Hcs 449 Week4 Equipment

1.    We are often faced with the decision of whether to lease or buy equipment when determining what equipment to use in a health care service. What factors would you consider in this decision, and why are they important considerations?

Outpatient Setting

2.    How would you measure quality in an outpatient setting like an urgent care center? What factors would you measure as compared to how the general public would measure your quality?

3.    Read the article “8 Trends for a Changing Healthcare Workforce” on the Healthcare IT News website.

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/8-trends-changing-healthcare-workforce

4.    Read the article “Key Strategic Trends that Impact Healthcare Decision-Making and Stakeholder Roles in the New Marketplace” on the U.S. National Library of Medicine website.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415172/

5.    Read the article “Service-Line Strategies for US Hospitals” from the McKinsey Quarter.

http://healthcare.mckinsey.com/sites/default/files/737801_Serviceline_strategies_for_US_hospitals__.pdf

6.    Read the article “10 Technologies to Keep Hospitals Competitive” on the Becker’s Hospital Review website.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/10-technologies-to-keep-hospitals-competitive.html

7.    Read “The Role of Risk Management in Healthcare Operations” from Parker, Smith, and Feek.

http://www.psfinc.com/wp-content/uploads/psfinc/2016/07/the-role-of-risk-management-in-healthcare-operations.pdf

8.    Read “Different Roles, Same Goal: Risk and Quality Management Partnering for Patient Safety” from the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management.

http://www.ashrm.org/pubs/files/white_papers/Monograph.07RiskQuality.pdf