1000 Search Results for Alternative Approaches to Patient Care
INTERNET'S IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE INFORMATION
Internet
The Internet's Impact on Health Care Information
The Internet's Impact on Health Care Information
This paper explores some of the best and well-known cites and sites around the world for infor Continue Reading...
Greening of the Health Care System
The objective of this work in writing is to examine problems and solutions to increase greening of the health care system. Towards this end, this work examines and reports literature in this area of study.
It is Continue Reading...
U.S. Healthcare
The final legislation should have incorporated provisions to boost the IVD industry. On its entirety, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act must have benefited the IVD industry. This would have increased sales in a span of f Continue Reading...
Through referrals, word-of-mouth, medical communities, and online platform, market and highlight generalist and specialist doctors as one of the best in the state of California. Conduct 'marketing through reputation,' word-of-mouth marketing primari Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act (ACA)
On March 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the Patient Affordable Care Act (ACA), a portion of legislation intended to redesign the nation's healthcare framework and amplify health protection to a huge number of uninsured Amer 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...
Health Care Professionals
Healthcare professionals
The paper is based on the healthcare professionals. It starts by analyzing the reasons why there may be physician shortage rather than a surplus in the United States. The paper as well analyses the Continue Reading...
Adult Day Care Industry Analysis
Adult day care centers are non-residential facilities that provide and support the health, nutrition and social needs of adults. They are usually staffed with professionals and the adults are kept in groups to provid Continue Reading...
Despite of the receipt of federal funding to assist in the set-up of an insurance exchange program, the Minnesota legislature is not cooperating with the Governor Drayton's plans to design a program. Instead, in a classic example of partisan politi Continue Reading...
Reduced costs for medical education would be the second to last alternative that would be likely to be effective. First, reducing the costs of medical eduction, through tax incentives and tuition caps, may make the medical field more attractive to Continue Reading...
Lee is only the first step in the process of building a team that is able to cover all aspects of Mrs. Lee's care. The team approach involving a social worker, nurse, physician, pharmacist, and physical therapist affords Mrs. Lee a full range of pro Continue Reading...
The Foundation called specific attention to the prospect of institutional and policy-level strategies to increase the participation of under-represented minorities in the health professions. In response, the Institute Committee on Institutional and 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...
Marketing in Healthcare
Catholic Healthcare West
Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving parts of Arizona, Nevada and the majority of California. With 42 hospitals it is the largest Catholic hospital syste Continue Reading...
Health Care Reform Federal Deficit
The American Health Care Crisis and the Federal Deficit
The United States spends more than any other country on medical care. In 2006, U.S. health care spending was $2.1 trillion, or 16% of our gross domestic prod 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...
That record must state that the patient's medical condition is terminal, irreversible and indefinite, involves permanent unconsciousness and that life-sustaining treatment would create tremendous or extraordinary burden on the patient. The guardian' Continue Reading...
In addition, contracts for supplies or other services takes 6 to 9 months to establish. He says that a lot of companies won't even bid on VA contracts because of this. This results in higher costs, with the exception of pharmaceuticals, because the Continue Reading...
Media and Health Policy Processes
There is no doubt that politics plays a crucial role in healthcare legislation and reforms in the United States. After all, the U.S. Congress passes laws, and so automatically any proposed legislation is passes or f Continue Reading...
Affordable Health Care Act
Impact of the affordable health care act
The affordable health care act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, brought a set of health care reforms aimed at making health consumers to be responsible for their health care. Th Continue Reading...
Moreover, nurses who move to working behind the scenes in education, can adapt what they have learned practicing in the field in order to translate it into an academic context. The need to teach transcultural nursing practices in a modern academic Continue Reading...
Stress Management in the Caregiver Setting
An increasing body of evidence points to the intensity of the labor involved in caring, and the impact it has on the caregiver in a healthcare setting. Whether lay or professional, it seems that the potenti Continue Reading...
Medical Futility in Nursing Care
CARING AND CHOOSING
Bioethics is described as both a field of intellectual inquiry and a professional practice that examines moral questions affecting various disciplines (Arras, 2007). These disciplines include bio Continue Reading...
(Universal Healthcare: The Debate Rages On, 2009)
The solution must be one that is more than just an effort to attempt to imitate the system of Europe but instead must be, as cited in this specific report, one that "...undergoes a radical change - 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...
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...
Ethical Analysis of Healthcare Rationing
The topic of health care rationing has been the subject of debate in the U.S. The last few years as government expenditures on health care have far exceeded budgeted levels. Central to the concern is the eth Continue Reading...
Medicare: Healthcare to Protect the Elderly
Medicare has been around for a long time, and is the main source of healthcare insurance for the elderly. If it were not for the government-funded Medicare, many elderly people in this country would have t Continue Reading...
Americans healthcare delivery in the United States has been via a market driven system, 1 usually through purchase of health insurance, participation in HMOs or other types of collective agencies. For those who qualify enrollment in Medicare and Med 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...
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...
This is necessary to provide a seamless platform on which health solutions can be effectively integrated and deployed. Without using such a platform, the development of electronic health care facilities will be more difficult to deploy. In other wor Continue Reading...
In their move from a completely government-paid and -- operated healthcare system to a fees-based approach, the Chinese have greatly improved the efficiency, availability, and efficacy of their healthcare system (Wan & Wan 2010). This suggests t Continue Reading...
Terrace Hospital Marketing Plan
Marketing Strategy -- Terrace Community Hospital
Summary- Terrace Hospital is a smaller, community hospital, located in a suburb of a major city. There are a number of large urban hospitals within 45-60 minutes of Te Continue Reading...
Executives of major companies, like Coca-Cola Enterprises in Atlanta, believed that B-200 was especially helpful in rehabilitation and prevention of re-injury, as employees usually resumed work when their backs stopped hurting, thinking the injury w Continue Reading...
Key Points and QuestionConventional healthcare, whether allopathic, orthodox, or Western medicine, focuses on the physical symptoms and diseases that patients present. It is a system based on highly regulated scientific research, which considers heal Continue Reading...
Stated to be barriers in the current environment and responsible for the reporting that is inadequate in relation to medical errors are:
Lack of a common understanding about errors among health care professionals
Physicians generally think of erro Continue Reading...
Abstract
Growing health care expenditure contributes greatly to the American government’s financial wellbeing. Citizen burden when it comes to funding these expenses, in the form of growing taxes and increased long-term loans, constitutes the Continue Reading...
Treatment to Patients
The main objective of providing treatment to patients is to relieve symptoms along with decreasing the progression of the disease as well as the mortality or morbidity. However, in some cases, this objective is not fully achie Continue Reading...
Incarcerated Mentally Ill Patients
It may sound unbelievable, but on any given day, scholars estimate that almost 70,000 inmates in U.S. prisons are psychotic; and up to 300,000 suffer from mental disorders like depression, schizophrenia, and bipola Continue Reading...