SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Public Health Issues

Health Care Management Models

there is a pressing need to "make clinical goals specific, roles explicit, [and] processes clear" (Phillips, 2005). For instance, ...

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: ESTABLISHING ACCEPTABILITY, BUDGETING AND PRO FORMA

he received checks back in the mail for overage. "Im not sure what was worse," he told me at one point, "going through all that pa...

Tobacco and the Issues Surrounding It

History Tobacco has become fully impregnated in world society. Tobacco, of course, originated in...

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...

Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

ADHD and Teachers' Knowledge

between 2 and 18 percent of all children, and it is associated with poor academic performance, which can lead to numerous other co...

Role in Health Administration

health care industry In January of 2011, the first of the so-called baby boomer generation, that is, individuals born immediately...

Stem Cell Research and Telemedicine

and scientific research, general regulations prohibiting the cloning of humans for reproductive purposes have been applied interna...

A Comparison of Electronic Health Record Software

records. In 2007, promoting the bill that would implement such incentives at the federal level, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ...

THE PROFESIONAL MENTAL HEALTH NURSE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

No matter what the specialty, nurses are on the front line of healthcare - theyre the individuals who interact directly with the p...

Career Planning

first essential step in the pursuit of any lifelong goal such as this is to develop a "five year plan". In the development of su...

To Your Health

of wine-making," though finds in Turkey indicate wine was made there as early as the "late third millennium B.C." (Berkowitz). Ho...

Program to Promote Good Mental Health in a Refugee Community

not just to the move, but the circumstances under which the individual became a refugee. In general terms for all migrants the pot...

Nursing Cultural Competence

and Cultural Competency in Health Care: An Australian Study by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki. * Abstract; The authors p...

Borderless Societies: The Environmental Impacts

the 21st century has exerted a major impact on all areas of life, particularly through the process of globalization. As globalizat...

Health Care Economics and Funding in the United States - A History

the consideration of dozens of microeconomic systems that operate as a function of the national macroeconomic picture. It is often...

Electronic Health Records: The Advantages of Implementation

commonly referred to as EHR for sake of brevity, are helping to redefine and revolutionize the health care industry. In an industr...

The Re-designing of Job Specifications

more of a smaller part of each task, to increase efficiency, this is an approach that is linked to the efficiency approach. The r...

Health Care and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

of business entities engaging in different types of accounting for a variety of purposes. While this diversity is a great motivati...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Change Management for Behavioral Change

large or ongoing expenditure for this purpose. Though hiring additional qualified employees would be desirable, the costs of sala...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

The Roper, Logan and Tierney Model of Nursing

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

Final Master’s Project in Change Management

physicians prescribe for them can change frequently. As drugs increase in number, they narrow in focus and applicability but pati...

Corporate Crimes

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...

Health Care Insurance Policy

This 3 page paper describes a health insurance policy for a 25-year-old male, full-time college student in the state of Florida. T...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

The Protection of Hospital Computer and Information Systems

2006). Finally, the Mayo Clinic has its own take on privacy and does not only provide HIPAA guidelines, but implements very strict...

Pricing at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

essentially sets prices for all of American health care, as explained below. Aside from pricing according to production cos...