...Health Care Utilization in the United States HCS/235-Health Care Delivery in the United States University of Phoenix January 29, 2013 Over the past decade, government operated and privately owned health care organizations have made improvements identifying patient disabilities, discovering alternative treatments at the patient’s discretion, identifying the cause of diseases, and discovering lifesaving cures. The current United States health care delivery system has undergone enormous changes throughout the years. People the United States utilize health care services for many reasons: to prevent disease, to prevent future illnesses, to eliminate pain, and promote a healthier lifestyle to patients. The Patient Protection and Affordable Act will cover over 95 percent of the nation (House Committee, 2010). These new laws and provisions are provided much needed health care to the more rural areas of the country. There are new measures to stop overpayments in Medicare by 14 percent (House Committee, 2010). The bill provides people with information about their doctor and future medical staff. Also, there will be stricter provisions against medical fraud, private insurance claims, and abuse in Medicare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will provide great low cost health insurance care to millions of American nationwide. The congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that this bill alone will reduce the national deficit by $138 billion dollars over the...
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...Healthcare Terms Alicia Jones HCS/235 June 17, 2012 Barbara Williamson Healthcare Terms Medicare- Medicare is a type of insurance that is mainly set in place for the elderly, over 65 years of age. You can also qualify for Medicare if you are under the age of 65 years old but you have a certain type of disability. There are four different parts of Medicare coverage. There is Part A which covers the patient’s hospital care, nursing homes, or home health care. With Part A insurance most people do not have to pay a premium. Part B covers the medical side of everything including doctors’ visits, medical equipment, and things of that nature. However, the patient does have to pay a premium each month with this type of insurance. Part C covers both Part A and B insurance. It does come with other benefits but most of the time people have to pay extra for those services. Part D covers prescription drugs. It helps a great deal with the cost of prescription drugs because they can really be costly for people. The fund to keep Medicare going is coming out of taxpayers’ checks every time they get paid. This is called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act). They also get funding from copays, premiums, and deductibles. Medicaid- Medicaid is a type of insurance that is set in place for children, families with low income, pregnant women and other people who qualify. It was established in 1965 by President Johnson to help those that were in need. Medicaid is joined together with both...
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...any nuclear power plant lies the reactor. A reactor is a device used to control nuclear reactions so that the energy created and released by the reactions can be converted to a useful form at a constant rate. There are two types of reactors used in the modern world these reactors are called fission reactors and breeder reactors, fission reactors are work by separating a fissionable Uranium-235 from a non-fissionable Uranium-238 by using a very complex process, after this process a new more “enriched” form of uranium is produced that contains 3% of Uranium 235, this new substance is used to make uranium oxide for a form of fuel in a reactor. After this process, the droplets of uranium oxide are placed in metal tubes called fuel rods and are ready for the reaction. However, a breeder reactor is a reactor specifically designed to make fissionable fuel. in a breeder reactor, the Uranium 235 created undergoes a transmutation in where the...
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...Health Care Providers and Products HCS/235 April 18.2016 Health Care Providers and Products A health care provider is any individual, institution, or agency that provides health services to health care consumers otherwise known as patients (http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Health+care+service+provider). Health care providers are vital because they are trained to provide health services to patients which help treat illnesses, diseases, broken bones, or any injuries or health issues in which they are trained to treat. One type of health care provider is preventive or public health and they provide treatment to prevent sickness and health issues or to prevent issues from becoming worse. Preventive services are measures that are performed in an effort to prevent an illness or injury. Common examples of preventative care are immunizations and yearly physicals. In fact, any screening test done in order to catch a disease early is considered a preventative service, such as routine Pap tests for women or prostate exams for men (http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/preventive-care/preventative-care.htm). Preventive health care services are so important that some are offered to patients at no cost. Since some of these preventative care options are offered for free to the public more people are taking advantage of the services offered and preventing health issues. The services that are often offered for free are flu shots, physicals, and dental checkups. Although...
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...Mercy Nagbe HCS/235 Presentation Professor Nate Garner November 15, 2015 What Is Long-term Care ● Health derives the need for care. ● How long does care last? ● Who will need Long-term care? Long Term Care Ensuring quality care: The decision to put a family member in a long-term care facility, nursing homes or assisted living home can be very difficult, but one of the primary concerns is about whether or not your family member will get loving care and quality care in a safe environment. Residents Rights Respect: Long-term care resident residents are to be treated with dignity and respect. They have the right to select the activities that they would love to participate in. They also have the right to leave the facilities with family or friends after notifying the staff. Restraints: By law it is wrong to use physical chemical restraints on residents except when it is necessary to treat medical symptoms. Who are stakeholders? ● ● ● ● Providers Payers Employers Patients Between patient and employer ● ● ● ● Patients have the expectancy to be offer a wide variety of options for whatever care that can be customized to their special needs. Basic premise is to provide the most options and the least out of pocket cost to consumer. Employers want to maintain their cost and contribution and they want the patient/employee to seek only needed care, and instructions. Patients should seek to reduce their health risk behaviours, i,e. diet, exercise and smoking. Between Providers...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Jennifer Debreceni, RN Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V April 24, 2016 Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The Institute of Medicine (IOM) in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released a report in 2010, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. This report was released in conjunction with the healthcare bill known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). With the signing of the ACA, it created many occasions for the nurse to help in the reshaping of the health care system. For nursing to take a role in the redesigning of healthcare system transformations in nursing practice, nursing education and nursing leadership needed to take place. Impact on Nursing Education The Institute of Medicine (2010, p.163) states that “Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression”. Associate degree and diploma nurses are encouraged to continue their education by entering into a baccalaureate degree program. This is recommended to be done within five years after receiving either a diploma or associates degree in nursing. Institutions can encourage this by offering salary differential and promotions within their facilities for the higher educated nurse. Organizations are encouraged to increase the number of nurses who hold a bachelor’s degree in nursing from 50% to 80%...
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...newly insured Americans are discussed. The act also provides for professional training and development of advanced practice nurses to meet the demands of increased care and increased patient load. Keywords: healthcare reform, nursing education, nursing roles Significance Of Nursing In The Implementation Of Health Care Reform Healthcare reform has captured our time and attention during the past few months, it has been a long and heated discussion. As the healthcare and its underlying payment system evolve in the face of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; healthcare for all, a long time dream of many nurses, will be realized. This act requires all Americans to be covered by health insurance by 2014. Goals of the act are to not only enhance access to affordable care but also focus on wellness and prevention, bring care back to being patient centered, emphasize chronic illness management, assist patients in making informed choices and improving coordination of care. It also emphasizes distributing highly educated nurses closer to medically underserved populations and lays the ground work to help lessen the shortage of nurses, nurse practitioners and nursing faculty (Carlson, 2010). Every healthcare...
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...Whether or not to seek Healthcare Student Name HCS 235 October 6, 2014 Instructor Whether or not to seek Healthcare There are many factors the effect whether or not a person will utilize their health care options. Some of those items are changeable and some are not. Other factors we perceive as un-changeable but they can be changed, just with major effort on our part. Some of the unchangeable things are your age, gender, and race. There are temporarily unchangeable things such as education, occupation, and location. Also, a person’s beliefs on whether or not they need health care is something that is very hard to change. Things that have the most chance of change is income, available insurance, health care facilities, and transportation. Situation Our situation: John Q. recently moved to a rural community. He works full-time, but qualifies for Medicaid because of his low income. John has high blood pressure and his father recently had a heart attack. Thus, he decided to call and find out which providers nearby accept Medicaid. While there are local doctors, he discovered that the closest primary care physician who accepts Medicaid is a 40-minute drive and appointments must be made 2 weeks in advance due to the number of patients at the practice. In addition, the practice does not offer weekend or evening hours. John usually catches a ride to work with a friend or relies on public transportation. Unchangeable factors “Predisposing...
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...Hayden Landry 250 868 235 Prof. Narain Preferential Health Care Health is a very important aspect of our everyday lives. The health of an individual and a nation are crucial to the continued progression of said persons, for without our health, we are all but useless. In this essay I seek to examine the benefits of the public healthcare system over it’s private counterpart, not only in Canada, but any country attempting to utilize their society to the fullest. I will argue that the welfare-state liberalistic approach is much better because it seeks to pool the resources of the many and regulate/distribute it to the few in dire need, hopefully resulting in a diminishing number of sick and homeless. I begin my essay by highlighting the importance and function of both the welfare state liberalist’s public heath care and the neoconservative private health care. My argument stands on the grounds that public healthcare in Canada is more tenable because it works for the common good of all people, regardless of socioeconomic class while also placing a primary focus on efficiency, instead of profitability. A viable counterargument is that most working people do not find it ‘fair’ to have their hard-earned money taken to support the lazy or poor(welfare), although in reality the vast majority of these ‘lazy’ poor people or those outside of a private healthcare system are not in the position out of free will. As we examine the positives and negatives of both systems it becomes increasingly...
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...Future Reform Donna Smith Strayer University Future Reform Let’s think ahead. What do we have to look forward to in the form of healthcare? Of course, information systems / technology will be upgraded for survival, but as I researched the predictions of healthcare in 2030, I ran across some intriguing thoughts. Barry H. Ostrowsky from Barnabas Health, West Orange, N.J. stated, “We reached a conclusion a long time ago that if we were going to advance as a health system we would have to have a certain level of information technology, not simply for the advantages that it provides in the practice of medicine but also to ensure the most intimate connectivity among our physicians and between our physicians and our institution.” Barnabas Health is simultaneously connecting its 4,000 doctors, of whom 3,300 are attending physicians. (Birk, 2012, p. 28) The purpose of this paper is to predict the form and function of medical health records in 2030, to describe the most likely impediments to health care information access in 2030, and to discuss the most significant “health care bake in” that could be embedded into organizational workflows and probable impact. 1. Predict the form and function of medical health records in 2030 (provide specific examples to support your response). Predictions of healthcare in 2030 are amazing, to say the least. We could free up scarce physician resources if we empower physician extenders (registered nurses, advanced...
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...Option 1: Nursing Home Administrator Darryl Bowler HCS/320 October 8, 2013 Salome Kapella-Mshigeni Option 1: Nursing Home Administrator Because our local nursing home is being taken over by a national group, there will be new policies that we must adhere to as we progress. These policies are going to force our nursing home to adapt and change. I will review the new polices, the affects they have on our patients, the affect they have on our patient’s relatives, how we will effectively communicate to our patients, and what arrangements we are making for displaced individuals. In addition, I will attempt to define our role as a local nursing home being merged into a national group. Traditional health care communication to our nursing home clients would be a tedious task. The traditional media cannot cover all the needs of patients because the lack of services so that is a disadvantage. The advantages are physicians know the process without any problem which benefits our nursing home clients. The traditional process would involve acquiring a listing of the shareholders and a listing of our clients. We would also need mailing lists and phone contacts and hope those listings were accurate. We would have to attempt to contact each and every one listed. It would also require several personnel for the process and become very time consuming. This process would be an extreme disadvantage taking away from the productivity of the employees and the standard operations of our nursing...
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...The Innovator in Healthcare Workforce Solutions ANNUAL REPORT I N N O V AT I O N I N H E A L T H C A R E W O R K F O R C E S O L U T I O N S Dear AMN Healthcare Shareholders, 2011 was a year of continued market recovery, solid execution, and evolution. Our clients’ desire for more workforce solutions and innovative service offerings, coupled with AMN’s leading position in this space, has more clearly differentiated our value proposition and put us at the forefront of growth and thought leadership. More than ever, we are leveraging our stronger talent, capabilities and infrastructure as a meaningful differentiator in the market, and have earned the privilege of serving the largest and most diverse group of clients and clinicians nationwide. A REVIEW OF 2011 growth in Travel Nursing, there were a number of other key highlights during 2011: • We expanded our national leadership position in clinical managed services programs by adding over 20 new MSP clients, representing an estimated $80 million in projected annualized gross spend under management. In 2011, our revenues through MSP contracts grew by 38% on a pro forma basis to $185 million, representing a third of our Nurse and Allied Healthcare Staffing business. Penetration of MSP revenues is primarily in Nurse Staffing at this time, and we believe over the next three years there will be a similar shift in the Allied Staffing and Locum Tenens businesses. AMN is well-positioned to capitalize on this continuing trend...
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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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...U.N. Commission on Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children: Country Case Studies May 2012 This is a working document. It has been prepared to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and to stimulate discussion. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies or views of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children or the United Nations. The text has not been edited to official publication standards, and the Commission accepts no responsibility for errors. The designations in this publication do not imply an opinion on legal status of any country or territory, or of its authorities, or the delimitation of frontiers. Contributors and Acknowledgements Sarah Blake,1 Aubrey Cody,1 Anjali Kaur,1 Nejla Liias, 1 Christopher Lindahl,2 Emily Bell,1 Julie Kragh,1 Jessica Mack,1 and Kristin Cox Mehling1 served as researchers and authors of this working paper. The authors would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to the development and conceptualization of these case studies: Oliver Sabot Hans Hogerzeil Patricia Mechael Catherine Taylor Kanika Bahl Julia White Kabir Ahmed Mark Young Renee van de Weerdt Deborah Armbruster Jennifer Lockwood-Bergeson Michael Mbizvo Clinton Health Access Initiative Groningen University mHealth Alliance PATH Results for Development Institute UN Secretariat UNFPA UNICEF UNICEF USAID USAID WHO ...
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...Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 6, 492-525; doi:10.3390/ijerph6020492 OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ISSN 1660-4601 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph Article Emerging Patient-Driven Health Care Models: An Examination of Health Social Networks, Consumer Personalized Medicine and Quantified Self-Tracking Melanie Swan * Research Associate, MS Futures Group, P.O. Box 61258, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: m@melanieswan.com; Tel.: +1-415505-4426; Fax: +1-504-910-3803 Received: 9 January 2009 / Accepted: 2 February 2009 / Published: 5 February 2009 Abstract: A new class of patient-driven health care services is emerging to supplement and extend traditional health care delivery models and empower patient self-care. Patient-driven health care can be characterized as having an increased level of information flow, transparency, customization, collaboration and patient choice and responsibility-taking, as well as quantitative, predictive and preventive aspects. The potential exists to both improve traditional health care systems and expand the concept of health care though new services. This paper examines three categories of novel health services: health social networks, consumer personalized medicine and quantified self-tracking. Keywords: Patient-driven health care; health social networks; personalized medicine; quantified self-tracking; health care delivery; predictive...
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