Combine all four parts of the QI plan into one document, making sure to include instructor feedback. Organize the plan as you would present it to the organization’s board of directors for approval. Use the QI Plan Template as a guide. 

In the QI Plan Template, complete the following:

• Evaluate various data collection and display tools used in performance measurement.
• Evaluate tools used to measure and report data.
• Analyze various improvement methodologies for integrating quality improvement strategies into performance measurements.
• Analyze the impact of information technology applications on performance measures.
• Analyze the use of internal and external benchmarking and milestones in managing the utilization of quality indicators.
• Evaluate criteria and tasks for developing quality improvement plans.
• Analyze how performance and quality measures are aligned to the organizations mission, vision, strategic and operational plans.
• Evaluate strategies for meeting regulatory and accreditation standards within health care organizations.
• Evaluate measures used to monitor and revise quality program implementation.
• Evaluate barriers that can interfere with the implementation of quality measures.
• Evaluate strategies to ensure successful implementation of quality measures. 

Write a 350- to 700-word executive summary related to your QI plan which includes an evaluation of the  following:

• Evaluate the current state of QI at the organization, its organizational and operational QI structure, authority, mission, methodology, and tools used.
• Recommend how the organization will achieve its objectives over the long term.
• Evaluate challenges that may impact the future of health care quality improvement.
• Evaluate effect of health care quality improvement on operational and financial performance.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Cite 5 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your QI Plan and your Executive Summary.

BACKGROUND: Syed Rizwan Farook, an environmental health inspector, and wife, Tashfeen

Malik, on December 2, 2015, killed 14 co-workers and wounded 17 others at the Inland

Regional Center, a Social Services Center in San Bernardino, California that provided

services for disabled individuals. Farook was carrying an iPhone 5c, which the FBI

believes contains information that would assist them greatly in identifying accomplices,

and other third parties who assisted in either planning and/or carrying out the attack,

provided weapons, or who communicated with Farook about other future planned

attacks. The FBI attempted during December 2015 to unlock Farook’s iPhone in order to

get access to information that the phone may contain. However, they were unsuccessful

in unlocking the phone. Therefore they met with Apple and other tech leaders for

assistance in unlocking the phone. The FBI requested of a Federal Judge in California,

and received, an Order directing Apple to create software that would allow the FBI to

bypass the security feature that prohibited the FBI from attempting no more than 10

times to break the passcode on the phone. Apple defied the Court Order asserting that

the Court’s order essentially required it to create a “backdoor” that would undermine the

privacy of iPhones around the world. Apple also asserted that it would be bad publicity

for it and adversely affect its market share. Apple appealed to the Court of Appeals the

the U.S. District Magistrate Judge’s Order. The debate has become one of national

security vs. personal privacy until such time as the U.S. Justice Department withdrew its

request, and asked that its case against Apple be dismissed as an unidentified third party

had provided assistance in allowing it to by-pass the phone’s feature that prohibited no

more than 10 attempts to unlock the phone’s security. However, the debate is not over,

and undoubtedly similar cases will be litigated in the future.

INSTRUCTIONS: For homework I, you are to do the following:

1. Write a more detailed introduction to the facts of this case, explaining to the best of your

ability the facts that have been loosely outlined above. Please cite all of your sources.

2. As the semester progresses, you will read about “precedence”, “jurisdictional issues”,

“procedural issues”, different types of law (i.e., statutory law, case law, constitutional

law, and other), and other legal concepts. Please explain to the best of your ability,

applying what you have learned during the semester, as well as information you have

researched, the legal argument that the U.S. Justice Department (FBI) relied on in

arguing to the U.S. District Court, and on appeal, why the Court should order Apple to

provide the by-pass feature to override the security on the phone. For each law that you

cite, explain what it is and how the Justice Department used that law to advance its

argument.

3. Please explain to the best of your ability, applying what you have learned during the

semester, as well as additional information you have researched, the legal argument that

Apple relied on in arguing to the U.S. District Court, and on appeal, why the Court

should not order it to provide the by-pass feature to override the security on the phone.

For each law that you cite, explain what it is and how Apple used that law to advance its

argument.

4. State which legal argument (that of the U.S. Justice Department or Apple) which you

believe is more compelling and which should have prevailed had the Justice Department

not been able to obtain the assistance of a third party in bypassing the security feature on

the phone. Support your conclusion by explaining the logic you relied upon.

5. Explain whether you believe the US Justice Department (FBI) vs. Apple case has

implications for future similar cases, and if so in what manner do you believe future

similar cases will be impacted by this case.

This assignment is due on August 7, 2016 at 11:30 p.m.

It is not necessary that you use any particular model formatting. However, your paper should be

submitted in a WORD format, using no less than a 1 inch margin, top, bottom, left and right.

Further the paper should be double spaced, and you should use subheadings where appropriate.

Cite all sources. You decide whether you will use endnotes or footnotes. Please include your

name and student id on your submission. You should plan to give your submission a title.

Please include page number on the bottom center of each page.

• locate an article that reports on the quality of healthcare services. The article must be sourced from the mass media and not from an academic or healthcare journal. The purpose of this assignment is to review information reported to the general public in a news source that does not exclusively cover healthcare issues. Weekly magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Forbes, Money, and Consumer Reports, and newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would be appropriate choices. The article may give various examples of good or bad quality instead of covering just one episode of care. Your selected article must be a comprehensive review or assessment of some aspect of healthcare services. Summarize the article. Be certain to indicate the basis for the report, that is, whether it is the result of academic research, an independent investigation, or something else.
  Answer the following questions.
  • Summarize what conditions, processes, or events are noted as good quality or poor quality healthcare in the article. What is your own assessment of these conditions, processes, or events? Explain.
  • Does the article assign responsibility to persons or processes for the problems or achievements it reports? Does it provide sufficient evidence for assigning responsibility? Explain your answers.
  • Assess the suggestions for healthcare quality improvement in the article.
    Explain your reaction to this article as a consumer of healthcare services. In answering this question, note how the article uses language and any persuasive techniques.
  • Explain your reaction to this article as a provider of healthcare services. Why is this reaction the same as or different from your reaction as a consumer?
  • Is the article fair in its reporting and assessing healthcare quality? Why or why not?
  • Submission Details:
  • To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
  • Your initial posting should be addressed at 300-500 words.