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TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

An Evaluation of EMTALA

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

The Obama and McCain Health Care Reform Plans

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

HEALTH CARE AND FUTURE TRENDS

that telemedicine is already having an impact on how healthcare is being delivered (Kohler, 2008). Kohler points out that technolo...

Family and Health Promotion

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next...

Communications in Health Care (Case Study Analysis)

merely decided to retest all of the students (ONeil, 2004). Finally, the third scenario in this case study involves Rosa. Rosa man...

HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND ITS IMPORTANCE

the changing "professional identity" of the HIM means that educational programs for certification and graduation are shifting as w...

MCCAIN HEALTH CARE PROPOSAL AND DOLLARS

(McCain-Palin, 2008). What would be the economic implications of a health care reform proposal such as the one John McCa...

Universal Health Plan -Stakeholder Communication

television commercials to scare the public (Greene, 2008). The couple, Harry and Louise, was sitting at their kitchen table mockin...

A Comparison of the US and European Health Care Systems

While some of the European health care system share many similarities with socialized medicine, the US system of health care is ba...

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

launching a business). And what about competitive advantage? This is great if the opportunity is a "first-mover," in other words, ...

Discrepancies Between Aspirations and Reality in Health Care

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

Health care is a Right vs. Health Care is a Privilege

The other ideological camp would be the socialist camp, a camp comprised of those that believe health care is a universal right. ...

Universal Health Care Policy

such as Massachusetts and California, the pros and cons of universal health care and others. Some of the articles reviewed are lis...

MARKETING, HEALTH CARE AND ETHICS

outgoing because of the particular medication. And yes, the commercials list the side effects, but usually as an afterthought. Bec...

Proposed Changes to the Existing Canadian Health Care System

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

Pharmacological Health Care Approach of Canada and Economics

Holism, after all, embodies the concept of healing. Holism embodies another concept as well, however, that is the concept of cari...

Proposals on Health Care Reform

vows that a health care reform plan will be the first item that he sends to Congress as president (McLellan, 2004). His proposal w...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...