...to be appealed to and utilized to effectively gain attention and support for an ideology or system. The other tool is attacking the enemy or rather, the competition, by trying to disprove their legitimacy. This second tool was employed, leading to what conspired between the institution of psychiatry and Scientology. Scientology, claiming that the mental health system necessitated control in all things, rallied in supporting legislation in states such as New Hampshire and Utah that sought “to discredit psychiatry and drug therapies” in the early 2000’s. In defense, the institution of psychiatry resolved and continues to resolve that the practices of Scientology hold no actual basis in science and can be harmful to those who actually need medical treatment. Although neither institution is rid of exigent faults, they both play to Scientology’s rocky foundation. And according to Jentzsch, the controversy with the mental health institution was a result of their indignation towards the influence of Dianetics, which as he believed, led them to drudge up false accusations to undermine the...
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...Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Rohan Lalani Sociology 1301-304 San Jacinto College Professor Ann Reynoso Semester- Fall 2017 10/5/2017 This research article is about the experiment initiated by the U.S public health services in 1932 in Macon county, Alabama. The experiment was to determine the natural course of untreated, latent syphilis in black males. The test included 400 syphilitic men, and in addition 200 uninfected men who filled in as controls. The main distributed report of the investigation showed up in 1936 with resulting papers issued each four to six years, through the 1960s. At the point when penicillin turned out to be generally accessible by the mid-1950s as the favored treatment for syphilis,...
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...IN THE United States, primary care remains a medical model. This is in contrast to much of the world, where the 1978 Declaration of Alma-At a which recognized that attaining health for all also requires interaction from social and economic sectors - is considered standard. Today, there is much buzz about patient-centered medical homes, a concept that promises to transform the practice of American medicine. There is much to praise about this most recent iteration of the medical home. But the missing ingrethent in all these definitions and models remains public health. A population focus that addresses the social determinants of health is an essential component of primary health care. In the United States, such a comprehensive approach has been labeled community-oriented primary care. This model is built firmly on the Alma-Ata principles and incorporates a public health approach to health services. Community-oriented primary care organizes the delivery of health services, around a population, not simply a collection of individuals. It identifies a population - most frequently a geographically defined community - and uses epidemiology and interventions to improve community and individual health and well-being. In this model, both individual patients and the community are the foci of the delivery of health services. Primary health care stands at the intersection of personal and population health services. It requires integrating medical models of primary care that are centered on...
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...more people access the Internet to conduct research, perform banking and other financial transactions, participate in education, search for real-estate, and purchase consumer goods, among other things. Today, people can perform actions from playing online games to searching for love on the Internet. It is customary for people to have more “friends” online today than they have on-ground. Social networking has taken the Internet to new highs and generations are accustomed to living full lives through the World Wide Web. Therefore, it goes without reason that people would expect to access vital services such as healthcare online as well. Learning Team C has been requested by the executive staff at Patton-Fuller Community Hospital (PFCH) to determine the feasibility of PFCH becoming a state-of-the art healthcare provider with an online presence. This paper will determine what PFCH needs to do to achieve this status by providing interactive web services to its vendors, suppliers, clinicians and patients. This analysis will answer the questions of what modifications/implementations must be achieved to provide up-to-date, accurate information to staff, medical personnel and patients; what interactivity would allow patients the ability to being able to access pertinent healthcare information such as wellness information and pharmacy refills; what mobile services need to be instituted to allow clinicians the ability to access patient records online; what infrastructure changes to include...
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...Health Information Technician A Career Pathway Research Denise Edwards The College of Westchester Health Information Technology 1564 - MED 215 – 21 FALL I 2015 Abstract This paper explores five published articles that report on information and results from research conducted online by the author about what career path she should take in order to achieve her goal of becoming a successful health information technician. Healthinformationtechnologycareers.com and similar websites highlight the vast amount of career opportunities that is available for anyone who is interested in continuing a career in the health information industry. They also showcase the different levels of education, skill sets and experience one would need in order to succeed as a health information technician. The author wanted to investigate what is the best path to take in becoming a registered health information technician. In her research, she found that it would be best that she continue her education – first in a bachelor’s program in healthcare administration for approximately two years; second – in a master’s program in health information technology for four years - this can either be done online or on campus. It was also discovered that while she is in school, she could either volunteer to work at a hospital or find part time employment at a small doctor’s office that could give the experience needed for a technician. The author also research what effect this career in Health Information...
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...University of Phoenix Data Systems Learning Team Paper Team A: Renee Wilson, Ferdinand Habijan, Maryrose DeFino, Stasia Bowling HCI 520 Data Management and Design January 16, 2012 Steven Fowler Introduction This paper will address data systems; a database is an organized group of files that are related and considered the supporting constructs of a database management system. It is maintained and considered an integral part of most organizations worldwide. The database management system houses a program that enables storage, modification, and extraction of information from a database. In this paper team A will address database the phases of the database life cycle, and provide a conceptual representation for a database system. Team A focused on relational data model utilizing the Oracle database management system. Implementation of a Database System The purpose of the implementation phase is to make the new system available to a prepared set of users. In this phase the construction and installation of the new database system is initiated according to the plan and design that represents all aspects of the organization, including its interactions with the external environment, this requires matching the design requirements with the best available implementing tools and then using those tools for the implementation. There are several basic steps to implementation of a database system. Determine the need, for developing a new system; identifying user needs;...
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...Introduction The major healthcare provider in question has experienced a potential security breach within their records. They are now currently investigating how this happened and what information was access by the unauthorized individual. However, the company is now interested in established a baseline framework to avoid future information breaches from occurring. This document will outline three major IT frameworks and how each could have mitigated the recent information breach. ISO Policy The ISO 27001 recommendation is a high-level discussion. A precise policy was not located. The discussion did contain a preventive feature to denied access afterhours; however, how the afterhours check relates to a policy is not clear. The COBIT5 recommendation is a discussion and needs to develop a policy. The discussion includes auditing in general; however, details about the auditing need to be developed once a precise policy is developed. The NIST framework discussion includes review of log files. Details need to be developed about the review once a policy is developed. The three major security frameworks in the discussion are excellent overall recommendations. Precise policy statements that will prevent an identified security flaw in the scenario need to be developed. The first policy presented is ISO 27001 (International Standards Organization Security Standards). According to the ISO website, “The ISO 27000 family of standards helps organizations keep information assets secure. Using...
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...2001) In recent years, evidence-based medicine has gained increasingly broad-based support in health care, but many doctors still aren’t using it. With a lean towards Pharmacy management, I researched the barriers providers and institutions are faced with in successfully incorporating evidence-based medicine and how initiating organizational improvements can help. The research highlights some important considerations to be aware of that gives evidence-based medicine a bad name, the pitfalls to avoid, and some ways providers and institutions are working to overcome them. Introduction This paper begins by giving an overview of evidence-based medicine, what it is, and the benefits to be realized by providers, insurers, and patients. I compared that to what providers were using before EBM. Next, I examine the barriers to successfully incorporating evidence-based medicine, and the negative perceptions that dissuade their use by clinicians. Identified are the disadvantages such as source information bias, ethics considerations, and the dangers in using EBM to set Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG). The research highlights some important considerations to be aware of that gives evidence-based medicine a bad name. I looked at pitfalls to avoid and some ways providers and institutions are working to overcome them. Finally, I included an overview, from a pharmacy management perspective, of how improvements techniques...
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...Marketing Management 1. Executive Summary Dell Services offers a web tool for hospitals with Electronic Medical Records that enables them the client to view real time statistic of the interfaces flowing into the EMR and various reporting tools that allows access to the database in a GUI format. Although many Healthcare IT consulting companies have recently tried to implement a Host monitoring service, none have cornered the market with their technology the way Dell Services has with their unique application. Because the Monitoring tool is such a marketable product right now, the Dell Services team needs to find ways to boost performance and improve the users experience without increasing costs. The best opportunity for Dell Services to do these things and to maintain and grow the product marketability is to do a complete revamp of the web application framework and present the newly vamped application to existing and potential clients. According to Spetz 2009, having an Electronic medical record (EMR) systems offers substantial opportunities to organize and manage clinical data in ways that can potentially improve preventive health care, the management of chronic illness, and the financial health of the Hospital. The benefits are faster chart coding, which means faster payment for services to savings in personnel, transcription and paper costs; and efficiency gains that allowed providers to see more patients. While many hospitals are turning to EMR’s like...
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...the organization. The jobs under this category are described below: 1. Bill and account collectors: these collectors negotiate with people especially with debtors about recover payment on overdue bills. 2. Bookkeeping and auditing clerks: These clerks record financial events, update accounts and check financial records for accurate outcomes. 3. Financial clerks: These clerks perform administrative works for companies especially for banking and insurance companies. They help the customers of the office through keeping records for them and for the company. 4. Information clerks: These clerks remove the barrier of knowledge obstacles of the customers through providing them all the information they need and answering any questions related to their service. 5. Switchboard operators: They provide information to callers and record important messages. They relay incoming, outgoing and interoffice calls. 6. Telephone operators: They are entitled to handle emergency calls and assist children or disabled people to make telephone calls. They also provide information in alphabetical and geographical directories as the customers require. 7. Posting and billing clerks and machine operators: They usually compile, compute and record statistical, accounting and other numerical data for various purposes. Sometimes for delivery and shipment of goods they prepare billing invoices. 8. Gaming cage workers: They sell gambling chips, tokens or tickets to patrons...
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...Abstract To present a novice researcher's use of a reflective research diary in the quantitive measure of a mixed methods study and to recommend resulting changes to practice. Reflexivity is often regarded as a useful tool for ensuring the standard of qualitative research. Reflexivity provides transparent information about the positionality and personal values of the researcher that could affect data collection and analysis; this research process is deemed to be best practice. A reflective research diary also allows researchers to record observations about the research process. However, such diaries are rarely used in quantitative research and are even contraindicated. A reflective research diary maintained while conducting a retrospective audit of 150 hospice casenotes. A reflective research diary was written at the end of every research session to keep a detailed history of the research process and to critically reflect on the researcher's thoughts, feelings and observations on the day's work. This paper raises questions about whether reflexivity is appropriate in quantitative research, whether it has the capacity to add something of value or whether it endangers the robustness of the method. The authors consider the place of grounded theory's commitment to reflexivity in this mixed-methods study and discuss whether reflexivity offers any benefits to researcher development. Use of reflexivity had a positive impact on the progress of the quantitative measure...
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...SUMMARY Worrying global wage trends around the world as well as poor wage practices along the supply chain – both exacerbated by the economic crisis – have led to increasing concerns over wage issues. This paper is aimed at identifying how ‘fair’ would be wage practices along the supply chain. For this we first propose to define ‘Fair wages’ through a new approach, the ‘Fair wage approach’, aimed at providing CSR actors with a coherent set of fair wage dimensions and indicators. This new approach is then applied in a large-scale exercise carried out on wages in more than 100 suppliers in Asia and complemented by three case studies in China. This exercise carried out in 2010-11 provides first hand and most recent information on wage practices among suppliers. The results identify a number of wage problems along the supply chain, and also confirm the need to address wage issues using a broad spectrum of different ‘fair wage’ dimensions, including living wages, minimum wages, prevailing wages, social dialogue, the payment of working hours and the evolution of wages in accordance with prices, enterprise performance and changes in technology and human capital. Paper prepared for the Better Work conference, 26-28 October 2011, Washington DC. Data have been collected through the 2010 auditing process of the Fair Labor Association (FLA). I would like to thank Kenan Ercel, Patrick Kigongo, Jorge Perez-Lopez and Auret van Heerden for their kind cooperation. All the views expressed are those of...
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...industry of finance has obtained tremendous growth in last few years, both in number of assets that manage by industry and in the diversity of financial products. A global system that can rule the industry will become significantly important for the Islamic finance sector in order to meet the needs of continued growth (Vinnicombe, 2012). Harmonization of Shari’a accounting standards has continue to be made by the AAOIFI as it is also done by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for conventional accounting harmonization. In its development, financial reporting in Islamic accounting adds some different additional reports than conventional accounting to accommodate the unique transactions of Islamic economics. In that regard, this paper have objective to explore the main important values of Shari’a accounting and reporting standards of Islamic Accounting and try to find the answers of Islamic accounting positions among the process of international accounting standards harmonization. 2. Introduction According to (Susela, 1999) said the development of accounting theories is are affected by several factors including political and economic interests of certain people or group in community. Therefore, it can be also called if the accounting is a significant tool to illustrate the interests and perspectives of the...
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...Composed By: Billy MacNair, Crystal Revis, Heather Ibarra, Danyl Chahal, and Nakia Matthews HCS/451 Healthcare Quality Management and Outcome Analysis Week 4 Organizational Performance Management Paper Classroom Facilitator: Lauri Rose Introduction: The assignment included in this team collaboration defines, analyses, and explores the similarities and differences between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the American Medical Association (AMA), as well as determines proposals for improving management and accreditation requirements with effective compliancy. This study also provides a table in the appendix documenting resources and validating organizational schematics. The Similarities and Differences among the Organizations: One of the first and most obvious similarities between these organizations is that they were created with the intention of helping people. Creating somewhat of a guideline for others to follow in how things should be handled amongst the various areas each organization reaches. The American Medical Association was founded with the intention furthering education in health care through physicians and specialists and establishing the criteria needed for holding an MD. They also established the first set of medical ethics at their first meeting. The Americans with Disabilities Act was created because there was a need for those who suffered from disabilities of varying severities to have the opportunity to...
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...CSR issues are attracting a great deal of attention in the developed world, there is a need for more research into CSR in the developing world. This paper considers the CSR practices of a small sample of multinational corporations (MNCs) and local firms in Bangladesh to better understand this situation. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has generated significant debate in academic and corporate circles in recent times. This debate acknowledges the importance of CSR in the first-world, but raises questions regarding the extent to which corporations operating in developing countries have CSR obligations (Jamali and Mirshak, 2007). Conventional wisdom suggests that CSR is more relevant to corporations operating in the developed countries due to elevated community expectations of socially responsible behaviour. In contrast there is also a belief that societal expectations in the developing countries mainly centre on economic growth; therefore relegating CSR to be of lesser importance to the society and the firms (Khan, 1985). Against this back drop, this paper discusses the situation prevailing in the developing world to broaden our understanding of the perceptions and practices of CSR. Bangladesh is used as a test case for this purpose because this country is believed to posses the typical characteristics of a developing country. The main objectives of this paper are three-fold: (1) review...
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