Capstone Analysis

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II. Organizational Overview of Your Capstone Issue:

Organizational history of your capstone issue: The capstone issue has limited organization history amongst the two outpatient clinics of the medical specialty divisions of Allergy and Nephrology/Hypertension. The organization has the resources to gather the data of appointment non-compliance rates for three years plus. However, the organization has not made an initiative to develop a predictive scheduling model or pilot program within the two outpatient clinics of the medical specialty to address the root cause(s) of appointment noncompliance. This is why no show and same day cancellation rates within the Department of Medicine outpatient clinics of medical specialty have been identified and defined as an expelling organizational challenge by the Department Administrator, Mr. Kevin Borgan.

Past and/or current organizational efforts to address your capstone issue: The medical specialty outpatient clinics conducted various appointment noncompliance efforts to address the capstone issue. The most significant effort of the organization was hiring an administrative staff member to manage the appointment noncompliance issue. The administrative staff efforts include collecting data on the current appointment noncompliant patients; drafts and submits appointment
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Although the initiatives of the department are separate from the NMG and NMH, the department of medicine services indirectly supports the NMG. Similar the NMG and NMH, the department has human resources, finance management, and information technology services. There are medical training for medical students, residents and fellows. The academic training includes admission and accreditation/regulation services. The department also supports the research activities of the academic services. Specific research services are administrative staff to manage