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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 ...

The Stigma of Therapy

early detection and treatment would insure a healthier population (Blumenthal, 2011). A study of nearly 800 college students foun...

Our Imperiled Environment Our Imperiled Future

Global health is dependent on the decisions we have made in the past and on...

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...

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...

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Health Care Management Models

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

The Tertiary Level of Prevention

family violence has occurred relate the importance of a community base and social support mechanisms for reducing recidivism by pe...

Marketing and Community Health

health plan is linked to the belief that there are risk factors that can be assessed in an aggregate that are influenced by both p...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

Electronic Health Records and Accrediting Bodies

recent and revolutionary innovations in American healthcare, the advent of the electronic health record, and the accrediting bodie...

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 ...

Dealing With Unsustainable Health Costs

is based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Or, it could be the greatest pleasure or good over the least pain...

STD Services and Epidemiology

to social behaviors; therefore, this area of research is associated with social epidemiology, which indicates the socioeconomic fa...

Opportunities for Health Care Entrepreneurs

led to most nurses being dissatisfied with the reality of working in conditions that threaten the safety of patients, and the qual...

Two Types of Healthcare Information Systems

opportunity to lower costs, decrease errors and promote increased productivity. The following paper examines two types of healthca...

Health Care Industry - Assessing Different Financial Environments

in the western United States (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Such institutions are typified by the primary goal of "sharehol...

Dysfunctional Family Counseling

telling Helen and Manny do not know where she is. They have a conflicting opinions about Derek as well. Derek has a part-time jo...

Birth Control and the Catholic Church

this new mandate. Catholic universities sent letters to the President asking him to exempt all religious individuals and instituti...

Overview of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

the signs of illness in order to maintain prolonged contact with healthcare providers (Criddle, 2010). History and Statistics Ph...

Community Health Nursing and Palliative Care

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

Taking Control of Our Health

Personal health and welfare is dependent on a number of factors. Some of these factors are things that you cannot control. Some...

Overview of NMAS and its HIV/AIDS Intervention Program

housing, case management, nutritional guidance and vocational rehabilitation, as well as the development of new approaches to prev...

Environmental Health/Graduate School Admissions Statement

obtain a doctorate in order to achieve my long-term goals and I plan on evaluating this eventuality after completing a masters pro...

Evaluation of a Health Promotion Pamphlet

such as the misconception that young people only the elderly are at risk for stroke, and it thoroughly describes the various risks...