The US Healthcare delivery does not function as a rational and intergrated network of components designed to work together coherently. Explain what the text mean from this statement.

Describe the importance of program planning in healthcare

1. Using your own words, how would you define the term "value" in healthcare? When you thought of this definition, what factors did you take into account? 2. The term value is almost always analyzed from an economic perspective. Please describe some conflicts embedded within the healthcare delivery system that drive up costs and reduce value. 3. Please identify some reasons why attempts at cost control have not succeeded. *The question in bold needs to be answered. If there is any outside resources used, please provide a link.

What kind of medical information in a large managed care organization database should be kept confidential? Why?  What kind of information in a governmental database should be made public? Why?

The federal Medicare program will only reimburse (pay) for services performed by health professionals who are licensed to practice and certified to participate in the Medicare program.  Let's say someone files a lawsuit arguing that this federal law allowing only licensed and certified health professionals to be paid through the Medicare program discriminates against people who don't have medical training, and therefore violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 5th Amendment? Which of the following best explains how a court would rule in such a case?

Explain how health care robots will make a difference to the health care organization the impact of the technology on patients and or providers?

You are a city council member for a distant suburb of Gotham City, New York. Your suburb does not have its own hospital; in fact, the nearest hospital is 20 miles away. Last week, two competing health care systems both approached the city council about building a hospital within city limits. The city council chairperson has called for a special meeting to discuss these proposals. She is asking all members to do some research and submit a written summary of what ethical, legal, regulatory, and moral factors must be considered by the city council.   What are the most important legal, regulatory, ethical, and moral factors that must be discussed in the meeting? As your classmates submit their summaries, participate in a preliminary online discussion about the various factors that have been presented.

The centralized model of health information exchange A. works by having all participating institutions send copies of their healthcare data to one centralized repository on a regular basis so one regionally comprehensive record can be maintained for each patient. B. insures all patients’ data in the centralized repository is up-to-the-minute accurate. C. allows for member institutions to easily opt out of the exchange and retrieve all of the healthcare data they supplied to the exchange. D. is superior to the federated model of health information exchange.

What is the concept of interoperability and the role of application program interface play between disparate health information systems? How are they valuable in health care?

How can I  identify a long term healthcare organzation  greatest weaknesses.  Discussing  problems with resilience, self-organization, and hierarchy.