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Entrepreneurship Externship
PURPOSE
The Entrepreneurship Externship badge documents the acquisition of practical skills and experience necessary for successful entrepreneurs.

AUDIENCE
This credential is appropriate for the business professional that has started or is thinking of starting a small business endeavor. 

JOB/CAREER REQUIREMENTS
Successful entrepreneurs must understand the overall business market and how the new business service or product fits in. They must fully understand business development, financial management, staffing, the legal environment, sales and marketing, and how to manage and lead the organization. These credentials document development of knowledge and skills required for successful start up and ongoing management of a small business endeavor. The successful entrepreneur must understand the various options for starting a small business and how this business fits into the business market as a whole. Important areas of expertise include writing a business plan, analyzing a business opportunity, conducting marketing research and writing a marketing plan, developing an effective sales strategy and creating an excellent customer service plan, managing the costs of the business, developing and analyzing financial statements, managing the cash flow and taxes of the business, financing the business, ensuring compliance with the applicable laws and regulations, managing the business's risk, and conducting daily operations that leads to an effectively and efficiently run organization. The successful entrepreneur must also be an effective manager as well as an inspiring leader.  

ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKPLACE TASKS:
The Externship badge confirms the earner's continued and successful practice of the following tasks demonstrating their ability to:
  • Develop and write a well-researched business plan for a start-up business  
  • Define and analyze a business opportunity 
  • Research, analyze, and create a marketing plan 
  • Develop a sales strategy 
  • Develop an effective customer service plan  
  • Manage the business's fixed and variable costs of the business  
  • Create and analyze the business's financial statements
  • Manage the cash flow of the business 
  • Manage the taxes of the business  
  • Analyze financial sources for funding the business 
  • Manage the legal environment for the business  
  • Manage the business's risk  
  • Implement strategies for daily operations such as staffing, training, supply chain, quality control, and technology 
  • Lead the business to success
Problem Lists, Results Management, and Trending

The EHR provides many benefits. This resource discusses the use of Problem Lists, Results Management, and Trending features of the EHR and identifies how they are important tools for the physician in following patient problems, orders, medications, and disease progression or improvement.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Create a graph of lab results and vital signs in the chart
  • View pending orders and lab test results
  • Use Problem Lists
  • Use Patient Management
Data Entry Using Flow Sheets and Anatomical Drawings

When patients have an ongoing health problem or chronic disease, it is useful for the clinician to compare the health data in the record from past patient visits. This is quickly and easily done using Flow Sheets. This resource discusses how Flow Sheets are used and how clinicians can quickly enter data during a patient encounter by updating similar data from a previous encounter. Additionally, clinicians often find it useful to be able to annotate an anatomical drawing of a body region to be clearer in describing the location of findings, such as dermatological conditions.

This resource discusses how to invoke anatomical drawings and annotate them using a variety of drawing tools.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Use an EHR drawing tool to annotate drawings in an encounter
  • Create a Problem-Based flow sheet
  • Create a Form-Based flow sheet
  • Work with flow sheets in the EHR system
Fundamentals of Information Systems and Healthcare Records

Although a health information professional deals mainly with the information in the healthcare system, it is important to understand a fair amount about computer systems, including hardware, software, and electronic communications, and how they support the exchange of data electronically. You must become competent in many aspects of technology in order to use it efficiently and effectively.

This resource reviews the computer technology that is the foundation of the electronic health record. Additionally, it provides an overview of the health record itself.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Describe the various forms of telemedicine
  • Discuss the functions of healthcare records
  • Explain the fundamental concepts of computers and computer networks
Statistics, Research, and Quality Management

This resource introduces important concepts related to health statistics, research, and quality improvement and explores many of the computer systems that facilitate management of the various kinds of data needed to make business and patient care decisions, report data, organize data into registries and indexes, perform the numerous operations of healthcare facilities, manage employee information, and perform tasks related to quality management.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Describe different types of data collected and used by quality management
  • Discuss administrative systems used for managerial support
  • Explain healthcare statistical terms and formulas
  • Identify different types of registries and indexes
  • Describe internal and external uses for secondary data