Critics of the ACA highlight several concerns, however, with the way that the law affects their businesses. For the 10,000 or so employers over 50 people who do not offer insurance, the cost per worker increases immediately. For companies just unde Continue Reading...
Protection of Digital Health Information With increase health information technology store access patient information, likelihood security breaches risen. In fact, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ): In United States, a whopping 97% increas Continue Reading...
Risk Management Unfortunately, it has become necessary to address the issue of falls at the healthcare facility by whom I am employed (Facility A). Recently, there has been a rash of accidents all relating to patients falling. The healthcare facilit Continue Reading...
The nurses are however trained not to get too intimate with the patients as this is against professionalism Braithwaite, Makkai, & Braithwaite, 2007. They also offer informational sup-port giving the resident the right information and guidance Continue Reading...
Elderly Care Case Study Discharging a patient from hospital is usually a complex process that is surrounded by many challenges. Therefore an appropriate discharge plan should be put in place so that there can be avoidance of re-hospitalization. As t Continue Reading...
Health Care Reforms Healthcare reform has been a national issue for some time and the ability to afford citizens the opportunity to adequate healthcare services is an interesting debate with many ideas and arguments both for and against the practic Continue Reading...
Community Assessment Demographic Data General Description Georgetown is the county seat of Sussex County in Delaware. Georgetown is considered part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware metropolitan statistical area. It shares no boundaries with any Continue Reading...
IMPLANTING AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD CHIP INTO U.S. CITIZENS The purpose assignment investigate safeguards apply ethical principles health care technology. Imagine having all your medical records with you at all times, thus reducing the issues th Continue Reading...
S." (Liu, 2008) the actual solution to the challenges facing the health care system in the United States is one that makes a requirement of three components: implementing tort reforms; mandating the use of best practices; and driving systemic proces Continue Reading...
This performance data will be graphed to identify general trends and specific repeat offenders for corrective action, including contacting the individual(s) responsible for minute preparation to clarify requirements and reiterate their responsibilit Continue Reading...
Hisory of Palliatve Care Palliative Care Palliative Care Methods Palliative care entails assisting patients get through pain caused by different diseases. The patient may be ailing from any diseases, be it curable or untreatable. Even patient who Continue Reading...
Healthcare Management (discussion Questions) Health care management (Discussion questions) According to Stone et al. (2008) health care is the second-fastest budding sector of the American economy. Stanton (2002) argues that the discontent with the Continue Reading...
The age of the family physician or the nurse that saw a family through their life cycle is no more, creating a more impersonal and less psychologically well-informed healthcare system. Q8. Perhaps the most important factor contributing to employee Continue Reading...
Even worse, because the negotiated rates for services is so much lower than the non-insured rates for those services, many providers may actually provide services more liberally than necessary to make up for the lower revenue of each service rendere Continue Reading...
Diabetes Management Early Detection and Management of Diabetic Neuropathy in a Clinical and Homecare Setting The objective of this study is to examine early detection and management of diabetic neuropathy in a clinical and homecare setting and spec Continue Reading...
Doctors too are crippled and pressured by managed care organizations that tend to influence their decisions. Today, Managed care presents an unhealthy prospect and the future for such an unethical, unprofessional and profiteering approach is rather Continue Reading...
Mergers, acquisition and other types of multi-entity deals have been common instruments in the economy to increase market share, gain new businesses and customers, expand the business and become more competitive. More and more in the last years, thi Continue Reading...
It is evident that poor people, who have a low purchasing power and low production of foodstuffs, will be subject to malnutrition as compared to their counterparts, who have massive income and high production of foodstuffs. The study of sociology i Continue Reading...
Community Health Assessment Major risk factors identified in the assessment A close look at the assessment reveals that there is no formal cardiology, oncology, and orthopedic programs alhough a couple of orthopedic cardiologists and surgeons maint Continue Reading...
Kemp Health Center Outsourcing Plan Business Outsourcing The Kemp Health Center (KHC) is actively pursuing organizational changes to allow the hospital to operate in a more efficient manner. With an increasingly negative debt looming over the 2009 Continue Reading...
Advising Parents on Long-Term Care Options Advising Parents on long-term care (LTC) Options Long-term care refers to the services or support that one might need in their cognitive impairments while either at home or in an organisations facility. Lo Continue Reading...
As it's expected that the mandatory federal spending on health will increase significantly in the future years, the health programs will remain broke and indebted. Corrective Strategies: Since the current state of the government's health programs Continue Reading...
The reluctance to refer patients to specialists may also mean that nurses must practice more holistic, rather than specialized forms, of nursing. The desire for cost containment has resulted in many nurses assuming physician's duties, such as those Continue Reading...
Further, in order to be covered by Medicare, the stay at the nursing home must include care that requires skilled nursing. In other words, Medicare will not cover custodial, non-skilled or long-term care that includes activities of daily living, suc Continue Reading...
Palliative Care/Gibbs DESCRIPTION Palliative care is comfort care for an individual who is no longer in need or desires life saving care. Most palliative care is offered near the end of life. Palliative care often takes a more holistic approach whe Continue Reading...
Transitional Care of Older Adults Hospitalized with Heart Failure Experiment Naylor, M.D., Brooten, D., Campbell, R.L., Maislan, G.,, McCauley, K.M. Schuartz, J. Transitional Care of Older Adults Hospitalized with Heart Failure: A Randomized Trial. Continue Reading...
It is in the nursing homes job description, that the nursing staff employed should be certified, and be able to perform a number of tasks in order to better understand the patient. This includes an assessment of the patient's mental status and thoug Continue Reading...
The other dimension is related but is definitely separate. Some end-users are not only uninformed on how to administer electronic health records, they may actively resist and otherwise undermine the setup and these people need to be identified or e Continue Reading...
Standards of Cultural Competent Care Emerging Standards of Cultural Competent This research paper is established to explore upon the emerging trends of culturally competent care in general organizational settings. However, the scope of this care w Continue Reading...
Although patient resistance may be high in some instances, the proposed benefits appear to far outweigh the unwillingness of the patient to participate. Secure Funding The proposed program can be carried out with minimal funding. If funding is req Continue Reading...
(Smith, 2003) Checking twice, or more than twice may be less important than securing a diversity of views in such an arena. (Smith, 2003) The ability adequately communicate risk levels amongst providers can become difficult. Also, hasty words can c Continue Reading...
Palliative Care Queensland is basically an independent not for profit body that represents the palliative care providers, consumers and their families. This organization is concerned with people who have an interest in palliative care in Queensland ( Continue Reading...
In the health care practice, there are those aspects of culture that are sensitive and that the health care practitioners need to consider when making decisions related to the practice. Some of these cultural aspects are those that contradict with Continue Reading...
Adult Day Care Industry Analysis Adult day care centers are non-residential facilities that provide and support the health, nutrition and social needs of adults. They are usually staffed with professionals and the adults are kept in groups to provid Continue Reading...
Future of Managed Care Medical facilities have become much more important today than they were ever before. The complex diseases are treated by treatment methodologies and the equipment that were nonexistent a few decades ago. But these facilities h Continue Reading...
The Affordable Care Act means that health coverage will be required for almost every American and will be partially subsidized. However, it will not change the employer-centric, private-insurer-based system of financing and coverage. Demand for care Continue Reading...
Risks Associated with Electronic Health Records While on the whole, electronic health records (EHRs) are a strong positive for the healthcare industry, and associated with better outcomes, that does not mean they are without risks and drawbacks. For Continue Reading...
Health Care Management "Culture eats strategy." The Business Case for Evidence-Based Management Management literature across all disciplines points to the critical importance of quality decision-making. A fundamental practice problem for decision Continue Reading...
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Bearing the everyday evolution of the technology used in hospitals and the Healthcare sector in general, there is need to understand the concept of EHR. This paper undertakes to divulge what EHR is, the components, the Continue Reading...
