UOP DHA711 Discussions Latest 2022 August (Full)

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 Complex Adaptive Systems      

Describe a type of health care organization that functions as a complex adaptive system (CAS).

What are the characteristics of this organization that suggest it is a CAS? How does this differ from a simple system?

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 Embedding the Triple Aim

You are the chief quality officer of a large complex health care system who has been charged with embedding the Triple Aim framework into the organization’s culture.

How can applying systems thinking aid health care practitioners and leaders to achieve the Triple Aim?

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 Factors Inhibiting Health Care Systems

George Halvorson declares that “health care is the epitome of a nonsystem” (2009, p. 2).

What is the basis for this declaration?

What major factors are inhibiting health care in the United States from functioning as an integrated network of complex adaptive systems?

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 Disruptive Innovation in Health Care

Share with the class an example of a disruptive innovation in health care. What about this innovation and documented outcomes makes it disruptive? How has this product, service, or system improvement affected health care delivery or management?

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 A Reformed Complex Adaptive System

The reformed complex adaptive systems perspective asserts that in order to bend the health care cost curve in a significant, sustainable way, the U.S. health care system needs to have at its foundation: (a) a double mandate that applies to all Americans, (b) accountable care organizations, and (c) electronic health records that belong to and follow each of us for life.

Describe each of these 3 components of a reformed complex adaptive system in your own words.

Do you agree or disagree with this assertion? Why or why not?

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Strategic Versus Operational Plans

Describe and then compare and contrast strategic versus operational plans used in your health care organization or one that you are familiar with.

How do these two tools, when used together, help a health care organization be greater as a whole system than the sum of its parts in a rapidly changing environment? 

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 7 Discussion

DQ1 Meeting the Demand for Resources and Supplies

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 50% of front-line workers reported that they did not have sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) to meet the demand for health care services (Kacik, 2020). Simply stockpiling to prepare for the next epidemic is not the answer, as certain PPE (e.g., masks and gloves) deteriorate over time.

What changes are needed in resource and supply planning for a health care system to be prepared for a surge in demand during the next epidemic? Share innovative strategies and ideas that you have learned about in your work and in this week’s learning activities.

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?

DHA711 Administration Of Complex Health Care Systems

Week 8 Discussion

DQ1 Transforming Health Care

As a scholar-practitioner-leader, what might be your contribution toward transforming health care into a system that delivers affordable, high-quality care to everyone? Why are you interested in this area of contribution?

Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

DQ2 Materials Question

Reflecting on your readings in this week’s learning activities, which particular topic or issue resonates the most with you and why? What big questions remain unanswered?