Assignment: Population health initiatives
Assignment: Population health initiatives
One of the major criticisms leveled at population health initiatives is that they purposely introduce a reduction in revenues to a health care organization – especially a hospital. If you are an executive running a business, why would you knowingly propose a strategy that cuts revenues and presumably cuts margins that fund your mission? A fair question.
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Your challenge in this week’s assignment is to look at population health from a business perspective, addressing the usual questions:
How would population health impact
Patient care?
Costs of care?
Providers and payers?
What are the component pieces of population health initiatives?
What incentives are faced/created by providers, payers and patients?
What barriers exist to ”fixing” the problem?
What is a business-based solution that allows population health to move forward and why is it best?
In a more focused context, consider these ideas as you answer the above questions – it is the above five items I will evaluate your response on for this assignment. The following items are just suggestions to help you think about population health from that business perspective.
Why should a hospital executive consider a population health strategy? What’s in it for a hospital or health system?
What is the impact on a health system’s revenues over the short term (1-2 years) and longer term (3-5 years)?
How do you make the case to a governing board or investors that expect to see a steady upward trend in revenues and net income/surpluses? Remember, this is YOUR employment and YOUR bonus on the line here. How do you make population health a success for you as a manager and not have it become “career limiting activity”?
Assignment: Population health initiatives
Assignment: Population health initiatives
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
