1000 Search Results for Improving the Affordable Care Act
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Aaron, H.J. 1994. Thinking About Medical Costs. Health Affairs, 13, 5 (winter): 8-13 in Hong, G-S and Kim, S.Y. (2000). Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure Patterns and Financial Burden across the Life Cycle Stages. Journal of Consume Continue Reading...
1903). The management goal for HCH is to improve the effectiveness of health care delivery to the homeless and indigent of Milwaukee in close partnership with the community. In this regard, the management of the HCH community health center requires Continue Reading...
Health Care
The Staffing Policies Matrix
Hospitals are in the clubs quadrant of the staffing policies matrix. Hospitals are in this sector because careers are slow-moving. This means that the focus is not on constant promotion. Instead, individuals Continue Reading...
United States and National Healthcare Insurance:
A Winning Proposition?
Physical health and well-being are among the most basic needs and desires of human beings. We all hope that neither ourselves nor our families will ever be the victims of sick Continue Reading...
A patchwork of laws provided narrow privacy protections for selected health data and certain keepers of that data." (Administrative Simplification in the Health Care Industry) Therefore, new technologies such as relational databases have simplified Continue Reading...
health care system has focused on the prevention and cure of disease and illness. When people got sick, every bit of energy and finances went into trying to figure out how to stop it. This was true even when the patient had a disorder or a disease t Continue Reading...
American History: Discussion
Today, the existence of America is often assumed to be obviously good because of the existence of American democracy and positive American democratic values exported all over the world. However, that was not always the c Continue Reading...
Innovation at Baystate Health
Informatics and Technology Innovations at Baystate Health
Baystate Health is among the largest health systems in New England and the largest employer in Western Massachusetts ("About Baystate Health," 2014). The crown Continue Reading...
Workarounds in Healthcare Facilities
Workarounds refer to the alternative methods "of accomplishing an activity when the usual system / process is not working well" (Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory, 2013). In as much as workarounds may temporar Continue Reading...
healthcare has been moving from a total "organic" model to a more holistic viewpoint of the patient and their individual needs. Healthcare professionals have come to realize that within any organization, nothing is ever in isolation. Research has sh Continue Reading...
Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Models of management and leadership in health care contexts
As when it comes to modern company structures, management and leadership play a main function in health care as well, specifically focusing on refor Continue Reading...
Disaster Management
The Role of Healthcare in Disaster Management
Events such as the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 and the tragically mismanaged response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 would demonstrate the need for greater disaster prepa Continue Reading...
Bed -Profit Health Care Organization
A detailed organizational chart for your new facility
Each and every department of the hospital is responsible for performing certain type of assigned tasks but still departments are grouped together according t 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...
6% of the respondents stated that this was what they did. This number however is not reflected in lower numbers for life style disease and so it must be given greater scrutiny at another time (See table below).
Fruit and vegetable consumption by eth Continue Reading...
For these reasons, too, all stakeholders must be on the same page, so for instance Markson's group had to wait for consensus from a certain department before building the software but this consensus resulted in a much safer, more standardized proce Continue Reading...
The idea with this part of the strategy is to be able to form some kind of a partnership with these individuals. This will help to push for a transformation inside the organization. As, these people will help to provide everyone with: a reason for a Continue Reading...
Neuman Health Care Systems Model:
Preventative Care for Mr. H
The Neuman Health Care Systems Model was created by Betty M. Neuman in an effort to help nursing students focus on wellness for the client system (McHolm & Geib, 1998). In order to Continue Reading...
Health Care Settings
Cover Letter
Hospital Chief Executive Officer
There are a number of different issues that have been affecting the health care facility over the last several years. Recently, the various cutbacks in assistance from government p Continue Reading...
Indeed many of the "rotating staff may have never been on a transfer" and in addition most transport vehicles "are not conducive to carrying out active interventions on patients" -- a situation that can lead to serious medical complications during t Continue Reading...
Thus, Congress and whoever drafts the plan, really has to figure out how to show the health care interests the reform will help, rather than hinder, their profits, or it simply will not occur.
The health care plan must also be feasible and able to Continue Reading...
also emphasize the importance of education and communication to consumers in order to ensure that quality standards are met.
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was established during 1987, when businesses were slowly but increasingly becom Continue Reading...
Attorneys, however, note that the suits are reflective of an increase in negligent doctors, who are hard pressed to serve a larger and more demanding patient load. Medical care is more costly and it is true that doctors fail to establish bedside rel 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...
high-performance work practices benefit the nursing profession -- and moreover, how are high-performance work practices beneficial to the patient receiving care from the nurse? This paper delves into the concept of high-performance efforts in the nu Continue Reading...
Healthcare Plan Review
The author of this report is to answer three general questions relating to healthcare program evaluation. The first question asks the author of this report to examine the overall purpose of healthcare program evaluation. The s Continue Reading...
Life Care
End-of-life care may be one of the most difficult aspects of healthcare services. After all, the goal of most healthcare providers is to heal, and providing end-of-life requires a shift in perspective. One of the challenges in planning en Continue Reading...
Education in Healthcare:
The health care system has been characterized with several issues in the recent past including increased costs, poor patient outcomes, shortage in the number of health workers across every category, and under-utilization of Continue Reading...
Healthy Behavior on the Healthcare System
Prepare initial statement. Understanding healthy behaviors U.S. health care system evolve make effective resources. How effectively solve problem; misuse health care dollars? How cost containment affected e Continue Reading...
Diabetes Foot Care
Qualitative Research Critique: Diabetes Foot Care
Sue Flood (2009) saw a need to examine the nurse-patient interaction in relation to diabetes foot care outcomes, in part because at least one health care organization (Agency for Continue Reading...
PACS
Synthesizing health care and technology can be a very advantageous endeavor when the proper planning and understanding are applied to this technique. Physician practices is one area of health care where this is quite evident. The benefits of in Continue Reading...
Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity
The paper is a critical review of the peer's paper on Health care providers and faith diversity. The aim of peer's paper is to show own base perspective of what care and healing on a Christian, perspective in Continue Reading...
Health Care Information Technology
Changes in health information technology
Healthcare and Information Technology
Information Technology (IT) can be briefly defined as "the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommuni Continue Reading...
2.) Based upon your personal, non-professional experiences, briefly discuss 2 or 3 applications of it which have enhanced or hindered your financial or medical well being. It and cyber-commerce/e-commerce do not exist devoid of context; thus please Continue Reading...
future of health care delivery in Canada, the country that you intend to practice medicine.
The Canadian health care's most significant issue is it's disconnect of communication between medical practitioners and patients, on the one hand, and the d Continue Reading...
Cox, T. (2010). Legal and ethical implications of health care provider insurance risk assumption. JONAS Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation. 12(4):106-116.
How healthcare providers really feel about managed care and other forms of insurance is v Continue Reading...
Application and Integration of AACN Synergy Care
Model In Clinical Practice
Application and Integration of AACN Synergy Care model in Clinical Practice
Objective of this paper is to discuss the integration and application of AACN Synergy Care mode Continue Reading...
Health Care to Varied Faiths
Spirituality in Health Care
Providing
Health Care to All Faiths
Providing health care is a challenging prospect. Compounding the challenge is the need to provide health care to individuals with differing beliefs from Continue Reading...
Health Care -- Strategic Planning and Marketing
Strategic planning and marketing often wed customer-oriented issues with broader issues of public health, morality and survival in a highly competitive market. Consequently, a key issue set forth by th Continue Reading...
A single payer healthcare system would go a long way towards leveling the playing field for all the shareholders. A single payer system is one in which a single entity or party, is one that covers ones healthcare needs by paying for their medical ne Continue Reading...