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Home Health Agency Information Technology Upgrading

means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...

English Law Medical Case Study

to Mrs Jarvis was adequate, this was a treatment to alleviate her condition, but it was also wring, if she were pregnant she was o...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Stark I and Stark II Laws and Physician Self Referral

referrals directed towards certain facilities owned or operated by a physician or their family member might also be prevented, eve...

Economics and Health Care

can add to scarcity, such as time and income (Schenk, 2004). Furthermore, resources are limited, such as manpower, machinery and n...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Information Needs Of Doctors And Nurses

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Ethics In Forensic Science

uphold the position. Attaining the appropriate credentials is a mandate for ethical behavior within todays counseling profe...

Canada and Electronic Order Entry

and harmful adverse drug events dropped to 0.03 per 1,000 doses from 0.05 per 1,000 doses. This equals the prevention of one harmf...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Supporting Argument for Operating Room Cameras

incidence of post-surgical infection (Weir, 2004). It therefore stands to reason that including cameras in the operating room wou...

Patient Service Improvements of NPs

and unequivocally made significant strides" within their specialty over the last two decades (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003, p. 577). ...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

An Individual's Explanation on Why He Wants to Become a Doctor

in most cases much better compensated than any other professional. Others want to become a physician simply because of the societ...

Medicine and Artificial Intelligence

beneficial in considering their application for prediction models and medical research. Reflecting on the utility of these system...

Medicine Evolution and Physicians

When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

RISKS FACED BY HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS TODAY

Discusses some of the risks faced by today's healthcare organizations. Topics include joint ventures, physician contracting, the T...

Overcoming Unrealistic Fears Preventing Early Screening for Prostate Problems

This paper compares and contrasts the facts verses the misperceptions of prostate problems. The author argues that physicians are...

Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This paper considers the distinctions between non-physician practitioners and how these distinctions might affect Medicare reimbur...

IMPACT OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE

In other words, because economics is a social science studying decision-making behavior and the allocation of scarce resources, in...

Ethics and the Law in DNR Orders

intrusive medical technology that doctors are allowed to use in order to save their lives in critical situations (Puri, 2006). For...

Pharmaceutical Companies and the Trend of Online Marketing

the new advertising venues. This trend has been reflected in pharmaceutical companies as well, for whom online advertising has bee...

Pharmaceutical Marketing

emotional appeal, where marketers have sought to appeal to either negative or positive emotions with attempts to find the right em...

Media Ethics' Decline and Postmodernity

ancillary factors of our culture such as what clothing we consider most appropriate or what foods we choose to eat. Sometimes how...