...nurse should own a copy of the ANA code, as this document can provide guidance on situations that nurses face on an almost daily basis. For example, consider a situation that may result from one hospital trying to institute policies concerning cost containment. In order to keep the cost down, the nurse in charge of a 7 bed unit (without a nurse's assistance) is expected under a restructuring plan to also work a second adult ward if there are fewer than three children on the pediatric unit during the night shift (Mahlmeister, 1996). This split shift leaves these pediatric patients unattended while the nurse is in the adult ward. The ANA Code of Ethics states that it is the nurse's responsibility "to safeguard the client and the public when health care and safety are affected by incompetent, unethical or illegal practice of any person" (Mahlmeister, 1996, p. 130). Even though this nurse was ordered by a manager to leave the pediatric setting, the nurse is personally accountable for his or her actions for any situation that may arise during this absence. Not only is this practice unacceptable professionally, but it is also problematic legalistically, as the nurse could be personally sued for any negative consequences to these patients (Mahlmeister, 1996). Therefore, it is the nurse's duty to recognize these unacceptable risks and exhaust all avenues available within the hospital to correct this requirement (Mahlmeister, 1996). Another problematic area of nursing...
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...Healthcare systems have been debated for years in the United States, and have led us to fall behind the race for affordable high quality health insurance for all our citizens. To be able to comprehend how this can be achieved, we must examine various other systems and see how they are implemented. For over a decade the front runner in universal healthcare has been France. This country is truly a measuring stick for others who want to provide universal healthcare, and I believe for the United States in this particular situation should be the country that we want to imitate the most. Solely by imitating we cannot really achieve our main goal, we must put effective legislation into effect and provide our citizens with ample information to get them knowledge about this system. I truly believe by proposing a plan similar to French and examining the reasons through a consequentialism point of view we can understand why healthcare is a right that others should not interfere with. Having that kind of view brings on a heavy burden on trying to explain what is the morally correct right for healthcare, in answering the question in simple terms the moral right way to provide healthcare is through a comprehensive system that allows all resources to be available to those who need. This brings the very tough dilemma of how we can provide that many resources to our entire population. To answer that and the distribution of our new drug we will examine the French system of healthcare. To determine...
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...Good health is the most tremendous benediction any person on this planet can get in his life. If not taken care of , improper health can turn out to be the greatest personal enemy anybody faces. But due to everyday circumstances and situations health cannot be controlled, and that's where Health care systems come into play. A health care system or a health system is a framework of people , foundations and resources that deliver health care assistance to meet the health needs of distinctive populations. With the pace at which technology is advancing health care systems are continually looking to be more economical, improve efficiency and throughput,mechanization of manual tasks is an principal component of a strategy for performance enhancement....
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...The Mental Health System Sheyanne Nichole Gravette Virginia College Online Abstract A journey in the mind of an individual suffering from mental health issues is a frightening ride; fear or worthlessness around every turn. There is no happily ever after in sight without the proper treatment an individual can feel lost in their own mind and lose touch with the reality that care can be administered and a normal life is a possibility for the future. The mental health system has evolved dramatically over the years and options are endless, there is a way to find health and healing. Throughout history the stigma of the condition has wreaked havoc on all those suffering, but present day options have halted such stigma and aided in the rehabilitation of patients. The history of mental health began near the times of 1880; when it was sometimes blamed on religious punishment or demonic possession. Most of those individuals suffering from disorders of the mind were treated in horrible ways and taken into confinement, in special facilities. By removing those people, the general population could ignore the fact that conditions like this existed. Treatment options were scarce, but confinement, hair pulling, and several other horrible experiments were made to try and turn a crazy mind sane. It wasn’t until the 1930’s that innovative therapies were implemented; the minds of those suffering from fits of madness were finally being understood and mostly because of a man named Sigmund Freud...
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...access to medical history, fast and updated. There is a need for healthcare information that connects patients, doctors and pharmacists. A new form of healthcare information management is yet to be tapped Who are in healthcare information management business today? (for diabetes management) (Good tie ups/network) (Allows you to store and manage all health information ) (Indian website connecting colleges, office & hospitals) Where’s the gap Increasing costs Decreasing platforms Blue Ocean Strategy Eliminate Raise Documentation & delays Portability Reduce Create Dependence on fresh reports Convenience partners (Travel, Insurance, Pharma cos can partner) The Solution HealthVine “Healthcare information on the move” Accessible Convenience Timely & updated HealthVine Portability Availability Relevant Vision To be a world class seamless and timely healthcare information management provider Scope of Business: Live Quotes • “There is a huge vacuum present in healthcare information resources in comparison to credible players like WebMD, Revolution health etc. in the US and thus people in India have a great need for a credible source of information.” • Mr. Nelson Feranandes, Online Marketing & eCommerce professional (Apollo Hospitals, ICICI Lombard, etc.) Whom are we talking to Medical professionals Corporates/Staff Frequent Fliers/Travellers Insurance Companies Pharmacists Schools & Educational...
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...Your Provider is a HealthTexas Physician HealthTexas Provider Network is the 2nd largest subsidiary of Baylor Health Care System. We are a large network of close to 800 providers serving patients in almost 200 care sites throughout North Texas and Fort Worth who are dedicated to providing you with outstanding quality and service when it comes to caring for your medical needs. Having your healthcare needs overseen by a HealthTexas physician means that your care is coordinated across our network and the Baylor Health Care System. As long as you are seeing a HealthTexas primary or specialty care physician, we will have your completed registration packet and medical record securely stored in our Electronic Health Record system giving any HealthTexas physician access to the information they need to provide you and your family with the best care possible. Benefits of Belonging to HealthTexas Provider Network: • One Time Form Completion The registration forms you are filling out today will only have to be filled out once. (Some additional patient information may need to be updated annually) • Electronic Health Record (EHR) system The EHR stores your medical records (including any medications, allergies or health issues you may have) and allows physicians easy access to referrals, consultations, and patient education materials. • Improved Coordinated Care Our primary care sites are recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as Physician Connections-Patient-Centered...
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...country has a different health-care system, which sometimes is productive (good) or unproductive (bad). This fact depends on many different factors such as the money that government appropriates for the health system every year, and the educational and economic situation that has developed over thousands of years in each country. I want to compare the health care systems in two different countries, Ukraine and the United States of America, because I have some experience in both of them. I used to live in Ukraine until 2 years ago and now, I have lived in America for two years. So, I know some information about this issue and I want to share it with you. First, these two completely different countries have different health-care systems. Ukraine is much poorer than America and the government doesn’t have enough money to keep the health-care system in good condition. Despite this fact, we have a free health-care system for all our citizens and long term residents who become ill. In USA, the health-care sector is very expensive and people pay hundreds of dollars every month to buy health insurance that helps to cover bills from medical offices or hospitals, where people get medical service. Not only do people pay for insurance by themselves, but also some families or persons who have a low income and couldn’t offer this very expensive insurance ask for help from the government and can receive free health insurance. In this country, people pay a lot for health care services, but they...
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...The Health care system within the past decade has experience significant changes. The changes with the health care system not only effects how health care is being delivered but also changes the cost of health care. The focus of this paper is to explain how health care has changed in the past ten years, the biggest change that will take place in the next ten years, and the role I will serve in the industry and how my skill will evolve. The paper will also explain how my perception of health care has changed, the role technology plays, and financial and economic issues that will affect the health care industry. How Health Care Has Changed The changes within health care are now having an effect on consumers and health care providers. The most significant change that has taken place within the health care system is the advancement of new technology. The new technology such as diagnostic, screening techniques, medical interventions, surgical techniques, and techniques for drug delivery has helped health care providers to adequately serve and diagnosis patients. The computer system is also a new technology that has not only helped entities to communicate efficiently but it has also changed the way health care providers perform his or her job duties. However, not all of the new technology will successfully emerge into the health care system because it is very costly to implement. Consumerism and patient empowerment is also a change that has taken place and this...
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...Organisations FHI Family Health International GFATM Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria HDR Human Development Report HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus ICTs Information and communication technologies IEC Information, Education and Communication MAP Multi-country AIDS Programme MDGs Millennium Development Goals NGO Non-governmental Organisation PLWHA People living with HIV and AIDS PMTCT Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission STI Sexually Transmitted Infection TAC Treatment Action Campaign UNAIDS Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS UNESCO UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation USAID United States Agency for International Development VCT Voluntary Counselling and Testing WHO World Health Organization WTO World Trade Organization INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background In developing countries, preventable diseases and premature deaths still inflict a high toll. Inequity of access to basic health services affects distinct regions, communities, and social groups. Under-financing of the health sector in most countries has led to quantitative and qualitative deficiencies in service delivery and to growing gaps in facility and equipment upkeep. Inefficient allocation of scarce resources and lack of coordination among key stakeholders has made duplication of efforts, overlapping responsibilities, and resource wastage common and troublesome problems. Most countries are at some stage of health sector reform to try to...
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...Technology Assessment Angela Foster Professor Griffin Health Information Systems January 22, 2012 Through analysis we see that there are many technological advances that need to be made. We’ll start with Communication. Communication must be improved between doctors and patients and hospital staff as a whole. Communication plays a key role in maintaining a patient’s health as any patient or doctor can tell you. Records must be improved upon how there are kept and stored. They must now be kept and stored digitally in order for doctors to have better access to them. Old handwritten files and charts can be misplaced, hard to read, or even out of date. A doctor would probably say if I know what’s going on then I could treat you which is basically what communication does. There’s also Compliance which plays a another big part of innovating technology. Compliance goes a long way by making sure the health care providers keep up with current innovative practices will insure better patient care on their part. Compliance plays a major role on the part of the patient. The patient must do whatever is asked of them by the doctor and health care staff that includes taking medications, keeping appointments, and communicating with doctors. Patients must also report any changes in the health which will let doctors know if the changes or compliance is working improving overall patient care. Another big need for innovation is Security. Security plays a big role because a patient must feel...
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...Austin and Boxerman’s Information Systems for Healthcare Management Seventh Edition Gerald L. Glandon Detlev H. Smaltz Donna J. Slovensky 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 [First Page] [-1], (1) Lines: 0 to 27 * 516.0pt PgVar ——— ——— Normal Page * PgEnds: PageBreak [-1], (1) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 AUPHA/HAP Editorial Board Sandra Potthoff, Ph.D., Chair University of Minnesota Simone Cummings, Ph.D. Washington University Sherril B. Gelmon, Dr.P.H., FACHE Portland State University Thomas E. Getzen, Ph.D. Temple University Barry Greene, Ph.D. University of Iowa Richard S. Kurz, Ph.D. Saint Louis University Sarah B. Laditka, Ph.D. University of South Carolina Tim McBride, Ph.D. St. Louis University Stephen S. Mick, Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University Michael A. Morrisey, Ph.D. University of Alabama—Birmingham Dawn Oetjen, Ph.D. University of Central Florida Peter C. Olden, Ph.D. University of Scranton Lydia M. Reed AUPHA Sharon B. Schweikhart, Ph.D. The Ohio State University Nancy H. Shanks, Ph.D. Metropolitan State College of Denver * [-2], (2 Lines: 2 59.41 ——— ——— Normal * PgEnds [-2], (2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 [-3], (3) Lines:...
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...SINGAPORE’S INNOVATIVE HEALTH FINANCING SYSTEM Introduction Health care costs are escalating rapidly in many countries. This reflects several factors, such as aging populations, changing disease patterns, high-cost technology and prescription drugs. But, it is also a consequence of health financing systems. Traditional indemnity insurance, which guarantees third-party payment for service provided, contributes to these cost pressures since patients and physicians are shielded from the real cost of those payments. In an effort to contain costs, governments, employers and insurers have modified payment schemes and coverage. This increasingly leads to rationing, restricted consumer choice and, in some cases, denial of care. Singapore’s ‘3M’ health financing system combines universal medical savings accounts (MSAs) with unique supplementary programs to protect the poor and address potential market failures in health financing. The results have been impressive, with excellent health outcomes, low costs and full consumer choice of providers and quality of care. This note describes Singapore’s experience and its possible application to other countries. Background Despite Singapore’s small size, with only 3.22 million residents in a land area of 660 square kilometers, the country has been a stellar economic performer, rising from impoverishment only 40 years ago. Its per capita GDP increased from US$427 in 1960 to US$24,740 in 2000, one of the highest in the world...
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...Running head: HEALTH CARE SYSTEM EVOLUTION PAPER Health Care System Evolution Paper University of Phoenix Sandra Walther/ HCS 310 October 20, 2009 Understanding the roller-coaster experience with the use of market forces in health care over the past ten years provides important context for discussions of likely future developments in the nature of competition (Lesser, 2007). The period began with acceptance of managed care transforming the organization of medical care delivery and proceeded to a period in which many of the changes were reversed. This paper begins with observations on competition in 1995, which is slightly past what one might call the peak of managed care’s influence. It goes on to describe the market and policy responses to the backlash against managed care and then to competition in the post-managed care era; it concludes with some perspectives on the likely evolution of competition over the next few years. Competition in 1995 was highly influenced by the critical mass that managed care had achieved by that point. According to KPMG Peat Marwick’s 1996 survey of employers, 73 percent of those obtaining coverage through employment were in managed care plans, compared with 27 percent eight years earlier. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) were the most popular plan type, accounting for 31 percent of the market (Lesser, 2007). The benefit structure in managed care plans included far less in the way of financial incentives for patients than had...
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...to the Health System. One similar being is both of their cultures and their health status. They have unlimited access to health care and are able to provide good quality care to their citizens no matter the cost. There are far more differences than similarities though. The most significant differences between the two countries are the role of private health care insurance and spending levels. Canada’s health system seems to do more for less, they provide access of health care to many of its citizens. Canada’s health system allows unlimited access to the public for many medical health services. These different services include the different physician and hospital services for their patients. Their health care system is through a government-sponsored system. They have many advantages and their unlimited coverage is universal and portable. In Canada health system, any and all citizens are covered through medical insurance no matter what their age or job may be. Many health systems won’t give you medical coverage because of your age and that shouldn’t be the case. Just because you may be too young or too old, everyone should have unlimited access or health care coverage. Also just because you may not have a job or have a career job that gives you everything you need for the rest of your life. You should still get coverage and Canada allows this access. One positive being about Canadas health system is that your preexisting medical conditions cannot deny you from any health coverage...
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...States Health Care Delivery system A healthcare system is the organization of people, institutions, and resources to deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations (free encyclopedia). America is the leading country in medical and scientific advances and yet without a universal heath care system. The U.S health care system is the subject of many controversy debates. At one extreme, one can argue that Americans have the best health care system in the world mainly due to the widely available medical technology and the state-of-art facilities that have become so highly of the system, yet others would debate the American system as being inefficient, given the fact America spends way more on health care than any other country in the world, and yet still suffers from massive uninsurance and uneven quality ( Michael Moore, “SiCKO” documentary). The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world, based on health expenditure per capita and on total expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic products (Hellender, 2001). The reason for the high costs is the number of uninsured people in the U.S. who require treatment of diseases and illnesses that can be treated inexpensively in the early stages, then later on when the diseases have progressed, and with no health insurance. The United States healthcare system has many different sources of funding. For many Americans, health insurance...
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