The health care scene: contemporary trends

The Health Care Scene: Contemporary Trends

As health care leaders, it is important to understand that health care is quite a dynamic field. Its constant changes are a result of continuing trends in regulation, policy, patient and provider advocacy efforts, as well as increasingly sophisticated technology and industry benchmarking guidelines. 
    
For your assignment you review the possible topics for your Senior Project located in Week Five of your online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide, and select the topic your training program will address. If you choose not to select a topic from the approved topic list, you must have your original topic approved by your instructor prior to submitting this assignment. 

For this assignment, focus on a specific contemporary trend in health care and be sure to include all of the following influences: 

• Changes in client characteristics
• Regulation of the health care industry
• Reimbursement patterns and mandates
• Restructuring of health care organizations
• Impact of technology
• Ongoing social and ethical factors

Address the information above as it pertains to your selected topic, in an eight to ten slide (excluding title and reference slides) PowerPoint presentation. 

Your presentation should conclude with a summary describing the following concerns: 

• Overall, why should health care managers be aware of this change and trend?
• What impact does this trend have on the stakeholder groups involved (e.g., patients, providers, administrators, third-party payers, legislators, etc.) for a specific organization specified (e.g., for profit, nonprofit, hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, etc.).

The information in this presentation will later be used as part of your Senior Project to set the context for the audience you select for a training program on the contemporary trend identified here. 

Your presentation must include detailed speaker’s notes (i.e., at least 150 words) for each slide as well as a minimum of one to two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library and one to two current, scholarly web sources. 

Your presentation, and any citations used, must be in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Examples of scholarly web sources are available in this week’s recommended websites. These sources will also count toward the required sources for your Senior Project. Your presentation must be engaging and relevant to your audience. Lines of text on a slide will not be sufficient for this assignment. It should contain images, graphics, and/or multimedia that communicate your training program clearly to your audience. For tips on creating an excellent presentation, read thisoverview. 
      
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Recommended Resources

Articles

1. Cleveland, A. D.  (2011).  Miles to go before we sleep: Education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information.   Journal of the Medical Library Association, 99(1), 61-69.  Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
2. Mergers and acquisitions in health care expected to rise.  (2010).  In PT in Motion, 2(8), 15.  Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
3. Richardson, L. D., & Norris, M.  (2010).  Access to health and health care: How race and ethnicity matter.  Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 77(2), 166-177.   Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database. 

Multimedia

1. PivotHealth.  (Producer).  (2011). Trends in healthcare business [Video clip].  Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhb1SeBL00s&feature=related

Websites

1. American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management  (A.A.H.A.M.).  (2008).  (http://www.aaham.org)
2. American College of Healthcare Administrators (A.C.H.C.A.).  (2010).  (http://www.achca.org)
3. American College of Healthcare Executives (A.C.H.E.).  (2008).  (http://www.ache.org)
4. Healthcare Financial Management Association (H.F.M.A.).  (2012).  (http://www.hfma.org)
5. Healthcare Finance News.  (2012).  (http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com)
6. The White House.  (2012).  Issues: Health care.  (http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/health-care)
7. Wall Street Journal.  (2012).  Business:Health.  (http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-health-industry.html?mod=WSJ_topnav_na_business)