999 Search Results for Quality Improvement in Health Care
Role of ALS in EMS
ALS (Advanced Life Support) represents a complex collection of rules and procedures extending beyond elementary life support, for further aiding ailing or injured individuals in clearing their windpipe, breathing and ensuring air Continue Reading...
Self-AssessmentThe DNP8300 course has been instrumental in improving my understanding and skills in several areas of advanced nursing practice. As I reflect on the course level student learning outcomes, the core areas of competency for me include th Continue Reading...
Organizational Structure
The healthcare organization that this paper will focus on is Carolinas Healthcare System. In particular, this is one of the top healthcare organizations in the Southeast region and one of the most wide-ranging, non-profit he Continue Reading...
The biopsychosocial perspective is a comprehensive approach to understanding human health and illness. This model posits that biological, psychological, and social factors all play a significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or Continue Reading...
Nurse and Mental Health
Nurses play a critical role in the assessment, management, and treatment of mental health issues, making them an indispensable part of the healthcare system. The importance of mental health care has been increasingly recogni Continue Reading...
QUINN's MODEL OF CHANGE
Changes in nursing procedures:
Applying Quinn's theory of change
Change resistance can often be extremely difficult to overcome in a healthcare environment. Given that nurses operate with a great deal of autonomy, they are Continue Reading...
Health Literacy
CRITIQUE OF CONCEPT ANALYSIS (HEALTH LITERACY)
Significance of Concept to Presenter
Health literacy is very important to me because the concept is vital when it comes to health care in general specifically in nursing. It has a gre Continue Reading...
Application Quality Improvement Models Organizations Systems, Part I Analysis Required Resources Readings Course Text: Applying Quality Management HealthCare: A Systems Approach Review Chapter 9, "Improving Processes Implementing
Root cause analysi Continue Reading...
Swedish Health Care System
All over the world, governments approach their social responsibilities from a wide range of perspectives. For instance, for many industrialized nations, health care is taken to be an example of a social program tailored to Continue Reading...
A1. Advantages and Disadvantages of a System
All health information systems (HIS) come with great advantages and some disadvantages that must be taken in account to keep patients safe. A HIS is a system that captures, retains information, and helps m Continue Reading...
com). A certain amount of errors is to be expected, but there should not be so many that it demonstrates a certain level of skewedness about the model in its entirety. Thus, if the NHI model is the one which is selected, then it needs to be tested ag Continue Reading...
Patients also benefit as they can now access healthcare and treatment without having to visit the hospital physically.
Telemedicine is cost effective as patients reduce their visits to hospitals. A hospital visit will involve travelling, and having 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...
Data Mining in Health Care
Data mining has been used both intensively and extensively in many organizations.in the healthcare industry data mining is increasingly becoming popular if not essential. Data mining applications are beneficial to all part Continue Reading...
Baby Boomer and Health Care Crisis
Baby boomers and healthcare
Baby boomers and the health care
As the United States continues to grapple with the growing rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, the aging population may continue to Continue Reading...
Improving Local Health Care:
Quality health care is an important aspect in the modern health care system because of the necessity for quality and safety improvement measures. This concept is described as the extent in which health care services for Continue Reading...
Accountability and the Healthcare Industry
Accountability is absolutely crucial when it comes to the health care industry. The professional health care industry has an obligation to create an atmosphere of responsibility and obligation with strong e Continue Reading...
The administration and operating costs should be reduced to 20% of the premium earned. The 80% of the expenses should be spent on providing healthcare services to the holders of health insurance. The law further states that in case the insurance org Continue Reading...
Fraud and Abuse Case
Healthcare fraud and abuse continues to threaten the country, costing the facility billions of dollars per year. Brodeur, (2007) stated that fraud is something difficult to understand because it is a contagious issue. Healthcare Continue Reading...
United Healthcare
In spite of the struggling economy throughout the country, United Healthcare industries ascended in development and improved their year over year incomes by 9% in 2010. They had found a way to widen their customer foundation by 1.5 Continue Reading...
U.S. Health Care Reforms
Objectives of reform of the health care system should align to improve quality, access and cost in health care. The intricacy of the health care system necessitates balancing the three variables while considering the individ Continue Reading...
Evolution of Health Care Information Systems
The objective of this study is to compare and contrast a contemporary healthcare facility or physician's office health care facility or physician's office operation of 20 years ago and to identify at leas Continue Reading...
Canada HealthCare
There has long been a debate on public vs. private health care in Canada though sometimes it is seen as not to the level of its importance. Canada has privately delivered health care and privately funded health care and the most pr Continue Reading...
Peachtree Healthcare
IT Architecture Recommendations to Peachtree Healthcare
The discussions and cursory analyses in the Harvard Business Review case Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? (Dalcher, 2005) attempt to implement massive IT projects without co Continue Reading...
Fictional Hospital
Create imaginary health care organization (hospital). Evaluate organization basis Baldrige National Quality Program Health Care Criteria Performance Excellence listed. (1) Leadership: (a) Describe senior leaders' actions guide sus Continue Reading...
Affordable Health Care Act/Obama Care
What is Obama Care?
Health issue is a critical concept in relation to the growth and development of any nation. It is essential for the healthcare to be affordable and accessible with the aim of enhancing the h Continue Reading...
The subject is now part of a national political task force, with the goal of eliminating the problem within one generation (Ferran, 2010).
Formally, teen pregnancy is based on a woman who will not reach her 20th birthday by the expected birth of he Continue Reading...
Medibank was a fund through which, the patients could get 85% of their medical bills back. This service was made optional but then the labors government converted it into Medicare, which is still an important component of the Australian healthcare s Continue Reading...
Role of Government in Health Care
Role of Government in Healthcare
How has the role of government evolved in the U.S. health care system over the past 100 years?
As made clear by the class text, there has been a seismic shift in the depth and brea Continue Reading...
President Clinton's And Obama's Health Care Policies
President Obama's Healthcare policies
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has drawn some comparisons to elements of past efforts, including Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts and the Clint Continue Reading...
Health Care Cost and Quality
The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between health care cost and quality. This study will select one public agency and one private agency and differentiate their roles and major activities in addr Continue Reading...
Managed care and utilization review (UR) play an integral part in patient care and reimbursement (Mahmoud, E and Rice, G, 1998). Scott echoes it experts Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David Knights, and Dale Littler (2000), who say:
IT system enj Continue Reading...
Access to Healthcare
Ensuring Access to Healthcare
The healthcare industry has been subject to a vast number of changes just in the last few years and the system is quickly evolving. One of the most influential changes that the healthcare system ha Continue Reading...
However, the insurance man remains the "middle man." And we see - especially as a result of the internet - many businesses eliminating the middle man today. It is working, and people are saving money on items that were once marked up for the manufac 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...
Hispanic Culture & Healthcare
The Hispanic culture has barriers to receiving adequate healthcare (Swanson, 2012). Language has been a huge barrier in respects to the practitioner's ability to speak Spanish that has created communication barriers Continue Reading...
Role of Family Physician
It is important for us to understand the role of a family physician before we begin our discussion on the importance of family physicians in any health care system of the community. Many reforms have been made in the health 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...
Innovations in healthcare in recent years have resulted in profound improvements in the quality of healthcare services as well as the manner in which they are delivered. One of the more important factors that has been shown to contribute to improved Continue Reading...