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of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

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

also increased the costs of healthcare and became one of the problems of rising costs. The insurance companies over time have so...

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

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

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

the director of health system performance studies at Fraser Institute, was quoted as saying that "It is irresponsible for a wealth...

the state has focused on methods for improving access to care by gaining the support from organizations like Health Access Califor...

cost, but one that tries to find a way of assessing and managing the conflicting needs of the different stakeholders. The manager ...

than on the payment of premiums. As this suggests, the EHT funds are similar to the OHIP premiums in that these funds are likewise...

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

community decisions that enhance health" (Thomas, 2006, p. 1). Relevancy of effective communication with other healthcare profes...

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

US to a disproportionate degree. These groups include African Americans, Hispanics, and minority women and children (Dancy and Dut...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

was when a respiratory infection became severe and his doctors prescribed the use of an iron lung to aid ventilation. Macurdy desc...

for top executives of an organization (BoLS, 2008). They also aid physicians and researchers with the preparation of "reports, spe...

for any one patient can be almost overwhelming. Fortunately, numerous improvements are being made in health care that will better...

strategies and 10 tools that were used and to be able to relate examples of at least five of these. These goals support self-eva...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

action, along with a generous dose of determination and the application of intelligence, are essential to success. Therefore, in...

a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

of the consumer and using appropriate marketing strategies can hospital executives ensure greater customer satisfaction and repeat...

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

This paper concerns veterans inability to obtain health care services from the VA, with a focus on mental healthcare. Six pages in...

This paper reviews three articles from healthcare publications. The pertinent points in topics as diverse as pain management, tra...