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Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

Managed Care Organizations and Psychological Services

In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...

Senior Citizens and Healthcare Issues

In eight pages such healthcare issues as managed care, health rationing, improved medical technology, and increased life expectanc...

HMOs and Health Care in the United States

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...

New York's HMOs and Managed Health Care

In fourteen pages this paper presents an overview of managed health care and then focuses upon legal, staffing, and financial cons...

PPOs v. HMOs

an employer. Under the HMO system the traditional fee-for-service setup of medicine in which a doctor is paid for each patient vis...

Overview of Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper is formatted as a speech that considers managed health care and addresses the system's various problems....

Financial Statements: Helping To Evaluate A Hospital's Financial Viability

having done so. Performance measures in general help to provide a composite of the respective hospitals financial viability, howe...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

Discussion Questions on Strategy and Marketing

more targeted micro-marketing" (Mass marketing comes unplugged, 2005), primarily because it is no longer possible to gain a mass a...

A Consideraiton of the ANA Code for Nursing

In eight pages the concerns that have recently developed regarding the 1976 ANA Code for Nursing are considered including nursing ...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Health Care Insurance And The Unemployed

does. Literature Search By November 2008, there were more than 10.3 million people unemployed in the United States (Families USA...

Funding Universal Health Care

care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...

AN EXPLANATION OF CAUSALITY CONTINUUM

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

AIDS, Health Care Privatization, and International Expectations

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

Aspects Of Universal Health Care In U.S.

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

Health Care Pricing and Costs

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

The Government Role in Health Care

Health care is something that should be available to everyone. At the same time, it isnt logical to expect to...

Government Involvement in Health

It also freed Blue Cross from the traditional laws that governed insurance companies. The justification for this status was that t...