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EHR Selection and Needs Assessment

This essay pertains to the needs assessment the should be conduced prior to selecting and implementing an Electronic Health Record...

HEALTHCARE AND NEEDS FOR AN AGING POPULATION

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Problems with Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...

An Overview of Medicaid Eligibility

state to state and from group to group. There are special rules for those who live in nursing homes and for disabled children livi...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

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...

Protection from Socialized Medicine

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

21st Century Leadership For Health Care Organizations

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Issues In Health Care

extent to which the managed care approach has created a complicated, ineffective health care system is both grand and far-reaching...

HHH, Change Management, and Systems Thinking

Connected to the larger system, the hand is an integral part; separated from the system it quite literally is dead and fills none ...

Uninsured and HMOs

citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years, the general system also has been char...

Essays on Health Care

before, with the result that there is a "pill" for virtually any physical condition. Individuals taking any kind of ethical drug ...

Advantages of Socialized Medicine

in such a manner. There is no question that far too much time, money and effort is spent on government regulations and bureaucrac...

Home Health and Hospice Company Business Requirement Analysis

critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...

Electronic Health Records and the U.S. Military

Accompanying records may have been blown away in a downdraft from a helicopter as the soldier was transported out of Baghdad, but ...

Running For A Seat In the U.S. House Of Representatives

will be addressing political concerns as opposed to focusing upon the war being waged between Democrats and Republicans. Th...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - Case Study

problems?] The pharmacology interventions target the patients different health conditions, such as high blood pressure and high c...

Tax Research Issue

not taking title, or in which he has no equity" (Synopsis of IRC Section 162, 2006). Nowhere does the IRC provide any condi...

A HOSPITAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Types of medical data and information records relevant to this project. The importance of uniform terminology, coding and...

The Major Problems of the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

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 ...

The Health Care Systems in Israel and Venezuela

There are similarities in health care delivery in Israel and Venezuela. however, there are significant differences. This ten page ...