Group Medical Practices in the U.S.”  Please respond to the following:

According to the textbook, a comparison of several countries with different levels of income shows that quality of healthcare and life expectancy among these nations are similar. However, the cost of care in the U.S. is the highest among the nations in the comparison. Analyze the main specific factors that affect the cost of healthcare services in the U.S. and recommend one (1) way that physician practices can help reduce the overall cost of healthcare services in the U.S. Provide a rationale for your response.

Assess the key different types of physician practices and evaluate three (3) administrative challenges that practice administrators face in providing quality services to the communities they serve. Support your analysis with specific examples.

 

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Group, both static and flexible budgets are key to helping us in various ways.  While static budgets are very limited in their flexibility (no pun intended), they offer a wide range of planning and forecasting benefits, especially as you pointed out, to upper levels of the company.  Flexible budgets, on the other hand, are a great tool when we want to play a game of “what if”.  Well, not a game, but certainly in the decision making process.  :0)  I’ve used these extensively, especially when making decisions about increasing or decreasing production, moving a product line in/out of a business, changing product costs, etc, etc. 

Group, what other advantages and disadvantages do each of these tools offer?

Static and Flexible BudgetsStatic budgets advantages- They are easy to follow and implement since they don’t need continuous updates.When variance analysis is done they offer show insights…

 

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Group Assignment for Lesson 5: Consumerization of Technology (COT) at IFG Case Study Information (Possible Points 36)

Follow the steps below to complete the assignment.

Read the Lesson 5 Consumerization of Technology at IFG3 Case Study on pages 239 through page 242 in the IT Strategy: Issues and Practices textbook.

1. Click on the Group Case Study Assignments link above to work with your group.
2. Click on the link for the case study.
3. Discuss the case study with your group members.
4. Work with the group to write a 2-4 page paper

Answer the Questions Below

1. Describe the problem at IFG as succinctly as you can. Use this description to identify the main stakeholders.
2. IFG can’t afford the resources to identify, define, cleanse, and validate all of its data. On the other hand, building yet another data mart to address a specific problem worsens the data situation. Propose a solution that will enable IFG to leverage a key business problem/opportunity using their BI tools that does not aggravate their existing data predicament.

Use the IT 630 textbook as a reference and two references from the UC Library Resources. Add the citations to match the references. Follow APA Guidelines to document the references. Check out the Basics of APA Style Tutorial to help you with citations and references.

Additional Document Formatting Requirements

1. Save the document using the file naming convention below.
   1. FName_LastName_Your_Group#_Case_Study_Name
   2. Example Using the Naming Convention:ane_Doe_Group1_COT_at_IFG3_Case_Study
2. Save the case study in a location that is easy for you to find and submit later.
3. Spacing Requirements: The document should be double-spaced.
4. Margin Requirements: Use 1-inch Margins
5. Font Requirements: Arial, Courier, Times New Roman Microsoft Word
6. Font Size Requirements: 12 Point
7. Document Background: White
8. Do not insert images in the document.

An effective analysis would first highlight each of these issues and then propose a plan for how IFG might proceed to address them. Rather than addressing them randomly, students should look for the logical order among these issues. The best solutions would reflect a natural order.

1. IFG needs to expand its social media presence with mobile apps and other ways to reach its customers and develop a direct relationship with them to compete with GPL.
2. It needs to find ways to be faster to market with innovative apps while still protecting core company data.   
3. IFG has a data mess with different and often conflicting definitions of data embedded in its core systems. Core data needs to be better defined and streamlined so it can be more effectively used.
4. Information management has to be improved at IFG to prepare for the data tsunami. This needs to involve both business and IT and the many different new types of data that are out there – traditional, social, unstructured and external data.
5. IFG needs practices and policies about what its employees are allowed to do with their own technology – especially relating to privacy and security.
6. IFG’s architecture group needs to establish information, connectivity and contractual processes and standards for any user-purchased applications. These must be flexible but to address the key concerns of legal and security advisors, while enabling the data produced to be more broadly used in the organization.
7. IT needs to introduce collaborative business-IT practices in each business unit to address business needs for flexibility and the enterprise needs for control and protection.
8. Then, IT needs to develop proactive practices to integrate individual business unit demands and experiences into a coherent visionary technical and information strategy that can be continuously adapted as needs and technologies change.
9. The data warehouse and the tools for using it need to be revisited and possibly redesigned in light of new data management practices and data needs.
10. IT needs to identify the new information management, and presentation skills and new development skills and IT must develop a plan for acquiring them.

 

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The City of Philadelphia

If it is part of a large organization (as the National Institutes of Health are a part of the Department of Health and Human services), provide context as to where it fits in the larger organization. Compare the total number of employees of both organizations. Examine and describing funding amounts and sources

 

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Group projects in this class will consist of weekly projects wherein students will present topics to their small groups via the group discussion boards.

Students are expected to review the text and slides for the topic each week. They will pick a

single theory or concept and find an example of this theory in non-academic, reputable, online

publications. Group members will then research applications of OB theory in non-academic,

reputable, online publications; writing a short post on a group discussion board that provides 1)

a quick overview of the article; 2) a definition of the theory; and 3) an example as to how the

theory relates to the article.

Students are also expected to contribute to conversation on other topics that group members

have posted. The grading of the group assignments will be based upon observed participation

of the student, by the instructor. This observation will be informed by student feedback, given

by the group. Both number of posts and quality of posts will be considered. 

Here is an example of a possible post:

In chapter 3, one of the concepts covered in personality is Machiavellianism. Below is an example of a post that has an example of this construct. The post is in bold, while my comments are in normal font:

The article presented discuses the life of the deceased ExSEAL, Chris Kyle, who was shot by an exmarine on a rifle range. The story, to include quotes from Kyle, talks about his time in the SEALs, specifically how he felt about his job as a sniper.

(Paragraph 1…a short overview of the article. The actual topic of the article was his death—remember, the article does not have to be about the construct I am talking about, just give an example of it)

The article clearly demonstrates the Kyle has Machiavellian traits. The text book defines the construct as ‘the use of manipulation, a cynical view of human nature, and a moral code that puts results over principles”. In the context of business, it is most often explained as, “the ends justify the means”. Essentially, that the final outcome of an action, or series of actions, justifies the behaviours that caused that outcome. 

(Paragraph 2…a clear definition of the construct. Notice that even though there are quotes and other information taken directly from a source, there is no need for citing anything. That is not the purpose of this assignment)

A sniper’s job is to shoot individuals, often from a distance. Mr. Kyle did this in the time of war. In the article, he described his first kill as a woman who cradled a toddler with one hand and held a grenade in the other. “I had to do it to protect the Marines,” Kyle told Time magazine a year ago. “You want to lose your own guys, or would you rather take one of them out?” He was able to rationalize killing the woman by saying that the ends (saving the lives of marines) justified his actions. This, like many other instances in the story, is a prime example of Machiavellian behavior.

(Paragraph 3 gives a direct example of the construct from the news article) 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/03/us/texas-sniper-killed-kyle-profile/index.html?hpt=us_c2

(The link is from cnn.com, not some academic article. Also, notice how the actual post is pretty short)

 

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