Week1: HealthcareCapstone
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CapstoneProjectDeliverables.pptCapstone Project
What is a Capstone Project?
The Capstone experience involves identifying an information problem or area of interest in a real-world setting and developing the means to address it. Capstone projects can be research-oriented or design-oriented.
Goals for the Capstone experience include:
- Define the information problem or opportunity
- Determine what techniques to use to master this information problem or opportunity
- Synthesize all aspects of the information problem; integrate people, technology and information
- Choose a topic or focus you are interested in
Pick a Capstone Project Topic!
Identify a topic that is researchable
- Your topic should be:
- one that encompasses management in a healthcare facility;
- extensive enough to find literature;
- In an area of interest to you;
- A PowerPoint Presentation will be required, along with your paper
Choosing a Topic
• Choose a topic that interests you and will sustain your interest
• Keep the topic manageable--narrow and focused enough to be interesting, but broad enough to find enough information for the assignment
• Look for a point you can argue for or against, an idea you can compare or contrast, a cause and effect relationship you can explain, a main point that can be divided into sub-points, or a question you can answer.
Choosing a Topic
• Think like a journalist to probe your topic more closely with the following questions: who?, what?, when?, where?, how?, and why?
• Be flexible--the topic might need to be modified (narrowed or broadened) depending on the information available
Think About It!
- Healthcare is such a gigantic topic, it can be hard to decide what you want to write about.
- Writing a research paper is a learning experience. We sometimes forget that. What do you want to learn?
- What is the purpose of your research? Is it a problem or project?
Topic Examples
- Pay for Performance in Medicine
- Is this a successful reimbursement method?
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Is this a good medical delivery model?
- National Healthcare Coverage
- How do we pay for this?
- Predictive Analytics in Healthcare
- Can we predict care models?
- Electronic Health Records
- Does this increase better coordination or care?
Topic Examples
Working Title: Applying Lean Six Sigma methodology greatly improve revenue cycle management in the practice of medicine in the United States.
Working Title: CMS pay for performance incentives in hospitals increase quality health outcomes.
Working Title: Training will reduce the risk of medication errors in hospital based settings
Topic Examples
- Notice that these working title examples are not posed as questions. They are posed as statements. These statements you will either prove or disprove based on your research of the topic.
Let’s Get Started!
- Pick a topic
- Write a Problem Statement or Hypotheses
- Write a Capstone Proposal
Capstone Proposal
