999 Search Results for Challenges in Healthcare
Healthcare Crisis
Health insurance has gone up over the past two years as a result of a nationwide increase .insurance companies have the tendency of settling only a percentage of a patient's bill. The truth of the matter is patients are not the onl Continue Reading...
In 2004, a Ten-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care was announced, primarily intended to improve access to medical services, decrease wait times, and update medical equipment and ensure accurate reporting and enhance public health promotion and prev Continue Reading...
Challenges in Healthcare: Succession Planning
Beverly, F. & Rose, S. (2017). Best Practices for Nurse Leaders: Succession Planning. Professional Case Management, 22(2), 88-94.
The authors term succession planning in healthcare a critical need. It Continue Reading...
Healthcare System in South Africa
Healthcare policy
Influences on public health outcomes
Critical analysis of the pressures on the health care delivery
It is observed that there are numerous cultures, societies, political systems in the world. Th Continue Reading...
The managers in healthcare organization need to come up with strategies to make a balance between the quality and quantity of healthcare provided to clients in order to increase their throughput. This includes making the admission and discharge proc Continue Reading...
Healthcare Challenges
Technology is one of the main drivers of change in healthcare, and it is up to healthcare organizations to join the rest of the world in adopting new technologies to run their industry better. In most industries, something like Continue Reading...
The results were that out of the 17,937 adults surveyed: women were more likely to utilize health care services in comparison to men, whites were more inclined to seek treatment in comparison with blacks and 43% of the population sample was highly e Continue Reading...
There are a number of issues involved in health care including taxation, the fear of socialized medicine and the budget. Many Americans are opposed to higher taxes for the wealthy due to the fact that they will be the ones paying for most government Continue Reading...
Health care reform has the objective of getting more people insured, and leveraging government bargaining power to lower the cost of health care. Our organization needs to be ready for this. We have the baby boomers joining Medicare, and Medicare is Continue Reading...
Health Care Roles in Communication
Communication is a fundamental piece of health care education and has been shown to improve health outcomes, patient compliance, and patient satisfaction. Quality health care emphasizes knowledge and utilization of Continue Reading...
Healthcare and Revenue Cycles
When it comes to the revenue cycle and receivables management, a healthcare organization faces unique challenges. These challenges include the fact that many clients (patients) cannot afford the care they are there to r Continue Reading...
Lack of accountability, transparency and integrity, ineffectiveness, inefficiency and unresponsiveness to human development remain problematic (UNDP).
Poverty remains endemic in most Gulf States with health care and opportunities for quality educat 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...
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...
Demographic Trends
There have been several demographic trends that have affected health care in the past century in the United States. Of these, one of the most important has been the baby boom generation, which came about in the years after World W Continue Reading...
Migrant Health Problem
Presently, access to social and health services for most migrants is determined by their legal status. Undocumented migrants have least possible access to health services. Legal status is one of the preconditions for ability Continue Reading...
A largely insular community since their initial settlement in the United States, the Amish community presents unique challenges for healthcare workers. The Amish eschew modern technology, including many of the tools and techniques used in modern medi Continue Reading...
Questions1. What does the environment of Middleboro look like?According to the case study materials the environment of Middleboro is calm, tranquil and sanguine. As a much smaller town the overall population is very smalls as compared to many of the Continue Reading...
The Greatest Challenge to US Healthcare
The role is played by the government
The role played by the government in healthcare is a divisive issue. Many healthcare organizations executives do support the idea of extending healthcare coverage to the uni Continue Reading...
Application of Systems Theory
Meyer & O’Brien-Pallas (2010) state that healthcare organizations are conceptualized as open systems characterized by various components including differentiation, coordination, negative entropy, energy transf Continue Reading...
Problem Statement
Organs are rare and expensive resources. Distributing these resources equitably remains one of the most pressing dilemmas in bioethics. Given that the dying patient did consent to organ donation, the primary ethical dilemmas in this Continue Reading...
HEALTHCARE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The state of healthcare in the United States is very much influenced and improved through the increased use of technology solutions. Whether it be the use of tablets, laptops, electronic healthcare records and Continue Reading...
Ethical Challenge Scenarios in Healthcare Administration
Scenario 1: You have withdrawn an offer at the last minute (due to poor references) to an ICU nurse manager candidate who has moved across the country to accept the job. The only way you will Continue Reading...
Healthcare Legal Issues: Care and Treatment of Minors
The evolution of the hospital is a unique social phenomenon reflecting societal attitudes toward illness and the welfare of the individual and the group. Hospitals existed in antiquity, in Egypt Continue Reading...
Healthcare Information Technology
Electronic Medical Record:
User friendliness is among the significant factors- probably the most essential factor- hampering extensive usage of Electronic Medical Record EMRs in respiratory therapy within my organi Continue Reading...
Healthcare Issues, Systems, And Policies
America, once the global leader in the health of its population and among the nations with the highest quality and most readily available healthcare services, has now fallen behind almost twenty other countri Continue Reading...
Healthcare Economics
Overall Healthcare And Economics
Healthcare economics: Current challenges from a nursing perspective
Although the subject of healthcare economics has been hotly-debated, on one issue there is widespread agreement: the aging of Continue Reading...
Health Care
As human beings, our health and longevity have never been better. Many people today live to 100 years and beyond, and often in good and active health. One of the major reasons for this is better health care and more access to health care Continue Reading...
The amendments have had practical impacts such as repealing the tax mandate of the employer, health insurance tax of small businesses and decreasing the burdens on individuals and businesses. The compliance cost for small business owners has risen b Continue Reading...
Health Care Professionals
Healthcare professionals
The paper is based on the healthcare professionals. It starts by analyzing the reasons why there may be physician shortage rather than a surplus in the United States. The paper as well analyses the Continue Reading...
What this means is that the lifetime limits on most benefits are barred for all latest health insurance plans. Another interesting thing is the reviews premium increase (Wakefield, 2010). This is saying that insurance companies must now openly defen Continue Reading...
Therefore in the economic sense many institutions have been viewed to lay back.
Knowledge and Expertise in Telemedicine
Another challenge has to do with the limited knowledge and expertise in telemedicine as well as the need for enhanced and modif Continue Reading...
Healthcare Policy Systems: Hong Kong, Australia
VOUCHERS FOR THE ELDERLY
Healthcare Policy Systems in Hong Kong and Australia
Primary Health Care for the Elderly in Hong Kong
Primary care is the starting point in the healthcare process (PCO, 2011 Continue Reading...
Health Care Industry
In the last 10 years, health care has changed dramatically. Technology has taken over in many ways, and a lot of doctors now have their patients' records all stored electronically (St. Sauver, et al., 2013). While convenient, th Continue Reading...
Healthcare Finance
Efficiency and Effectiveness: Three Perspectives
Define and describe efficiency and effectiveness. What are the differences between efficiency and effectiveness? How can a healthcare organization use this information?
Efficiency Continue Reading...
At this point in time, there is growing support for the idea of universal access to healthcare. In fact, President Obama was able to draft and secure the passage of a healthcare law that is the first step towards universal access in the United Stat Continue Reading...
Health Care Communication Modality
Resource: Communication Paper grading criteria . There a variety communication modalities health care consumers health care providers. These modalities venues communication entail benefits challenges consumers prov Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform Revised
We know that the burden of diseases is increasing all over the world. The percentage of people suffering from diabetes, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases has considerably increased in the last decade. It is noteworthy h Continue Reading...
Health Care in the U.S. And Singapore
Healthcare in the U.S. And Singapore
This paper compares the U.S. healthcare system with the Singapore healthcare system. It starts with a brief description of both healthcare systems and then explains and comp Continue Reading...