National Healthcare Group

array of regulations that the healthcare industry is subject to is vast, and some would argue that this level of complexity contributes to a health system that is not only inefficient but also stifles innovation (Maliyil, 2016). However, one specific healthcare legislation, the HITECH Act has led to an eight-fold increase in the adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems by non-federal acute care hospitals since it was enacted in 2009 (The Office of the National Coordinator for Health…

need for transformation in light of a reforming healthcare system and increasing nursing shortage (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2011). So a two-year initiative committee was founded and the work began. The initiative, which the committee was charged with was the production of a report which included recommendations for an action-focused proposals to direct the future of nursing, comprising changes in community and institutional policies at the national, state, and local levels in regards to…

high-quality and affordable health care to its members and the communities they serve. As an organization, Kaiser Permanente consists of multiple legal entities operating as one company: Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Hospital, and Kaiser Health Plan. Within Kaiser Health Plan, there are many national, regional and core functional areas to manage the marketing, sales, services, and administration of the integrated medical delivery and insurance health care organization. The Actuarial…

On Wednesday, November 11, 2015, I, Anna R. Morrison, was leading my afternoon class, Capstone. Their final assignment was to give a group presentation on the impact of social media. The presentations began around 1:30; each group presenting on the meaning of social media. The presentations were going great as the students had worked very hard with the topic at hand. It was in the second hour of presentations that the reason for this letter presents itself. Mr. Kyle Clevenger, Sophie…

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” implies that beauty is subjective and that one decides what is beautiful and what is not. However, there are things that are objectively beautiful that were created by God. Beauty fits into Christianity because of these inherent beauties, as seen, in nature, in things that are symmetrical, and in things that have order. Inherently beautiful things were created to draw our attention to value and importance in God’s design. First, God created nature to be…

Reflection Paper II Throughout my college experience here in the Carroll School of Management, group work and the ability to work well with others has been emphasized greatly. This makes sense, because in a professional environment, the ability to communicate, listen and contribute within a group leads to success and the achievement of goals. However, none have gone on as long as this project, making it a more realistic example of working on a team. Junior year of college is definitely a…

Presentations have never been my strong suit, whether it is talking about myself in front of a group of people to presenting a complex situation to a class. By taking this course I am hoping that I’ll be able to boost my confidence when it comes to public speaking. I have had to complete many presentation in the past but I have yet to master the ability to present well in front of large groups. The first project that we were assigned in my communication class was to get to know our classmate…

communication among project members” (Frame, chapter 3 pg. 91). There is no team leader, decisions are made by the team, and the project product reflexes inputs from all the team members. This is the ideal of an egoless team structure. In the case of Dogs Group, although the structure was egoless, certain members of the team could not agree on what roles the members should have and this led to conflicts between those members who followed the egoless team structure (exhibit designers and…

Sarah You were a little quite on Wednesday in the first part of the IQ sessions but opened up more in the second half. However on Friday your participation was more even throughout. You did very nice board work; I liked how you engaged the entire group in labeling your drawing not because you did not know but because you wanted more people to participate in the discussion. Importantly, few times you went back to the case making connections between discussed material and patients symptoms…

on during the same time period remained a secret until long after the war ended. In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, and documents began leaking out of the former communist countries. Many of there documents had never been seen before. In 1995, a large group of documents were discovered in Poland which tell a very interesting story about a fascinating object called "The Bell". This is an interesting story that has come out. It's one of those stories, incidentally that's come out since the German…