999 Search Results for Quality Improvement in Health Care
Educational Mission and Nursing Practice Statements
Educational Mission Statement
The University of Iowa is known for its world-class academic programs, including the professional preparation and training that is provided through the College of Nur Continue Reading...
Overview
Working at the Primary Care Clinic at the Veterans’ Administration (VA), nurses are exposed to a range of diagnoses and patient care concerns. The experience helps evolve core competencies in a range of practice areas. The VA calls the Continue Reading...
Electronics Health Records System at a Rural, Mid Size Hospital
Human resources (HR) managers at midsize hospitals in the Midwest are faced with some significant challenges in formulating optimal organizational strategies that reduce operational co Continue Reading...
Health Information Technology
The development of patient management systems continues to revolutionize the field of healthcare, specifically in the areas of treatment plans, content and records management systems, and predictive analytics. These are Continue Reading...
In the case of Mrs. Thomas, her condition is made worse by unique challenges to include: dealing with her own health issues, loneliness, financial worries and anxieties over her husband's depression. These difficulties are making Mrs. Thomas' condit Continue Reading...
The healthcare landscape is undergoing a paradigm shift, transitioning from a volume-based system to one focused on value and accountability. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) play a crucial role in this transformation, aiming to improve healthca Continue Reading...
Excessive Wait Times in Healthcare
Literature Review
Excessive wait times in healthcare are a problem for both patients and care providers as they affect patient satisfaction, which in turn impacts the job satisfaction of nurses and other care provid Continue Reading...
For effective fulfillment of duties by health care professionals which will, in turn, give a quality service to patients under their care, there is a need for effective inter-professional communication among personnel in a hospital environment. While Continue Reading...
Resolving Conflict in a Healthcare SettingThe purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of a real-life conflict in a healthcare setting, including the cause of the conflict, the parties that were involved, how the conflict was resolved, and wheth Continue Reading...
Financial Analysis
UCSD is a health care provider that is considering the purchase of an MRI machine. An MRI is a tube that is surrounded by a giant circular magnet. It is used to scan patients, and has the benefit of being very safe relatively to r Continue Reading...
Telehealth and AI in HealthcareIntroductionThe integration of technology in healthcare helps by supporting accessible and personalized medical care. Telehealth has helped to break down geographical barriers by bringing healthcare to remote and unders Continue Reading...
1 Introduction
1.1 Statement of the Problem
Lack of health coverage has been a prevalent issue in the United States. Research indicates that in the second year consecutively, there was an increase in the number of uninsured people. Insurance coverage Continue Reading...
Health and Health Promotion
According to Public Health Agency (2001), Health is an ingredient of life that enables individuals to be independent socially, and live economical lives. Health is a concept that emphasizes social and personal resources. Continue Reading...
Addressing Complex Issues in Healthcare SettingsAddressing Complex Issues in HealthcareAt present, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration receives more than 400,000 reports concerning drug-related medication errors in the United States each year (Medi Continue Reading...
Discuss the four stages of the conflict process. Do all persons involved in conflicts experience all four stages of conflict? Why or why not? How does the conflict process affect the quality of the conflict resolution?In a much more integrated and co Continue Reading...
114). Rising medical costs and diminishing quality of care demand that something be done, however (IOM 2009).
The Quality Chasm documents and the research that went into producing them have been specifically requested and utilized by the Department Continue Reading...
10). While basically valid, this claim is disingenuous and actually self-defeating. While we might not have a "right" to any of these things, the government does provide food, shelter and clothing to those in need, and not just on an emergency basis Continue Reading...
While promoting and encouraging diversity in hiring and advancement policies and actions is a definite area of concern for health care managers and executives, and this necessarily has an effect on the diversity of care ultimately offered to patient Continue Reading...
Health Systems Issues and Strategic Planning
The delivery of high quality healthcare services requires a sophisticated health system infrastructure that provides a multidisciplinary team approach. This health system infrastructure varies from countr Continue Reading...
Health Information Exchange
BOON OR BANE?
Health Information Exchange in the U.S.
The Guidelines
Benefits
Privacy and Security
Challenges and Strategies
Why Clinicians Use or Don't Use HIE
Doctors' Opinion on HIE
Consumer Preferences around Continue Reading...
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Brown and Sparer (2003) state that Medicare is "...administered by the federal government. Not only eligibility criteria and financing policy but also the benefit package, policies governing payments to providers, and de Continue Reading...
Therefore, I would tell the patient that their symptoms should not be considered in isolation of their whole person. Websites that address symptoms only are not taking into account the wealth of factors that can influence the diagnosis of a specific Continue Reading...
Quality Safety
Current Issues in Quality and Safety
Patient safety is considered a priority in the health, increasingly complex activity that involves risk and in which there is no system capable of guaranteeing the absence of adverse events, as it Continue Reading...
Health Structures in Government Levels
Health at different Government Levels
Health Structures at Government Levels
Health at Government Levels
A national government has a task in ensuring quality health assurance standards across its region are Continue Reading...
Improved communication was selected, because these issues are contributing to some of the different errors that have taken place. Training is when you are showing the staff how to trouble shoot, various issues that could occur. Backup systems are de Continue Reading...
Quality Assurance: Kaiser Permanente
Case Management Programs are More Concerned with Reducing Costs Than with Improving the Quality of Care
Rather than relying on generalized statements about case management programs, focused research on Kaiser Pe Continue Reading...
Health and Nursing
Reduction of bedsores through implementation of Hospital wide turntable
Does the implementation of a hospital-wide turntable team have a positive impact on the reduction of bedsores?
Reduction of Bedsores
A pressure ulcer (PU) Continue Reading...
Quality and Data-Based Management
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
The purpose of this paper is to examine the organization of NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital in relation to the hospital's quality indicators and measures that are currently in place. Fu Continue Reading...
S. health care market, and this is evident in the lack of coverage for money and the rapidly increasing coverage for those who have it. The article does touch on a key source of inefficiency beyond government regulation -- the opacity of the insuranc Continue Reading...
Health Systems Administration - Improving Patient Safety
Medical errors are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 48,000-98,000 patients each year. Such errors are estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital, an Continue Reading...
Quality in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
The objective of this study is to define quality in the microbiology clinical laboratory including its major components. Toward's this end, this study will examine what constitutes quality in the labor Continue Reading...
Health Service Marketing for the Future
PEST Marketing Analysis and value proposition are required in understanding the complexities of marketing in the health service industry. By conducting an evaluation of political, economic, social, and technol Continue Reading...
Richard Mitchell and Professor Daniel Dorling from the University of Leeds and Dr. Mary Shaw from the University of Bristol on the parliamentary constituencies of Britain revealed a number of social policy scenarios. The study traced the impact of t Continue Reading...
The results of this analysis highlight the need for hospitals to fine-tune their discharge process to reduce readmissions, and support the expenditure of additional resources for this purpose as a cost-effective intervention; as an example, author c Continue Reading...
Health Sciences
When I think about the challenges of the health profession in the 21st century, a very direct quote from former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and Linda Bolton, Head of Nursing at Cedars Mt. Sinai Medical Center co Continue Reading...
Healthcare Organizational Readiness & Strategy
Healthcare Organization Network
Company Profile
Vanguard operates 25 acute care and three specialty hospitals in urban and suburban areas of Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas. Continue Reading...
It is also important to distinguish between the subjective or personal view of quality of life and the professional's objective evaluation of the health status of individuals (Tyrrell et al., 2005, p. 375).
With regard to the patient's quality of l Continue Reading...
In addition the effect of bill has changed the documentation awarded through the state as of a certificate toward a license and authorizes a doctor to pass on duties to a PA with the purpose of managing physician's scope of performance however Anoth Continue Reading...
327). In short, the system 'worked' at this time for patients, hospitals, insurance companies, and the government.
Blue Cross plans also benefited from special state-level legislation that allowed them to act as nonprofit corporations, to enjoy tax Continue Reading...