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

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...

occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...

litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...

by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

laws of the state and to prevent "illegal operations, e.g., operating without a license" (VDH). Regulations that are adopted by t...

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

client as a result of the delays, but could be substantial to the relevant contractors. The current project is one that provides...

The process of successful change was observed by Lewin as occurring in three stages; unfreezing, change and refreezing (Lewin, 195...

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

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

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

quality of the customer service. The measures here will be against the expected levels from past visitors as well as the levels co...

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

as such this will also lead to patient satisfaction. The cost per patient or per visit may be measured in financial terms; this ...

of that knowledge and create cost savings with the way it is implemented, such as new procedures, or new ways of managing old proc...

numbers and then as a percentage on yearly basis. The measure in the first year for reference only, in the second year the numbe...

eliminate the risk of non compliance and simply use new equipment each time. With mass production techniques it was possible to pr...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...