380 Search Results for Affordable Care Act Strengths and Weaknesses
Introduction
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, set about reforming the health care system in America so as to enable more people to obtain access to health care. The ACA arrived with a number of strengths and weaknesses. Altoget Continue Reading...
Universal healthcare does not provide adequate access to primary care and preventive services. Patients under Medicaid program find it extremely difficult to access healthcare system. Physician participation in Medicaid has been hampered by their lo Continue Reading...
Current Status of Health Care in the United States
Health care in the United States is in a state of legislative flux. The Affordable Care Act was passed in order to reduce the number of uninsured people in the country, as well as start to contain th Continue Reading...
Current status in implementing the affordable care act with regard to veterans' mental health problems
The Affordable Care Act's enactment gave rise to major concerns with regard to greater healthcare expenditure and reduced benefits for the Continue Reading...
Healthcare Economics Evaluation
This report is about a proposed healthcare economics investigation. Some early research has been done and will be described based on what was found and how it was found. The report will conclude with a proposed plan f Continue Reading...
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price.
Brief summary of the book, including strengths and weaknesses
Jonathan Cohn's "The Untold Story of America's Health-Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the P Continue Reading...
health care debate that has been going in the United States. It discusses the Obama Care Act and how it impacts the society. Functionalist perspectives and theories are utilized in analyzing the situation and what outcomes are expected. The major th Continue Reading...
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Incentive Payments
Section 401(c) of the HITECH Act is reported to add an incentive for payments to specific Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations for their affiliated EPs who meaningfully use certified HER technology and Continue Reading...
Adult day care industry is well-known for providing social and basic health assistance to the elderly with physical and mental disabilities. The assistance provided in these adult day care centers include meals, hygiene services such as bathing and c 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...
Government Role in Health Care Policy
Describe the characteristics of the uninsured? Additionally, why are concentrated interests and diffuse costs important when predicting legislative outcomes?
The uninsured are usually less wealthy, less healthy Continue Reading...
strategic plan II
Environmental Analysis
An environmental analysis is an important component, and indeed a prerequisite, to the strategic plan. It stands to reason that you cannot set a course for the future without knowing the route you will take, Continue Reading...
L.K. Abraham's book Mama Might Be Better off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America. The critique includes topics such as the book's purpose, the book's scrutiny of the different healthcare aspects with regards to America's poor, and reac Continue Reading...
The per capita health care expenditures for the United States are exorbitant, particularly when compared to those of other countries. In fact, the spending on health care per person in the U.S. is much more so than that of other developed countries. Continue Reading...
Coffee Regional Medical Center, Inc. CRMC") is a non-profit, 88-bed hospital located in Douglas, Georgia. Since 1953, CRMC has served the healthcare needs of the community as the sole hospital-provider in Douglas, Georgia and surrounding Coffee Count Continue Reading...
Comparing the U.S. Health Care System to Other Countries
The US health care system compares favorably to some other countries in terms of long-term costs but unfavorably to others in terms of quality of care. However, statistics about costs can be mi Continue Reading...
environmental analysis helps any organization to recognize factors that impact its performance. The factors impacting an organization's performance may be internal to the organization and they can also be external. Environmental analysis is therefor Continue Reading...
Overview
The notion of universal health care in the United States is a decidedly polarizing one, which is why this author chose it. Universal health care is a single payer system in which healthcare is subsidized by the government with equal, free ac Continue Reading...
Antitrust Legislation and Healthcare
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) was designed to promote competitive practices in the marketplace and protect consumers from price gouging and other egregious practices generated from a lack of competition in mon Continue Reading...
Visiting Nurse Service of New York provides in home health care services to numerous patients throughout the state of New York. It was founded by one of the most famous nurses of the 19th and 20th centuries, Lillian Wald. It is a not-for-profit organ Continue Reading...
Practicum Project in Health Informatics
Strengths
• This practicum thesis allows the student to work on developing informatics-based applications while also applying informatics science and skills.
• Uses technology to help streamline p Continue Reading...
Telehealth / Telemedicine
The concept of telehealth holds that there are a range of medical services that can be delivered remotely. Some early telehealth might have been conducted over the phone, perhaps a patient calling to get an opinion of wheth Continue Reading...
Apart from that, Chennai has become the eye specialist city and Kerala has become the ayurvedic center for healing. These facilities are being made use of by the non-Indian nations (Connell, 2011).
Huge market at hand
The population is surging, th Continue Reading...
Managed Care Health Reimbursement Systems in the United States
With health care costs skyrocketing consumers and health insurance companies alike are seeking solutions to the growing crisis in health care within the United States. This crisis revol Continue Reading...
Application and Integration of AACN Synergy Care
Model In Clinical Practice
Application and Integration of AACN Synergy Care model in Clinical Practice
Objective of this paper is to discuss the integration and application of AACN Synergy Care mode 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...
Financing Structuring Health Care
Health Care Financing
Over the last several years, the role of insurance companies in providing different health care solutions has been increasingly brought to the forefront. This is because costs have been rising Continue Reading...
Health Care Delivery Systems
The structure and organization of the resources that make it possible to provide health care services to target populations is referred to as a health care system. The variety of health care systems is very wide with str Continue Reading...
Health Care Teams and Collaboration
Delivery system of a health system depends on numerous interfaces and multiple practitioners. There are different health care practitioners in a health care institution depending on their field of practice and the Continue Reading...
Home Care Company
ABC Home Care Agency Capital Purchase
Software Acquisition and its Benefits
Capital Purchase of Software
Customer Satisfaction
Productivity
Quality assurance
Employee development
Revenue improvement
Economic environment of Continue Reading...
Nonprofit and for Profit Healthcare Organizations
Non-Profit and for-Profit Healthcare Organizations
healthcare system is in shambles. As a source of intense debate, it is clear that it is failing to provide adequate health care for millions of ind Continue Reading...
The combination of these effects can also contribute to greater economic growth in a region over time. The greatest opportunity of all is to transform these low income and poverty level regions with better medical care so they can pursue better payi Continue Reading...
Health Staff
the Allied health care staffing agency is a staffing agency that focuses on the niche of the nursing jobs within the healthcare industry in Chicago
The Allied healthcare staffing agency works to recruit registered nurses belonging to a 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...
.. If one of the goals of the healthcare system is to promote health and prevent illness and injury, it may be logical to start with those who work in the system." (Yassi, Ostry, Spiegel, and Walsh, 2002, p.1)
Presently the healthcare environment is Continue Reading...
Even though the overall life expectancy in the U.S. has increased to the age of 78, the relative ranking has fallen in relation to the rest of the world, with the U.S. now 38th out of 195 countries, behind most of Western Europe.
These rankings ma Continue Reading...
They have a strong balance sheet that enables them to acquire capital easily and cheaply, but they are shifting their staff to physician ratio from 6.11 to 7.5, indicating that their administrative cost structure is going to increase dramatically as Continue Reading...
Health Care Institutional Organization and ManagementQuestion 1: Tools of the TradeOne of the tools routinely used in strategic planning is SWOT analysis. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. In the words of Cole Continue Reading...
transformational leadership within the healthcare industry in the contemporary society. The article starts out by implying that changes in leadership are needed within the healthcare systems. The author puts out that in the corporate environment tod Continue Reading...
Figure 1 portrays the state of Maryland, the location for the focus of this DRP.
Figure 1: Map of Maryland, the State (Google Maps, 2009)
1.3 Study Structure
Organization of the Study
The following five chapters constitute the body of Chapter I Continue Reading...