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IT Applications for Health Care Reform

technology. It stands to reason then, that an embrace of 21st century technology should be a key starting point in moving towards ...

Health Care and the Internet

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

Projections for the Universal Health Care System in Canada

7 pages and six sources used. This paper considers the existing status of the universal or national health care system in Canada ...

Managed Care Contracts

Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

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...

Public Health Issues

It is clear to most people that the amount of money the federal government spends on health care must be reduced. At the current r...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

COBRA and What It Means to the Economy

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

The Elderly and their Needs

This research paper provides an overview of the various needs that society should address in order to order to provide comprehensi...

Elderly Care in a Nursing Home v. At Home

In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...

Theoretical Comparison of Hildgard Peplau and Dorothea Orem on Self Care Deficit

In seven pages this paper compares the self care deficit health care theories of Peplau and Orem in terms of similarities regardin...

A Community Health Issue in Kentucky/Smoking Cessation

Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...

Staffing the VA Outpatient Clinic

and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...

Culturally Competent Care/Duke University Health System

could be applied towards unmet standards. Culturally competent care at Duke University Health System It has been determined by ...

Addressing the Needs of Women Veterans

examination of the describes the bills intended goals and outcomes regarding their achievement of greater social equality and reso...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Home Health Care Nursing

This paper emphasizes the importance of home health care by outlining typical day in the life of a home health care provider. The...

Health Care Teams

This research paper addresses the unique challenges that are associated with delivery of health care services by teams of professi...

A Qualitative Assessment of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital's Online Web Portal

and health care demands, in part, that hospitals provide a functional presence on the web as a way of providing a higher quality o...

Health Care Legislation: A Multi-Dimensional Concept

labyrinthine topic which is overwhelming in terms of both accessibility and comprehension. This is because the health care industr...

Increasing Health Care Costs

The health care situation is rather complex, but solutions can be implemented once the problem is thoroughly understood. This pape...

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...

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...

Public Relations in the Health Care Industry

professional from Phoenix Childrens Hospital in Arizona. The organization is an excellent representation of the importance of publ...

Roles and Issues Regarding Health Care Reform

in the future development and revision of health care policy: While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010...