Brainstorm a new type of health care technology that you believe would contribute to the health management information systems (HMIS) evolution. This technological advancement should either not yet exist or should serve to enhance existing technology to achieve an entirely new objective. What health care problems or challenges have you noticed for which there is not yet a solution? It is essential for health care administrators to be aware of the rapidly evolving and ever-changing field of health technology, both in terms of current as well as upcoming informational and system advancements. Assume that you are a health care administrator for an organization and you have been tasked with presenting this new technology to your organization's key stakeholders. After selecting your topic for this assignment, compose a 750-1,000-word proposal that addresses the following:

1. Describe your new HMIS technology and what purpose it will serve. Who will most benefit from it? What gap will it fill in the health care technology field? How will this technology improve the quality of health care that clinicians can offer?
2. What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of this HMIS technology for the consumer? In this case, the consumer is both the health care organization and the individual user or patient.
3. How will the use and integration of this technology impact digital equity in the HMIS field?
4. How will this technology collect, read, and interpret health data? Why and how will this data be useful to the health care organization?
5. From an administrative perspective, describe when, how, and where you propose this technology first be introduced, and discuss how you foresee it impacting the organization.

Describe your new HMIS technology and what purpose it will serve. Who will most benefit from it? What gap will it fill in the health care technology field? How will this technology improve the quality of health care that clinicians can offer?

What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of this HMIS technology for the consumer? In this case, the consumer is both the health care organization and the individual user or patient.

How will the use and integration of this technology impact digital equity in the HMIS field?

How will this technology collect, read, and interpret health data? Why and how will this data be useful to the health care organization?

From an administrative perspective, describe when, how, and where you propose this technology first be introduced, and discuss how you foresee it impacting the organization

SUBJECT BTA (Foundations of B.A.)

Case Study

Spring Breaks R Us Travel Service

Chapter 3 – Use Cases

Spring Breaks ‘R’ Us (SBRU), introduced in Chapter 2, includes many use cases that make up the functional requirements. Consider the following description of the Booking subsystem. A few weeks before Thanksgiving break, it is time to open the system to new bookings. Students usually want to browse through the resorts and do some planning. When a student or group of students wants to book a trip, the system allows it. Sometimes, a student needs to be added or dropped from the group or a group changes size and needs a different type of room. One month before the actual trip, it is time for the system to send out final payment requirement notices. Students cancel the booking or they pay their final bills. Students often want to look up their booking status and check on resort details. When they arrive at the resort, they need to check in; and when they leave, they need to check out.

Case Question:

1. Using the event decomposition technique for each event you identify in the description here, name the event, state the type of event, and name the resulting use case. Draw a use case diagram for these use cases
2. Consider the new Social Networking subsystem that SBRU is researching that was described in Chapter Identify all the actors who might use the subsystem. Think in terms of the user goal technique to identify as many use cases as you can think of that you would like to have in the system. SBRU is guessing you might want to join, send messages, and so forth, but there must be many interesting and useful things the system could do before, during, and after the trip. Draw a use case diagram for these use cases.

1.)In a mid-size company, the distribution of the number of phone calls answered each day by each of the 12 receptionists is bell-shaped and has a mean of 51 and a standard deviation of 4. Using the empirical rule (as presented in the book), what is the approximate percentage of daily phone calls numbering between 43 and 59?

2.)A company has a policy of retiring company cars; this policy looks at number of miles driven, purpose of trips, style of car and other features. The distribution of the number of months in service for the fleet of cars is bell-shaped and has a mean of 38 months and a standard deviation of 3 months. Using the empirical rule (as presented in the book), what is the approximate percentage of cars that remain in service between 41 and 47 months?

3.)he physical plant at the main campus of a large state university recieves daily requests to replace florecent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 60 and a standard deviation of 8. Using the 68-95-99.7 rule, what is the approximate percentage of lightbulb replacement requests numbering between 52 and 60?

Comcast is the largest cable provider in the United States. This activity is important because despite its impressive power, influence, and politics, Comcast failed to effectively influence stakeholders including customers, employees, regulators, networks, and other content providers.

The goal of this activity is to apply the knowledge of OB in order to understand why Comcast failed in its bid to acquire Time Warner, and allow you to provide realistic solutions for future acquisition attempts.

Read the case about Comcast’s failure to influence key stakeholders. Then, using the 3-step problem-solving approach, answer the questions that follow.

Like many companies in the telecom industry, Comcast has chosen to grow by buying competitors. After acquiring AT&T’s Internet business in 2001, the company has remained on the acquisition train ever since. Its largest purchase to date was NBC Universal in 2011 for $18 billion, but its most notable was its thwarted 2015 attempt to buy Time Warner for $45 billion. Despite its impressive power, influence, and politics, Comcast failed to effectively influence stakeholders including customers, employees, regulators, networks, and other content providers. More than 300,000 comments were filed with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) by customers who opposed the merger. For perspective, the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile drew just over 40,000 comments.¹

Why Bother in the First Place?

Comcast is the largest cable provider in the United States despite having the worst customer satisfaction ratings in its industry. It has twice earned the dubious distinction of being the “Worst Company in America,” according to Consumer Reports’ customer satisfaction arm. Comcast’s customer service was so poor as to be considered legendary. And its reputation with various networks and cable channels such as Discovery, Disney, 20th Century Fox, and the NFL Network had been declining for years.² These partners are in effect customers, and Comcast has pressured them to pay higher fees to distribute their content through its cables.³

Industry trends were affecting Comcast’s current performance and its future prospects. Consumers have been cutting the cable and instead accessing their content via streaming alternatives such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Netflix alone accounts for one-third of all Internet traffic. But apparently believing that being No. 1 was not enough, Comcast’s leaders decided that acquiring Time Warner would enable them to better serve existing and new customers, as well as to defend against increasingly diverse competition from Google, Dish Network, and others.⁴

Attempts to Influence the Players

Comcast was determined and resourceful in its attempt to make things go its way. A major part of its efforts focused on Washington, D.C., since no merger of that size goes through without regulatory approval. Comcast employs a force of more than 100 lobbyists, and its $17 million annual lobbying budget is second only to Google’s.⁵ Lobbying efforts were largely intended to influence officials in the FCC and Department of Justice (DOJ), the regulators who would ultimately decide how the merger would affect competition and consumer choice, and who would either block it or allow it to proceed. Members of these government departments were buried in data, wined and dined, and presented with dazzling arguments highlighting the potential benefits of the merger. But Comcast did not stop there. CEO Brian Roberts courted President Obama, golfing with him on Martha’s Vineyard. And Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen hosted three fund-raisers for the president at his home, raising more than $10 million for the Democratic party.⁶ Roberts and Cohen presumably thought that associating with key players in the government would win them favor with regulators and members of Congress who might influence the merger and other policies favorable to Comcast.

For its part, the company argued that a merger of the two largest players wouldn’t stifle competition but instead allow them to provide more services to more customers. For instance, it currently provides Internet services to low-income and rural residents. Combining with Time Warner, the company claimed, would enable it to serve even more of these customers.⁷

The Other Side and Ultimate Outcome

Ultimately, the money, the relationships, the lobbyists’ arguments, and the pressure failed to work. Its opponents used many of the same bases of power, influence, and political tactics to argue against the merger that Comcast used to promote it, and the company withdrew its bid for Time Warner. It didn’t help that Comcast already had such a poor reputation with many of the parties from whom it needed support. It is noteworthy that in mid-2016 Charter Communications successfully acquired Time Warner in a merger worth $79 billion.⁸

Assume you are CEO Roberts, and you want to successfully acquire a large competitor in the future. Drawing on what you learned from the Time Warner experience, what would you do now to improve your chances?

Apply the 3-Step Problem-Solving Approach to OB

Step 1: Define the problem.Step 2: Identify causes of the problem by using material from this chapter, which has been summarized in the Organizing Framework for Chapter 12 and is shown in Figure 12.9. Causes will tend to show up in either the Inputs box or the Processes box.Step 3: Make your recommendations for solving the problem. Consider whether you want to resolve it, solve it, or dissolve it (see Section 1.5). Which recommendation is desirable and feasible?

Tom is single and 68 years old. He has excellent eyesight. In 2019, Tom earned W-2 wages of $130,277 from his full-time job at Six Minutes, ABS, Inc. Tom received 10,466 in interest income from an Exxon Corporation bond that he owned in a taxable account. Tom had few allowable itemized deductions on Schedule A, so he claimed the standard deduction.

For 2019:

1) Tom's Tax on Taxable Income is $_______________________. (Important: For your answer, enter whole numbers only. Do not enter a dollar sign ( "$" ) or a comma ( " , " ) in your answer.

On July 1, 20X4, Pillow Corp. obtained significant influence over Sleep Co. through the purchase of

3,000 shares of Sleep's 10,000 outstanding shares of common stock for $20 per share. On December 15, 20X4, Sleep paid $40,000 in dividends to its common stockholders. Sleep's net income for the year ended December 31, 20X4, was $120,000, earned evenly throughout the year.

Required: From the parent perspective

1. Prepare the journal entry to record the acquisition.
2. Prepare the journal to record the dividends received from sleep.
3. Prepare the journal entry to record the income reported by sleep

GAAP is the accounting standard used in the US, while IFRS is the accounting standard used in over 110 countries around the world. GAAP is considered more rules based and IFRS is more principles based. Which standard do you feel is best suited for the US and if the SEC decides to switch over to IFRS how will that affect US companies?

Express the fiscal and monetary policies as well as their combined use in the IS/LM model. While observing "The US recession of 2001", think through the effectiveness of the policy mix adopted to aid recovery. Then consider the recession that the US is currently experiencing: argue on the basis of your understanding of IS/LM and the current US macroeconomics trajectory for a specific fiscal and monetary policy response.

What is health care policy? How do policies arise and what are two ways that policies can be used as tools to affect the delivery of health care services in the US? Choose two continuing challenges in the field of US health care service provision, describe them and why they will continue to be challenges in the era of health care reform in the US.

1.       All of the following individuals can file as head of household EXCEPT_______

·         Kathy is an unmarried taxpayer who pays all of the costs to maintain her home and provides more than half the support for her five-year old son with whom she lives.

·         Daniel is married taxpayer who lives with and provides more than half the support for his seven-ear old daughter. He also provided more than half the costs of maintaining their household. Daniel’s wife moved to Colorado in April and do not with Daniel or their during the remainder of the year.

·         Charlotte is a married taxpayer who lives with her mother-in-law Emalyn and her ten-year old daughter in Emalyn’s home. Charlotte provides ore than half the cost of maintaining the household and provides more than half of her daughters support. Charlotte’s husband is in the military and has been deployed all year.

·         Nelson is a married father who lives with and provides all of the support for his children ages 7 and 8. Nelson and his estranged wife have not lived in the same residence for at least two years.

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1.       The best description of gross income is ____

·         All worldwide income derived from whatever source, unless excluded taxation by law.

·         Self-employment income received less expenses.

·         Income received for service performed, including wages, commissions, tips and generally, farming and other business income.

·         Income that is received for the investment of money or other property.

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1.       What is the age requirement, if any, to contribute to a Roth IRA?

·         Taxpayers must be at least age 18, and less than age 70 1/2

·         There is no age requirement if the taxpayer meets the compensation requirements.

·         The taxpayer must be at least age 18, but there is no maximum age.

·         The taxpayer must be at least 18 but less than 70 ½, and meet the compensation requirements.

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1.       Which of the following best describes earned income?

·         All worldwide income from whatever source derived, unless excluded from taxation by law.

·         Gross income less reductions that are allowable, regardless of whether personal deductions are itemized.

·         Income received for services performed including wages, commissions, tips and generally farming and other business income.

·         Income that is received from the investment of money and other property.

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1.       The contribution that does NOT qualify an employee to claim the retirement savings contributions credit (Saver’s Credit) is _____

·         A contribution to Roth IRA

·         An employer’s matching contribution to an employee’s 401K plan

·         A nondeductible contribution to a traditional IRA.

·         A voluntary contribution to 403b tax-sheltered annuity.

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1.       All of the following are additional requirements for taxpayer without a qualifying child to claim EITC, EXCEPT the taxpayer ______

·         Must reside in the U.S for more than half the year.

·         Cannot be dependent of another taxpayer

·         Must earn their income as an employee. They cannot be self-employed.

·         Must be between the ages of 25 and 65.

2.       Herman, who is not a dependent, states he wishes to EITC this year for his 35-year-old dependent child. Both reside in the U.S. Herman states that the child lives with him, is not married, is disabled, and has not worked during the year. What should Herman’s Tax Professional do to determine if the child can qualify Herman for EITC?

·         Enter Herman’s child on his tax return and identify him as a disabled qualifying child.

·         Advise the client of the tax definition of disabled, and apply sound judgement and common sense to see if the definition is met.

·         Ask for proof of the child’s income

·         Explain for Herman that a 35-year old child is too old to be a qualifying child for EITC.

3.       For a taxpayer with a qualifying child, which statement is NOT a requirement to claim EITC?

·         Must be at least 25 years old, but younger than age 65, on January 1, 2018

·         Have a child who is not claimed by more than one person for EITC.

·         Have a qualifying child who meets the relationship, age, residency, and joint return test.

·         Must not be a qualifying child of another person.

1.       Which taxpayer is required to file a federal income tax return for 2017?

·         Head of household (58), with a gross income $11,800

·         Married filing jointly (72 and 68) with a gross income $21,850

·         Married filing jointly (72 and 63) with a gross income $22,900

·         Married filing separately (72) with a gross income of $4,000

2.       Which of the following is included in federal gross income?

·         Qualified clergy housing allowances

·         Compensation for personal injuries

·         Interest on sale and local bends

·         Unemployment compensation

1.       An unmarried dependent taxpayer of another taxpayer is required to file a 2017 federal income tax return if they are not blind and age ____ with gross income of _____

·         2; $1,075 (all from interest)

·         16; $1,000 ($800 from wages: $200 from interest)

·         17; $1075 ($700 from wages: $375 from interest)

·         18; $6,300 (all from wages)

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