Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Operations Performance
This section examines the incremental effect of how your proposed
service will impact all aspects of health services. This portion of the
study explores how the statistical data you have researched affects the
proposed service in terms of efficiency and value. This can be
difficult to measure initially. However, through incremental and
ongoing evaluation of operations, you can begin to see what
constitutes the best performance in this instance and how it serves the
target population. In this section, you will further illustrate the
incentives and challenges faced by a health organization and
communicate the relevance of economics within the U.S. health care
system as it pertains to your proposed services.
Inpatient
If your proposed study has an inpatient component, this section will
elaborate on volume of patients, types of payers, and how utilization
rates impact your proposed study. In addition, you will further explain
how your inpatient service will add value for patients and improve
the financial viability of the institution. This section will require you
to use both qualitative and quantitative data to justify the plan.
Hospitals operate in terms of how many beds are occupied relative to
how many are empty. Most CEOs want to see that a unit is running at
near full capacity and that volume is increasing year to year. Analyze
how your proposal will meet these demands by explaining the data
you have collected and predicting potential financial outcomes.
Finally, evaluate and explain how value-based care will impact your
ability to maintain margins within this ly proposed service.
Outpatient
If your proposed study has an outpatient component, examine how
admissions, revenue, and workflow of staff will improve the
efficiency of your proposed service. Analyze how your outpatient
service will add value for patients and improve the financial viability
of the institution. Justify your plan with appropriate data. As stated in
the inpatient section, the content here applies much the same way.
However, the caveat for outpatient services lies in the ambulatory
setting. This aspect should be most interesting under conditions
created by the Affordable Care Act. The paradigm shift will be
toward more preventative, primary, and outpatient care settings to
reduce the numbers of patients being admitted to hospitals. Please
explain how your proposal takes these conditions into consideration.
In this section, you will further compare and contrast economic
challenges and incentives among health cares organization models in
an outpatient setting. You will also further augment your design in an
economic framework that is responsive to your market.
Outlook
This section examines future implications of your proposed services
and how they will impact the future health outcomes of the
community and financial health of the services being provided.
Analyze economic theories that are germane to the provision of your
proposed health services. What adjustments might you need to make
in terms of what the unintended consequences may be? For
example, Baylor Hospital in Houston proposed and spent 250 million
to create a brand hospital that currently stands empty because it was
built during the U.S. economic downturn, the loan was no longer able
to finance the construction, and the initial examination of its necessity
did not play out as expected. Provide conclusions and implications of
how your feasibility study fits within the larger context of the system
of services currently being provided. How do they work with one
another within the larger health care system? Finally, evaluate how
your study will respond to market and design models that impact the
community based on current regulatory and market needs.
Finally, evaluate how your study will respond to market and design
models that impact the community based on current regulatory and
market needs.
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