Therefore, a basis is formed on which to reduce the inappropriate admissions after the correct rates are determined (Restuccia, Shwartz, Ash, and Payne, 1996). The connection between hospitalization rates and the inappropriateness of the admissions Continue Reading...
affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare) on the elderly Obamacare: Its impact upon the elderly The impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (often called 'Obamacare') upon America is often discussed by politicians as if it had a uni Continue Reading...
Laws and Health Care The health care industry has undergone massive overhaul in recent times and the impact of the laws and regulations that accompany this change have deep and resounding effects on the way professionals approach their industry. The Continue Reading...
Obamacare, or formally known as the Affordable Care Act, is a recent healthcare law that will reach its implementation stage in 2014. Healthcare is certainly a fundamental necessity and indispensable to a growing human population. The United States i Continue Reading...
Standards of Care/Mental Health/Cultural Competence EMERGING STANDARDS OF CARE/MENTAL HEALTH/CULTURAL Sometime in 1999, the Surgeon General released Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Inside this report, it acknowledged that not every Continue Reading...
Home Care Company ABC Home Care Agency Capital Purchase Software Acquisition and its Benefits Capital Purchase of Software Customer Satisfaction Productivity Quality assurance Employee development Revenue improvement Economic environment of Continue Reading...
The master patient index (MPI) value was mainly liked by the personnel in the medical record section. The Golden 90s Equipped with MPI and record-keeping growth, software designers sustained to generate and progress with a new emphasis on individu Continue Reading...
Managed Care One issue that has received a great deal of attention in recent months during the healthcare debate is the role of health insurance companies. Managed care was originally intended to lower costs within the American healthcare system to Continue Reading...
These insights from the Simulation were meant to be a valuable contribution and reference for the effective implementation of Australia's health reform agenda, according to AHHA director Prue Power (AHHA). Implications on the Medical Devices Indust Continue Reading...
Managed Care is an approach or system of health care that manages the use of healthcare services, controls their costs, and evaluates the performance of healthcare providers. It is also considered as an approach to funding and providing healthcare se Continue Reading...
Ethics of Managed Healthcare Healthcare policy has emerged as one of the most important issues in American politics and will continue to drive significant aspects of contemporary American public policy debates in the near future. That is because, on Continue Reading...
Global Health / Nursing Trends Wealthy Nations In the era following World War II, industrialized nations, which were the most affluent nations in the world, invested more money into healthcare and social services than in the era prior to the war. Th 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...
EHR Mandate The electronic health records mandate comes from the federal government and is described by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The objective of the program is to "enable the secure collection and ex Continue Reading...
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...
Omid's Story Being ill is never a simple thing. Besides the physical tolls a medical condition can take on a person's body, there are also many mental and psychological costs that affect a sick person. Nor do these physical and mental effects only h Continue Reading...
Technological Solutions Health economics questions What are the two basic tools of economics? Give an example of each with respect to health, medical services, and hospitals. The two basic tools of economics are marginal analysis and optimization Continue Reading...
The majority of nurse practitioners commit themselves daily to help provide compassionate and comprehensive healthcare that focuses on disease prevention and health promotion within a cost effective format. Our elders deserve the respect of appropr Continue Reading...
Elderly Care in America: A comparison with England's Healthcare System Healthcare in America vs. Healthcare in England Different countries have varying healthcare systems across the world and the systems are set to benefit the local population with Continue Reading...
Registered nurses are both qualified, educated, and certified to provide a high quality of various care services that an individual may need in a home setting or elsewhere. Hence, providing these practitioners with the power to certify and provide h Continue Reading...
In the future, this will improve quality and it will reduce the total number of uninsured. This is when productivity and the standard of living will improve by proactively addressing these issues while they are small. Alternatives To deal with any Continue Reading...
Midwifery in Primary Care New Directions for Midwives: Addressing Novel Primary Care Roles Looking towards the future, radical changes are sweeping the United States healthcare system with the advent of a new public healthcare system. This change 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...
There are various applications of the RFID technology in the healthcare. These are explored by a HIBCC,(2006 ) report that studies the application of the RFID technology in the healthcare setting with emphasis on its benefits, limitations as well a Continue Reading...
One of the recommended responses to the condition of diversification in some reasons is the facilitation of high healthcare worker morale and the embrace of workplace diversity. This resolution should be carried out not through conscious racialist Continue Reading...
" (MediLexicon International, Ltd., 2006). The PCIP was formed from the recognition that high costs and low quality inherent in the Healthcare system of the U.S. is largely due to a system that is antiquated and fragmented (DOHMH, 2006a). The inabil Continue Reading...
Information Technology on the Healthcare sector Healthcare systems serve to perform the very important function of preserving human capital. In modern society, health care assumes significance not just in terms of the expenditure it generates, but Continue Reading...
Hospitals and Public Health: Crises Medical Error Medical errors have caused a crisis in the national health care system. According to the Bureau of Primary Health Care, using studies from Colorado, Utah and New York, estimates that 44,000 -- 98,00 Continue Reading...
The article attempts to show how through good governance a healthcare provider can create a foundation of belter public health preparedness, including integration of the latest technologies including TeleCare, Telemedicine, Tele-Health and E-Health Continue Reading...
Public Health Betrayals A fascinating reality of public health is that when it is working, nothing is happening. People are healthy, they participate in their community's welfare, and they themselves are likely to want to be more engaged in the cult Continue Reading...
This is the strategy used in Canada, where drug costs have been substantially reduced. The challenges presented by this law have spilled over into the current health-care reform debate. Many people and many legislators who might have been more open Continue Reading...
Medical Care Perhaps the single biggest blessing that any individual can thank his or her stars for is a sense of physiological and psychological well being that allows for the optimal utilization of one's lifetime. In the same vein, all humankind c Continue Reading...
Electronic Health Records The state of today's technology has transformed many of the methods and systems society uses to live and interact with one another. In the medical community, technology has also become a much larger part of how healing and Continue Reading...
managed care has now permeated the general atmosphere of health care and the healing process in society. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the evolution of managed care and its practices and how they impact profession of health care and its su Continue Reading...
Growth and Changes in Nursing Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the law of the land, nurses can expect to have even more responsibility and even more opportunities to use their skills. This paper reviews how the restructuring of the U.S. he Continue Reading...
Policy Process Part I Policies are constantly being reviewed and considered to assist in enhancing the federal, state, and local health care systems. Each of the reviewed and considered policies has the potential to affect every individual on a dai 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...
HITECH Legislation The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is something that gives the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) with the power to create programs that will improve health care quality, s Continue Reading...
Community Assessment of Kent County Health Needs: Kent County is an area within Michigan State in the United States of America and part of the Grand Rapids -- Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area. In order to identify the County's most pressing pri Continue Reading...
To make matters worse the stagnant economy means that more people are requiring assistance. In most cases, different demographics of consumers are unable to afford health care coverage. This is because of the abusive practices that are used by the i Continue Reading...
