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Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Health Care Management Models

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

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

Tobacco and the Issues Surrounding It

History Tobacco has become fully impregnated in world society. Tobacco, of course, originated in...

Our Imperiled Environment Our Imperiled Future

Global health is dependent on the decisions we have made in the past and on...

The Stigma of Therapy

early detection and treatment would insure a healthier population (Blumenthal, 2011). A study of nearly 800 college students foun...

The Bio-Psychological Approach to Health

obvious examples of the bio-psychological approachs usefulness is in the context of chronic illness. Take, for instance, a patient...

Career Planning

first essential step in the pursuit of any lifelong goal such as this is to develop a "five year plan". In the development of su...

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...

Diddle and Denham (2010)/An Article Summary

on Calvinism. The discussion describes and links the values of the people to their spiritual beliefs, which includes fatalism, tha...

Healthcare Initiatives at the Federal Level

outcome if the Affordable Care Act were implemented in 2011, in regards to the number of insured; without a doubt, coverage would ...

Farming, An Occupational Health Assessment

population" (Nyman, Butterfield and Shreffler-Grant, 2009, p. 282). Description of farming: Farming is "more than a business; i...

Marketing Mix for a Health Program

where the program will be delivered. The distribution will be mainly for the way that information is delivered as well as informat...

The Influence of Culture on Organizational Learning and Business Practice

moved forward at a great pace, especially since the 1960s and 70s and the increased level of production, it remains at the investm...

Three Leadership Styles Compared

reciprocating" (p. 169). Transactional leaders tend to live by certain values. These include honesty, integrity, fairness and acc...

The Health Care Industry and Electronic Communication

one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...

Health Care Ethics and Tort Law

what actions are morally right, and which are morally wrong. As such, it is an area of study with a great deal of ambiguity. There...

Health Care Marketing - A Binary Approach

purposes of this example, one might consider Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This facility makes for a good exam...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

TECHNOLOGY AND HOME HEALTH CARE

patients are in the hospital, using those resources that could be dedicated toward more serious problems). They also mean patients...

The World Trade Organization and Appeals Criteria

What can be appealed? How does one distinguish between issues of law and issues of fact? Can factual...

United States and German Health Care: A Comparison

among the best in the world, with figures of 83.0 years for women and 79.6 years for men, while the United States has an average l...

Regulations of Market Access in the International Environment

given the same treatment as the most-favored-nation status (WTO, 2011). MFN applies even when...

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...

A Plan to Reduce Obesity

intake and the general type of diet which is consumed and the need for a nutritional balance physical activity is also an importan...

QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

pointing out that "where consensus is not possible, the WTO agreement allows for voting . . ." with each country having one vote (...

Nursing Cultural Competence

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

Heroic Medical Treatment of Death Row Inmates

life but do not choose to execute them are "ensuring the deaths of a large number of innocent people. On moral grounds, a choice t...

Health Insurance Costs - A Nuanced View

purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Why or why not? The question of whether or not indi...

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...