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Medical Error: Ethical Concerns

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

Medical Transport and the Impact of Economic Forecasts

forecast the US economy to grow by 2.1% in 2010 and 2.4% in 2011 (Goldman Sachs, 2009). There does appear to be an agreement regar...

Health Care in Australia; Improving the Medical Workplace

This paper will discuss the debate in Australia. People are also aware that health care is not as good as it could be, so the seco...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

Medical Practice: How Insurance Changed the Industry

a great deal throughout the 20th century. As the quality of care increased, patients began living longer, and the focus of medicin...

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 Treatment and Religious Affiliation

factors of religious affiliation on belief and health consciousness, for society as a whole. The authors carried out their study...

The Relative Merits of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...

TB Still Claims Millions of Lives

are 53,000 new TB cases in the country each year and about 10,000 die from this disease (UNAMA, 2012). That is a rate of about 38 ...

Events Shape Our Lives

the family owned a car, the elderly womans family had the opportunity to visit family or friends or even take a Sunday drive. Th...

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS AND RISKS

Discusses contingencies and risk management pertaining to electronic medical records. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliograp...

Addiction Theories, Definitions and Issues

basis. Rather than automatically discount such plans, practitioners must always evaluate these tentative suicide plans and the int...

Stem Cell Research and Application

Stem cells offer tremendous potential to the human condition. Stem cell research offers a potential benefit...

Project for Enhancing a Medical Service Web Site

challenges and the practical elements such as resource requirements. The final aspects will also be presented to support the propo...

Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement

what areas of the organization are receiving what amount of funding, as well as how much revenue is generated by each of the areas...

Quality Improvement and Decision Support Systems

Lastly, it will go into detail on the actual design and implementation of such a system, and address the value it might deliver to...

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...

Assessing Ethics in Research

has been demonstrated to increase as the patients own baseline in terms of their general irritability and hostility increases, and...

MRSA Crisis, Management Issues

This research paper discusses management of MRSA infection within a medical/surgical unit. Three pages in length, three sources ar...

The Initiative for Integrating Healthcare Enterprises

to meet all the competitive needs of health care organizations in a capitalistic environment: the Integrating Healthcare Enterpris...

Psychology Questions on Mental Disorders and Medication Use

practitioners with information to determine whether a patients symptoms can be explained organically as a result of an actual heal...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Assessment of the United Kingdom as an FDI Host Nations for R&D in Biotechnology

development facility. It is assumed that one country that the firm will not consider is Germany. The existing partnership is in th...

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...

Brooke Army Medical Center Quality Improvement Overview

In a paper of eleven pages, the writer looks at quality improvement in organizations. Brooke Army Medical Center is used as a repr...

Assisted Suicide and the Use of Electronic Medical Records

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at electronic medical records. Then, in a shift of topic, assisted suicide is also expl...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Practical Implementation of an IT Project in a Medical Organization

The writer considers the way in which a migration to electronic medical record system may take place within a healthcare organizat...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...