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Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Diagnosing Medical Problems

body" (What causes anemia?, 2009). The symptoms of this condition include pale skin and fatigue, and the causes include "[A]n iron...

Knowledge Management at Molnlycke Health Care

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

Medical Ethics on Television

One particular episode of House stands out with a number of ethical breaches and dilemmas in "Informed Consent," an episode that a...

Medical Coding and Billing

for those over 65. For many people, it is their only means of obtaining a doctors care. This paper discusses Medicare as well as m...

RAC, Medical

the hospital training guidelines to ascertain that all measures have been addressed and reached a conclusion. At that time, it is ...

Internet Information on Cardiovascular Drugs

of heart-related problems. This paper uses Internet sites, specifically WebMD and Medscape to find information on these drugs. Di...

In Support of Legalizaing Marijuana

Evidence in Support of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Purposes Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Personal Reflections on Identifying and Dealing with Illness

can bring them a fan. There are, in fact, many small things that we can do to reduce our patients stress levels that have nothing...

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

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...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

Open Source EMR Systems: Implementation and Monitoring

in the previous paper. It is important to understand that EMR is a technology still primarily in its infancy, which means there ar...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

Questions on Medical Ethics

to the costs of technology, the costs of long-term care, and benefits of advanced technology in prolonging life. Q1: What are th...

Communitarian Perspective, Informaticist

a negative effect on patient care. Sara will most likely need to use conflict management strategies. These include using active ...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Project for Enhancing a Medical Service Web Site

challenges and the practical elements such as resource requirements. The final aspects will also be presented to support the propo...

The Relative Merits of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...

Medical Treatment and Religious Affiliation

factors of religious affiliation on belief and health consciousness, for society as a whole. The authors carried out their study...

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS AND RISKS

Discusses contingencies and risk management pertaining to electronic medical records. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliograp...

TECHNOLOGY AND HOME HEALTH CARE

patients are in the hospital, using those resources that could be dedicated toward more serious problems). They also mean patients...

Medical Error: Ethical Concerns

the last two months, Patton-Fuller has experienced seven cases of medical error. Two patients required emergency assistance ...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENT AN EMR SYSTEM

the system has gone through numerous beta-testings (and tweakings) and goes live. This is why a phased implementation is s...