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The Development of Healthcare Financing in the US

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

Improving Quality in the Healthcare Sector

(2007), propose a definition where the different stakeholders; including the clinicians, patients and others such as researchers, ...

QI Questions

for example the use of different Total Quality Management (TQM) tools (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The use of performance measurement ...

Role of Nurse Practitioners and Reimbursement

Prospective Payment System (PPS), reimbursement rates going to both hospitals and physicians have declined significantly. In react...

Protecting Patient Files

any of the organizations system which are not available to the general public, which will include the patient records it should be...

Personal Gap Skills and Knowledge Assessment

day-to-day basis, often without the ability to prepare. The management of products and services is a novel week area. This requi...

A Wireless Network for a Healthcare Organization

analysts may obtain much of the data in advance they may not be able to foresee of data required by management. The ability to acc...

Nursing Leadership Environment Assessment Survey

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

Healthcare Ethical Concepts

include: 1. Patient autonomy, or the right to personal decision making; 2. Nonmaleficence, or the causing of no harm to the patie...

HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES AND THEIR IMPACT ON STRATEGY

not to suggest there will be an onslaught of patients suddenly banging on hospitals and doctors offices and demanding care. But th...

PATIENT COMPLIANCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A SOCIAL NET

A literature review about the importance of friends, family and neighbors on patient compliance when it comes to healthcare. There...

RISKS FACED BY HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS TODAY

Discusses some of the risks faced by today's healthcare organizations. Topics include joint ventures, physician contracting, the T...

Mental Health Care, Veterans

This paper concerns veterans inability to obtain health care services from the VA, with a focus on mental healthcare. Six pages in...

AN ANALYSIS OF STEVEN BRILL'S "THE BITTER PILL"

Discusses Brill's Time magazine article "The Bitter Pill," and its impact on the politics and economics of the U.S. healthcare sys...

Newsbytes for Healthcare Journals

This paper reviews three articles from healthcare publications. The pertinent points in topics as diverse as pain management, tra...

Tai Chi Class at VA NY Harbor Healthcare

This paper summarizes the experience of a student who attended a Tai Chi class given at VA NY Harbor Healthcare System. Five pages...

JOB DESCRIPTION OF A HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGEMENT FUNCTION

Analyzes a risk management job description from Memorial Hermann healthcare system. There are 4 sources listed in the bibliography...

RESEARCH PLAN, PART I: PRICE DISCREPANCIES AMONG HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

Offers an overview and hypothesis for a research paper focused on how standardizing costs can lead to more efficient healthcare de...

Hospital Technology

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

TUNISIA, ECONOMICS AND HEALTHCARE

Focuses on Tunisia, its economic health and healthcare issues. There are 5 sources listed in the bibliography of this 4-page paper...

LITERATURE REVIEW AND METHODOLOGY FOR HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SUCCESS

A literature review and methodology overview for a paper about the integration of healthcare systems. There are 4 sources in the b...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

Healthcare Administration/Conflict & Stress

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Financial and Managerial Accounting

the companys present and future performance, rather than past history (Managerial accounting - an introduction). They relate only ...

Corporate Crimes

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...