HCAD 660 Questions

APA format. 2 peer reviewed references per question. Minimum of 250 words per question.

Question 1.a Critical Thinking and Blooms Taxonomy Revised

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised for this course:

Discuss:

• What are the pros and cons to this approach to learning about healthcare?
• Is this consistent with how you’ve learned in the past?
• Have you used other models of critical thinking?

Question 1.b The Evolution of Ages: Agrarian to Industrial to Information

How has the societal changes from an Agrarian (Farming) to Industrial to Service and Information Societies enabled changes to the US Health Care System? Discuss the connection and evolution between the past and the potential for the future of the US Health Care System. Consider people’s expectations, technology, regulatory environment, and the socio-economic status of this nation’s citizens.

Question 2.a Healthcare Organizational Systems

Healthcare delivery models are changing with the advent of value-based care. Some examples of new types of organizational structures include accountable care organizations (ACOs), clinically integrated networks, among others. How do these new care delivery models impact healthcare organizational structure? What are some of the key trends?

Question 2.b To Be or Not to Be (Part of a System)…

In recent years, particularly given the pandemic, there has been a trend for healthcare organizations to merge resulting in larger healthcare systems. And the large organizations keep getting larger. What are some of the key drivers of this trend to merge and consolidate? Is larger better?

Question 3.a High Performing Organizations

What does high performance mean? Drawing from relevant reference materials, define high performance and what constructs/topics/areas are important to determine if a health organization is ‘high performing?’ Then identify two different high performing health care organizations and discuss how each has addressed the criteria for high performance.

Question 3.b Quality Reporting

Should hospitals be required to post a “Scorecard” indicating the number of days since a reportable error or other outcome statistics?

Pros? Cons?

Would it improve outcomes by transparency? Is there value to comparing outcomes for a rural critical access hospital, an inner city safety net facility, and an affluent suburban medical center?

Question 4.a Leadership

Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe?

Consensus asks the question: Is it popular?

Conscience asks: Is it right?

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

How do health leaders foster a culture of ethics, morality and social responsibility?

Is morality a legal issue or leader issue?

How are professional ethics different than morals, beliefs, customs or ethnic traditions? Cite the name/link to the code of professional ethics to which you subscribe.

Question 4.b Servant Leadership

Healthcare organizations are, by definition, in the community. Healthcare leaders should be of the community. What are some ways you – as an individual healthcare executive – can contribute to the community beyond the boundaries of your organization?

Question 5

Regulatory Influence

How is the design of a program will be influenced by the regulatory environment in which the organization operates? Some jurisdictions are quite prescriptive, requiring Certificate of Need submissions for major projects and even (in the State of Maryland) mandating hospital reimbursement rates. In other places, market forces are left to drive healthcare. What are the relative merits of these divergent approaches?

Week 6.a Tools of the Trade

Briefly describe one of the tools or best practices of strategic planning or execution (implementation) (SWOT, Service-Value Chain, Appreciative Inquiry, etc.). Choose a healthcare related issue and apply that tool to a specific scenario.

Question 6.b Anticipating Change

Identify a disruptive innovation in healthcare (i.e. one that completely changed the market). Why was it revolutionary? How did it change healthcare? How can you be prepared for change?

NOTE: The concept of disruptive innovation can be confusing. It is not a better method to do something, but a new and different way that often causes the disappearance of what it replaces. Think of photography; the emergence of digital technology virtually destroyed the film industry (e.g., Kodak).