healthcare management

For this task, you will select one of the healthcare management opportunities encountered in a previous performance assessment during your Healthcare Management program. You will then select one of four professional lenses through which you will frame the deliverable. You will conduct research and analysis to support your recommendations to help the selected healthcare organization overcome the opportunity identified. You will identify and justify recommendations to help improve the healthcare organization—from the conception of an idea all the way through implementation.

Note: Any information that would be considered confidential, proprietary, or personal in nature should not be included in the actual task submission to WGU. Do not include the actual names of people, suppliers, the organization(s), or other identifiable information. Fictional names should be used. Also, organization-specific data, including financial information, should not be included but should be addressed in a general fashion as appropriate. Work performed for a client or an employer is their property and should not be used without expressed written permission.
REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A.  Prepare a report (suggested length of 8–12 pages) in which you do the following:
1.  Identify one of the following healthcare management opportunities you encountered in one of the previous performance assessments completed in this program:
•   Applications in Healthcare Values and Ethics
•   Applications in Technology Applications in Healthcare
•   Applications in Financial Resource Management in Healthcare
•   Applications in Healthcare Management and Strategy

2.  Identify one of the following professional lenses:
•   payer
•   manager
•   technology professional
•   clinical professional

3.  Summarize the opportunity selected in part A1 from the perspective of the professional lens selected in part A2.

4.  Provide a process overview by doing the following:
a.  Describe the process as it is being performed today.
i.  Describe the operational environment.
ii.  Outline the sequence of events of the process.
iii.  Describe the constraints of the process.
iv.  Describe risk factors of the process.

5.  Propose a process that addresses the constraints and risk factors identified in part A4aiii and part A4aiv by doing the following:
a.  Describe the proposed process that addresses the constraints and risk factors identified in part A4aiii and part A4aiv.
i.  Outline the sequence of events of the new process.
ii.  Identify potential constraints of the new process.
iii.  Identify potential risk factors of the new process.
iv.  Discuss how this new process impacts its external environment.

6.  Develop an implementation strategy for your proposed process from part A5 by doing the following:
a.  Describe your implementation strategy for the proposed process.
i.  Identify all stakeholders and their roles.
ii.  Describe any new technology solutions.
iii.  Describe any training impacts.
iv.  Describe any operational considerations.
v.  Identify all potential costs of implementation (both monetary and non-monetary).

b.  Describe how you would deploy the strategy from part A6.
i.   Illustrate a phased implementation of the strategy.