You are the Director of Clinical Informatics at an academic medical center in the western United States. Part of your role is to oversee the patient portal which is considered part of the outpatient EHR. The center is planning to adopt and integrate a PHR with its EHR. The hospital CEO drafts of vision statement that states, “By using the latest technology, University Hospital will improve how our patients experience Health Care. Instead of patients coming to us for help, we will be there whenever and wherever they need us, asking, ‘How can we help you?’ This initiative will make healthcare easier to access and more convenient to use, improve patients’ health, and reduce the rising cost of healthcare in our area.”

What is your role in engaging populations to understand information about their health and how to access health information resources?

What steps would patients take to correct their data?

What barriers should this facility anticipate and rolling out the PHR, and what tactics should the organization take to overcome them?

Read “Big New Obstacle for Economic Recovery – Child Care Crisis” on Sakai and answer the following questions:

1. How has lack of child care/school for kids K-12 and younger affected economic recovery? How is child care connected to what businesses can open and who can work (men versus women, people with children versus people with no children, high income versus low income, for example)?

2. The reason why some schools have not opened (or only opened a few days a week, or in a hybrid manner) is that the United States (and a lot of the world) is still in the midst of the coronavirus. Last week, almost 80 percent of the states had rising cases. Locally, a couple of schools had to quarantine many students because of positive cases and SUNY Cortland just went online only for 2 weeks because they had more than 100 positives in a two-week period. How do you balance economic concerns and health concerns during a pandemic?

2. Analyzing the effects of a trade deficit

You have just been hired by the U.S. government to analyze the following scenario. Suppose the U.S. agricultural industry is concerned about the level of fruit and vegetable imports to the United States, a practice that hurts domestic producers. Lobbyists claim that implementing a quota on imports would shrink the size of the deficit. The following exercise will help you to analyze this claim.

The following graph shows the demand and supply of U.S. dollars in a model of the foreign-currency exchange market.

Shift the demand curve, the supply curve, or both to show what would happen if the government decided to implement the quota.

Below are the results of the most recent Nathan’s Hot dog eating Contest held this year. The average number of hotdogs that can be consumed in 10 minutes by competitive eaters in the United States is 42 (SD=6.6). Answer these questions.

a) How many hot dogs can a person who is in the 70^th percentile consume?

b) How many hotdogs can a person who is in the 40^th percentile consume?

1) Recognizing the importance of private ownership of resources, competition, self-interest, etc. embodied in the market system, explain the demise of the command system.

2) Based on the fact that in a command system, the government owns most property resources, while in a market system that is characterized by the private ownership, use the United States and the Soviet Union as an example, and answer the government’s role under the two different economic systems.

3) List two countries that currently still largely rely on the command system, and another two countries/economies used to adopt the command systems.

4) Explain the importance of private ownership of resources in the market system.

Firm A is one of the largest airlines in the world and is based in Europe. Firm A sold all its struggling operations that operate in the United States to Airline B for a price much less than industry experts had expected.Despite this lower than expected sales price, Firm A’s stock price sharply increased. The primary explanation for the rise in the stock price was hinted at in the announcement. Firm A indicated they would not rush on spending dollars from the sale on non-value adding projects but were considering share repurchases.

What is your interpretation of this scenario? (explain clearly your interpretation of this scenario and explain what will be the firm A position/impact for that transaction)

Please explain if you agree or disagree

Although technological advances have improved the health care delivery system as a whole, these advancements have been met with challenges such as cost, safety, benefit and Risk. In order to meet these challenges, Federal legislation has aided in addressing these issues in the areas of drugs, devices, and biologics. (Shi &Singh, 2017).  Cultural beliefs and values have played a major role in shaping health care delivery in the United States due to expectations that Americans have on scientists developing cures by way of technology. The reason for this is that Americans equate quality care with the use of advanced technology. (Shi &Singh, 2017)​

A large share of European Research Council funds go to support CERN - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which just returned to operation. Scientists debate the implications of using the LHC, with some individuals suggesting that it will massively improve research productivity for physicists and others arguing that it will destroy mankind ( or atleast a good chunk of Europe) by creating a mini-black hole. Using the Romer Model, explain what effect increased funding for the LHC would have on income in the United States assuming the LHC destroys all of Switzerland. Please clearly list any assumptions you are making within the Romer Model context.