330 Search Results for The Latest Trends in Healthcare Today
Letter of Intent
What are your short- and long-term career goals and how will this program prepare you for them?
My short-term goals are to get a very high quality education in the nursing field, learning as much as I can both with hands-on skills Continue Reading...
Healthcare Benefits
The 1990s demonstrated to be the period of maximum turbulence so far, as regards the healthcare industry is concerned. When rising expenses were tied with growing number of unremitting ailments and increase in life span, it appr Continue Reading...
reputed "health crisis" currently facing Americans. The author explores several aspects of the health care crisis and analyzes the validity of those claims. The author presents an argument that there really is not a health care crisis and it is a fa Continue Reading...
Trust and transparency with the public. Given the leadership position that Methodist Healthcare has it is imperative that it cultivate trust as a core part of its branding strategy with the public segments and audiences it serves.
Financial manage 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...
Future of Healthcare as it Relates to the Geriatric Population
Description and Problem Statement
The geriatric population in the United States is growing and compared to the population of health care providers the geriatric population growth is adv Continue Reading...
Market concentration is the concept that allows different distributions of the shares of various companies’ production within a market. In other words, it is a measure of monopolistic phenomena that helps one to determine the extent to which a Continue Reading...
Do the Pros Outweigh the Cons of the Affordable Care Act?
Introduction
Before the 1970s, the majority of people held hospital insurance. For instance in the ‘40s, only a tenth of the population actually had private health insurance. Just forty Continue Reading...
Abstract
Information technology is one of the major trends in today\\'s world, and it is changing every professional. It is imperative for healthcare leaders to understand the emerging information technologies, and how those technologies can tra Continue Reading...
Healthcare Industry
Changes in healthcare in the last ten years
In the last two decades, the average cost of healthcare per person was $2,800. This almost doubled in a span of ten years to reach a staggering $4,700. The cost tripled to reach $7,50 Continue Reading...
Flows in Health Care
Since the government had started the practice of handing over major departments to private sector like health care and education, these areas are now more focused on employing techniques that can draw major profit flow. On exam 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...
Personal Response
There does not appear to be a "chicken little" quality involved in the resources reviewed; indeed, the statistics cited make it abundantly clear that the healthcare profession is in big trouble today and things are going to get w Continue Reading...
Budgeting and Cost Control in Healthcare
One of the most critical issues facing healthcare facilities and organizations is the rapidly increasing cost of providing services. Cost control and budgetary issues are the first consideration for many heal Continue Reading...
Strategic Leadership and Future Delivery Models
The issue of life expectancy at birth is a relatively novel one. Before the 19th century for instance, the United Kingdom -- the country with the longest time-series of measured life expectancy -- had Continue Reading...
Caring for Populations - Assessment and Diagnosis
Caring for Populations: Assessment and Diagnosis
The aging population in America is no secret. The baby boomers are reaching retirement age and people are living longer, which means there is a growi Continue Reading...
Healthcare Legislation
According to a research focused on examining elderly persons' health status for individual states, an aging population with better life expectancy, but increasing prevalence of chronic ailments like obesity and diabetes indica Continue Reading...
0, 4.0, and 4.5 percentage points in FYs 1982, 1983, and 1984, respectively, for States whose growth exceeded certain targets, OBRA-81 also reduced eligibility for welfare benefits, thus making it harder for poor families to qualify for Medicaid (Kle Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act and EMS
The affordable care act is a medical insurance program that came into existence during the Obama regime. This came as a subsequent addition to the Medicaid and Medicare programs as fronted in the year 1965. The motive be Continue Reading...
Policy, Politics and Global Health Trends
The Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was recently signed into law in America. This public policy impacts all citizens of the U.S.A. And has been controversial from its inception, not only b Continue Reading...
Adult Day Care Industry
ABC Adult Day Care will be a mid-sized company, which will provide adult day care services to the residents of Boston. This mid-sized adult care facility will serve adults aged fifty years and above. It will provide community Continue Reading...
Hawaiian elder care professionals improve patient eldercare services to Japanese nationals, taking into consideration Japanese cultural norms and expectations
Caregiving for elderly parents in Japan
Japan has witnessed a significant growth in its Continue Reading...
The company's board believed they could not find a replacement for Chaney by the date of his intended departure, and so the directors put the company up for sale. In March 1996, the New York-based investment banking firm Merrill Lynch was hired to g Continue Reading...
forgiveness on human health. In its simplest form, the purpose of the study is to evaluate human psychological stress that might constitute a risk factor for heart disease. Further, the study will also evaluate the impact of forgiveness on heart dise Continue Reading...
HRM Challenges in Today's Organizations
All organizations require employees to make them a success and this function is considered as important as finance, machinery and land for running the organization successfully. The important point to note her Continue Reading...
By 2050, it is projected that only India would be recording growth rates significantly above 3%.
Incomes and Demographics
By 2050, despite much faster growth, individuals in those countries are still predicted to be poorer than those persons livin Continue Reading...
Practicing yoga helps a person to regulate and control hormone secretion. Having an improved endocrine system keeps hormones in balance and promotes better overall physical and emotional health. Triglycerides are the chemical form of fat found in th Continue Reading...
Nursing Tasks, Methods, And Expectations
State of the Industry
The Art and Science of Nursing
Relative Pay Scales
Male Nursing Roles
Sex Stereotypes
The Influence of the Nationalized Healthcare Debate
Proposed Methods toward Recruiting Nurses
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earning credentials from HFMA in the field of health care finance? What kinds of professional roles would individuals earning these credentials typically be able to achieve? Would you personally be interested in pursuing a career in medical finance? Continue Reading...
Technology and Society
All print media including books, newspapers and magazines are in deep trouble today thanks to new developments in technology, as are traditional methods of classroom instruction and school curricula. To that extent the Interne Continue Reading...
His ideas are not important for their uniqueness (though they are singular), but because of the essential similarities between his conservative business utopia and other versions of collectivism" (Gilbert, p. 12). This biographer reports that King C Continue Reading...
Psychology of Aging
Trait: Personality traits refer to established or fairly constant characteristics which identify individual differences among people. For instance, if a person suffers from bipolar disorder, he/she might possess trait impulsivity Continue Reading...
Women's Health -- Focused on prevention and care for breast health, mammography, etc.
Transplant Programs - Swedish is one of seven kidney transplant centers and one of just four liver transplant centers serving the entire Pacific Northwest. The O Continue Reading...
The clinical trial team includes doctors, nurses, social workers, data entry technicians and other health care professionals (NWHRC 2005). They review a participant's health history and current medical intakes before the trial begins. They impart a Continue Reading...
Strategic Planning
Financial Plan Explanation
Grady's budgeting is done on an incremental basis. What this means is that the budget for next year will be based on the budget for last year, with adjustments for inflation, for changes in the payer mi Continue Reading...
Both of these devices "allow handwritten data entry including sketching with 'electronic ink' and handwriting recognition that converts scribble into typewritten text." (Wales and Zabrek, 2003)
Full integration with hospital servers of these device Continue Reading...