Does community have the required medical resources to handle the patient's problem?
How would the patient's care be handled in your community? Identify the nearest hospital to the area you have chosen that treats the problem. Trace the patient's course to this hospital.
List the healthcare professionals and facilities that would be encountered on the way.
Compare any two insurance plans and choose the one that would offer the most to the patient
Discuss the essential quality-of-care issues involved in this case. is the role of Telemedicine in your community and how do you access it? How does it affect the quality of care?
Standard Performance Measures
Standard performance measures are a way of collecting data across similar functions, processes, costs, and providers. Benchmarking against these standards has proven to be useful in healthcare as a tool to measure many facets of quality. Carefully evaluating these measures allows for management to design appropriate programs to assist with healthcare service needs and patients to make decisions about facility and provider services. Best Doctors, Inc. and WebMD are examples of these tools. Your discussions will focus on the use of information from these websites to make healthcare decisions.