to guide your response:
What would you need to know about any program to decide if it is effective?

Analysis of Improvement Areas:

Analyze the areas of improvement needed concerning the program’s data collection, analysis, or outcome measures. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Which two areas related to data collection and analysis do you believe need to be addressed to improve this program?
Which two areas related to outcome measures do you believe need to be addressed to improve this program?

Summary and Recommendations:

With respect to the program planning concepts covered thus far within this course, summarize your findings from the program analysis and share your recommendations. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Which two aspects of this program are effective? Justify your answer.
Which two activities would you recommend to improve program outcomes and effectiveness?
Note that all the claims in your deliverable should be evidence-based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the scenario, textbook, or module resources) of credible sources and be current within the last five years. You are required to cite a minimum of two sources, at least one of which should be separate from your own research. Refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing—Graduate located in the Start Here section of the course for additional support. If you need writing support, access the Online Writing Center through the Academic Support module of your course.

Guidelines for Submission
Your submission should be a 2- to 3-page Word document. Also include a title page. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

What were the program’s objectives? Do the results tell me if the program did or did not achieve those objectives? What did this program cost? Were other options considered? Were the resources used, justified – why or why not?

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3-1 PowerPoint

In your 3-1 Project Preparation assignment, you will define, analyze, evaluate, and use program outcomes for your identified health issue from the 1-2 assignment (ATTACHED). To assist you with the assignment, use the evaluation methods noted within the CDC resource article, Types of Evaluation (please see link BELOW). You will plan to gather and analyze data to determine whether the outcomes are meeting the expectations.

  • What were the program’s objectives?
  • Do the results tell me if the program did or did not achieve those objectives?
  • What did this program cost? Were other options considered?
  • Were the resources used, justified – why or why not?
  • Be critical of these programs. If the authors say the program was successful, challenge that – do you believe it was successful?

Overview
In your Module One Project Preparation assignment, you identified a health or healthcare problem in the community. Then, you justified the need for the program to address the identified problem.

In this assignment, you will define, analyze, evaluate, and use the program’s outcomes to address the identified healthcare issue.

Your senior management wants you to identify specific data collection and evaluation methods for your proposed program. Using the identified evaluation methods, you will use data to analyze whether the outcomes are meeting the expectations. To do so, you will explore various evaluation methods and choose the most appropriate methods to evaluate the available information about the desired outcomes. As a part of your final presentation, you will share your evaluation findings with your senior management. You will use the provided outcome measures table template to complete this assignment. This assignment will help you analyze and adjust your desired outcomes and determine if they are meeting the program expectations.

This assignment will help you identify and use data collection and analysis methods to measure the project outcomes. You will use your analysis of outcome measures from this assignment in your course project.

Prompt
Create a presentation including the identified evaluation method for evaluating your program outcomes. This presentation will help you define desired and measurable outcomes for your program. The work you will submit through this assignment will help you complete the course project.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Evaluation Methods: Describe the importance of evaluating the success of a health or healthcare program. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Why is it essential to collect and evaluate data, and how does it help in improving program quality?
Which two evaluation methods do you think are appropriate for your program? Justify your choices.

Evaluation Methods Comparison: Compare the strengths and limitations of your chosen program evaluation method with the other methods you explored. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What are two key strengths and two limitations of your chosen evaluation method?
How would you adjust your evaluation process based on the limitations you have identified?

Outcome Measures: Using the Outcome Measures Table Template, list the outcome measures for your program. Make sure you fill each column of the table. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Why is it necessary to measure the outcomes of your program?
How would you measure a program participant’s understanding or awareness of a topic?

Data Analysis: Describe the analysis method you plan to use for your program, including a justification for your selection. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Which data analysis method would you choose, and why do you think the selected method is the most appropriate for your program?
What type of analysis is required to demonstrate the result of the program?
What would you do if your outcome success targets were met, and what would you do if they were not met?

Note that all the claims in your presentation should be evidence based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the scenario, textbook, or module resources) of credible sources and be current within the last five years. You are required to cite a minimum of two sources, at least one of which should be separate from your own research. Refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing—Graduate located in the Start Here section of the course for additional support.