Adult day care industry is well-known for providing social and basic health assistance to the elderly with physical and mental disabilities. The assistance provided in these adult day care centers include meals, hygiene services such as bathing and c 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...
Community Health Nursing The Bronx is known as one the five boroughs of New York City. This is because of the attractions which are located inside the community such as: Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo. During the last recession, it was able to wit Continue Reading...
Consequently, there is need to adopt various measures that could help in reducing or limiting increases in medical expenditures. One of the ways that can lead to the reduction of health care expenses is by preventing illnesses. Statistics has clear Continue Reading...
Managed Care Plans Analyze how the policies and practices related to Managed Care Plans can influence the activities of managers in health services organizations. Over the last several years, the role of health care organizations has been continual 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...
Usability Analysis Human health is delicate and working in fields that deal with such aspect requires the utmost sensitivity and accuracy among other positive elements. The modern world is, characterized by widespread use of computerized equipment. 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...
Inadequate Staffing in Nursing Explain the nursing/patient care concern, problems, issues observed at the senior level clinical practice During the past decade, there certainly has been a rapid decline in quality patient care in the healthcare indu Continue Reading...
Hospital SCM Arnold Palmer Hospital Managing Service, Processes and Supply Chains Hospitals and Supply Chains - Overview Hospital Supply Chains - Advancements Standard Supply Chain Stockless Inventory Vendor Managed Inventory Consignment Aut Continue Reading...
Managed Care Organzations. (MCO) Since the increasing costs of health care insurance became a significant issue in the profitability of health care provider in the 1980's health care provider, insurance companies, doctors and hospitals have searched Continue Reading...
Prior to Launching Technology Initiatives Over the past seven years, many healthcare organizations, like OUUCH, have begun to transition from the traditional paper-based systems to EHR systems. Research has shown that over a period of time. EHR sy 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...
Community Health Nursing The health disparities in the United States are shocking. There are disparities evident in nearly every factor associated with healthcare such as cost, quality, access, and equity. As a result, a new wave of research has beg Continue Reading...
Nurse Practitioner Affect the Shortage of Primary Care Physicians? Can the Nurse Practitioner Affect the Shortage of Primary Care Physicians? Topic Background and Issue Introduction The objective of this work in writing is to examine the issue of Continue Reading...
One of the reasons that a lot of these centers are affordable is because half of urgent care centers are preserved by physician groups and another 38% by hospitals, which are providing their own centers distinct from emergency rooms (Alexander, 201 Continue Reading...
public policy for reproductive health in Nigeria should not be without first recognizing the global issues that bear upon the country's public health system and the state of its people. Today the country continues to renew its effort in sustaining p Continue Reading...
Medical procedures, like chemotherapy and radiation, are frequently used to alleviate pain and symptoms and for cure. Intravenous medications tackle pain but are also costlier than other forms. The appearance of new and costlier drugs blurs the fine Continue Reading...
One of the most fascinating problems associated with the information age, is not the lack of information but the overabundance of information one can find on any given topic. The internet drives this phenomena of abundance and can offer the individ Continue Reading...
Romney Care: Pros and Cons The RomneyCare program has both its advantages and disadvantages Advantages Advantages include the fact that 63% of Massachusetts residents support the Romneycare Massachusetts health care insurance reform law which mand Continue Reading...
0, 4.0, and 4.5 percentage points in FYs 1982, 1983, and 1984, respectively, for States whose growth exceeded certain targets, OBRA-81 also reduced eligibility for welfare benefits, thus making it harder for poor families to qualify for Medicaid (Kle Continue Reading...
Integrated Patient Managed-Care Information System Identifying a Cost-Effective Integrated Patient Managed-Care System for Concord Hospital: A Managed-Care White Paper This white paper is provided in response to a request review integrated patient 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 Health Groups at risk and vulnerable populations. A group at risk for poor health is the group of people that are at risk of not receiving the needed healthcare regardless of their race, their income or insurance status, gender. These gro Continue Reading...
Brain Drain of Health Professionals in Zimbabwe Brain Drain is described in the work of Lowell and Findlay (2001) as something that can occur "...if emigration of tertiary educated persons for permanent or long-stays abroad reaches significant level 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...
managed care in modern health care. Specifically it will include a brief history of managed care, along with some pros and cons about the process. Managed care is an arrangement where an insuring organization accepts the risk for providing a define Continue Reading...
People who are in poor health are less likely to work and, when in work, are less prolific. They are less probable to invest in their own schooling or to save for retirement, and so to support the broader economy. Experts believe that the present ec Continue Reading...
Asthma Public health consists of all the organized measures instituted to accomplish the following for the overall specific population: 1) to prevent disease; 2) to promote health; and 3) to contribute to prolonged lives. The unit of analysis for pu Continue Reading...
Congressperson The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has become a contentious political issue, which I am sure your office is well aware of. As a future health care administrator and as an American citizen in your constituency, I w Continue Reading...
Clinical Documentation and the Health Record: The adoption of computerized records is seen as the most appropriate means of improving the quality of care while decreasing health care costs. However, the main concern is on how to design the most suit Continue Reading...
" (Federal Register, 2010) Incentive Payments Section 401(c) of the HITECH Act is reported to add an incentive for payments to specific Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations for their affiliated EPs who meaningfully use certified HER technology and Continue Reading...
Combined with the widespread entry of women into the labor force, an aging population, and minimal assistance for high quality long-term care at the end of life, these economic and social conditions raise a set of difficult policy questions for heal Continue Reading...
Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care Explain the advantage or disadvantage of the movement away from inpatient care to outpatient care. Do you think this trend will eventually reverse or stabilize? Medicare's compensation solutions for out-patient as Continue Reading...
Introduction An electronic health record (EHR) is a person's authentic health record that is shared among various agencies and offices (Hasanain, 2014). The role of EHRs is getting to be expanding persuasive as progressively tolerant data winds u Continue Reading...
Clinical Preventive Services and Advocacy Letter1 Clinical Preventive ServicesThere are a number of reasons why clinical preventive services like lung cancer screening, breastfeeding support, and skin cancer prevention counseling should be covered by Continue Reading...
