1000 Search Results for Healthcare Case Study
Nursing Health Promotion: Case Study Monica
Monica is a 17-year-old African-American female with dangerous lifestyle choices. There are several major health concerns with the patient, including the fact that she has turned to prostitution and has a Continue Reading...
Epic Systems EHRIntroductionEpic Systems\\\' Electronic Health Records (EHR) is a widely used healthcare software that offers a fairly comprehensive and integrated way to manage all ones patient records. It helps with everything from the documentatio Continue Reading...
Balance Scorecard Applications in Healthcare Organizations
Balanced Scorecard
The Learning & Growth Perspective
The Business Process Perspective
The Financial Perspective
Strategy Mapping
General Perspective of Performance Management
Perfo Continue Reading...
social media and smartphones in the area of healthcare, and how legal and ethical principles are to be applied to ensure their proper use in healthcare as pertains to personal technology.
The field of healthcare is eagerly embracing all technology Continue Reading...
When this kind of attitude is common, it means that medical errors will decline and the quality of care that is being provided will increase. (Brown, 1992, pp. 18 -- 23)
How will the effectiveness (success) of your plan be measured?
The best way t 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...
(Preist, 2007)
The different issues that are affecting the facility are: directly tied to a lack of leadership inside the organization. This is problematic, because the staff members will often look to upper management and supervisors to determine Continue Reading...
Outline some considerations that an organization must address when negotiating a risk contract.
Some considerations that must be taken into account during any part of the negotiation process include: the overall impact that this will have on reven Continue Reading...
Concept Analysis: Team Work in Professional Nursing1. IntroductionAlthough many nurses on the frontline in delivering high quality health care services may regard themselves as an army of one, they are still an integral part of an overall multidiscip Continue Reading...
health care profession is undergoing fundamental change due in part to new laws and regulations. These laws and regulations, although well intended may result in unintended consequences for the nursing profession overall. In the future, the role of Continue Reading...
The topic on "Social Marketing in Healthcare" advances how social marketing tool predominantly used in marketing consumer items can be effectively applied in the healthcare field. In addition, the development of social marketing research is an effe Continue Reading...
health care industry in America today is suffering greatly. It is suffering from spiraling costs, decreasing availability of qualified personnel, increasing demand for its services, and uncertainty relative to its future. Some of these problems are Continue Reading...
Medication Error
Medical errors cost lives, and they cost health care organizations valuable resources. Nurses are often confused about their ethical as well as legal obligations, especially with a complex, constantly changing, global healthcare mar Continue Reading...
Mayo Clinic is a healthcare organization that has grown into a giant company in the frontiers of medicine since it was founded in 1880 by a father and his two sons. The growth and development of this organization is attributed to its role as a pionee Continue Reading...
a. Committee -- Attending physician and at least one attending nurse from shift; head physician of HR; ER administrator; representative from HR; representative from Legal; Union representative (if appropriate); PR representative; potentially GP dep Continue Reading...
Diversity of Aging Population -- Innovative Healthcare
Over the past several decades there has been an avalanche of research and scholarly narratives focusing on the aging of millions of Americans -- among them the "baby boomers" that were born betw Continue Reading...
Human Resources
Healthcare
Strategic human resource management:
Applications in a healthcare organization
It has been said that one of the great ironies of healthcare is that despite the fact it is an industry where the 'human' dimension is so im Continue Reading...
Stakeholder in U.S. Health Care System
Health care stakeholders in the U.S.A.
US Healthcare System consist of different stakeholders who have their role to play in making sure there is a smooth running and efficient provision of services. These sta 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...
Therefore, although executive salaries and other similar costs are difficult to assign, a method must be developed for doing so, if the accounting is to be the most effective. One method might be to divide the executive salaries by the average numbe Continue Reading...
("Financial Profile," n.d.)
The long-term debt to equity ratio is when you are looking at the company's ability to finance growth through: increasing their total amounts of debt. When you see a reading of 100%, this is a sign of normal activity in Continue Reading...
S. than in any other developed nation, yet the quality of care, even for those who are insured, is mediocre at best (Hawkins, 2007).
Doctors and hospitals often treat patients free of charge, if they do not have health insurance. However, that raise Continue Reading...
Health
Psychosocial Model of Health
Use questions 2, 3, 5, 11, and 12
Many times a health professional will look at a health issue and see only the problem at hand. The difficulty with this approach is that most health problems affect the entire p Continue Reading...
Health Care Focus
Any American who has paid the least bit of attention to the country's economic standing throughout the past few years has an understanding that the United States Health Care System is an entity that comes into the discussion of ec Continue Reading...
health care in the United States has been the source of heated debate for a number of years. Although the publicity surrounding the issue has been considerable and made to look like it is a recent problem facing the nation, the problem, in reality, Continue Reading...
Third Party Patient
The Doctrine of Apparent Agency
Scenario:
June, a 34-year-old divorced woman diagnosed with severe anorexia, is hospitalized. Her doctors feel she may need to be placed on a feeding tube soon to save her life. Initially June ag Continue Reading...
Advance Nursing Practice
In order to sustain life, the human body has to have oxygen. When a person cannot breathe, or there is not enough oxygen coming into the body through the act of breathing, it is not possible for life to continue. The respira Continue Reading...
overwhelming connections between healthcare costs and the macroeconomic performance of the U.S. economy. The impact of healthcare industry on the macroeconomic performance is evident from the fact that in 2009 healthcare expenditure of the U.S. was Continue Reading...
A good example of this can be seen with popular Chinese talk show host Yang Lang donating $72 million, to start his own foundation to: help support and develop the health care system. This is important, because it shows how both international and do Continue Reading...
" (2004, p.159) Activities have included:
(1) Development and promotion of industry-wide standards;
(2) Funding of research for investigation of the impact of IT on quality;
(3) Provision of incentives that provide encouragement of investment in I Continue Reading...
Universal healthcare would benefit a large segment of the population, and it should be implemented as quickly as possible to ensure the nation's health and to save money.
There are some clear arguments against universal healthcare. One of the most Continue Reading...
References
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...
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...
Introduction
Healthcare is becoming progressively more complex. There are numerous areas within health care that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. Nonetheless, it is the onus of the medical providers to deliver high quality care and make Continue Reading...
Strategic Management of a Healthcare Facility in St. Louis
In the late 1800's and early 1900's St. Louis was a major center for automotive and other heavy manufacturing but the industrial restructuring of the Midwest during the latter half of the ce Continue Reading...
Healthcare/Patient Safety
Question 1
At present, Langley Mason Health (LMH) is in the process of sourcing for funds to actualize the facilities master plan (FMP). The funds that have been sourced so far are insufficient. For this reason, and as has b Continue Reading...
curriculum committee proceed with the work yet to be done?
The curriculum committee should solicit information from all stakeholders, including part-time faculty, current students, and also the five acute care hospitals which are a part of the univ Continue Reading...
Integrating Fingerprint Verification into the Smart Card-Based Healthcare Information System and it was published in 2009. This research article was a result of the efforts put in by Daesung Moon, Yongwha Chung, Sung Bum Pan and Jin-Won Park.
Due t Continue Reading...
Health Care Free
SHOULD HEALTH CARE BE FREE?
The following debate takes place between four individuals as follows: Dr. Barker, a public health sector physician with an experience of fifteen years; Ms. Gomez, a social activist working for improving Continue Reading...
Health Insurance Costs
Perhaps it is simply that we all need a few good villains in our life, and with the Cold War firmly over we must look closer to home to find our bad guys. Or perhaps it is simply that there is a great deal of villainy in socie Continue Reading...