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Case Study Topics
The MHA program encourages the development of case studies on a wide variety of topics.
To be responsive to major trends and challenges being experienced by health care leaders,
the Case Committee will also release a list of “Hot Topics” for which it is specifically
searching out case studies. A review of the Hot Topics and the list of other case
study topics may help alumni refresh their memories of their own case situations.
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Current Hot Topics
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• Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures
• Hospital-Physician Relations
• Patient Safety
• Corporate Compliance
• Productivity Management |
• Facilities Planning
• Workforce Issues
• Alternate Locations for Care
• Consumerism |
Case Study Topic Ideas
Case study topics are listed based on the total mentions each received in an unofficial
MHA alumni poll conducted in September 2004.
HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN JOINT VENTURES
• Alignment
HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN RELATIONS
• Hospital-MD relations
• Physician credentialing
• High cost physicians
• Competing physicians
• Abusive physician behaviors
• Hospital employed physicians
PATIENT SAFETY
CORPORATE COMPLIANCE
• Billing fraud
• Not-for-profit status
PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT
• Accountability
• Productivity monitoring
• Administrative process improvement
• Effective patient management to conserve resources
• Patient flow
• Core customer process improvement
FACILITIES PLANNING
• Hospital consolidation/closure/expansion
• Inpatient capacity issues
• Facility planning
• Facility construction, construction management
WORKFORCE ISSUES
• Labor supply and issues
• Physician supply
• Aging workforce
• Employee benefits (rising costs)
• Unionization efforts
ALTERNATE LOCATIONS FOR CARE
• Specialty hospital development
• Physician joint ventures with for-profit organizations
• Physician competition
• Best location for care
CONSUMERISM
• Patient involvement in health care choices (Health Savings Accounts, etc.)
• Consumer driven health care
• Hospitals, payers and physicians focusing together on what's best for patient
• Patient satisfaction
PHYSICIAN COMPENSATION
• Physician compensation
• Physician coverage of Emergency Department (with/without compensation)
• Physician incentives for profitability and growth
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
• Building and maintaining a culture of quality
• Demonstrating value through merging of financial and clinical data
• Public reporting of hospital clinical quality
CAPITAL ACCESS AND PLANNING
RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS
• Dramatic declines in reimbursement
• Managed care contract negotiations
• Aging population, exploding demand for care
• Health care cost control
MERGERS AND GROWTH
• Market growth strategies
• Mergers
MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
• Purchasing of supplies
• Supplier contracting
• Group purchasing organizations
• Implants purchasing (vendor vs. hospital vs. physician; efficacy vs. cost)
ACCESS TO CARE
• Patient access
• Patient diversity
TECHNOLOGY
• New technology
• Electronic health record
PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY
• Patient/family disclosure
BEHAVIORIAL HEALTH
• Mental health for children
GOVERNANCE/ BOARD RELATIONS
OTHER TOPICS
• Physician practice management
• Government/legislative issues
• Inter-system competition/growth
• Health system joint ventures with other health systems
• New service/program development
• Security
• Research in hospitals
• Revenue/charge capture
• Risk management
• Lack of leadership
• Three tiers of care (insured, uninsured, rural)
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