...reflect the Industry of Home Healthcare and the service it provides. Also to mention, this material that is discussed coincides at a marketing level and addresses key points of the marketing world and how home healthcare service contributes to society . The key points of interest that will be discussed are the following: Describe the function of marketing and demonstrate its importance to the overall success of the organization, Illustrate the environmental forces that effect marketing, Demonstrate investigative/research skills, Demonstrate a systematic approach to the application of relevant marketing tools to a variety of situations, Analyze the major challenges facing marketers, Identify the reasons why it is essential for the marketing department to collaborate with other departments in the organization in order to be effective, Demonstrate information processing skills. Therefore an understanding of marketing lingo, its contributions and how home healthcare service interacts within marketing. When discussing marketing and a service or product, there are a few factors that coincide with how and why a service or product distributes to society. Society is the overall dollar sign and determines how much a service or product will earn in revenue. When referring to marketing there is a simple formula that is commonly used which are the four P’s. The four P’s will help and make clear to reveal the importance and overall success to Home Healthcare Service. Therefore, throughout...
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...Management Associates, 2011. Topics: Medicaid / CHIP Included in these Slideshows: KFF.org Data Spotlight Slide Date: October 28, 2011 Introduce the issue. Describe the problems in the U.S. healthcare system and how we might use another nation's healthcare system for reform. Evaluate how a new system would improve access to care, quality of care, and the efficient utilization of resources. Define the problem. a. High insurance premiums and out of reach for many American who remain uninsured. b. Drug companies are widely perceived as greedy and insensitive. c. Differences in prescription patterns related to insurance coverage. d. Medicaid patients are more likely to be prescribed generic drugs than patients who have commercial health insurance. e. Unethical behavior by the insurers that shows many institutions have violate fundamental values. f. Negative relationship between the insurers and physicians, personal-satisfaction ratings for health insurance plans, public concern about HMOs in particular and the health care system in general. HMOs have hurt patients developing long-term relationships with a particular doctor. Search the literature. United States of America views of their health care system “is as simple as satisfied" but with worries about the future—about treatment that could be denied them, about costs that could ruin them, and about loss of coverage—that make health care a tremendously...
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...the challenges of cost, access, and quality of care; it can be argued that the use of health information devices has positive impact on the delivery of healthcare. Since “the future of healthcare technology is now” (Glandon, Smaltz, & Slovensky, 2014, p. 27), developments in the production of healthcare information devices have been on the increase, popular, and widely used by patients and providers. Some of these devices, which include smart phones, computers, smart glasses like Google glasses, activities trackers, and wearable devices, have impacted and transformed the delivery of healthcare in ways that include cost of healthcare, access to healthcare, and quality of the care delivered. Introduction It is a common knowledge that developments in technology is continually changing, is responsible for globalization, helps with effective evaluation of business and decision-making, and enables the growth of information technology. Similarly, the areas of information technology and healthcare delivery are also presently active, developing, and constantly changing. As a result, the management of health information technology is currently enabling versatility in the delivery of healthcare, helping with the process of making it precise, tailored, effective, and efficient as it goes through enormous transformations. New innovations and dynamic changes in health information technology will play important roles in the future transformation of healthcare delivery...
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...TOPIC: “What are the challenges to the individuals, family caregivers and healthcare services for people having Alzheimer’s disease?” With prolonged life expectancy , the population of many developed countries are ageing recently. The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease with the decline of cognitive abilities increases along with the aging population. There is also a rise of persons younger than 65 having this disease (Cox, 2013). Take Hong Kong as an example ,a research (Yu et al., 2012) estimated the number of people with dementia would rise from 103,433 in 2009 to 332,688 in 2039, with an increase of 222%. Consequently , this phenomenon has brought about an worldwide public health challenge to the individuals, family caregivers and healthcare services. Individuals having this disease face the problem of the loss of independence and dignity. LOPEZ (2003) examines that the major symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are the significant memory loss , confusion , weaken communication and judgment ability. They have difficulty in doing familiar tasks and need to depend on others to take care of their daily lives such as dressing , toileting and eating. Moreover, Cox (2013) points out that those who are young may be forced to have involuntary retirement due to the inability in concentration , learning new things and making decisions. A sense of uselessness of the patients may arise. Family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease are facing the challenge of handling the physical...
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... an evolving health care system ,nurses should achieve higher level of education through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression Ever changing technology and to cope the nurses need education through out life .In 2008 ,the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ( RWJF ) and the Institute Of Medicine ( IOM ) launched a two- year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession .The IOM appointed the committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing ,at the IOM , with the purpose of producing a report that would make recommendations for an action –oriented blue-print for the future of nursing. The nation needs highly educated nurses because of the demographics , socioeconomic factors, race and ethnicity. The US health care system was primarily built around treating acute illness and injuries but most health care today relates to chronic conditions ,such as diabetes ,hypertension ,arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and mental health conditions. The 20th century nursing education is not adequate enough meet the present day nursing needs...
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...According to the U.S Health and Human Services website, the Affordable Care Act was designed to put the consumer back in charge of their own healthcare through comprehensive health reforms. The goal was to make healthcare more affordable and to provide accessible, higher quality healthcare to families, seniors, businesses, and taxpayers. The program includes those Americans without insurance and those with inadequate coverage on their existing plans. The plan has been also called “Obama Care” as it was enacted under the leadership of President Obama. 1 Medicaid, which currently covers nearly 50 million low-income Americans is a federal/state partnership of which all 50 states participate. Significant variations exist among states, however, they must meet federal minimum requirements. The Affordable Care Act of 2010, expanded Medicaid to all...
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...The Grand Challenges of Social Work initiative, launched by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, outlines ambitious yet achievable goals to address some of the most pressing social problems facing the United States today. One such challenge is Reducing Extreme Economic Inequality, an issue that has profound implications for both individuals and communities. Economic inequality refers to the uneven distribution of income and wealth within a population, and extreme inequality often leads to disparities in access to essential resources such as healthcare, education, and housing. In this reflection, I will explore how the challenge of reducing extreme economic inequality intersects with social welfare policy, analyze existing...
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...Assignment 1: U.S. Health Care System Joshua D. Goldsmith Dr. Queensberry HSA 500 October 28, 2013 The U.S. health care system has evolved greatly over time. Beginning in the early 1900s, the American Medical Association became a national advocate for health care services. Medicine became more organized. Our health services system today is a result of our economic history and social status. America has strong beliefs about taking care of its citizens and delivering health care to all. Factors over time have molded our health care system into what it is today. Forces that have affected the development of the U.S. health care system are changing demographics, availability of services and service providers, and policy changes. Since before the 1900s, public health was the dominant target of the health care system. Epidemics of acute infections spread quickly through large populations. Citizens were living in poor conditions in which food, water, and housing were compromised. As these conditions became under control, life expectancy increased. The population grew as a result of infectious disease control and prevention. The number of persons 65 years of age or older has increased over the past years. The focus of the health care system has turned from infectious disease control and public health to the treatment of chronic conditions. Treatment for functional limitation and chronic conditions are more likely. Chronic conditions include diabetes, hypertension, and rheumatoid...
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...HSA 510: Economics of Health and Medical Care Student: Lucy Njoya Assignment 3: The Management Challenge of Delivering Value in Health Care Strayer University Professor: Dr. Jeff Kaluyu Due: Week 8 Introduction: The healthcare industry is evolving both nationally and globally, and as a result, the challenges facing health care services delivery organizations are also increasing. Health care professionals are the decision-makers and also the ones closely associated with the day-to-day decision making processes affecting the delivery of health care services and goods to patients. The economic evaluation of the health care services delivery systems has proven to play an important role in the different types of health care decision-making. For example, formulary decisions, reimbursement decisions, high health cost decisions, and e-prescribing. This makes it a point of interest to assess the influence of economic evaluations on health care decision-making both at the macro, me so, and micro levels. Even though the impact of economic evaluation studies on health care decision making has been limited, there is an increasing requirement for the cost-effectiveness of the health care intervention to be considered when formulating and implementing guidelines for clinical practices. What is encouraging at this moment is the fact that health care decision-makers do recognize the usefulness and necessity of published economic evaluations that rightly inform the public about...
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...IOM Report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Zillian Harvey Grand Canyon University NRS-430V September 27,2015 IOM Report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health The Institute of Medicine(IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)conducted a survey from 2008-2010 which analyzed changes needed to reform nursing profession thereby improving healthcare in the United States overall. Due to the many challenges being faced by the healthcare system the report was done to focus on the evolving healthcare system focusing on the need for changes in the nursing profession. The committee focused on three primary areas of concern in the health care system which are quality, access and value. There has been a shift in the health challenges facing the health care system. There is a increase in disease processes conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, mental health which affects almost ever 2 Americans(CDC,2010a). These conditions are expected to continue (DeVol etal., 2007) with contributing factors such as diabetes. The aging population has seen a rise in the extensiveness of chronic illnesses. Census projections predicts the population of citizens older than 65 is expected to rise from 12.7 percent in 2008 to 19.3 percent in 2030 (U.S. Census Bureau 2008), due to the increasing life expectancy of the Baby Boomers. Projections from the U.S. census board projects...
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...Benchmark Assignment: Evolving Practice of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models The Evolution of Nursing Practice To my colleagues, the health care system has begun a decade of transitions that, for the nursing profession, promise to change the practice of nurses, expand current nursing roles and create new ones, and provide many opportunities for nurses to participate in shaping the future delivery system. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, care delivery and financing systems are undergoing significant transformations that will accelerate in 2014, when major provisions of the legislation are implemented. The purpose of the this letter is to explain how the practice of nursing is expected to shift and to also discuss the concepts of continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO’s) medical homes, nurse-managed health care clinics (NMHCs). Under the Accountable Care Organizations, strategies will be developed to align the goals of health care delivery reorganizations, enhance care coordination, and improve patient transitions across the care delivery continuum. Expansion of medical care homes, NMHC’s, and enhanced coverage for preventative care services will help to shift the delivery system's current focus on acute care to a greater emphasis on prevention and treatment of chronic care conditions using health care teams and information technology. Medical homes, sometimes referred to as NHMC’s, are identified as a concept that began in pediatrics...
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...role of hospitals in the past, present, and future time. In ancient cultures, hospitals were not healthcare institutes as we know them today. The earliest documented institutes provided cure to sick people in temples. Sick people would go to house of worships to get cure for their disease. Furthermore, religious leaders also acted as healthcare providers (Wolper, 2010). As time progressed, hospital became a separate institute, but they were still controlled by religious leaders. These hospitals were viewed as a place for severely ill, house of poor, and place for pilgrims (Wolper, 2010). As structure of hospital started to develop further, in the medieval Islamic world, hospitals became a place were ill people were welcomed and cared for with qualified staff. During the modern era as science started to develop and scientist became more familiar with the human anatomy and physiology, modern hospitals started to appear in Europe. These hospitals were staffed with physicians and surgeons and served only people with medical needs (Wolper, 2010). Moving forward, current hospitals are technological advanced buildings that are staffed with well educated nurses, physicians, and surgeons. Although there are many hospitals that are still supported by churches and other religious groups, most hospitals are owned by government and are even privately owned. Communities around the world especially here in the U.S. view hospitals as healthcare institutes that provide emergency care or treatment...
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...Health Service Systems HS 541 Professor Williams, J Raymond Wilcher June 04, 2012 Abstract January 2011 kicked off the beginning of an addition of a difficult solution of the Past. Baby boomers begin to retire along with an aging nursing workforce. History has shown that our healthcare system suffering from a continuous shortage of nurses as they are turned away from nursing schools. They are finding this situation very serious with nationwide of issues such as: many people living longer, slow retention of recruitments, and intense healthcare services required by the baby boomers isn’t helping our expanding healthcare care. Intensifying the situation is the schools are struggling to meet the request. The U.S. has experienced a severe shortage of nurses for many years of the past. This shortage continues to increase as hospitals are rising rapidly, as the demand for nurses intensifies. Hospitals are looking for nurses with the desire to give good quality health care and with great experience. The AACN is working with the nursing organizations, and legislature to bring attention to this shortage. According to Rosseter, R director of public affairs at the AACN (2011), “our healthcare problem continues to grow, despite the massive job loss in the past for all major industries.” He also said, “This is best time to become a nurse while salaries are competitive for more recruitment and retainment of nurses.” Unfortunately, nursing are currently not reaching its goal of...
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...concrete solution on their part and the American people are suffering the consequences of high health care bills. This has led to stress on the pharmaceuticals companies all across the United States. The pharmaceutical market is looking forward to the by the year 2020 the United Sates pharmaceutical sales will double fifth globally. The issue with increase of chronic disease will increase in the develop world as it is the under develop world, if there is no effort to improve the health care system. Some of the example is the rising cost of drugs on the American people. The United States people pay a high cost on drugs than any other develop country. This one of the injustice in the health Care industry has must be taken care of in the future to come. The United States forbid the selling of drugs or important it in the United Sates even if that drug has met the FDA requirement of be safe (Barlett & Steele, 2004). Prescription drug prices are outrageously high in the United States because of the influence of advertising on consumer purchasing, the misleading statements by pharmaceutical companies about the cost of research and development of new drugs, the manipulation of patent laws, the antiquated laws regarding importation of drugs, and the influence of the...
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...|4/30/2011 | | | Social Problems of United States verses Europe Final Exam This paper is designed to review how social problems affect our society. Additionally, this paper will address social problems of the United States compared to Europe. Along with the factors that should be consider on why there is a difference, the distribution of the health and welfare system of the United States and Europe. My experience of living in Europe and the U.S. and my observation of the social problems both countries faces in each society as a whole. The next generations of...
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