Explain key steps this organization may take to identify and manage their risks.

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Leaders in a health care organization have identified risk management as an opportunity for improvement for the upcoming year. The organization has hired you as a consultant to help assess the organization’s current status and define the future plan for addressing risks.
Resource: Risk Management Assessment Summary Grading Criteria and Sample Executive Summary located in the Center for Writing Excellence
• Navigate to the Center for Writing Excellence in the University Library.
• Under Writing Resources, click Tutorials & Guides.
• Under Samples, click Sample Executive Summary.
Select an organization type in the health care industry as the basis for this assignment. The organization may be your employer or a health care organization of particular interest to you. Types of health care organizations include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Hospital, nursing facility, physician office, emergency medical services, managed care organization, home health care, community health department or provider, pharmacy, laboratory, drug manufacturer, medical device manufacturer, durable medical equipment supplier, and electronic medical records software suppliers
Research the key concepts of risk management in health care and the factors that influence risk management for your chosen type of organization.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word executive summary in which you complete the following:
• Describe the purpose of risk management in health care organizations in general and in your chosen organization in particular.
• Explain key steps this organization may take to identify and manage their risks.
• Identify three typical or actual risks in your chosen organization. Describe how each risk might negatively affect your organization and its stakeholders.
• Summarize the types of education, training, or policies that would help this type of organization mitigate these risks.

Describe the purpose of quality management in health care organizations in general and in your chosen organization type in particular.

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Use the same organization type you selected for the Risk Management Assessment Summary in Week Two. Your role as a consultant continues as you relate risk management policies and practices to quality management. You must summarize a plan for the organization’s leadership that will serve as the foundation for developing a quality management program description for the organization.
– Resource: Quality Management Assessment Summary Grading Criteria
– Research key concepts of quality management in health care, factors that influence quality outcomes, and the relationship between risk management and quality management.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word executive summary in which you complete the following:
• Describe the purpose of quality management in health care organizations in general and in your chosen organization type in particular.
• Explain three to five key concepts of quality management. Comment briefly on why there are so many other names and terms used to describe quality management—continuous quality improvement, total quality management, performance management, and performance improvement—and if these distinctions are important. Explain the terminology your chosen organization type uses and why your organization uses them.
• Identify at least three of the organization type’s typical long-term goals and at least three typical short-term goals.
• Identify at least five factors—internal and external—that influence quality outcomes in your chosen organization type and describe how these factors might negatively affect quality outcomes in your organization.
• Identify three to five fundamental quality-management policies that should be implemented, how these relate to risk management, and how they will influence health outcomes.
• Explain the relationship between risk management and quality management in your chosen organization type and how these two disciplines relate to performance management.

Explain how financial analysis affects management decisions

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Unit 7 Assignment Unit outcome(s) addressed in this Assignment:
● Explain how financial analysis affects management decisions. ● Analyze the relationship between financial analysis, operations assessment, and
quality improvement. Course outcome(s) addressed in this Assignment: HA499-4: Operations: Apply best practices in decision making within the functional areas of healthcare management. HA499-6: Ethics and Professionalism: Analyze the professional, ethical, and legal standards of healthcare administrative practice. Instructions: For your Capstone Project, you will be performing research on a real-life healthcare organization. Drawing upon your learning in previous courses, you will be asked to analyze various facets and provide a detailed picture of the organization. The Capstone will consist of three sections. Each section is to be 1,600–2,000 words. Each section should have at least four references so there is a total of 12 references for the final Capstone Project submission in Unit 9.
Unit 7 Section II Financial management, quality, and marketing aspects of the organization Financial
• Analysis of the service reimbursement for the organization (state, federal, insurance, and private pay)
• Methods of funding Quality and Ethics
• Accreditation • Awards • Regulation • Ethical issues regarding who receives care at the organization
Marketing • Strategies • Branding • Community and employee involvement

Discuss ways that health care organizations can make the most of their electronic health record (EHR) investments in light of meaningful use.

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Why are many health care organizations hesitant to adopt electronic health records (EHR) when they have the potential to improve quality, increase access, and reduce costs? Some organizations are concerned with the ethical and legal issues that may arise in daily operations. In 2010, legislators noticed health care’s reluctant transition into full EHR integration, and began to provide financial incentives to those organizations that not only adopt EHRs, but also use them meaningfully to improve quality of patient care. As an advanced practice nurse, it is important to be aware of the challenges, policies, and incentives associated with integrating EHR systems. It is also critical that you understand the concept of “meaningful use” and how it plays out in today’s health care organizations.

To prepare:

In this Application Assignment, you analyze meaningful use criteria to determine the authentic legal, financial, and ethical issues that may surround it.

• Reflect on the information presented in the Learning Resources, focusing on meaningful use legislation and the “Ethics in Nursing Informatics” section of your course text.
• Investigate the legal, financial, and ethical issues surrounding meaningful use.
• Ask yourself: What are the goals of meaningful use?
write a 4- to 5-page essay in APA format with at least 5 references from my list of required readings provided below, in which you include the level one as per APA format guidelines:

1) A cover page.

2) An introduction ending with a purpose statement (e.g. “The purpose of this paper is…)

3) Summarize the legal, financial, and ethical issues that may arise as a result of meaningful use legislation.

4) Explain how these issues might present barriers to successful implementation within an organization.

5) Discuss ways that health care organizations can make the most of their electronic health record (EHR) investments in light of meaningful use.

6) Explain how EHR-related meaningful use legislation is being implemented in your organization.

7) A conclusion