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Electronic Medical Records, An Analysis

This research paper describes the factors that hospitals purchasing an electronic medical records (EMR) system. Fifteen pages in l...

Eight Year Old Victim of a Bicycle Accident Assessed

with a parent becomes a primary concern prior to administering any medication. It is recommended that toys are used when asking t...

Call Tracking and Shand's Health Care

referrals, and so on. Messages are recorded by human workers, on message pads, then the message is placed in the appropriate locat...

Connecticut and Malpractice Litigation

was initiated, however, the Sabias settled with Humes for $1.35 million, before then moving on to try to get what they could from ...

American Hospitals and Medical Mistake Causes

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

Computerized Health Records in the Military and an Annotated Bibliography

are being planned and how the system is already being extensively used. This allows medical personnel to spend more time on care d...

Terrorist Attack Scenario and the Use of the Incident Command System

major even. 2. Roles The multi jurisdiction approach helps to delineate the different tasks of the different agencies involved ...

A COMPARISON OF MEDICAL DATA SYSTEMS, NOW AND 20 YEARS AGO

is relying a great deal on up-to-date information systems and instantaneous information to ensure that patients can receive the be...

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...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

EMR IMPLEMENTATION - AN OVERVIEW

This is not to suggest, however, that everything would be rosy with EMR implementation. For one thing, EMR hardware and software 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...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

A Review of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

thought which suggests that if a patient doesnt believe in it, it wont work, so perhaps Lias parents were right.) There was als...

Maryland, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and Negligence or Medical Malpractice

responsible body of medical men skilled in that particular art" (Lexis, 2005). This test is referred to as the Bolam test ...

Microeconomics Issues

need for reform and the shape that such reform should take. As politicians haggle over private interests and noble ideals that no...

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...

Cultural Barriers are a Hindrance in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

been removed. Likewise, one may look at a culture, seeing only the outward manifestations, but without removing barriers it is imp...

US Army Burn Center - The Case for Electronic Health Records

major wars since. The Burn Unit itself has cared for more than 800 soldiers since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, and frequ...

Family Medical Leave Human Resource Issue I

In eight pages this paper features the human resource issue of family leave as addressed in the U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act....

Constitution and Its Strengths and Weaknesses

In seven pages this paper assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. Constitution and also considers its impact upon the ...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Breast Cancer Treatment Choices

In a paper consisting of eleven pages breast cancer in the U.S. is considered with the primary focus being types of medical treatm...

Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court Cases with Controversial Issues

This single, historic decision brought forth a great many opportunities for each state to recognize the importance of allowing peo...

Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In six pages this paper supports the legalization of marijuana sale by prescription in the U.S. for serious medical conditions wit...

Civil War's Medical Conditions

In seven pages this paper examines the changes that occurred in medicine as a result of the U.S. civil war and how these changes i...

Failure of 1993's Family and Medical Leave Act

In five pages this argumentative essay examines why the objectives established by the US' 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act have n...

Health Payment Systems and Economics

In eight pages the U.S. medical economy is examined within the context of HMOs and their impact. Seven sources are cited in the b...

U.S. Immigration Reform

In three pages United States immigration issues are considered in a discussion of various reform measures including 1986's Immigra...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...