The Health Care Scene: Contemporary Trends

As health care leaders, it is important to understand that health  care is quite a dynamic field. Its constant changes are a result of  continuing trends in regulation, policy, patient and provider advocacy  efforts, as well as increasingly sophisticated technology and industry  bench-marking guidelines.
 
The Health Care Scene: Contemporary Trends
As health care leaders, it is important to understand that health  care is quite a dynamic field. Its constant changes are a result of  continuing trends in regulation, policy, patient and provider advocacy  efforts, as well as increasingly sophisticated technology and industry  benchmarking guidelines.
 
For your assignment you review  the possible topics for your Senior Project located in Week Five of your  online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of  this guide, and select the topic your training program will address. If  you choose not to select a topic from the approved topic list, you must  have your original topic approved by your instructor prior to submitting  this assignment.
 
For this assignment, focus on a specific  contemporary trend in health care and be sure to include all of the  following influences: 

Changes in client characteristics
Regulation of the health care industry 
Reimbursement patterns and mandates 
Restructuring of health care organizations 
Impact of technology 
Ongoing social and ethical factors

Address the information above as it pertains to your  selected topic, in an eight to ten slide (excluding title and reference  slides) PowerPoint presentation.
 
Your presentation should conclude with a summary describing the following concerns:
 

Overall, why should health care managers be aware of this change and trend? 
What impact does this trend have on the stakeholder groups  involved (e.g., patients, providers, administrators, third-party payers,  legislators, etc.) for a specific organization specified (e.g., for  profit, nonprofit, hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, etc.).

The information in this presentation will later be used  as part of your Senior Project to set the context for the audience you  select for a training program on the contemporary trend identified here.  
 
Your presentation must include detailed speaker’s notes  (i.e., at least 150 words) for each slide as well as a minimum of one to  two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library and one to  two current, scholarly web sources.
 
Your presentation, and any  citations used, must be in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing  Center. Examples of scholarly web sources are available in this week’s  recommended websites. These sources will also count toward the required  sources for your Senior Project. Your presentation must be engaging and  relevant to your audience. Lines of text on a slide will not be  sufficient for this assignment. It should contain images, graphics,  and/or multimedia that communicate your training program clearly to your  audience. For tips on creating an excellent presentation, read this overview.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.