Cox, T. (2010). Legal and ethical implications of health care provider insurance risk assumption. JONAS Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation. 12(4):106-116. How healthcare providers really feel about managed care and other forms of insurance is v Continue Reading...
Health Care in the U.S. And Spain What Can the U.S. Learn About Health Care from Spain? In 2009, Spain's single-payer health care system was ranked the seventh best in the world by the World Health Organization (Socolovsky, 2009). By comparison, th Continue Reading...
Information technology and computers have also begun to affect, in ways that are both bad and good, family life, community life, education, freedom, human relationships, democracy, and many other issues. By looking into the broadest sense of the wor Continue Reading...
Healthcare Organization Banner Healthcare is an American non-profit healthcare system predominantly used in Phoenix, Arizona. The healthcare organization runs twenty-three hospitals plus various other specialized units. It has about 35,000 workers i Continue Reading...
Data Analysis Procedures In what way(s) are the data analysis procedures appropriate for the data collected? A number of qualitative researchers have advanced comparable data collection approaches for qualitative data, and the author relied on the 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...
telehealth in nursing and the ability to provide quality care has received much attention of late and there are several studies that examine the role of telehealth in supporting patients and helping nurses provide quality care. The study by Geennha Continue Reading...
Health Information System Promoting Action Design Research to create value in healthcare through IT Recently there has been varying proof showing that health IT reduces costs while improving the standard of care offered. The same factors that had c Continue Reading...
Health Care Systems Over the last several years, America's health care system has been undergoing a tremendous amount of changes. At the heart of these transformations is the role of the federal government in regulating the delivery of various servi Continue Reading...
It could occur through customization, whereby the manufacturer works with the health care provider to build something, or it could occur as the result of competition. In that scenario, the manufacturer needs to offer a higher level of service and be 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 Management Obstacles to change in Health Care management. There are a nearly infinite number of things that can go wrong for a health care manager, and out of the two major problems that can arise, staff relationship problems and stress Continue Reading...
"Studies of the relationship between managed care penetration in the health care market and expenditures for Medicare fee-for-service enrollees have demonstrated the existence of these types of spill over effects" (Bundorf et al., 2004). Managed ca Continue Reading...
Health Care Quality Management as it Applies to Managed Care In the current age of improved answerability for quality of care, every healthcare expert should be conversant in the theory and paraphernalia of quality management) Quality Management-QM Continue Reading...
Specialist doctors will normally examine only those patients who have been referred to their clinic by a general practitioner. (U.S. Department of State, n. d.) The Government of Netherlands is not responsible or the ongoing management of the healt Continue Reading...
(Worcestershire Diabetes: a New model of care Stakeholder event, 2007) The continuum of care for the diabetic patient is shown in the following illustration labeled Figure 1. Diabetes: Continuum of Care Source: Worcestershire Diabetes: a New mode Continue Reading...
Healthcare Delivery Systems Annotated Bibliography In the peer-reviewed article and research study Seamless Healthcare Delivery Systems (Parnaby, Towill, 2008) is based on a research methodology that relies entirely on secondary research including a Continue Reading...
(Menzel, 1990, p. 3) Fisher, Berwick, & Davis alude to the idea of integration in health care, with providers linking as well as creating networks of electronic medical records and other cost improvement tactics. The United States and other nat Continue Reading...
This can lead to both autonomy and cooperation within the group, as no member will feel that his or her skills are not utilized to an optimal level. It is also possible that non-constructive conflict can arise from the diversity within a group if n Continue Reading...
Health Care Situation: Medical Error Due to Doctors' Bad Handwriting Identify a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic or insurance company. I have identified the following health care news sit 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...
Contracts with doctors often contain a clause which doesn't allow the doctors to discuss Health care 7 with their patients financial incentives to deny treatment or about treatments not covered by the plan (Glazer, 1996). This has caused many consu Continue Reading...
Universal healthcare is the only saving formula for this nation, which is doomed in a health care crisis of unprecedented proportions. There is a urgent need to transform healthcare from its present state of commercialism towards the humanitarian ap Continue Reading...
The first is to distinguish Methodist Healthcare in the market place; second to create an information systems strategic plan; third to create a system by which the right place, right people, right time and right focus are aligned strategically, four 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...
Healthcare Finance The relationship between the doctor and a possible patient is established when the physician asks the person for the first time as how he could be of possible help. This direct and simple enquiry is the beginning of the trust of t Continue Reading...
Unless the physicians can succinctly argue their case for care and services, the managed care entity will, for reasons of medical necessity, deny access to care and services. What Cost-Added Ratio Based on Illegal Immigrant Population? The argumen 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...
Healthcare System Practice Guideline Introduce an overview of one healthcare system practice guideline There are numerous areas within health care that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare Continue Reading...
The article states, "The enormous human and economic costs associated with occupational stress suggest that initiatives designed to prevent and/or reduce employee stress should be high on the agenda of workplace health promotion (WHP) programs" (Nob Continue Reading...
The infant mortality rate is of 8.97 deaths per 1,000 live births. This rate places Kuwait on the 160th position on the chart of the CIA. The adult prevalence rate of HIV / AIDS is of 0.1 per cent. In terms of economy, Kuwait is a relatively open, Continue Reading...
Open lines of communication are the biggest factor in making the rest of everything run smoothly. Everyone in the organization must feel that they know what is going on, not just managers but the line staff as well. If workers feel as if they know w Continue Reading...
What emerges from these efforts are two essential understandings. First, in spite of whatever evidence may exist to the contrary, system building will continue apace in the hospital industry. Whether the battlefield is risky is immaterial, for the Continue Reading...
..above all - its situation." (Ibid) II. Leadership Strategy for Transition or Change Watkins proposes 'Five Fundamental Propositions' in his work and the first is which that the "root causes of transition failure always lie in a pernicious interac 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...
, 2007, p. 13). The effective use of it resources requires an organization to define and manage its client base (Hayles, Jr., 2007, p. 14), its products (Hayles, Jr., 2007, p. 15), its human resources (Hayles, Jr., 2007, p. 16), and its delivery of b Continue Reading...
In respects, it could also reduce lawsuit expense when patients want to sue because of the wrong medication is given or harm is done in the process of medication administration. "We often resist the new way of doing things..." (Thede, 2009, Sept). Continue Reading...
Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature Chapter Introduction This chapter provides the background and an overview of the debate concerning national health insurance and the issues surrounding the provision of universal health care in the United S Continue Reading...
Indeed many of the "rotating staff may have never been on a transfer" and in addition most transport vehicles "are not conducive to carrying out active interventions on patients" -- a situation that can lead to serious medical complications during t Continue Reading...
1.3. Summary of argument, Hypothesis The role of leadership styles and their applicability to the success or failure of mergers, acquisitions and alliances is the focus of this research. Any leadership study, to be relevant, must also focus on the Continue Reading...
