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Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Medical Insurance - Appeal Processes and Potential Claim Errors

a minimum value hurdle met, so avoid wasting time on small claims. In Medicare cases where there is a denial as a result of a mi...

Medical Error: Ethical Concerns

the last two months, Patton-Fuller has experienced seven cases of medical error. Two patients required emergency assistance ...

HEALTH CARE ISSUE: RIGHT TO DIE

stopped (Quill, 2005). The question was centered around what Terri would have wanted - and it was here that Michael Schiavo and Te...

Ways to Improve Patient Intake Efficiency

is devoted to the intake of new patients frequently constitutes the "greatest time sink in a physicians practice" (Noffsinger, 200...

Personal Reflections on Identifying and Dealing with Illness

can bring them a fan. There are, in fact, many small things that we can do to reduce our patients stress levels that have nothing...

Internet Information on Cardiovascular Drugs

of heart-related problems. This paper uses Internet sites, specifically WebMD and Medscape to find information on these drugs. Di...

RAC, Medical

the hospital training guidelines to ascertain that all measures have been addressed and reached a conclusion. At that time, it is ...

Medical Coding and Billing

for those over 65. For many people, it is their only means of obtaining a doctors care. This paper discusses Medicare as well as m...

Medical Ethics on Television

One particular episode of House stands out with a number of ethical breaches and dilemmas in "Informed Consent," an episode that a...

Nature v. Nurture, a Review

It is true that most people still believe that the problems are behavioral rather than medical. This 7 paper explores the issue of...

Decision Making at Happy Hospital Budget, Performance, and Ethics

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENT AN EMR SYSTEM

the system has gone through numerous beta-testings (and tweakings) and goes live. This is why a phased implementation is s...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

Medical Research: Can It Be Done Ethically?

there are examples, especially in research, where ethics has been abandoned in the hope of achieving some sort of breakthrough. Th...

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING MISSION STATEMENTS

(Owens-White Outpatient Rehabilitation Center); cancer (Joe Arrington Cancer Research and Treatment Center) and maternity/womens i...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

Application of Disability Models in Education

This is a model that does not accept that there is anything wrong with society and the there is no acknowledgement of any need for...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Diagnosing Medical Problems

body" (What causes anemia?, 2009). The symptoms of this condition include pale skin and fatigue, and the causes include "[A]n iron...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Jewish Medical Experimentation by the Nazis

(1988, p.PG). They wanted to form a master race that would eventually rule the world (1988, p. PG). The Nazis, after rounding up J...

Wound Closure: Vacuum Assisted Closure Therapy (V.A.C.)

a foam dressing, which is placed in the cavity of the wound (Medica, 2000). The other end of the tube is attached to a canister th...

Selective Abortions and Medical Ethics

be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...

Two Journal Articles on Colic

points out possible remedies, such as swaddling and dillwater, which the health care professional could suggest to the parent....

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...