Using Public Health Data to Meet Community Needs
Introduction
For this assignment, assume the role of a health care leader at a managed care company. Your organization contracts with a wide array of providers. The team approach is essential for determining future strategic planning and ensuring quality for your providers. Recently, your organization has increased emphasis on preventative medicine and patient education as a way of reducing unnecessary claims and improving overall health of your managed care participants. The organization is also working to improve on its quality assurance guidance to its providers.
You have been assigned to head a team that will gather important public health data and best practices for preventable diseases and thus reduce disease risk. Your team has to first determine the approach to be taken in gathering, analyzing, and articulating this information. To be successful in this program, the team must be able to apply statistical methods that can help transform the data into workable information. Ultimately, the managed care organization hopes to equip its providers with clinical practice guidelines based on the most accurate and current research.
The project requires that you lead a team of professionals and make recommendations including budget recommendations to the long-term approach. As a leader, you must understand the behaviors that foster quality improvement and be able to apply best practices to team leadership.
Instructions
To be successful in this assignment, you need to complete the following:
· Research criteria for priority assessment using current best practices, such as using data available from past performance to assess gaps; involving stakeholders for input; et cetera.
· Present current best practices for statistical analysis of health care data.
· Describe how statistical tools, models, and approaches are used to transform data into workable information.
· Develop a plan to transform data into useful information that aids with quality improvement and process improvement.
For this assignment, develop an APA-formatted executive summary. In your summary:
· Discuss current best practices for leadership, team development, and conflict resolution related to quality improvement teams.
· Provide recommendations on the following:
. The criteria needed for priority assessment.
. The use of data available from past performance to assess gaps.
. How to best gather stakeholder input.
. Any other needed strategic approaches you deem as appropriate.
· Describe how your team would apply statistical approaches to ensure providers are given the most recent, accurate, and effective information about prevention and quality improvement.
· Make recommendations for the managed care company on how to budget and strategize for this project.
· Develop and explain 3–5 strategic approaches that enable others to achieve goals and objectives in support of quality performance improvement.
Pay attention to the critical elements that form part of the grading criteria for this assignment:
· Establish priorities for quality performance improvement.
· Identify criteria for priority assessment using current best practices, such as using data available from past performance to assess gaps; involving stakeholders for input; et cetera.
· Analyze current best practices for leadership, team development, and conflict resolution related to quality improvement teams.
· Identify behaviors that support quality performance improvement.
· Develop a plan to transform data into useful information that aids with quality improvement and process improvement.
· Develop strategies that enable others to achieve goals and objectives in support of quality performance improvement.
Writing Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
· Length: 7–10 double-spaced pages (excluding the cover page and references list). Include page numbers, headings, and running headers.
· References: A minimum of five current peer-reviewed references.
· Formatting: Use current APA style and formatting, paying particular attention to citations and references.
· Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
