Healthcare
Throughout the session, you will create the components of a research paper, which will be submitted in its entirety during Week 7. The paper will involve researching the demographic profile of a specific healthcare entity in your area (for example, where you live), identifying healthcare needs based on that profile, proposing a specific health service to be analyzed based on those needs, and developing a basic budgeting plan for that healthcare entity. You want to concentrate specifically on an essential healthcare department to do your budget planning.
The demographic site analysis provides a summary of a specific market area. For this paper component, you should choose a specific geographic area (locality, zip code, or census tract) and prepare a demographic profile of the people who live there from data available at www.census.gov or from other demographic resources you may find (maybe from the local Chamber or government sources). This profile should provide specific information, including relevant facts and figures. You are encouraged to include graphs or charts that help describe the demographics of your geographic area (at least one is required). Be sure to cite all of your sources within the text and at the end of the paper in the Reference listing.
Based on this demographic profile, you will analyze what sort of healthcare needs one might anticipate in the geographic area. In other words, what does this demographic profile tell you about the needed healthcare services or products? Are all these needs currently being met? If not, which needs might provide a market opportunity? During this section, you will get a better idea of what healthcare entity to choose in your budget planning and analysis.
In this section, you will identify a specific healthcare market sector to analyze. For example, you may identify a hospital, a home for older adults, an urgent care center, a mental health facility, or any other health-related organization to analyze.
In the demographic site analysis, you should have previously identified unmet healthcare needs and opportunities for your geographic area. In this section of the paper, you will go into greater detail by choosing a specific healthcare department from the healthcare entity chosen to plan for your budgeting analysis.
In the budget analysis component, you should identify a specific department in a healthcare organization. You must prepare a budget for this particular department. You should reach out to your healthcare community and meet with a healthcare representative who can help identify some pertinent budgeting items for the departments. You may find it difficult to speak with healthcare representatives, but it is not required to complete this project. However, it is a good idea to make contact with these designated healthcare entities. The knowledge gained can be quite useful in preparation for your budget. You can use the textbook as a guide in creating your sample budget. In addition, scholarly sources such as journals, articles, business magazines, and the World Wide Web can be tools used in this process.
The key of this section is to get a glance of the role that a Health Information Manager plays in the healthcare organization. For example, a budget may include salaries, supplies, utility, and so forth. The Health Information Manager prepares a budget in order to maximize the organization’s resources.
You should use Excel to prepare a sample budget. In addition, you must write a short text component that explains the healthcare sector chosen, which department was used for budgeting, and an explanation or analysis of the budgeted items.
In this final piece of your Course Project, you will develop a brief budgeting plan for your healthcare organization or department. In this section, you should:
1. identify the overall budgeting goals;
2. identify 3?5 specific budgeting objectives (these should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and have a time element); and
3. identify specific budgeting strategies for achieving the objectives and goals. This includes:
a. department strategies (what will your department gain?);
b. employee strategies (how will you maximize employee work output?); and
c. promotion strategies (how will you promote your budgeting tactics?).
4. You may also identify an action plan used for implementing your strategies (this typically identifies who will do what by when). Remember, the Health Information Manager is the key player.
Your completed research paper will simply bring together all three previous components and should incorporate any needed changes, based on suggestions from the instructor. You should also include an introduction to the paper, which previews the components, a conclusion to the paper, and a complete Reference Listing or Bibliography at the end. The total research paper should be 1,200 words in length with 8 or more references.
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