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Health Care Management Models

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

Obamas Views on Immigration

Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address portrays the view that the nation is much better than it was before Obama took office. Thi...

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 ...

Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Outline for "History of the Prospective Payment System"

(2004, August 3). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Retrieved November 11, 2006 from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/p...

Federal Health Care Legislation

included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the nee...

Considerations in Emergency Management

between August 25 and August 30, 2005, was one of the worst hurricanes of history. Hurricane Katrina howled ashore destroying ent...

HR 676 (Reaction Paper)

offering fewer and fewer benefits and with the high cost of medical visits, many people are simply avoiding their doctors offices....

HEALTHCARE AND NEEDS FOR AN AGING POPULATION

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

Federal Healthcare Regulation: An Examination of the Insufficiencies

is the question of whether or not health care is a right common to all citizens or a privilege. Both sides of the issue concern th...

Patient Privacy and Health Care Ethics - An Organizational Study

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Break-Even Analysis and DRG

is that earning money in a business isnt always as simple as moving as much product as possible. All sales entail some degree of c...

The Health Care Industry and Information Technologies

field and industry out there it is important for organizations and businesses to keep up to date. It is surprising that the health...

Health Care Economics and Funding in the United States - A History

the consideration of dozens of microeconomic systems that operate as a function of the national macroeconomic picture. It is often...

Nursing Cultural Competence

and Cultural Competency in Health Care: An Australian Study by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki. * Abstract; The authors p...

Universal Health Care Is a Good Idea

contention to violent confrontation. This is incredible, since nonpartisan agencies have repeatedly said that without reform, heal...

An Overview of Medicaid Eligibility

state to state and from group to group. There are special rules for those who live in nursing homes and for disabled children livi...

A Look at Medicaid Reform

the context of health care reform (Rudowitz, 2010). The new expansion will mean increases in eligibility, and increases in federal...

Health Care and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

of business entities engaging in different types of accounting for a variety of purposes. While this diversity is a great motivati...

Taxonomy of Survey Instruments

a general use function in determining broad measurements of accurate self-awareness in regards to both physical and mental health....

Hand Hygiene Programs and Health Care Organization

structure is never easy, except for at the very formation of that organization. To come into a pre-existing organizational environ...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theory

and technology, however, she refers to these elements as the "Trim," which is a term she originated that differentiates between ca...

LEADERSHIP: FOUNDATION OF A PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE

a part of the healthcare culture. Technology, however, has led to some wonderful things in healthcare, from the polio vacci...

Errors in Health Care

on the other hand, are certainly not immune from making errors. Everyone has heard horror stories of doctors amputating t...

Definitions of Nursing Meta-paradigms

the profession of nursing has developed some basic ideas that serve as the foundation that guides all subsequent professional prac...

U.S. HEALTHCARE AND CHALLENGES

Discusses various challenges facing health care in the United States. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 4-pag...

Reducing Health Care Costs through Exercise

is no mystery that physical fitness keeps people healthy. However, what many people do not realize is that by staying active they ...

Richard Branson's Ventures into Healthcare

The company was founded by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson in 1970. He began with a magazine he wanted to publish, then he and a ...