Final Capstone

Final Capstone Project

Ashlee Sybrant

HHS 300

The driving force for any business to survive is to satisfy the "supply and demand" and to stay competitive, you must constantly assess new opportunities and programs, balancing demand with affordability and potential return on investments. Considering changing to a new service for provider-based delivery system, must have the potential to set the highest standard for the company in offering the best price, product, and service to satisfy that supply and demand.

As the administrator of a big corporation such as this one, he or she should feel that they are responsible for weighting out the options and choosing the one to best fit the needs of the population as well as the employees, choosing a MRI machine that will best suit the needs of the clinic, pricing out the equipment as well as finding out if there are any hidden costs, and finding out if the total cost of the machine includes training, and installation. There are many organizational structures that need to be covered and they are as follows:

Departmentalization by Function

When departmentalization by function is selected as the structural option, technical expertise provides the rationale for division of labor. Departments typically include operations, marketing, finance, and human resources. Operations have responsibility for producing the product or delivering the service for which the organization was created. The other departments market and distribute the produce or provide support services to employees and to operate.

Matrix Organization

Matrix organizations are characterized by employees having more than one immediate supervisor. The structural innovation is based on the premise that in order to perform at an optimal level of productivity, employees often need expertise that comes from more than one person or discipline.

The Project Team

Project teams typically carry part for a responsibility for a large whole. The process of putting a rocket into space, for example, might involve a design team, a manufacturing team, a quality control team, and a documentation team. Each team has its own distinct responsibilities and can, at least to some extent, work independently for the other, as long as there is regular coordination in areas that overlap.

The Collegial Model

In organizations in which the collegial model is used, each person who is a part of the group or team holds the status of peer or colleague. All share management responsibilities equally or work out some type of rotation. This model is used to achieve maximum freedom and flexibility for individual partners or team members.

I feel like the project team model would best suit this situation. That way the management department would be to ones to make big decisions and the rest of the corporation would be affected by the decision in some way or another. Every one in the company has an individual responsibility but all tasks over lap to make up the whole company. Everyone in the company will work as one big team.

Economic factors-

1. Funding sources-the amount of money that the procedure is bringing in.

2. Non-cash revenues, such as discounts to patient with out insurance.

3. Clients or consumers, the amount of people needing these services.

4. Suppliers- MRI machine supplies at the lowest price.

5. Competitors- Competing with other companies prices.

Sociological factors-

1. ethnic

2. gender

3. age

4. other demographic factors

Technological factors

1. Computer hardware needed to run the equipment. Also keeping up to date on all of the new updates and completing the required training to operate this new hardware.

2. Computer software needed to run the equipment.

3. Development of new treatments, and knowing how they properly work.

Political and Professional factors

1. Laws that are placed to protect the patient as well as the staff.

2. Regulation of knowing these laws and knowing who regulates on them.

The Organization

1. Goals of the company in getting enough patients to keep it worth the cost. While also providing the patient with the best care possible.

2. Culture of the company to provide excellent patient care.

3. Keeping a clear vision of the company in mind.

4. Keeping a clear mission of the company in mind.

5. Keeping the companies beliefs at a reasonable level.

In a decision such as this one there are many other issues that also need to be addressed by the administration as well as the human resources department. Issues like competition, reimbursements, employment, and so on. This company would need to compete with other local companies to create quality MRI services as well as making it affordable to all who may need to have these services preformed. But, how low are we able to go until we loss money to reimbursements? Some insurance companies will only pay a portion of the bill and the patient will then need to cover the rest. How much will the insurance companies reimburse toward the bill? Will the company save more money by working with the insurance companies to become preferred providers to get a better reimbursement? Then there will need to be employees to operate the machine and read all the results. We will need to hire four new technical staff members to complete the MRI team. Or, maybe cross training some of the employees that are already on staff. Training them new equipment and having them know how to multi task. We have to weigh out the pay for those employees toward