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Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

The Impact of Reimbursement Strategies on Healthcare Revenue

which was potentially the first ever schedule of physician charges (Jost, 1988). Today the issue is not as simple with a far more ...

Policies in Long Term Care

to improve the system will grow, raising key policy issues" that cover all dimensions of the political landscape (Feder, Komisar, ...

Application Of Watson’s Care Model in the Clinical Setting

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

Clinical Nurse Leader Project

for improving nursing systems. II. Introduction and Background XYZ Hospital is a suburban hospital, serving a regional populati...

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

Creating a Consulting Firm

of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Analysis of Pharmacies

a dilemma in the United States, a dilemma in the true sense of the word in that there is just no win-win solution. When we conside...

Marketing a Hospital

the west Los Angeles market, this requires an increase of 9% as the hospital currently has a 6% market share. This should be achie...

DUKE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND BALANCED SCORECARD

Focuses on how Duke Children's Hospital relied on the balanced scorecard system for improvement. There is 1 source listed in the b...

Health Issues in Managed Care

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...

Issues in Clinical Practice: Infant Abduction

justify its relevance to health care. The severity of infant abductions from hospitals should not be gauged by the frequency of oc...

Saving the Bilby Graveyard

all be traced, making the site one that not only documents history, but puts it in a meaningful context for the resident and visit...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Value of Ratios

been a significant increase in the level of performance, with this we can see a significant change shown in table 1 below Table 1 ...

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Jackson Memorial Hospital is an accredited, non-profit, tertiary care hospital located in Miami, FL (Jackson Memorial Hospital, 20...

Networking Structure in Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

demographic; for this reason, it is imperative that the organization takes great care in the integration of database management an...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

Patton-Fuller Hospital: The OSI Model and Network Protocols

the use of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) technology within the structure of a complex organization. Because the hospital is a...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Johns Hopkins Hospital Improvement Assessments

is the worlds leading medical facility. Associated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the hospital has seen the bir...

Cost Management to Reduce the Cost of Oxygen Supply for Hospital

a change within a health organization to reduce the costs associated with the provision of an essential resource; oxygen, without ...

Network Systems at Patton-Fuller Hospital

in that the structure of an organization will either facilitate or inhibit that organizations ability to effectively pursue its or...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Hospital Administration and Retention

at improving management systems and supporting a positive organizational culture based on employee commitment. Body Introduc...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...