Strategic Thinking    Select an  organization in the health care arena you would like to work for.  With  this organization in mind, describe how strategic thinking could lead to  the identif

Required Resources
Required Text

Read from the course text, Strategic management in healthcare organizations: 

• • Chapter 3: Strategic Thinking

  • Chapter 4: External Environmental  Analysis
     

Articles

1. Beaman, C. D. Jr. (2008). Caring for the uninsured. Healthcare Executive, 23(1), 46-47. Retrieved from the ProQuest database.

2. Galvin, R.S. (2008). Still in the game: Harnessing employer inventiveness in U.S. health care reform. The New England Journal of Medicine 359 (14), 1421-1423. Retrieved from the ProQuest database.
    

Multimedia

National Public Radio. (2013, April 29).  Looking ahead: The future of health care policy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.  [Podcast file].  Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2013/04/29/179851904/looking-ahead-the-future- of-health-care-policy  

Recommended Resource
Article

Hayes, H., Parchman, M., & Howard, R. (2011).  A logic model framework for evaluation and planning in a primary care practice-based research network (PBRN) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 24, 576-582. Retrieved from http://pbrn.ahrq.gov/pbrn-literature/logic-model-framework-evaluation-and-planning-primary-care-practice-based-research