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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...

Open Source EMR Systems: Implementation and Monitoring

in the previous paper. It is important to understand that EMR is a technology still primarily in its infancy, which means there ar...

Assessment of Health Leaflet

in a very clear text, against a plain background1, with text written in blue making it very easy to read. This also helps the targ...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

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...

Prochoice v. Prolife

Abortion is a hotly contested controversy in the United States. There is a very long history of abortion. Ancient and medieval civ...

Palliative Care/Hospice Websites

This research paper investigates the quality of three sites that pertain to the medical specialty Palliative and Hospice care. Eva...

Drugs for Different Conditions

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the use of diffrent medical interventions for specific conditions. There are th...

The Case of Tyrell Dueck

This essay pertains to the case of Tyrell Dueck, a Canadian boy whose parents refused traditional medical treatment on this behalf...

Hospital Standard vs. Policy

This research paper concerns the difference between policy and standards, with special focus on an example from St. Joseph Medical...

Overview of Sepsis

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

The Flaws in the Peer Review System

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the use of the peer review system for physicians in situations of potential medic...

EMRs, An IT Trend in Health Care Record-Keeping

This research paper pertains to electronic medical record (EMR) systems and how this constitutes a significant trend in IT. Eight ...

Strategic Planning to Evaluation

This essay follows up on a strategic plan for a medical university. This essay discusses what an external environmental scan is, s...

Speech Recognition Medication Dictation Technology

This research paper pertains to speech recognition software that is used in regards to creating medical reports, such as those use...

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...

Stem Cell Research and Application

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

Addiction Theories, Definitions and Issues

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

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...

The Initiative for Integrating Healthcare Enterprises

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

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...

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...

Euthanasia's Pros and Cons

In seven pages the euthanasia practice throughout the world is evaluated in terms of various pros and con arguments along with the...

The History and Uses of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine

This 8 page paper gives the history behind traditional Chinese herbal medicine, and its use in today's society. The writer argues ...