Research Methods

Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper on a current health care situation. For example, common issues might include one of the following: physician or employee with a conflict of interest, health care fraud and abuse, medical error, quality of care issues, aging in America, privacy issues—selling names, losing patient information, or health care coverage for indigent or noncitizens.

Evaluate the effect of organizational structure and governance, culture, and social responsibility focus on what happened in your chosen situation. Recommend how you would change the organization to prevent this situation in the future. Include the following components:

Identify and describe a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic, or insurance company.

The health care industry is an industry that is growing and adopting the way it does business from year to year. With the latest president of the United States taking office health care and the quality of it has been under the microscope like it never has before. New laws and regulations have been passed that will help increase the always important need of the best quality of care the health care industry can provide to the public.

In America’s free-market economy, competition ordinarily

improves the quality and reduces the price of goods and services for the

benefit of the consumer. For example, in the healthcare industry, competition

may promote quality and reduce costs as providers compete among

themselves for managed care contracts. (contemporary Issues book)

With the help of the current presidential office and its officials great strides are being made to imrove health care and boost competition between health care insurance companies. By driving such competition and allowing small insurance companies to grow and remain in the market place large insuanrce companies will have to adjust and...