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Use of the Clinical Pathways System in U.S. Healthcare

The Clinical Pathways system helps healthcare professionals map out medical interventions and surgery, as well as the expected out...

Practical Implementation of an IT Project in a Medical Organization

The writer considers the way in which a migration to electronic medical record system may take place within a healthcare organizat...

Two Types of Healthcare Information Systems

opportunity to lower costs, decrease errors and promote increased productivity. The following paper examines two types of healthca...

Influences on Patient Healthcare Service Provider Communication

information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...

Family Homelessness and the Impact on Health and Healthcare Provision

as an increased occurrence in low income families it has also been noted that members of minority populations are also over repres...

Compliance and Learning within the Supervision Functions

in the field to define what is meant. The idea of nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of i...

Creating Sustainability in Developing Countries Healthcare Provisions - a Proposal for Research

and demands on the healthcare systems increases and costs rising without equivalent increases in the revenues. The position of Za...

Health Agencies and Regulation

and enforcer, taking on issues that are deemed to be in the public interest, but are not provided through other market mechanisms....

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,...

Healthcare in America

Anderson and Squires (2010) maintained that the life expectancy at birth in this country is 77.8 years, placing it at the bottom q...

Should America Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

with only 13% of white non Hispanic citizens being uninsured compared with 17% of Asians/Pacific Islanders, 22% of blacks and 36%...

Progressively Aging Population

the standards of care and service reimbursement. With the growing elderly population and the changes in our familial lifestyles we...

Mental Models of a Finance Officer in a Healthcare Setting

This 3 page paper looks at the type of mental models which may be used by a chief finance officer in a healthcare organization whe...

Planning an Obesity Education Program for 16 - 18 Year Olds

The paper will start by consider the problem, looking at the issue and the current gaps; it is only when the context of the issue ...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS

is a huge instance of people being denied for insurance because of previous conditions or potential conditions. Again, its a botto...

Stark Laws And Other Issues

is referred for tests, a medical code is given to that referral (Dietrich, n.d.). If a clinic of several physicians, for example, ...

Health Interdisciplinary Teams

Each profession has its own culture that incorporates beliefs, attitudes, values, customs, behaviors, and ways of communicating. C...

How And Why Pricing Affects Access

conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...

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...

2001 to 2002 UCLA Healthcare's Annual Report

quite enviable among university-attached medical centers. ROA declined in 2002, but it is still quite positive in this environmen...

Theories of Leadership and Nursing

"organization does not need transforming" (Transformational leadership, 2007). Transactional leadership is much in keeping with ...

Epidemiology & STDs

associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying the causes of health-related states or events" (Merrill and Timmreck, 2006, p. 2...

Guantanamo Bay as 21st Century Concentration Camp

Guantanamo have been denied habeas corpus. Recently 17 Ulghurs-Chinese Muslims were recently released from Guantanamo, after spend...

Revisiting the Bay of Pigs

have suffered centuries of political and economic oppression. Cuba presents perhaps the finest - or worst - example of the conseq...

Who and What is an Enemy Combatant

and "combatant"; according to the dictionary the first is derived from Old French and Middle English, based on the Latin inimicus;...

Educational Systems

institutions use a 2-5 scoring system with 5 being high (WHED, 2008). Barbados has one of the highest literacy rate in the world,...

Foreign Policy in Central America During the Carter Presidency

issues dominate the low politics of economics and other issues" (p. 465). Adherents of this somewhat rigid mindset believe that ...

Cuba, Sugar, Tobacco and Transculturation

facing the same kind of horrific conditions that plagued Cuba when the sugar manufacturers took over. At any rate, Ortiz writes t...