997 Search Results for Controlling Health Care Costs
Introduction
Patient-centered care is the goal of many healthcare organizations, but the ability of an organization to deliver patient-centered care is influenced by a number of factors both internal and external. Business practices, regulatory requ Continue Reading...
Assignment 2: Tools for Measuring QualityQuality measurement is important in nursing practice owing to the fact that it helps ensure successful assessment and hence delivery of quality health services. In the absence of quality measurement, there wou Continue Reading...
With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, knowledge-based healthcare has become a federal mandate. Knowledge management processes vary depending on the nature of the healthcare organization, as well as local and state legislative contingencies. Th Continue Reading...
Public Administration: Case Study on Health Care Institution
This work will examine public administration theories and concepts along with individuals that have contributed to the field of public administration while simultaneously reviewing the cas Continue Reading...
Information Technology Trends: Electronic Healthcare Records
Today, consumers in the United States enjoy a modern healthcare system that has benefited from numerous innovations in medical technology, including the introduction of electronic healthc Continue Reading...
Checking the solution to the problem works as a check and balance system to the health care industry. An example may be problems with staffing. The plan could be developed to allow nurses to handle their own scheduling as long as all needed shifts a Continue Reading...
LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN HEALTHCARE Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare HC4301. What are some of the ethical issues from the opponent and proponent sides of the abortion rights debate?From the onset, it would be prudent to note that abortion h Continue Reading...
Marketing (Ethical Issues)
Ethical Issues in Marketing Healthcare Products
Ethical Issues Associated with the Marketing Strategy
In the case presented above, there are the ethical and epistemic issues in direct-to-customer drug advertising, apart Continue Reading...
Health Policy Analysis for Maryland AC (Affordable Care) Act
McLaughlin, & McLaughlin (2014) rank 11 areas of health innovation based on their impact on costs and quality of healthcare delivery. The process improvement is the highest ranking ite Continue Reading...
Strategic Leadership and Future Delivery Models
The issue of life expectancy at birth is a relatively novel one. Before the 19th century for instance, the United Kingdom -- the country with the longest time-series of measured life expectancy -- had Continue Reading...
Letter of Intent
What are your short- and long-term career goals and how will this program prepare you for them?
My short-term goals are to get a very high quality education in the nursing field, learning as much as I can both with hands-on skills Continue Reading...
Health Law and Regulations
In America, the health care industry is highly regulated. This is because there are certain aspects of the law which are designed to improve quality and offer everyone with a variety of treatment options. To fully understa 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...
Hepatitis B screening for health care workers in primary health care
The cause for Hepatitis B is a DNA virus and the complete virus has the name 'Dane particle'. The virus contains three major antigens in structure: The surface antigen, the core a Continue Reading...
Health
Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm
Healing Hospital
Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm
A working definition of a healing hospital is a place or rather a holistic and integrated environment where "Healing will take place more quickly, tho 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...
Telenursing: Is it in My Future?
Along with the Digital Age have come new requirements, new opportunities, new expectations, and new possibilities. Adaptation to the 21st century's technology is part of what it means to be innovative -- and in the f Continue Reading...
chief economic principle that must be confronted in the horrifying picture Steven Brill paints in "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us" is the devastating effect caused by economic monopoly. Brill tiptoes around the issue, and basically de Continue Reading...
China's Health Indicators
China has gone through impressive economic development over the past few years, and has experienced a big reduction in poverty along with other positive achievements. Due to improvement in living conditions, nutrition, and Continue Reading...
Winston Churchill once remarked that, "There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." In a similar vein, Karen Howard, the Director of Policy and Government Affairs, is a strong supporter of Nurse-Family Partnership an Continue Reading...
Outpatient Clinic Center
For all health care facilities, having a code of ethics is critical for establishing acceptable practices for everyone to follow. This helps to improve the quality of care and professionalism. (Bryant, 2012) To fully underst Continue Reading...
Case Study of Pacific Healthcare
1. What alternatives should Barney Rubble consider when addressing the problem?
The alternatives that Rubble should consider when addressing the problem are the competitors who produce the highest quality film at the Continue Reading...
Spanish and Project Management for Healthcare Classes
Project Management
The project should proceed by requiring everyone on the team to commit more time and effort. While at the same time, the marketing team should have greater amounts of flexibil 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...
Health Qs
Massachusetts Cost Limiting Proposal
One of the major problems of the current healthcare system implemented by the State of Massachusetts is the cost of maintaining the program and providing the necessary healthcare to Massachusetts' citi Continue Reading...
Health Insurance in the U.S.:
Health insurance has become an important part in the modern health care system even before the American government started to discuss the issue of compulsory medical insurance. Actually health insurance has asserted its 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...
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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...
Employee insurance costs may at the outset look as an unimportant and dispensable expenditure, but in reality it is far from true. Research has shown that health insurance can increase overall productivity by reducing the costs associated with "Empl Continue Reading...
Health Insurance Plans
There seem to be three basic health insurance categories. They are generally called Fee-for-Service, Managed Care or Health Saving plans, though some call them by other names. The fee-for-service plan is what many people consi 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...
Health Promotion:
The three levels of prevention in health promotion in nursing practice are primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. The process of prevention in nursing practice is made up of preventing diseases, curing them, and restricting t Continue Reading...
Health Promotion Lesson Plan
The concept of health promotion is thought of as "the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health" (Dunphy et al., 2011, p 25). Serious heart conditions can be preven Continue Reading...
What this in essence means is that the patient would not be able to choose his own brands of medication; he must only buy what the committee has recommended, otherwise, he would lose out on his health insurance payments.
A woman who faced a problem Continue Reading...
These were categorized into three aspects, which the care provider could control for the benefit of the patients. These were satisfaction with the punctuality of the caregiver; the quality of interaction between the patient and the caregiver; and th Continue Reading...
Health System of Kuwait
The Managerial Functioning of Kuwait's Health Care System
General Description of the Kuwait Health System
Kuwait claims to have one of "the most comprehensive health care systems, and one of the most all-encompassing social Continue Reading...
Health Policy Discussion Responses
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Health Policy and Its Influence
The discussion post authored by L.N. concerning health policy and its various influences was well-written and informative, providing a clear definition of the term while also Continue Reading...