1000 Search Results for Maintaining the Health of Patients
Healthcare Technology
One of the main barriers to implementing such a plan as described above is the expense of doing so; but that is true only if one looks at the immediate cash expense. The savings created by providing medical personnel with their Continue Reading...
Patient Safety and Security
Patient information, privacy and security are at the heart of providing a high level of medical services. These issues are vitally important if patient confidence is to be retained, in addition to ensuring that no potenti Continue Reading...
What this in essence means is that the patient would not be able to choose his own brands of medication; he must only buy what the committee has recommended, otherwise, he would lose out on his health insurance payments.
A woman who faced a problem Continue Reading...
Healthcare Finance
The relationship between the doctor and a possible patient is established when the physician asks the person for the first time as how he could be of possible help. This direct and simple enquiry is the beginning of the trust of t Continue Reading...
Healthcare in Marketing (Lasik)
Lasik's Methods in Other Health Care Organizations
Customer profiling is a vastly unexplored marketing method in the health industry. While it has been used to target very specific markets, such as potential consumer Continue Reading...
Pender's is a theory of preventive medicine, for the healthy rather than the chronically ill. However, in an age where lifestyle-related disease are on the rise, it can provide an important function, particularly for nurses facing an epidemic of pre Continue Reading...
Healthcare Infrastructure
JCAHO:
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations -JCAHO is among the leading health-care benchmarks setting and accrediting bodies in the world today. To provide for continuous improvement to the sa 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 and Wellness
Definitions of Health
In 1997, the World Health Organization decided that the on hand definition of health needed to be modified to ensure elasticity and better implementation. The definition according to the WHO constitution of Continue Reading...
Healthcare: Heath Information Management
Population health management (PHM) has gained prominence in mainstream healthcare organizations in recent years for the simple reason that healthcare is changing, and physician groups and healthcare systems a Continue Reading...
Patient Handoffs
Majority of the medical errors take place in the patient's handoffs. A shift among the doctors is a common practice. There are a number of old patients who approach around 16 different doctors in a year, while young patients who are Continue Reading...
Healthcare Government Regulations
The role of government regulatory agencies and government regulations in general is particularly important in health care. The reasons for this are many, but the most important of those reasons is that health care d Continue Reading...
S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). Furthermore, subpart C explains the privileges and the protections of confidentiality that is attached to the patient's record along with much exception (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Continue Reading...
Lack of a comprehensive education and lack of knowledge in EBP could lead many of the nurses that work in hospitals around the country to make errors, which would negatively affect the patient care and predispose them to increased chances of litigat Continue Reading...
Health Care Management
Obstacles to change in Health Care management.
There are a nearly infinite number of things that can go wrong for a health care manager, and out of the two major problems that can arise, staff relationship problems and stress Continue Reading...
Health Promotion Lesson Plan
The concept of health promotion is thought of as "the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health" (Dunphy et al., 2011, p 25). Serious heart conditions can be preven Continue Reading...
Salary and benefits
The salary earned depends to a large extent on the responsibility held by the individuals. In general, the more the responsibility, the higher the salary. In a survey conducted in 2008 by AHIMA, the average salary was $57,370. Continue Reading...
Patient Education Brochure
Patient Privacy and Electronic Medical Records:
Patient Privacy and Electron Medical Records:
Patient Education Brochure
Brochure Content
With the implementation of computer-based medical records systems in private off Continue Reading...
(Menzel, 1990, p. 3) Fisher, Berwick, & Davis alude to the idea of integration in health care, with providers linking as well as creating networks of electronic medical records and other cost improvement tactics.
The United States and other nat Continue Reading...
Because unions retain the exclusive right to negotiate on behalf of its members, the individual worker may have little recourse to easily address incompetent leadership.
The Disadvantages of Unionized Labor for Healthcare Employers:
The primary di Continue Reading...
The experiences of seniors within the healthcare delivery system will alter how all Americans view healthcare. The healthcare delivery systems and overall organizational structure in the United States has been slow to adjust but that rest of the wo Continue Reading...
Healthcare Challenges
Technology is one of the main drivers of change in healthcare, and it is up to healthcare organizations to join the rest of the world in adopting new technologies to run their industry better. In most industries, something like 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...
Healthcare
Integrity is a major issue for healthcare organizations because there are many avenues for fraud, and for people to demonstrate a lack of ethics. The problem is that the temptation is sometimes too great and despite the fact that there ar Continue Reading...
Health Qs
Massachusetts Cost Limiting Proposal
One of the major problems of the current healthcare system implemented by the State of Massachusetts is the cost of maintaining the program and providing the necessary healthcare to Massachusetts' citi Continue Reading...
Health psychology looks at several factors and how they are involved in preventing threats to physical health. Most commonly, psychological, cultural, environmental, and biological issues are all addressed by those who study health psychology (Marks, 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...
Those entities must also arrange for employee awareness training on HIPAA privacy concepts. They must also provide regular assessment procedures to measure compliance with HIPAA rules and related principles and policies pertaining to the electronic Continue Reading...
They must provide awareness training to employees, (both paid and unpaid), on HIPAA privacy principles and they must implement regular assessment procedures for evaluating compliance with HIPAA rules, including general information security and infor Continue Reading...
This can lead to both autonomy and cooperation within the group, as no member will feel that his or her skills are not utilized to an optimal level.
It is also possible that non-constructive conflict can arise from the diversity within a group if n 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 Administration Profession
As a health care manager, the reason for choosing this profession and the day-to-day activities which fill my schedule are often vary different. As a health care professional, I entered this profession to make a Continue Reading...
Health IMS
Health Information Management Systems (IMS) and its Impact on Organizational Decision-Making
In the journal article entitled, "The Benefits of Health Information Technology: A Review of the Recent Literature," authors Buntin et. al. (201 Continue Reading...
Health Care Finance
Financial analyst Eric Feigenbaum (2009) notes that while we like to think of hospitals in terms of compassion, patient care and dedication to altruistic aims, they are businesses concerned with revenues and expenses like any oth Continue Reading...
In fact Congress should pass a bill that gives that prescription drug benefit to Medicare patients.
QUESTION NINE: In the United States, healthcare is so expensive that over 45 million people are without health insurance. It is a broken system, lea Continue Reading...
Health Care Quality Management as it Applies to Managed Care
In the current age of improved answerability for quality of care, every healthcare expert should be conversant in the theory and paraphernalia of quality management) Quality Management-QM Continue Reading...
Healthcare Finance
What are the dynamics of patient accounts receivable? What are some of the factors affecting patients accounts receivable?
Facing the challenge of how to address the hospital's unpaid accounts receivable can be one of the most em Continue Reading...
If the area wage index is greater than 1, the labor share equals 69.7%. The law requires the labor share to equal 62% if the area wage index is less than 1.0.
2) the wage adjusted labor share is added to the non-labor share of the standardized amou Continue Reading...
Health Staff
the Allied health care staffing agency is a staffing agency that focuses on the niche of the nursing jobs within the healthcare industry in Chicago
The Allied healthcare staffing agency works to recruit registered nurses belonging to a Continue Reading...
These revenue sources fluctuate significantly over the year, often requiring a rationing of budget for critical supplies. The clinic's budget is one that fluctuations on a quarterly basis depending on funding from the foundation donors and how quick Continue Reading...