...careers. Recently, I have been using CNFC.org (College Foundation of North Carolina). This website allows me to plan out my life and jump into my future. After I’m done writing this research paper, I would like to know what colleges and majors are right for me. I have already learned a lot about my preferences in education and I would like to share them with you. Survey Results: CNFC.org offers me two different surveys: The Career Cluster Survey and The Basic Skills Survey. The Career Cluster Survey shows you how the activities you like, your personal qualities, and your favorite subjects are related...
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...N.I.H. concluded, six years into a planned eight-year study, that for these patients, pushing blood pressure down far below currently recommended levels was very beneficial. Ending a study early is rather unusual. In such cases, studies are stopped not by the investigators, but by an independent group of expert scientists who monitor the trial for evidence of unexpected harm or benefit that requires swift action. When a trial is halted early it is a surprise to the researchers who must not only move quickly to notify the participating doctors and subjects, but also decide how to communicate the results. The usual practice is to make a public announcement with an interpretation of the findings and then finalize the database and write the paper. The N.I.H. followed this playbook, and the media reported that the findings supported more vigorous treatment of high blood pressure, treatment that could be lifesaving. It was reported as major news. The problem is that many details of the study have not been released. It will be months before...
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...Wellness Philosophy Paper Andrea Villa Kinesiology 1600 November 29, 2013 There are many health issues in the world, and they affect everybody, both directly and indirectly. When I was younger, my parents decided to get my sisters and I tested for high cholesterol and high blood pressure because there were many family members on both sides that had either or both of these diseases. Many family members died from heart attacks as a result of these diseases. I wanted to get test my cholesterol and blood pressure because the possibility of a heart attack in the future scared me. When I got the blood test back, it turned out that I had high cholesterol. My HDL levels were low, and my LDL levels were high. Even though my total cholesterol number was not terribly high, the fact that I had high cholesterol scared me. My parents found a cardiologist that I continue to visit yearly. The doctor put my on a cholesterol-lowering medicine to bring my cholesterol down. He warned me that I would have to continue to take the medicine for a number of years before I could possibly come off of it. I have taken this medicine for six years and continue to take it daily. As I get older, I realize that I do not want to be bound to this medicine for the rest of my life. I know that high cholesterol is genetic, but it can also be controlled by diet and exercise. My cardiologist explained that cholesterol can increase by eating foods high in cholesterol and saturated fat. As I evaluate this...
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...Transforming an Electrophysiology Practice To Impact Timeliness of Care Studies of the U.S. healthcare system have indicated that timely access to appropriate providers improves the delivery, quality, and outcomes of care. Conversely, delayed or limited access contributes to patient/provider frustration, poorly coordinated care, unnecessary emergency room visits, and potential increases in the burden and cost of disease. A recent high-profile crisis in health care focused on prolonged and unfair wait times at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities that led to potentially preventable morbidity and mortality. In response to this, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) was commissioned by the VA to understand experiences and opportunities throughout the nation related to the scheduling of and access to health care. In a very recent publication from October 2015, the IOM summarized their findings and established that inappropriate scheduling practices are a systemic problem across the entire nation and called for an end to arbitrary scheduling standards, for more transparency, more accountability, and for more attention to be paid to the “corrosive culture” that led to the manipulation of data in the system (1). The report also concludes that opportunities exist to implement enhanced practices and strategies. Appropriate Access To Care Within 48 Hours has been identified as one of the top priorities of the Spectrum Health System. To measure access, Spectrum Health uses...
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...Communication Paper Melissa Douglas HCS/490 07/22/13 David Dye Electronic Medical Records have changed the way health care is delivered to patients and it has also changed the way that providers communicate to one another about their patients. They can use the electronic records to do consults and get a second opinion. Provider to Provider communication is very important in patient care, the Family practice doctor needs to correlate with the Cardiologist about the patient so that they are on the same page regarding treatments, medications and a health plan. When all of a patients doctors and specialists are involved it makes for a better experience and quality of care for the patient. One of the perks of an Electronic Health Record for the patient is that in case of an emergency the hospital can bring up the patients information very quickly just by the click of a mouse, they can see the health history and allergies and this can be lifesaving in the middle of an emergency. Electronic records can help save a patient’s life and that is pretty amazing to have that kind of technology available in an emergency situation. Using Electronic Records there is becoming more and more common for many practices. The more and more that the electronic records are used it gives thieves another way to get a hold of a patients information. This is why the electronic medical record has to stay secure and private to protect the patients. There needs to be a security monitoring...
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...The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. Included in this information are patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports. The EHR automates and streamlines the clinician's workflow. The EHR has the ability to generate a complete record of a clinical patient encounter as well as supporting other care-related activities directly or indirectly including evidence-based decision support, quality management, and outcomes reporting. A government-sponsored survey of the use of computerized patient records by doctors points to two seemingly contradictory conclusions, and a health care system at odds with itself. Skip to next paragraph A government-sponsored survey of the use of computerized patient records by doctors points to two seemingly contradictory conclusions, and a health care system at odds with itself. The report, published online on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that doctors who use electronic health records say overwhelmingly that such records have helped improve the quality and timeliness of care. Yet fewer than one in five of the nation’s doctors has started using such records. Bringing patient records into the computer age, experts say, is crucial to improving care, reducing errors and containing costs in the American health care...
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...Government Intervention and Price 4) Performance page 7 5) Impact of the Global Economic Downturn page 9 6) Summary page 10 7) Conclusion page 11 Bibliography page 12 8) 1. Introduction This paper briefly examines the current state of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the economic characteristics, performance, and the impact of the global recession. The industry is made up of several enterprises engaging in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of medicines, vaccines, medical devices, and nutritional products for humans and animals. Though, this multi-billion dollar industry includes large ethical drug multi-nationals (often referred to as Big Pharma), mid-sized specialty pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers of generics, small biotechnology and biopharmaceutical firms, and service companies, 1 for the purpose of this paper, the emphasis will be mainly on drug makers. 2. History/Overview of the Industry The pharmaceutical industry of today is a far cry from its humble beginnings in the nineteenth century of physicians mainly prescribing plant extracts to being technology intensive, dominated by a few large companies with significant research and development (R&D) budgets, and significant government oversight. Over the past five years, the industry has been characterized by mega-mergers and acquisitions, company reorganizations, regulatory reform, expiring patent protection, and the...
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...Communication and Information Technology HCS 320 Tarah Wells Even though when we keep anything electronically we are taking a risk that someone can access that information. Another disadvantage is that if the system happens to crash then you have no access to that information. Communication and information technology is surely advancing. Health care presents more advance ways to perform duties efficient and promptly. The information is updated with frequency, and can include sounds, photos and videos that travel around the world in minutes. Many businesses have benefit from this technology and healthcare is one of them. The medical records are more easily accessible among other clinics and organizations. There are many ways that new technology is improving communication. It is affecting communication in health care tremendously. One of the ways that it is affecting health care is electronic medical records. Health care communication technology and information are applications that are used between the patients, caregivers, and health care workers. These applications can include a text messages that are sent out or a web page that is designed to provide database of patients information. It also include effective communication opportunities. Awareness is something that should be in practice along with the new technology. The new technology like electronic medical records can make diagnosis and medical decisions easier to make. For example if someone was traveling...
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...Communication Paper The mode of communication chosen is web-based forums which includes a virtual health care community. A health care community is provider sponsored information systems that provide various types of health care information over a website. Rosado (n.d.), A web portal supports the healthcare providers to improve the patient care and overall efficiency in the delivery of healthcare. Some goals of a web-based forum is to provide fast and secure exchange of health information for patients, providers, payers, pharmacies, and diagnostic centers. A benefit for the patients is the ability to schedules appointments online which would save time. The patients will have improved quality of care and access to health records anytime-anywhere. Patient health records would be readily accessible to physicians, hospitals, diagnostic centers, and for emergency needs. These web forums can provide patients with medical research for general questions or clarification for things like medication questions, product research, changing to healthier lifestyles or provide avenues of communication between physicians, patients, and peers. “The goal is to develop a more health-savvy population, not to prevent needed interactions with qualified clinicians.” (Butler III, Friel, Lang, Park, &Santello, 2000, p. 71). Web based forums are not intended to replace professional health care only to supplement or release some of the office clutter and provide guidance for patients. Digitize health...
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...Internship with the Developmentally Disabled Zachary Lumpkin Liberty University Abstract The object of this paper is to give the reader an idea of what it is like to work for an agency that houses, educates and reintegrates developmentally disabled and mentally retarded adults. The research and development of the paper was done over the course of a fourteen-week internship by a student seeking a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. It will delve in depth into the behaviors that the intern observed during his internship. It will connect those behaviors to theory. It will explain and educate as to the benefits of doing such work under the supervision and tutelage of trained experts. It will also recommend to anyone interested in getting into the field ways to be successful and get the most out of the time they spend and lastly it will chronicle the personal growth that the author experienced during his internship. As stated in the abstract, the internship chronicled in this paper was done over a 14-week period at an agency that houses and educates developmentally disabled and mentally retarded adults with psychological disorders. Though most of the information in this paper was gathered over the 14-week period previously mentioned, the author has been employed with the agency for close to three years and has gathered even more information during this three-year tenure with the agency. The agency has in the neighborhood of sixty-five clients and has been open for over forty...
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...Nursing Theory Plan of Care Fintan O’Connell NUR/513 May 23, 2012 Francine McDonald Care Plan for Ronald Issler |Nursing Process |Data and Relevant Information | |1. Breathe normally |Complains of shortness of breath, oxygen saturation 88% on room air, | | |heart rate 58, chest x-ray with bilateral lower lobe infiltrates, | | |history of DVT. | |2. Eat and drink adequately |Height 6 ft., weight 147 pounds. BMI 19.7 (lower range of normal). | | |History of congestive heart failure, takes diuretic. Hemoglobin and | | |hematocrit levels low (HGB 10.4 gm/dl, HCT 29.6%) | |3. Elimination of body wastes |History of congestive heart failure (as noted above), elevated | | |creatinine level of 2.0 mg/dl | |4. Move and maintain posture |Increasing weakness...
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...ECON545: Project 1—Microeconomic Analysis Intro From a Microeconomic Analysis perspective this paper is designed to outline the current demand and supply associated with physicians in today’s economy and prospective future demand. Based on a microanalysis approach we will look at the current supply and demand for physicians, cost of production determinant, price elasticity of demand and the gains or losses from picking this profession. Demand Determinants Currently there are 691, 400 Physicians employed through the United States; however by 2022 the demand for the profession will increase by over 18% (numbers will vary based on origin of information) (Howard, 2013) (Occupational, n.d.) Current factors for the future demand of physicians include demographics and population needs. Aging and population growth are projected to account for 81% of the change in demand between 2010 and 2020. In the future the population will age and the number of people suffering from chronic diseases will increase. This will cause a demand for primary services (Projecting, 2013). A major part of the future demand of physicians is attributed to the Affordable Care Act, which will expand the number of citizens covered by insurance. The increase will also be attributed to the increase in preventative services and primary care these individuals will be able to receive. Technological and medical advances will also affect demand due to improving survival from illnesses and chronic diseases...
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...As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! Sign up Steven Nissen, a heart specialist at The Cleveland Clinic, has linked pharmaceutical drugs such as Vioxx and Avandia with high cardiovascular risks in patients. (Dustin Franz/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST) By Peter Whoriskey November 24, 2012 For drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, the 17-page article in the New England Journal of Medicine represented a coup. The 2006 report described a trial that compared three diabetes drugs and concluded that Avandia, the company’s new drug, performed best. “We now have clear evidence from a large international study that the initial use of [Avandia] is more effective than standard therapies,” a senior vice president of GlaxoSmithKline, Lawson Macartney, said in a news release. What only careful readers of the article would have gleaned is the extent of the financial connections between the drugmaker and the research. The trial had been funded by GlaxoSmithKline, and each of the 11 authors had received money from the company. Four were employees and held company stock. The other seven were academic experts who had received grants or consultant fees from the firm. Whether these ties altered...
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...closely linked to the possibility of it bringing changes in dietary trends. Statistics shows that the governments and the health care advocates are feared to voice their concern over the increasing number of health problems that are associated with fast foods. Childhood obesity and the possibility of such issues will likely double in the next decade” (Johansen, 2012). The rapid changes in dietary trends and the rise of health complications have made people call on fast food companies to regulate their food production. In fact, McDonald has responded to the issue by introducing healthier food options, using poised lifestyle messages on their marketing campaigns and raising funds to assist children with life-threatening complications. This paper will examine diet or nutrition as an aspect of culture and how it affects the interactions between McDonald’s and customers outside the U.S. The dietary changes as a result of the introduction of fast foods into new areas of the world and the subsequent health complications has put pressure on McDonalds to adopt several strategies to ensure that people conform, and buy their products in markets outside the United States. In dealing with the dietary changes and their effects, including obesity, the company’s marketing strategies have been blamed highly for targeting and influencing the children. This particular problem has inhibited the company from gaining much from other countries. In order to gain from the markets outside United States...
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...providers could not have imagined a decade ago. While there are positive and negative aspects of EMR, the ultimate result is one of accurate, precise and up to date patient records and communication between all disciplines in real time. INTRODUCTION Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is by far one of the biggest advances in medical charting in recent history. For years, documentation, charting, orders, and virtually any communication between healthcare professionals has been done in the format of “paper charting”. In other words, each professional would document in a patient chart, their particular contribution to that patient’s care on any given day. Not only is paper charting inefficient with regards to time, it also leaves tremendous openings for inaccuracies and errors. ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS I chose to research Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for multiple reasons. I previously held a position in a cardiology office where we transposed our charting from paper to electronic. This took the better part of a year to complete the majority of the charts. It was a very challenging task but very rewarding once a chart was complete. The transformation of information was literally life-changing for all of us. We no longer had to carry six-inch thick charts that were falling apart, or thumb through charts to find the most...
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