appease the allegation that medical errors beset the healthcare industry and generate major risk to patients. As with any matter posing a potentially significant impact on a population, the government has a sizable interest. Lately, the government d Continue Reading...
economic pressures do employers face that impact healthcare plan design and selection? Right now, employers are facing shifts in Medicaid and Medicare costs, with some of those costs moving to the states instead of the federal government (Rosenbloo Continue Reading...
financial impact vulnerable population. Consider: o the impact age groups, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic education level o Health illness trends, disease morbidity mortality population o Health care service, acute care, long-term care, nursing ho Continue Reading...
False Claims Act is a piece of legislation from the U.S. Congress that allows any individual with knowledge of a fraud being perfected against any agency of the U.S. Government to file a claim on behalf of the Government against the individual or bus Continue Reading...
Green provides some clear guidelines to assist health education and promotion specialists in the identification and design of health promotion techniques for implementation in health promotion and disease prevention programs. Discuss how five of the Continue Reading...
Reimbursement and Pay-For-Performance Pay-for-performance This entails day-to-day programs designed to offer monetary incentives to health care providers and physicians to meet efficiency, quality and other defined targets. Pay-for-performance enta Continue Reading...
Joint Commission is a self-governing, not-for-profit organization, that certifies almost 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is known nationwide as a sign of quality tha Continue Reading...
EMTALA Violations in the Healthcare System The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was introduced because of concerns that patients who needed emergency medical treatment were being denied access to that treatment due to inabil Continue Reading...
Financing Health Care in the 21st Century Cost Containment: the United States government Unlike virtually every other industrialized country in the world, the United States provides medical care to its citizens through the private workplace, primar Continue Reading...
HITECH Act and Meaningful Use The American healthcare system is subject to undergo unprecedented reforms resulting from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These changes have generated opportunities for firms across the healthcare landscape. Healthcare I Continue Reading...
Schneck Medical Center Provide a description of the company, its mission, and values SMC (Schneck Medical Center) is a nonprofit healthcare organization that provides specialized and primary care services. The center was established in 1911 with a Continue Reading...
Both of these devices "allow handwritten data entry including sketching with 'electronic ink' and handwriting recognition that converts scribble into typewritten text." (Wales and Zabrek, 2003) Full integration with hospital servers of these device Continue Reading...
S.W.O.T. For Community South Medical Center Needs of Community South Medical Center The identified strength of Community South Medical Center is that of the array of services it offers and the level of excellence of those services. The weakness of Continue Reading...
Another factor, which increases the number of working uninsured, is the increase of healthcare costs. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, employees costs have risen by 47% and employers have seen a 20% increase. The employee's higher percenta Continue Reading...
The Abu Dhabi Health Authority (ADHD), however, intends to overcome those obstacles by continuing to train its locals, and by envisioning an influx of professionals with the emergence of top-notch institutions such as John Hopkins and the Cleveland Continue Reading...
Policy Making Process Welfare Reform Policy Analysis Success of welfare reform is ambiguous. Media and well-known public officials claim to have had achieved welfare reforms. However, after 4 years of new policy regime, majority also accepts that Continue Reading...
The Act authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to contract out with private health insurers to offer at a minimum of two multi-state qualified health plans (to include at least one non-profit) to provide individual or small group cover Continue Reading...
It is also argued that the insurance mandate is not constitutional since the government does not have the right to tell the United States citizens what products to purchase, even when these products are beneficial for them, and even less when the s Continue Reading...
Medicare and Medicaid Medicare is a federal governed program that pays for hospital and medical care for elderly and certain disabled Americans while Medicaid is a means tested health and medical services program for certain individuals and families Continue Reading...
The independent physician groups and hospitals provide services under the organization's guidelines, but they may also care for patients who are not members. (1997) While managed care does offer employers more control in choosing the specifics of t Continue Reading...
In an era supposedly far removed from the institutional bigotry of prior decades, this inexplicable gap represents an unacceptable failing on the part of both public servants and private industry. I agree with the article's conclusion that the ACA's Continue Reading...
propositions that pertain to the policy-making process. After that, these propositions are to be tested. The author of this response will offer these three propositions, and the rationale behind them, one by one. The first proposition is that policy Continue Reading...
Individual Mandate Policy Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Individual mandate Supreme Court's recent upholding of the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was deemed to be an essential co Continue Reading...
To that end, patients who opt to pay more are likely to have better access to treatment; meaning, essentially, that patients who choose to go with commercial healthcare providers will have more accessibility and better quality of treatment as oppose Continue Reading...
President George Bush proposed a two part strategy with initial implemented drug coverage to low-income beneficiaries coupled with a White House task force to develop a plan to reform Medicare (Health Policy, 2001). Under this plan beneficiaries wit Continue Reading...
Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) are often confused as being actual "homes" for patients to be admitted in and given medical treatment and care. PCMH is actually a health care model based on which health care is provided to patients, under the s Continue Reading...
The challenges are many for those in the industry for the first quarter-century of the new millenium but the hope is that information technological advances will smooth the transitions that must be made if healthcare is to be effective or successful Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act A current law that impacts the delivery of human services is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010. The legislation (most commonly known as the Affordable Care Act Continue Reading...
Siracusa Principles Empowering Public Health Siracusa Principles Investing in public health is substantial for the prosperity of human rights. This is based on the knowledge that public health commitment is a collective focus attempting to minimize Continue Reading...
Community Nursing The United States today represents not only wealth and opportunity for those within its borders, but also for those who enter it as immigrants. At least, this is the ideal. The unfortunate reality is that, more often than not, thos Continue Reading...
precise reason of focusing the concern on Research and Scholarship is based on the fact that by understanding the importance of research and development the prevailing health care issues will be satisfied by the logical input provided by the nursing Continue Reading...
The issue of misplaced or lost patient files is also gotten rid of. These advantages aid in producing a marked rise in the health connected security of patients and the welfare of patients (Ayers, 2009). Furthermore, electronic medical records and p Continue Reading...
The Act creates a positive balance between government interests to save money and the interests of Medicare recipients to receive a wide range of drugs for their specific needs. The current ban on government negotiations with pharmaceutical companie Continue Reading...
2001 there was an Anthrax attack which created an alert of how bioterrorism had an impact on the public health emergencies. These types of emergencies can not only spread illnesses but also cause several deaths. The can also affect government operat Continue Reading...
hhs-stat.net). Type I diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults and results from the body's failure to produce insulin. Type 1 account for 5% to 10% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes (Centers for Disease Control, National Diabetes Continue Reading...
Passing Congress with bipartisan support, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, Public Law 104-191) became the legislative vehicle to address those issues. Your health information cannot be used or shared without your writt Continue Reading...
Medical Treatments: Issues and Options for an Expanded Federal Role" Using Bardach's Eightfold Path" The objective of this work in writing is to assess the work entitled "Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments: Issues and O Continue Reading...
Another proposal would be to include new state and local government workers in the system (Kubarych, 2004). Medicare and Medicaid Medicare and Medicaid were formally enacted as amendments to the Social Security Act in 1965. These programs guarante Continue Reading...
Over the course of time, this will offer a first step in addressing these challenges. (Smith, 2008) ("Affordable Care Act," 2010) Conclusion Clearly, minorities are not receiving the same kind of treatment for health care services in comparison wi Continue Reading...
S.A. It is worth noting that some of these parts that are left out can be very expensive at times particularly when the beneficiary has to pay the out-of-pocket premiums and deductibles as well, and these services could be inevitable like seeking med Continue Reading...
