1000 Search Results for Trends in healthcare
Medical Malpractice/Frivolous Lawsuits
The Effect of Medical Malpractice/Frivolous Lawsuits on Healthcare
The costs of medical malpractice insurance are rising yearly. These expenses affect medical practitioners in a number of ways, including such Continue Reading...
U.S. HEALTHCARE
Influences towards the U.S. healthcare costs
Influence on U. S Healthcare
Influences on U.S. Healthcare costs
Throughout the years, the United States level of healthcare has been adversely affected by various emerging trends conc Continue Reading...
inmate health care issues are significantly different from those of average Americans. Furthermore, in many cases it is accurate to say that these issues have been exacerbated by the process and lifestyle propagated by incarceration. The primary iss Continue Reading...
U.S. Healthcare
[QUALITY]
To analyze and compare the U.S. healthcare, internationally, it is important to know what really constitutes a good health care system. The U.S. Institute of Medicine describes this quality as, "the degree to which health Continue Reading...
Legacy Emanuel:
A healthcare organization audit summary
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, at 2801 North Gantenbein Avenue, Portland, Oregon is
is an IRS 501 (c ) 3 not-for-profit, tax-exempt corporation comprised of five full-service hospitals and a Continue Reading...
As the president works to pass what is most assuredly his most important legislative package to date, he is struggling against a great wall of opposition which appears to be driven by a philosophical aversion to public funding of a deeply privatize Continue Reading...
How to Protect Revenue Streams
The purpose of this research analysis was to discover tools healthcare organizations and practitioners can use to increase revenue streams while facing the rising costs of healthcare and an increasingly aged populati Continue Reading...
The problems facing Medicare recipients and the federal government almost seem to be overwhelming. There are proponents of a plan to privatize Social Security and health insurance, placing the onus on the individual to pay for his own health care th Continue Reading...
Barak concludes by suggesting that the issue and concept of diversity take on a "special urgency" in human service healthcare organizations among the organization as a whole and staff, and that the organization review its quality of service and comm Continue Reading...
Communication in the Health Care Environment:
Effective communication between patients, physicians, family members, and nurses is one of the most important elements in the delivery of care. Actually, the lack of effective communication in the health Continue Reading...
Social, Cultural, And Political Influence in Healthcare Delivery
Social, cultural, and political inequalities are detrimental to the health and healthcare system of the U.S. This is because the U.S. is one of the most multicultural, overpopulated, d Continue Reading...
Management Project in the Health Care Organization Setting
This study describes the implementation of a syndromic surveillance system. The syndromic surveillance system collects and analyzes prediagnostic and nonclinical disease indicators, drawing Continue Reading...
The third attempt in reducing the cost of healthcare service revolves around coordination of health services by the use of family doctors. This would enable patients to avoid the risk of double prescription of drugs. Patients should focus on direct Continue Reading...
Other people simply want to live beyond their means and see committing fraud as the way to receive extra money so they can continue to live a lifestyle they would otherwise not be able to afford. If they are angry at their managers or hate their job Continue Reading...
Security in Healthcare
The recent advances in technology -- databases that store personal medical records and information -- are bringing tools to patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals that were simply not available just a few years Continue Reading...
Organizational Design
A health care agency or hospital design is very important as it portrays the beliefs and values of that health care. Designs should be designs that care not only for the physicians, trustees, administrators but also for the pat Continue Reading...
Heath Care
Health Care Plans
Health Care
Types of Health Insurance
Indemnity Insurance
This type of insurance is also known as a traditional or fee-for-service plan. The benefit of an indemnity plan is the flexibility; this plan allows members t Continue Reading...
(Gigante, S. February 22, 2010).
These numbers suggest a population which will demand a high level of services over their retirement lives, and as such place enormous pressure on premiums and fees. The result of this excess demand will be a rejoind Continue Reading...
Because consumers are administering their bank accounts, investments, and purchases online, and many turn to the web for gathering information about medical conditions and will expect the same level of control to be extended to online medical inform Continue Reading...
Provide sustained technical assistance (Expert Panel Meeting: Health Information Technology: Meeting Summary, 2003)
Evaluation of the process in rural and small communities includes: (1) scope of the project; (2) goals; (3) critical success factor Continue Reading...
In addition, those with preexisting conditions could also not be denied coverage. Voucher reimbursement would be based on age and health of the patient, so younger, healthier individuals would be reimbursed at a lesser amount while older, less healt Continue Reading...
Higher Health Care Costs on Businesses
Without doubt, America faces some heavy challenges in the forthcoming years. First, still reeling from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States struggles to find the medium ground between Continue Reading...
Universal health care system also termed as single-payer system in intended for all individuals irrespective of their financial standing. No procedure is considered perfect for the universal or single healthcare system. Several nations are adopting v Continue Reading...
Controlling Violent Health Care Patients and Employees
This is a paper discussion on the identification and control of violence amongst health care patients and employees. It has 11 sources.
An Introduction to Violence
Violence has become a commo Continue Reading...
Ghana Healthcare
State of Healthcare in Ghana
The current state of healthcare in Ghana can be summarized as underdeveloped. Many parts of the country are not industrialized and suffer from preventable conditions and diseases due to poor water quali Continue Reading...
Using a philosophical approach, there is typically no one single "right" answer given, but rather a process with which to think about, and analyze, a given set of problems. For instance, is euthanasia "always" right; certainly not, but under the rig Continue Reading...
Religious Health Care
As a consultant we have identified some of the issues that need to be considered further by the consultant group and perhaps confer it with the governing board and the CEO, and I have discussed these issues to ensure the most c Continue Reading...
The Surgeon General remains a respected figure, but the job is ill-defined, budgetless, and subject to the whims of political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House.
The Surgeon General is widely considered to Continue Reading...
Statistics show that hospitals bore more than $5 billion in costs in treating uninsured patients. This creates a huge financial pressure on them and there is no alternative but to have the uncompensated care costs to be charged to the insured patien Continue Reading...
Healthcare: The Effects of Rising Costs on the Middle Class
The rising cost of healthcare and the effects on the middle class
Healthcare
Effects of Rising Costs on Middle Class
The purpose of this paper is to define the income and social levels Continue Reading...
Expenditures on health care has been mounting faster than the economy for many years, representing a challenge not only for the government's health insurance programs, but also for the private sector. As health care expenditures consume a larger sha Continue Reading...
Leadership & Management, Health Care
Leadership & Management in Health Care
President Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, used to tell a story about her mother, who was 86 at the time but still a full-time attor 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...
American Healthcare System has been at the center of debate for many years. One of the most pressing issues confronting the healthcare system is Medicare and its beneficiaries. The purpose of this discussion is to focus on the ramifications of movin Continue Reading...
General Electric and Philips health care have persistently provided forward thinking technology that have paved the way to a safe and high quality of care to patients. They possess solid foundation and have become experts in the field of health care Continue Reading...
Globalization and American Health Care
What explains the directionality of flows in health care? Patients, health workers, managerial practices?
Globalization has brought in the information revolution and this has again brought changes in the medic Continue Reading...
decision-makers and managers in health care with efficient course of action that give them opportunity to advance the quality in health cares by involving in designing and implementation. The analysis centers on certain people who have a strategic d Continue Reading...
al., 2012).
The existing reporting systems lack the level of usability inherent in social media applications as well. Social media applications have created and continue to fuel the expectation of usability that is the new standard for tablet-based Continue Reading...
They offer the same flexibility and costs saving available to people at larger organizations. According an article published by Physicians Care,
"When we set up a self-funded plan for a smaller employer, we help them select the appropriate level of Continue Reading...
Mergers and Acquisitions on Health Care
The focus of mergers of health care delivery system is to accentuate the efficiency and profitability of medical practices while dealing with the sweeping changes to the nation's health care delivery system. Continue Reading...