Southern New Hampshire University HCM 320: Final Project Guidelines and Grading Guide   Overview The final project for this course is the creation of a mock open comment to a significant federal legislation that has affected healthcare or the healthcare industry

Southern New Hampshire University

HCM 320: Final Project Guidelines and Grading Guide

Overview

The final project for this course is the creation of a mock open comment to a significant federal legislation that has affected healthcare or the healthcare industry. An open comment is an informed opinion written in the form of a letter to counsel authors of legislation on the perceived benefits and consequences of the opinion. You will select a key issue affecting health and healthcare in the United States from the topic areas as defined by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and identify a corresponding health policy addressing that issue. This mock open comment will examine the macroeconomic forces at play in a recent healthcare policy and determine whether any forces were inadequately considered. The mock open comment should be nonpartisan, stakeholder agnostic, and supported by research from reputed sources. The final submission will correspond to the Purdue University method of organization for white papers as indicated on its Online Writing Lab (OWL).

The final project will be broken down into three separate components: submission of an executive summary with references, the open comment paper, and a five-minute 'TED Talk-style' presentation.

The project is divided into three milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Two, Four, and Five. The final project will be submitted in Module Seven.

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

• Assess the strategic and operational use of economic principles and indicators to manipulate the healthcare experience for patients and their caregivers
• Articulate the effects of contemporary policies and regulations on the American healthcare system and the healthcare consumer
• Describe the impact of prominent financial models in healthcare on the strategies of market players
• Distinguish the influence of socioeconomic factors of American society on the healthcare delivery system and community health
• Analyze ways that behavioral models of demanders, suppliers, and other healthcare agencies influence economic determinates and barriers to change in the American healthcare system