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it leads to the patient being viewed as a source of profit for the health care industry rather than as a person with whom care providers should form relationships. A patient may go from doctor to doctor looking for a solution to his fatigue, be prescribed myriad drugs and have none of them work because doctors are only focused on selling prescriptions rather than in providing actual preventive medicine (Strange, 2009). Patients need to be viewed as people first, not as a potential source of profit. The health care industry also needs to engage in preventive care and treatments have to stop being subsidized,… Continue Reading...
among health care groups, who then implement solutions to overcome obstacles in the health care industry. The Directors of the Foundation include some of the top CEOs of health insurance companies, while NIHCM's advisory board consists of academics, doctors, and former government workers.
Specific actions taken by NIHCM in the past include the sponsoring of grants for research to the amount of $2 million over the past 5 years. The Foundation has given awards in recognition of stellar journalism in the health field. It has hosted webinars on innovations in the health care policy and health care markets fields. It has charted the… Continue Reading...
implementation of preventive care; but as Lichtenfeld (2011) and Moynihan (2015) have shown, the health care industry remains committed to a course of treatments and tests because both are generally subsidized by the federal government—and, frankly, preventive care does not ensure that customers will keep coming through the door to make the industry money.
· The problem with the ACA has been that it has done little to reduce the putting of profits before people mentality that plagues the health care industry.
· It idealistically identified the right objectives—increasing access to care, increasing quality of care, lowering the cost of care, and increasing preventive… Continue Reading...
free market. For every other industry, people can change providers when they want and to their advantage. The health care industry is the only one in which there is just a brief, month long window to choose a providerand very little to be done to choose another until the same time next year. Thus, consumers can not get the best rates, and get locked into policies for too long.
In Closing: In closing, the Affordable Care Act should unequivocally get repealed. It has resulted in high insurance premiums for all Americans, instead of just some of them. Moreover, it locks them into insurance policies in a way that… Continue Reading...
their products so that they will sell and yield the producer a nice profit. In the health care industry, there is a need to place greater emphasis on prevention rather than treatment (Lichtenfeld, 2011) and even the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. was designed to promote preventive care by putting people before profits (Obama, 2016). However, the problem of direct to consumer marketing for healthcare products distorts the image of the healthcare industry and makes it unclear as to whether the industry is really out to serve the best interests of patients or if it is rather out to maximize profits. This paper will examine… Continue Reading...
this issue comes at a time when a major change is happening in the U.S. health care industry. Trump Administration have set their focus on dismantling Obamacare through repealing and/or replacing some of its provisions. The individual mandate has been singled-out as one of the major provisions to repeal as part of measures to dismantle the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. GOP senators are trying to repeal the individual mandate in their tax reform bill based on the argument that it would give them an extra $338 billion dollars for their proposed tax cuts over a 10-year period (Luhby, 2017). Efforts to repeal this… Continue Reading...
safe healthcare practice. Should similar licensing and credentialing requirements be imposed on collaborative workers in the health care industry who may not be directly serving patients (e.g., business office personnel, CEOs, CFOs, or other administrators)? Why or why not?
Collaborative health care workers should not be generally required to obtain similar licensing and credentials as their direct-patient care provider counterparts for two main reasons: redundancy and excessive costs First, requiring collaborative health care workers to obtain licensing and credentialing similar to direct patient care providers would be redundant because some collaborative health care industry executives who perform administrative tasks that do not involve direct patient care… Continue Reading...
the hospital require some of the most high level care in the health care industry, but researchers have shown that there is too little understanding among care providers in terms of diagnosing elder abuse. Elder abuse has been found to be under-reported and a substantial factor in repeated hospital visits. Care providers need to be better trained in identifying elder abuse and in making sure they themselves are not responsible for neglecting geriatric patients. This paper aims to research what care providers actually… Continue Reading...
recommendations of numerous scholars who have called for more EBP in the health care industry (Leach, 2006; Rubin, 2011). As for material resources, the project focused on providing gym facilities for the population, obtaining diabetes screening supplies, having a dietician on contract, and bringing in local farmers to help provide fresh foods at the farmer’s market to make up for the lack of selection at the local convenience stores and foodmarts.
2. What educational activities were carried out?
Educational activities that were carried out for the population at risk of developing diabetes included nutrition education, education on tailoring a diet that was… Continue Reading...
Value of Professional Credentialing in the Health Care Industry
Discussion of the intended role of licensing and credentialing
It crucial that process of conforming credentials and licensing be done in the health care sector. The role of licensing, credentialing and certification in any field, and particularly in the field of health care and medicines is critical because these processes by government and other accredited agencies are essential to ensure that all practitioners in a particular field, and in the health care field in particular, have the requisite training and knowledge and, if existent, the experience also,… Continue Reading...
complex problems associated with nursing in today’s health care industry, where patients often present with a complex array of issues.
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that higher levels of education obtained by nurses are predictive of staying power in the nursing field. It proposes to evaluate whether there is a significant predictive relationship between levels of education obtained by nurses and the amount of time they dedicate to working as a nurse. It will measure nurses’ level of education and compare it to how many days they call in sick… Continue Reading...
that have occurred before and after. It does not appear that many studies have been conducted on this subject, and none that have focused on the health care industry.
Such a study would have to examine the rates of accounting fraud among publicly traded healthcare companies before and after Sarbanes-Oxley. Without that data, it is merely speculative to determine whether or not SOX has been effective in regulating ethical behavior in for-profit healthcare organizations. Indeed, it is not "for profit" that is important; the population for this study has to be publicly-traded, because those are the company for which data is available and the companies that are directly governed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
3. The case… Continue Reading...
care. As Trautman (2017) points out, collaborative care is an idea that can revolutionize and transform the entire health care industry. The more that various professionals from different fields work together to provide holistic care to patients, especially to underserved patients, the greater the impact can be on all stakeholders. Kroenke and Unutzer (2017) point out that mental health should be integrated into primary care in order to better serve patients, and that is a theory that I would like to be part of.
Other theories in the field of health psychology I want to explore further are the psychological theory of behavior modification and the transcultural approach… Continue Reading...
Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management
Nursing turnover is one of the most important issues facing the health care industry today. Turnover rates increase costs for health care facilities and decrease the quality of care for patients, as new nurses constantly need to be trained and a lack of experience throughout the department can mean that patients suffer ultimately from a continuous rotation of novices (Twibell, 2012). Han, Trinkoff and Geiger-Brown (2014) have shown that various factors can impact turnover rates: nurses can be burned out by working too many shifts or consecutive hours; they can feel overburdened and unsupported; they can feel that they are not… Continue Reading...
debilitating problem, one that needs decisive and immediate actions from the health care industry, legislators, the social work sector, and concerned citizens. Elder abuse is a problem that thrives all around the world, and as the international population of elderly people grows all over the world, the problem demands immediate action and preventative measures. It is important to acknowledge that what happens to the elderly in this regard is very preventable: it does not have to happen and is the mark of a faltering and in many ways, uncaring society. “This emphasis is appropriate because elder abuse is likely the most… Continue Reading...
(2016), a few years ago, the open sharing of medical data was frowned upon by those in the health care industry due to fears that personal patient data could be accidentally shared. However, as the authors now observe, “data sharing is being herded into the mainstream by pioneering researchers, with added pressure from funders, medicine regulatory authorities, public health agencies, and medical journals” (Pisani et al., 2016). According to the authors, this is more so the case given that data sharing in the health sector has been associated with improved patient outcomes. The privacy concerns raised in this case continue to be addressed via the adoption of a… Continue Reading...
