1000 Search Results for Medical Care and Health
EHR Database and Data Management
Database Management Approach
The issue to address is the negative effects of drugs. Adverse reaction to drugs is "a significantly unpleasant or dangerous response caused by an intervention that is linked with using Continue Reading...
Health Policy Values
My Personal Values and Spiritual Beliefs
Values and beliefs are an integral and imperative element in the life of any individual and play a vital role in one's growth and development. All human beings have their own beliefs, va Continue Reading...
Health Care Economics
Medical Care is never free, although the individual may pay nothing?
Medical Care is both a commodity and a service. The process of consuming medical care has a cost, even if the after insurance price is zero to the consumer. Continue Reading...
Health Care IT
Health Care Information Technology
The days of paper-based records in health care are fading. It is widely believed that the broad adoption of clinical applications such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) can lead to major 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...
Healthcare Management
Health Care Management
On March 2010, the U.S. president, Barrack Obama, signed the Affordable Care Act. This act highlights detailed health insurance reforms expected to roll out from 2011 and beyond (Vlvar, 2011). The provis Continue Reading...
Healthcare Organizations
Health Organizations
Patient Care in Healthcare Organizations
Overview of the tracer methodology
When indulging in tracer methodology systems, the key word is flexibility. The surveyors involve staff members through many Continue Reading...
Medical Care Influenced by Civil War and Crimean Italian Unification Wars that Immediately Preceded the U.S. Civil War
The objective of this study is to examine how medical care influenced the Civil War and Crimean Italian Unification Wars that Imme Continue Reading...
Medical Care
Perhaps the single biggest blessing that any individual can thank his or her stars for is a sense of physiological and psychological well being that allows for the optimal utilization of one's lifetime. In the same vein, all humankind c Continue Reading...
Analysis
The ability to schedule online and also have the ability to view records online significantly increased he patient satisfaction levels, judging from how much happier the families seemed to be to get into see the physicians. This same loca Continue Reading...
In that regard, they must promote initial awareness of HIPAA requirements within the organization and conduct comprehensive assessment of existing privacy practices, information security, information safeguarding procedures, and use of electronic tr Continue Reading...
Canada is even further behind in its access to high tech equipment, including machines used for MRI's and CAT scans. This shortage of equipment affects wait time for diagnostic tests, which in some provinces can run well over three months (Beaudan, Continue Reading...
Healthcare Policies
Health care policy usually is developed to address health care cost, quality, or access, or a combination of the three. Due to the nature of their interaction with patients, nurses are well situated to be effective, knowledgeable Continue Reading...
As a result, millions of Americans remain unable to bear the heavy financial toll of medical expenses. Indeed, the problem of a lack of insurance for many is related to the problem of the cost of healthcare. So confirms the article by Consumer Repor Continue Reading...
These revenue sources fluctuate significantly over the year, often requiring a rationing of budget for critical supplies. The clinic's budget is one that fluctuations on a quarterly basis depending on funding from the foundation donors and how quick Continue Reading...
Medical Ethics
Ethics Interview
Medical Ethics Interview
Healthcare providers include nurses, doctors, social workers and a number of other professions that seem to exist on the periphery of the helping field. One of those on the outside, that man Continue Reading...
Santerre and Neun
a) What are the three legs of the medical stool? Explain how trade-offs might take place among the three legs.
The three legs are cost, quality and access. Trade-offs take place among the three legs in the sense that sometimes cos Continue Reading...
Quality Analysis
Healthcare Quality and Cost
Despite the fact that there is a comprehensive policy agreement that both cost control and quality enhancement are vital, the relationship between health care costs and quality is one of contention in d Continue Reading...
Obama Care Plan
Health care is undergoing a dramatic transformation and needless to say it is one of our largest industries that contribute handsomely to the Gross Domestic Product, greater demands are placed for the value of dollars that are being Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory
The theory of nursing is built in a dynamic process that develops from practice and is normally reproduced through research, by development and analysis of concepts and theories. There is need to investigate further the phenomena see Continue Reading...
Health Care and Health for All:
In what the World Health Organization termed as Health for All, the International Conference on Primary Health Care in 1978 expressed the need for health workers, urgent government action, and the world community to Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform
"Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital"
The case of Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital was a case that attempted to end the segregation of African-American and Whites in the U.S. hospitals and medical professions as a 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...
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...
Medical care at Home Vs. Medical Care at the HospitalAround 4.5 million people in the United States require end-of-life or long-term care annually. Also, the United States has, in a pretty big way, changed healthcare delivery perspectives within the Continue Reading...
This information was obtained from the facilities giving dialysis and it was for the first two months only. The study excluded darbepoetin doses as it had only been administered to a few patients. Inpatient EPO doses were not easily determinable as Continue Reading...
Health Care Advanced
Quality of Medical Care Defined and Other Dimensions of Quality Care and Their Importance
Quality is reported to be defined by the Institute of Medicine as:
"The degree to which health services for individuals and populations Continue Reading...
health care to the elderly.
In the next several years, many commentators argue that population aging will considerably affect the federal budget. When one turns sixty-five, his or her cost of care doesn't abruptly increase. However, the cost of hea Continue Reading...
Healthcare Management
The Bureau of Labor Statistics expresses that the profession of healthcare management is experiencing rapid growth, which can mainly be attributed "to the expansion and diversification of the healthcare industry"[footnoteRef:1] Continue Reading...
Collaboration
It would probably make sense to a lot of people that nurses and physicians should work together to provide the highest level of medical care to their patients. However, it would seem that there are a lot of instances where this collab Continue Reading...
Financing the Healthcare Delivery System
Mr. Y is a patient with heart failure and has visited the emergency room twice in the last three weeks for shortness of breath. He is a very nice gentleman with limited literacy and e-literacy. Some of the pr Continue Reading...
Health Economics
In 2012, there were nearly 800 million doses of opioids prescribed in Ohio alone -- a figure which equates to roughly 70 pills for every individual in the state. The prescriptions were for 20% of the state's populace (Semuels, 2017) 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...
Healthcare System the purpose a health system support wellness prevent disease. What factors influence today's healthcare system? Describe U.S. Healthcare System context Patient Protection Affordable Healthcare Act.
Today's healthcare system is inf Continue Reading...
Interoperability of Electronic Medical Records
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are patient-management tools that have been created in the health sector to help coordinate patient care. These tools or system focuses on capturing patient-generated he 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...
Health Care Administration
A recent change in Health IT architecture or infrastructure is the use of cloud computing. In the present day, cloud computing is having a positive effect on healthcare processes and outcomes and the healthcare organization Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act decreased the number of Americans without health insurance by the millions, which was its primary objective. It used three different mechanisms to achieve this goal -- the expansion of Medicaid, the insurance exchanges, and the ex Continue Reading...
Standards of Care/Mental Health/Cultural Competence
EMERGING STANDARDS OF CARE/MENTAL HEALTH/CULTURAL
Sometime in 1999, the Surgeon General released Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Inside this report, it acknowledged that not every Continue Reading...
Teeth Enamel and Teeth, Generally
The hardest part of the human body is the tooth. Teeth help to chew and break down food particles into smaller units for easier digestion down the system. Teeth also help humans to articulate language ((Hoffman)). Continue Reading...