...Significant Health Care Event Eugene Whitehead HCS/531 February 18, 2013 Ann Gantzer Science and technology have always been joined at the hip. The evolution of health care services in the United States (U. S.) undoubtedly has been shaped at least in part by advancements in scientific research and knowledge, and technological innovation (Shi & Singh, 2012). The following exploration focuses on ways a specific scientific or technological event or innovation affected health care provision in the U. S. to date. Health care is dynamic. Science and technology continue to prove themselves as important facilitators of the change processes that occur in health care. The scientific method and nursing process are just a few examples that demonstrate the significant contribution scientific research and technology provided to the historic development of the health care delivery system in America. This report cannot realistically address the exhaustive list of scientific and technological advancements that have benefitted the practice of medicine. However, I intend to satisfy the question of just how much influence the chosen event exerted on the course of health care evolution. The Significant Event Birth control or contraception, endearingly dubbed “the pill” by the American public made medical and scientific history in 1960. Since its inception the pill has been surrounded by controversy running the gamut from health concerns and moral choice to religious opposition and political-legal...
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...Significant Health Care Event University of Phoenix HCS/531 Martha Owen 1/28/13 Significant Health Care Event Health care has been influenced by numerous significant events throughout history. These events have helped change and shape health care in efforts to improve it, and to fit in with the current needs of the population. Some of the influences include society, culture, finance, religion, politics, technology, health trends, the environment, and population (Shi & Singh, 2012, p. 9). This paper will discuss a significant event that has changed or affected health care today, explain how the historical evolution of health care was impacted, and assess the significant event based on personal values and beliefs. Significant Event’s Relation to Health Care Excessive litigation is one of the significant events affecting health care today. Litigation has become so popular that it has become specialized. Advertisements for litigations against health care facilities and professionals are placed on television, radios, Internet, and other information outlets, at frequent intervals. It is not unexpected to see or hear several of them throughout the day. Law firms have become specialized in trying health care related cases and focus on specific conditions. The result is that health care facilities close because of the financial burden of payments resulting from litigations, the amount paid for malpractice insurance rises, insurance premiums rise, and costs of health care increases...
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...Current Event 1: Health Care Summary Jay Hancock wrote an article titled, “Workplace Programs put Employees Privacy at Risk”, which was published to CNN on October 2, 2015. In his article, he discussed how workers from Houston were unsure about joining the employee wellness program because they were on edge to find out if it was in fact a legitimate wellness program or if it was a marketing scheme. Hancock stated that in Houston, it was required of employees to participate with the company wellness program and they were expected to give all of their confidential medical history. Jay Hancock informed the audience that the company was used to lower medical costs and improved the health of workers overall. With being told to reveal their personal medical history, Hancock said that the workers missed in the fine print that their confidential history could be posted in areas viewable to the public and no longer protected by the privacy law. Jay Hancock stated that Houston workers do have the freedom to opt out of the wellness program but with that, they are expected to pay an extra $300 a year for medical coverage. Hancock quoted Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers’ Union, when he said, “We don’t mind giving our information to our health care providers, but we don’t want to give it to a vendor that has carte blanche to give that information to anybody they want to.” Opinion I personally agree with the frustration that the Houston workers have towards this wellness...
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...University of Phoenix Material Starting with the Basics Worksheet Log on to the student website. Explore the resources available on the site and use them to answer the following questions. ACADEMIC HELP 1. WHAT ARE THE SIX RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR STUDY IN THE CENTER FOR MATHEMATICS EXCELLENCE? (CLICK ON LIBRARY > CENTER FOR MATHEMATICS EXCELLENCE >BUILDING MATH CONFIDENCE) a. b. c. d. e. f. 2. Which two reviewing services are available to students through the Center for Writing Excellence? a. b. 3. Which five Live Labs offer assistance with writing (Hint: Click on Library > Center for Writing Excellence >View Live Services>Live Labs)? a. b. c. d. e. 4. Which resources in the Tutorials & Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence offer tips about how to format using APA style according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition)? a. b. c. d. e. f. g. 5. Use the following information to correctly build a reference consistent with APA guidelines: • Journal title: Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management • Article title: Private Finance Initiative in the Healthcare Sector: trends and risk assessment • Volume:12 • Year of Publication: 2005 • Number: 6 • Page range of article: 601 - 616 • Authors: Akintola Akintoye, Ezekiel Chinyio 6. Reference any book you have available...
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...LIFE FACTORS AND LIFE EVENTS PASS 2 For this assignment I will be explaining the potential effects of five different life factors on the development of an individual. I will also be looking at unpredictable and predictable life events and how they could have an effect on the development of that person. Potential life factors, unpredictable and predictable life events could include: Employment Income Housing Environment Education Culture Gender Relationships Marriage Parenthood Birth of a child Starting work Retirement Divorce Serious illness or injury Redundancy and unemployment Bereavement Abuse HOUSING Having good housing will have a positive affect on growth and development. Your home is a place where you should feel safe a secure so by having good housing conditions and if you live in a nice peaceful area this will make you feel safe and allow you to decorate and stamp your own personality on your home. You will want people to come around to your house because you will have a sense of pride about home which will enable you to keep in contact with your friends and family. Where you live is also important, for younger people living in a urban area will give them access to more social activities and facilities which is important for their own self-esteem and growth and will allow them to make more friends and feel wanted by society. Rural life is often quieter which will suit families with younger...
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...S. health care system to the health care system of another country. What similarities or difference s exist? Cite references to support your answer. HLT 205 Week 1 Topic 1 Discussion 2 The U.S. health care system evolved between the times of preindustrial to postindustrial America. How have the determinants of health care and associated strategies for improvement changed during this evolution? Include the growth of health care and expansion of legislation and associations in your response. Cite references to support your response. HLT 205 Week 1 Assignment U.S. Health Care Timeline Details: It is essential to identify, examine, and understand the history and foundations of health care in the U.S. as this will be the foundation for understanding health care systems though this course and in practice. Students will need to show a thorough understanding of the framework and dates of events while clearly demonstrating the impact and importance that these events have had in the medical field. For this assignment you will need to create a timeline that includes a minimum of 10 significant dates in the history of health care. Include the following in your timeline: 1. Important events or eras in health care and their impact. 2. Major figures and their contributions to health care. 3. The formation of the various health-related organizations. In addition to the timeline, include a 500-word summary,written in the third person, of your predictions of how current health care...
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...Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: World War I | |Key health issues |Infectious and parasitic diseases, typhoid fever, diphtheria and scarlet fever were the main issues | | |addressed. | |Perspective/goals |The goal was to improve sanitation and reduce occurrences of the diseases. | |Role/functions |Keller and Strohschein (2012) states “in 1911 efforts to control typhoid fever in Yakima County, Washington, | | |and to improve health status in Guilford County, North Carolina, led to establishment of local health units | | |to serve local populations. Public health nurses were the primary staff members of local health departments. | | ...
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...hazards result in events of substantial degree causing momentous physical destruction or damage, loss of life, or severe changes to the natural environment (Aragones 124). The disasters are defined as tragic event which stem from occurrences such as floods, earthquakes, catastrophic accidents, explosions or fires. The disasters cause extensive damage to lives, properties and destroy the social, economic and the cultural lives of people. Several events have happened currently around the world. The negative events in the world often cause much attention as compared to the positive events that occur around the world. The terrorists have often struck various cities in the world killing thousands of people and causing mass destruction of property (Vonk 860). The United States has been confronted with international terrorists especially the Al-Qaeda terror group. The September 2001 bombing of the twin towers was an example of the terrorist disaster in the United States. Then the stock and real estate collapse in the US economy. The massive tsunami in Japan was another major disaster that got a lot of public address by all the media channels. The earthquake also triggered the nuclear disasters in Japan. The most recent disaster in the U.S is the hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy has caused unprecedented loss of lives and destruction to property in U.S. United States is currently battling from the deepest recession that occurred since the Great Depression. All these events have had much public...
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...Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of three major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: Florence Nightingale | |Key health issues |Unclean patient environment, poor sanitary conditions delivered by “health care staff”. | |Perspective/goals |She identified a need and advocated for formalized training for women to be trained as nurses. | |Role/functions |She identified that lack of cleanliness in patient care clinical areas was directly linked to poor patient | | |outcomes. She pushed for sanitary conditions in areas where patient care such as dressing changes and wound | | |care were performed as well as cleanliness of equipment used in patient care to reduce the occurrence of | | |wound infections leading to lower death rates. | |Health partnerships ...
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...Significant Health Care Event Health care has been impact on a lot of significant events all the way through. These events have helped change and shape health care in efforts to improve it and to fit with the current needs to the population. Some of the influences include society, culture, finance, religion, politics, technology, health trends, the environment and population (Shi & Singh, 2009). This paper will discuss a significant event that has changed or affected health care today, explain how the historical evolution of health care was impacted, and assess the significant event based on personal beliefs and values. The significant event relate to the changes on health care are: 1. In 1939, a group health insurance as an employee benefit launched. They were exempted for paying the premium from federal taxes. The group health insurance progressed and set the mark. People were exempted from paying the taxes. 2. In 1965, the foundation of Medicare and Medicaid. For the very first time in United States, government took the responsibility to pay the health care bills for senior citizens and poor people. Government has now entered in the health insurance business. 3. The HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) Act of 1973 initiates as a managed care rescue to increasing the health care cost. It works only for short period. 4. The PPACA (Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act) of 2010, the goals of this act are increasing the quality and affordability of health care. We do not...
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...Medicare and a Never-Event Involving a Patient Transfer Case Week #7 Application MMHA-6205: Health Law and Ethics August 19, 2013 Introduction Who would have imaged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) initiative would increase the exposure risk to both physician and health care facility alike because of the term “never events”. Never events are inexcusable medical errors that should never occur; the initial list of 28 events defined as “adverse events that are serious, largely preventable, and of concern to both the public and health care providers for the purpose of public accountability” was compiled by the National Quality Forum in 2001 (Sohn, 2011); pressure ulcers or bedsores was included on the initial list. As for the increased risk exposure for physicians/health care facility, it comes in two forms, the risk of; not being reimbursement by the government and other health care providers; unknowingly file a claim for payment to the government as a result of a never event, as well as; increased medical liability along with the added expense of defensive medicine, which cost the US on average approximately $89 billion per year. CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is a federal agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid and other health related insurance programs (Tavenner, 2011)) “never event” to raise awareness...
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...Evolution of Health Care Information Systems There has been a very fast growth in the U.S. health care system since the early 1980s with regard to the information technology related to health care. This can be viewed as an attempt towards the standardization of the fragmented health care system. Information technology like in every other field of life has become a necessity even in the health care system and is covered by the federal regulations. The implementation of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) by 2014 has become mandated as ordered by President George.W.Bush in 2004 which was seconded by the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). These organizations asked the health care providers to comply with the new legislation and those community-based physician practices who were earlier reluctant to accept and implement it have now realized that the health care in sequence systems in the form of CPOE (computerized physician order entry), EMR (electronic medical records), the tele-medicine, complex disease management, and automated billing systems are very beneficial to them The paper intends to showcase the comparison and contrast between a contemporary health care facility and a traditional health care facility which prevailed before twenty years. At least two major events and technological advantages influencing the practice of the current health care information system...
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...http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728.html We ship printed books within 1 business day; personal PDFs are available immediately. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson, Editors; Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine ISBN: 0-309-51563-7, 312 pages, 6 x 9, (2000) This PDF is available from the National Academies Press at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728.html Visit the National Academies Press online, the authoritative source for all books from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council: • Download hundreds of free books in PDF • Read thousands of books online for free • Explore our innovative research tools – try the “Research Dashboard” now! • Sign up to be notified when new books are published • Purchase printed books and selected PDF files Thank you for downloading this PDF. If you have comments, questions or just want more information about the books published by the National Academies Press, you may contact our customer service department tollfree at 888-624-8373, visit us online, or send an email to feedback@nap.edu. This book plus thousands more are available at http://www.nap.edu. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF File are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Distribution, posting, or copying...
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...Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing. Jessica Pham Date: May 26, 2016 Instructor: Diane Schlicke University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of three major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: • Key health issues at the time • Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing • Roles and functions of community and public health nursing • Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: | |Key health issues |Key health issues and maternal deaths: Poor health care in rural Appalachian mountains. Increased number of | | |child due to lack of care and services. | |Perspective/goals |In 1925 Mary Breckenridge started the Frontier Nursing Services. The goal was to provide obstetrics to the | | |people who lived in rural settlement areas. | |Role/functions |She went to train...
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...1. Introduction What is the goal or the idea behind risk management one of their focus is to reduce the financial risk other areas that may seem not important is the regulation. One of the principal issues facing health care risk management is governmental regulation. Over the last few decades, there has been a growing public demand for accountability in health care delivery. The consequent tightening of governmental regulation has led to a greater allocation of an organization's resources to regulatory compliance. Some states, including New York, enacted stringent incident reporting requirements for hospitals, requiring additional staff to investigate and prepare such reports. Additionally, competition among hospitals has also fostered a greater concern over the community's perception of quality of care. Many hospitals have had to compete harder for patients as inpatient lengths of stay decrease and more procedures are performed on an outpatient basis. Risk management in the health care In the past risk management and quality improvement job was separate in the health care organization. Even though, the job function may have been different the goal was the same. Managing risks is the quality of services provided & the safety of patients, their careers & visitors. To manage risks to staff & subsequent risks to service quality. To manage risk of failing to meet national & local priority targets to manage risks to the efficiency of services...
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