Visit the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) website “Resources” page at https://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/IHIWhitePapers/default.aspx

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Visit the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) website “Resources” page at https://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/IHIWhitePapers/default.aspx

Browse the section “White Papers” for topics relevant to challenges that you are working on now related to quality improvement in healthcare. (Health insurance or behavioral healthcare management would be preferred)

Select one item that is of most interest and relevant and describe how the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) resource you identify is helpful in your conceptualization and strategic planning for a quality improvement healthcare challenge. I am most interested in your ability to find a relevant quality improvement resource and apply it to a quality healthcare project or problem at hand.

State the micro, meso, and macro implications of the issue.

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Part One Issue Analysis (15 marks)

Read your selected chapter and conduct an issue analysis as in Part One of Assignment One. Make sure that you identify the determinants of health that are at issue. Draw a diagram of the elements that characterize an issue that you would like to explore further.

Part Two – Environmental Scan (50 marks)

Complete an environmental scan on the same issue. Follow the instructions below:

Using online and library resources complete an environmental scan to determine the extent of the health issue you identified in Part One.
(NOTE: While in the real world you might also include interviews with experts and the public, this is NOT required for this assignment.)

  1. INFORMAL SCAN of popular media (30 marks)
  1. Briefly state the issue that you are interests you.
  2. Start with a search using Google or another search engine to identify media reports on the issue.

Note the keywords in your searches that were effective.

  1. Decide which reports are relevant, authoritative, informative, and current.

Make an annotated table of 5–10 sources (with URLs) which you found useful.

  1. Write two paragraphs (200–500 words) to summarize your findings.

How hot is the issue in the media? Does it have lots of Google hits?

How much attention is the issue getting from politicians or advocacy organizations?

How has your understanding of the issue changed?

  1. FORMAL SCAN of authoritative sources (30 marks)
  1. Determine and identify the authoritative sources for your search (academic journals, government publications, public advocacy groups, think tanks, reports, other experts).
  2. Search sites such as the TRU library, Google Scholar, Health Canada, provincial and municipal health authorities and make an annotated table of 5–10 reports or articles (& URLs) you found useful.
  3. Write two paragraphs (200–500 words) to summarize your findings.

How hot is the issue in the formal literature? How much attention is the issue getting from authorities, researchers, and/or advocacy organizations?

How has your understanding of the issue changed?

  1. REVISITING THE ISSUE (20 marks)
  1. What is the gap between the current state of the issue and the desired state?
  2. State the micro, meso, and macro implications of the issue.
  3. What might be done to resolve the issue?
  4. Who needs to be involved to make this happen?

When completed Part Two of your analysis should be 3 –4 pages in length, plus the table containing annotated results.

Applying what you have learned in class speak to your approach to doing this review and the best practices that you may recommend

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Directions:
You have been hired as a consultant for Best Care Hospital to improve the quality and increase patient satisfaction using innovation and information systems. Best Care Hospital has already invested $12M in the implementation of a new electronic health record but this has not improved customer satisfaction. Your job is to do an analysis of the patient experience and identify where there are opportunities for improvements by evaluating the current state of the patient portal, patient wait-time analysis, customer satisfaction results, cost transparency, and the electronic transition of care between settings. You will see several documents attached to help with your analysis. You may need to conduct some mock interviews and make some assumptions. Applying what you have learned in class speak to your approach to doing this review and the best practices that you may recommend. Also provide the organization with some strategic innovation that they should prepare to leverage in the next year or two to make a significant improvement in the patient experience. Be prepared to provide best practice examples to support your recommendation. Provide a 10 page concise consultant report with recommendations. You will see a sample consultant template.

Explain why “health information” is important in health and laboratory. Talk about health information management as one of the 12 essential of Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) and its impact on these 12 essential.

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The assay is 2 parts

First part: in 1 page explain why “health information” is important in health and laboratory. Talk about health information management as one of the 12 essential of Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) and its impact on these 12 essential.

Please use the following link to lead you in writhing, but don’t depend on it. Use other references from published paper.
https://www.who.int/entity/ihr/training/laboratory_quality/17_b_content_info_manage_2008.pdf?ua=1

Start with describing health and lab Data, type, source, challenge of huge data and the importance of these data in all the aspect, like patient health, doctor dissension … Then introduce the information management, its definition, content, type (electronic and non-electronic..)

On the second paragraph (main paragraph of this part), Talk about health information management as one of the 12 essential of Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) and its impact on these 12 essential in general. Give examples sporting the impacts.

In last paragraph of this part, talk about the changes that happened because of knowing the importance of information managements, like some regulation that recommend od force lads to have information managements system (statistics), any fact about accreditation, ISO, CLSI..

Second Part: In 2 pages, analyze lows and regulation of “health information “ that impact the healthcare organizations, health services delivery and patient safety.
Lows and regulation should be relevance to the local lows in Qatar
References should be from publication only
3 paragraphs: introduction, main text and wrap up
It should be up to date and interesting.