994 Search Results for Current Issues in Health Policy and Health Reform
Legislative Advocacy
Introduction and Coalition Building
H.R. 890 is bill to prohibit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from granting a waiver relating to compliance with the work requirements of the provision of Welfare. The Continue Reading...
Fiscal and Monetary Issues in America
Economics
There are high tensions in the American economy today resulting from speculations whether the government will be able to hit the debt ceiling. Failure to hit the debt ceiling has serious economic eff Continue Reading...
PUBLIC HEALTH 12Week 5 Assignment:Why were American Businesses Originally Motivated to offer healthcare to their employeeS? How does this choice influence healthcare in America today?The system of employer-sponsored insurance is largely a result of o Continue Reading...
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Description: The legislation
Over the past fifty years, Electronic Health Records or EHRs have quickly transformed just like all other technologies in computing. The pace of these transformations has seen more accel Continue Reading...
Government Regulations and Hospice
Government Regulations Affecting Health Care in Hospice
Hospice
Regulations Affecting Health Care in Hospice
Impact of rules on Hospice services
Annotated Bibliography
This paper focuses on how government regu Continue Reading...
Issues Driving Change in Healthcare
Healthcare is driven by policy changes like those embedded in the Affordable Care Act, by shifting social norms and attitudes towards healthcare, and by demographic changes such as the aging population. The Afford Continue Reading...
Technology Integration Poses New Ethical Dilemmas for Healthcare
Imagine studying the effects of globalization on healthcare. What would one find from his or her research? Is there a possibility that policies need changed? How does this affect one's Continue Reading...
HealthCare Insurance and Reimbursement
Medical Insurance Products and Services
Health and medical insurance represent an insurance coverage form that disburses operation and clinical treatment expenditure incurred by those insured. Such insurance may Continue Reading...
role that competition plays in U.S. healthcare
This paper presents a detailed examination of the role that competition plays in U.S. healthcare. The writer explores the impact that the ability to compete for consumers has on the health care industry Continue Reading...
Nigeria: Economic and Human Health
Lending Institutions, Healthcare, and Human Capital
Nigeria is the largest country in Africa and is home to 47% of the continent's population (World Bank, 2013). Nigeria is the largest oil exporter and holds the m Continue Reading...
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Despite its problems and issues, single-payer system is still a reasonably good answer to healthcare insurance problems in the U.S. However there are some changes we might need to introduce in order improve single-payer system and to minimiz 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...
SWOT Analysis: Community Hospital Problems
Strengths
The community hospital described in the scenario has a strong reputation based upon its past performance. It is called a community 'icon.' The hospital system that recently purchased acquired it Continue Reading...
Home Security Reforming Immigration Reform
Homeland Security Reforming Immigration Reform
In current years illegal immigration has turned out to be a topic that has brought up some significant political issues in the United States. A lot of the deb Continue Reading...
Rising Cost of Medical Malpractice: The Impact of Medical Insurance on Patients and Physicians
The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which rising medical malpractice premiums have affected the quality care provided by physicians. Res Continue Reading...
Medicare and Medicaid are government-sponsored programs whose objective is to provide patients with health assistance upon meeting specific criteria. Medicare is the federal program that provides insurance for elderly patients aged 65 and over, and a Continue Reading...
VHA Mental Health Care
Very recently, beginning in 1995 the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began a series of progressive reforms. The reform has included a substantive list of functional and fundamental changes, including everything from facil Continue Reading...
Human Trafficking
Social policies-Final project
Social policy and recent laws on human trafficking
Currently, under federal law, there are specific protections that are designed to help individuals who have been illegally trafficked to act as slav Continue Reading...
UK Mental Health Policy
Mental healthcare service delivery in the UK has been subjected to a series of significant imperative policy in the last few decades, and number of people suffering from mental illness is on the increase. Recent statistics re Continue Reading...
social policy and economic policy?
Social policy refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that concern the way that humans live and interact. According to the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard University it refe 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...
The Federal reserve realized the big negative impact of MBS and announced a 600 billion program in November 2008 to purchase these securities and this helped to bring back some liquidity into the market. In March 2009, it added another $750 billion Continue Reading...
Independence of Auditors
The objective of this study is to consider the statement as follows: "Unquestionably, the HIH story is also one of auditor failure" and to research into the background of the HIH collapse in Australia insofar as it relates t Continue Reading...
Introduction
Child welfare services have a complicated history in America and still today face a continual crisis. On the one hand, foster care requires resources from the state and breaks up families; on the other hand, implementing family preservat Continue Reading...
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Meantime, a group called "Progress for America Voter Fund," an advocacy group that is part of the Republican Party, is spending $2 million on TV ads (one-minute spots) promoting the Bush Social Security reform project. "Some people say Social Secu Continue Reading...
Migrant Health Problems
Understanding the Migrant Health Problem
Currently access to health and social services for the majority of migrants is based on their legal status. Needless to say undocumented migrants have little or no access to health c Continue Reading...
Evidence and Expert Interview
SMART Goals - Evidence and Expert Interview
I chose goals in the areas of leadership development and organizational planning because I believe these are pivotal skills for a nurse to have in order to be an effective me Continue Reading...
Strategic Planning Management Health Systems
Two financial metrics that can be used to understand an organization's financial capabilities for strategic initiatives are the ROI metrics and ROA? The ROI metrics address two measures which are resource Continue Reading...
Long-Term Care Sustainability as a Major Issue Affecting Canadian Healthcare System
The Canadian Health Act (CHA) provides that provincial governments should cover the entire cost of hospital and physician services. There are however two components 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...
Planning and AuditsLab 3.1aThe Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) website is a good resource for health information technology. Some of the ways in which it aids organizations in addressing healthcare issues include: HIMSS Continue Reading...
Clearly, define the impact of HIPAA and HITECH regulations on health care systems for the future with mention to state and federal differences.
HIPAA which is referred to as the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was put Continue Reading...
IOM Future of Nursing Report
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), which is located in Princeton, New Jersey and was founded from the Johnson & Johnson fortunes, is the largest health-focused philanthropy in the United States. The foundati Continue Reading...
HR in Healthcare
Over time, everything changes. This is truer of some things as compared to others and healthcare is certainly one of those things. Indeed, the last ten years has marked some major changes for healthcare. Among other things, technolo Continue Reading...