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In the assignment, you were to compare and contrast a hospital organization or entity by providing an Assessment and Report of Findings in the Hospital Overview.  Reflect on the following within the Discussion Board:

1. Comment on the hospital organizations’ types of program, education, and specialties offered, vision, benefits, work ethic, and/or cultural climate. 

2. List one benefit and/or limitation to pursuing employment with the agency or what was of special interest to you.

Don’t forget to attach the Hospital Entity document to your Discussion Post to show your findings. (Remember to include the Hospital name & location)  so that others can review your assessment and report of findings. 

Create a 3-5 page annotated bibliography and summary based on your research related to best practices addressing one of the health care problems or issues in the Assessment Topic Areas media piece faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Introduction

In your professional life, you will need to find credible evidence to support your decisions and your plans of action. You will want to keep abreast of best practices to help your organization adapt to the ever-changing health care environment. Being adept at research will help you find the information you need. For this assessment, you will review the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues to research, which will be a current health care problem or issue faced by a health care organization that is of interest to you.

Instructions

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

For this assessment, research best practices related to a current health care problem. Your selected problem or issue will be utilized again in Assessment 3. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first two steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking.

1. View the Assessment Topic Areas media piece and select one of the health care problems or issues in the media piece to research. Write a brief overview of the selected topic. In your overview:
   • Summarize the health care problem or issue.
   • Describe your interest in the topic.
   • Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.
2. Identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to health care issue or problem.
   • Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer-reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used. You will select four current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.
     • Refer to the NHS-FPX4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective Library Guide to help you locate appropriate references.
   • Use keywords related to the health care problem or issue you are researching to select relevant articles.
3. Assess the credibility and explain relevance of the information sources you find.
   • Determine if the source is from an academic peer-reviewed journal.
   • Determine if the publication is current.
   • Determine if information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
4. Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. Provide rationale for inclusion of each selected article. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:
   • Identify the purpose of the article.
   • Summarize the information.
   • Provide rationale for inclusion of each article.
   • Include the conclusions and findings of the article.
   • Write your annotated bibliography in a paragraph form. The annotated bibliography should be approximately 150 words (1–3 paragraphs) in length.
   • List the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and use APA format for the annotated bibliography.
   • Make sure the references are listed in alphabetical order, are double-spaced, and use hanging indents.
5. Summarize what you have learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
   • Summarize what you learned from your research in a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper.
   • List the main points you learned from your research.
   • Summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

• Assessment 2 Example [PDF].

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

• Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• APA tutorial: Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] for guidance.
• Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
• Content: Provide a title page and reference page following APA style.
• References: Use at least four scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles.
• APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citation of outside sources in the body of your paper and also on the reference page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
  • Identify academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to a health care problem or issue and describe the criteria used for the literature search.
• Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
  • Assess the credibility and relevance of information sources.
  • Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format.
  • Summarize what was learned from developing an annotated bibliography.
• Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
  • Summarize a health care problem or issue and describe a personal interest in it and experience with it.

Prepare a spreadsheet of cost savings data showing efficiency gains attributable to care coordination over the course of one fiscal year, and report your key findings in an executive summary, 4-5 pages in length. Please make sure references are within past 5 years, and references are cited correctly in APA format to avoid plagiarism

Introduction

Information plays a fundamental role in health care. Providers such as physicians and hospitals create and process information as they deliver care to patients. However, managing that information and using it productively poses an ongoing challenge, particularly in light of the complexity of the U.S. health care sector, with its many diverse settings for care and types of providers and services. Health information technology (HIT) has the potential to considerably increase the productivity of the health sector by assisting providers in managing information. Furthermore, HIT can improve the quality of health care and, ultimately, the outcomes of that care for patients.

The use of HIT has been upheld as having remarkable promise in improving the efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness, and safety of medical care delivery in our nation’s health care system. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to examine how utilizing HIT can positively affect the financial health of an organization, improve patient health, and create better health outcomes.

Preparation

As the senior care coordinator in your organization, your manager has asked you to examine and report on how care coordination can generate cost savings, improve outcomes, enhance the collection of evidence-based data, and improve health care quality for the community. She would like you to compile cost savings data in a well-organized spreadsheet and present your key findings in an executive summary.

Note: Remember that you can submit all or a portion of your draft spreadsheet and executive summary to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version of this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.

Instructions

Determine how care coordination can reduce costs. Compile your cost savings data in a spreadsheet, using Microsoft Excel or a suitable application of your choice. (If you elect to use an application other than Excel, check with faculty to avoid potential file compatibility issues.) Your spreadsheet should contain at least four cost-saving elements. Identify the cost-saving element, current costs, and anticipated savings.

Then create an executive summary using the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX]. Discuss your cost-saving elements and report key findings from your analysis.

Analyzing Cost Savings

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your analysis addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Cost Savings Analysis Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

• Describe ways in which care coordination can generate cost savings.
  • What are your primary evidence-based sources of information?
  • Are your conclusions substantiated by the data?
  • What assumptions, if any, underlie your analysis?
• Explain how care coordination can promote improved health consumerism and effect positive health outcomes.
  • What evidence do you have to substantiate your claims?
• Describe at least five ways in which care coordination efforts can enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality through the application of an emerging health care model.
  • Choose any emerging health care model.
• Present cost savings data and information clearly and accurately.
• Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Supporting Evidence

• Cite 4–5 sources of relevant and credible scholarly or professional evidence to support your cost savings analysis.
• Submit both your spreadsheet and your executive summary.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your spreadsheet and executive summary to your ePortfolio.

• ePortfolio.
  • This resource provides information about ePortfolio, including how to use the different features of the product.
• Online ePortfolio Guidelines [PDF].

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Apply care coordination models to improve the patient experience, promote population health, and reduce costs.
  • Describe ways in which care coordination can generate cost savings.
• Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data.
  • Describe ways in which care coordination efforts can enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality through the application of an emerging health care model.
• Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice.
  • Explain how care coordination can promote improved health consumerism and effect positive health outcomes.
• Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
  • Present cost savings data and information clearly and accurately.
  • Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

In Milestone One, you will submit a draft of your introduction (Section I). Milestone One will encompass the introduction and an annotated bibliography
of at least five peer-reviewed sources that you intend to use. Select a specific issue confronting your healthcare organization that you can effectively address
through your capstone program proposal.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Introduction
This should include a brief statement of the problem, purpose of program, and its impact on your selected healthcare issue. Identify the issue to be
addressed and include an accurate and detailed overview of the issue, including a discussion of the effect of your identified issue on population health
outcomes, vulnerable populations, and your organization’s healthcare reimbursement policies and procedures. In general, include all information that
you think is necessary to establish a comprehensive analysis and foundation for understanding your chosen issue and proposed program. This section
should also describe your target audience (such as healthcare executives, administrators, and clients) in relation to this proposal and why your proposal
would be relevant for this audience. For example, how might your proposal help hospital administrators make effective and ethical decisions surrounding
patient safety and quality?