Healthcare Management Capstone

Healthcare Management Capstone

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Healthcare Management Capstone

Healthcare is an umbrella term that is referred to the efforts made in regards to caring, maintaining and restoring the mental, physical and emotional health of people by trained and licensed professionals (Porter, 2010). Since childhood, I enjoy taking care of people the inner satisfaction that is received after taking care of ill people or the people in need facilitates a lot in attaining inner peace. During my childhood, I used to actively take part in charity functions and other social events for people's development. During this time in my life, I decided to pursue my career in the field of healthcare.

The course Healthcare Management Capstone helped me a lot in understanding the importance of all the theoretical concepts of healthcare in real-life scenarios. This course allowed me to present ideas and demonstrate the knowledge and skills that I have gained from various healthcare courses. The most compelling topic that I learned in this course was financing healthcare service. In healthcare, the topic of finance management is often neglected although it helps a lot in managing the resources and funding that can be utilized by patients who are unable to bear healthcare expenses (Devine & Lyons, 2000).

During the course, I along with other classmates were indulged in a series of discussions on the discussion board. The discussion board aided me to improve my knowledge and clarified the concepts that I faced difficulty in understanding. Also, every discussion contains new information that further increases my knowledge regarding the latest development or research on the given topic of discussion. However, there is still one thing that is a bit unclear. Although, while discussing financing healthcare we discussed insurance yet the influence of private insurance policy and insurance policy programs by the government was a bit confusing. So, a discussion regarding the managing finances in both private and public health insurance policy could aid in clarifying the concept.

To yield additional information, integrating technology with the course would aid a lot in increasing valuable information (Bose, 2003). For instance, using multimedia presentations regarding every topic in the healthcare management course can help students in sharing their perspectives with other students.

References

Bose, R. (2003). Knowledge management-enabled health care management systems: capabilities, infrastructure, and decision-support. Expert systems with Applications, 24(1), 59-71.

Devine, K., O'Clock, P., & Lyons, D. (2000). Health-care financial management in a changing environment. Journal of business research, 48(3), 183-191.

Porter, M. E. (2010). What is value in health care. N Engl J Med, 363(26), 2477-2481.