...Medicare is a national government-sponsored health insurance program in the United States of America. On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law in Independence, Missouri. Medicare offers health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older. It also provides health insurance to younger people with disabilities, end-stage renal disease, and ALS. Medicare is the primary insurer for 54 million Americans. Medicare is a single-payer health care program, covering all eligible beneficiaries under a single, publicly financed insurance plan. Government spending on Medicare in 2013 was $583 billion, or 14 percent of the federal budget (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2014). Hospitals, healthcare providers, and suppliers participating in the Medicare program must meet minimum health and safety standards. The standards are defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 42. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) defines Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) that set the standards that health care organizations must meet to begin, and continue participating in Medicare. CMS currently has approved seven accrediting organizations that can accredit a heath care organization as having “deemed status”. The national accrediting organization surveys a health care organization and certifies that they satisfy the health and safety standards component of the Medicare certification (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
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...Sri Hadha Healthcare Systems The cause of the conflict between Mr. Jaishankar’s employees was because each party involved failed to accommodate on another on the preference of their radio station. The argument was unjust and uncalled for. The lack of compromising was also apparent in this incident. Rajaram and Buddy Jones need to learn how to act more professionally on the workplace. Had this incident escalated any further, someone could have gotten seriously injured. This would result in company lawsuits and even hospitalization of an employee. Each party in the incident should be accommodating to each other as to the rules of the radio. Instead, it resulted in a racial verbal assault on one another that could have offended all other employees overhearing the argument. Those who were involved acted childish and did not think rationally before acting. The style of conflict management that the distribution center employees are using is a competing style. These distribution center employees are using a low level of cooperativeness and high level of assertiveness. This creates a very hostile environment to work in. Each employee acts in a very selfish and argumentative manner. Both employees didn’t care to accommodate one another. They both felt that they would get their way by strong arming each other. This is clearly not the way employees should go about resolving conflict. It won’t promote a teamwork environment for employees and encourage an “everyman for themselves”...
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...The U.S. health care system is the subject of much differentiating debates. On one side we have those who argue that Americans have the “best health care system in the world”, pointing to our freely available medical technology and state-of-the-art facilities that have become so highly symbolic of its system. On the hand we have those who criticize the American system as being fragmented and inefficient, pointing to the fact that America spends more on health care than any other country in the world yet still suffers from massive un-insurance, uneven quality, and administrative waste. Understanding the debate between these two diametrically opposed viewpoints requires a basic understanding of the structure of the U.S. health care system. This paper will explain the organization and financing of the system, as well as explain the U.S. health care system in a greater perspective. For most people, the frightening prospect of being unemployed, losing health insurance coverage, having inadequate insurance benefits, or living in a rural community without a physician raises one vital access-related question: Will I be able to get the care I need if I become seriously ill? Because of health care's special status, society has an ethical obligation to ensure that all people have access to an adequate level of health care including access to new technologies as well as existing ones, without facing excessive burdens in obtaining such care. Society's recognition and implementation of...
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...Healthcare Systems Karen D Thomas May 27, 2012 Professor Forbes HSA 315 Describe the systems development life cycle as it pertains to both the development of a custom application and the selection of proprietary systems. The systems development life cycle is the process of planning, selecting, implementing, and evaluating a health care information system. These four stages have several tasks within each one. The main focus of planning and analysis is the organization’s strategy. In this phase, problems are identified and selected as opportunities for improvement. The organization at this stage has to determine whether a new system is really needed, and if so if it is financially possible at the current time. Once it has been determined that a new system is needed, the needs and requirements of the users must be taken into account. This is a time consuming, but very necessary process. By specifying what is needed, the company should be able to get a system that specifically helps them meet their goals. The second stage is design, and in this phase all options are considered. In system design, alternative solutions to problems are considered, a cost benefit analysis is performed, a system chosen, and negotiations with the vendor are completed. Once this stage is completed, the third stage, implementation, begins. The implementation phase involves allocation of resources to complete tasks. These tasks include workflow, installation of the system, testing, staff training...
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...importance of healthcare information systems has become a dominate engine in the world of care giving. In our growning generation, health IT will help diagnose heatlh issues, minimize errors, and provide safer care that is affordable. Health IT makes it attainable for health care providers to handle patient care through the usage of health information and providers can enjoy accurate information from the patient which will ensure the most effective care for the patient. Beaumont Health System is a three-hospital regional health system with a total of 1,726 licensed beds, close to 3,100 physicians and 14,00 full-time employees. Beaumont Health Systems facilitates numerous community based medical centers in Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne counties. They also operate family practice and internal medicine practices, five nursing centers, a research institute, home care services and hospice. In a health institute of this magnitude Beaumont faced challenges in gaining insights on hospital aquired infections and targets of patient safety. To address these conserns, Beaumont Health Systems adopted Intersystems Healthshare. Intersystems Healthshare is a strategic platform for healthcare informatics. Organizations can retain and share all patient data and provide real-time active analytics that drive informed action across a hospital network, communtiy region, or nation. Healthshare also promotes population health management and community engagement. With this new found system, Beaumont...
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...American Intercontinental University Healthcare Administration HCM630-1302-01 Jeanette Boxley Every hospital that is around today can trace their origins to one event, and that would be the beginning of poor houses (National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems). These houses were started because of the need to get the poor, the very ill, the deprived and the ones who were disabled off the streets and into homes that would be able to take custody of and care for them. One of these places was a 6 bed home that was started in 1736, in New York City called Bellevue, over the next 100 years or so it became known as Bellevue Hospital and it is still around today. During this time frame there were a few more charity hospitals that opened their doors, one was in New Orleans, and the other is in Tennessee which is still around today (National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems). Public hospital as we know them today came into being from 1860-1930, before that time people would get any medical treatment that was needed at home, this included giving birth, surgery, or treatments for any illness. Starting around the time of the civil war hospitals had physicians, and nurses who would treat and care for the sick and injured. When a hospital was established and had trained staff it became a key component in the expanding medical culture (National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems). All hospitals before the 1920’s worked without much money...
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...Canada’s health care system is one of many countries in the developed world that provides universal health care for all its inhabitants, paid for it by taxes. The opposite of this system reliant on government intervention is a private healthcare system. In this system, instead of the government providing healthcare, healthcare is offered by entities that have no affiliation with the government. This system can still be found in use in many countries as well, such as the U.S, Egypt, and Belarus. Both of these systems have their fair share of pitfall and triumphs –but which is better? Is the private system good enough to replace Canada’s publically funded healthcare system? The answer to this question can be revealed by peering...
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...The problem with the current healthcare system. There are many problems with the current healthcare system in the United States (U.S.). Most of these problems stem from the fact that it is not really a system in the proper sense of the word. The healthcare system is really a patchwork of entities with their own goals and priorities. The “system” is unequal in access, costs of services, and quality. One of the major problems with the healthcare system is that healthcare services are seen as a product under the market justice theory. Healthcare services are really not comparable to most products because they are a necessity for all people at some point in their lives. One thing that makes accessibility a difficult issue is that insurance is required for most to be able to achieve access. Insurance in turn requires a job that offers coverage that is worthwhile and affordable, however, many jobs do not offer worthwhile, affordable, or any coverage at all. This is also a problem when a person becomes unemployed. Another problem that inhibits access is the high cost of services for many people. While accessibility may not be an issue for some there is also the issue of inequality of the costs of services. Unlike many other countries where the prices of services are more transparent or equal in the U.S. many factors determine the cost of one particular service to an individual such as where the patient lives or what their insurance covers. This leads to the problem of those...
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...Abstract In this article, I introduce the Chinese Healthcare System. From establishment of the People's Republic of China till now, the Chinese healthcare have a lot of changes and revolutions. Due to the special social and economic structure, Chinese healthcare system is different from other countries healthcare system. This article will explain how dose Chinese healthcare system work? What problems dose it have? How can we manage those problems? Background After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the country was recovering from the chaos of long conflicts both internally and with Japan. As a result, Chinese health conditions had declined, with health indicators at the lowest level compared with other countries at a comparable level of development (World Bank, 2004). In this period, communist party who have the whip hand support the model of the 20th century communism ideology, and trust people should to be represented by the government, should have all production together: without the private department. Formation of the Chinese healthcare system. Therefore, since 1949, the Chinese government has gradually established a free medical care, labor insurance and cooperative medical care system as the main content of the health care system, and initially formed a socialist country's health care system. The government owned, funded, and ran all health care facilities, including large hospitals in urban areas and small township clinics in the countryside...
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...Background Norway is a Nordic country in northern Europe with a population of 4.6 million (similar to South Carolina, Alabama, or the city of Philadelphia), a landmass of 324,220 km2 (about the size of New Mexico), and a population density of 13 people/km2 (ranks 213 out of 244 countries). Norway’s Gross National Product (GNP) per capita is $51,810 (rank #2, US with $41,440 ranks #4) and a GNP per capita based on global purchasing power parity (PPP) is $38,680 which ranks it third behind Luxembourg and the US (at $61,610 and $39,820 respectively)1. Using any number of measures Norway ranks as one of the richest countries in the world. Another factor is the amount of income that the oil industry generates for the government, which is not directly reflected in the above numbers. Norway is the world’s third largest exporter of oil (behind Saudi Arabia and Russia), the bulk of which is funneled back into the government. Norway’s unemployment rate is 2.8% which ranks it 5th lowest in the world (behind Qatar, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam)2, while the US unemployment rate is 9.1% (near the top of the major economic countries of the world. In 2001, the proportion of the population with a university education, among 30 to 39-year-olds, was 29% for men and 36% for women. In all, 57% of the population over the age of 16 had completed secondary education. In total, therefore, the enrolment level in secondary and tertiary education amounts to more than two-thirds of Norwegians...
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...Running Head: Healthcare System Healthcare System in US [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] Healthcare System in US Introduction United States is the largest and most diverse society on the globe. It spends almost 2 trillion dollars every year on health care, which is one in every seven dollars in the economy. U.S is one of the very few nations where all its citizens do not have medical coverage. Although it spends heavily on per capita on health care, and it has the most advanced medical technology system in the world, still it is not the healthiest nation on earth. The system performs so poorly that it leaves 50 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered (Garson, 2010). Discussion History of Medicare In 1945, the United States president Harry Truman decided to bring to the attention of the Congress. The message was in an attempt to develop a universal plan that would be applicable to all United States citizens. The Congress contemplated the bill that would establish a healthcare plan. The debate for a comprehensive plan carried on for twenty years. The prolonged wait made president Truman give up on the idea. Even though the president had given up on the healthcare bill, Social Security system and a number of other participants continued the efforts. After two decades of struggle, in 1965, the Medicare and Medicaid plans became legislation after the Congress approved the bill. President Lyndon Johnson’s vision of a “Great...
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...Health is wealth and as much as the latter is important to everyone, its significance and priority in each individual varies. In the United States there are two systems that cater to the healthcare needs of its citizenry and legal aliens alike who are residents. According to Wexler, the United States healthcare system is being looked to as a model by other countries because of the systems and coverage that the citizens enjoy (Wexler, 2011). However, there are flaws to the system as there is no perfect system to satisfy the society. Forces Affecting the Healthcare System Rising Cost of Healthcare. The shortcomings of the health care in the United States have become a significant moral issue. Being the only industrialized country that does not provide a universal health care, its citizens are left unattended. Other nations in the world have made health care as a basic right while the US consider it as a privilege and only accessible to those who can afford it. With this insight, everyone sees health care in the US as a commodity and not as a social service. Pohl writes that the uninsured Americans now number in tens of millions where most of them are those who are working hard to make ends meet (Pohl, 2002). Even with their employment (blue collar jobs, mostly), they still cannot access insurance because their employers do not provide them because of the high cost or these individuals are not eligible at all. Medicare/Medicaid. One of the biggest differences is Medicaid...
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...private health care. However, breaking out of this calamity is very possible as the Universal Healthcare System offers care to all citizens of a particular country. Through this type of coverage, health services are granted without any financial hardships, in some countries, being free....
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...AND THE HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM The Public and the Healthcare Delivery System September 11, 2009 The Public and the Healthcare Delivery System Thesis: Discuss the current American health care delivery system and provide recommended improvements. I. Discuss current healthcare delivery system A. Define concept of healthcare delivery system B. General public opinion regarding our current delivery system II. Examine the cost for the current healthcare delivery system A. Primary methods for funding B. Reforming cost III. What is the current role of the U.S. government in the healthcare delivery system? A. Medicare coverage B. Veteran’s hospitals IV. Insurance coverage for U.S. citizens A. Total number of U.S. citizens with no insurance coverage B. Reforming Insurance coverage for U.S. citizens V. Discuss changes we need to make in the healthcare delivery system A. Public option B. Offer low cost-coverage to individuals with pre-existing medical conditions VI. Who will absorb the cost for the changes needed in healthcare delivery? A. Insurance companies B. U.S. citizens References Bohmer, R. M., & Lee, T. H. (2009). The Shifting Mission of Health Care Delivery Organizations. The New England Journal of Medicine. Retrieved September 11, 2009. Retrieved from http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1347 Dove, J. T., Weaver, W. D., & Lewin, J. (2009). Healthcare Delivery System Reform:...
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...An Introduction The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported (WHO, 2007b) that an amount RM13.53 trillion (US$4.1 trillion x 3.3) spent worldwide on healthcare industry. This massive amount of spending is due to the number of disease and sickness arises daily with the rise of health cost globally. Country like Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand and other various South-East Asia countries has their own healthcare system for the people living in their country. As for Singapore, a country that was formed after the separation from Malaysia in 1965 the healthcare is mainly under their Ministry of Health and was ranked six the best by the World Health Organisation in 2006. For a newly established country Singapore leaders had a very difficult time in managing the country, particularly in health services that need a strong resources, where rising health budget yearly is a problem until in 1975 former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew integrated the Central Provident Fund (CPF) to supplement the medical bills. The Singapore National Health Plan in 1984 develops the Medisave Accounts under the CPF where both employee and employers are compulsory to make an contribution to these accounts, where the accumulate savings can be utilized to pay the persons or his family medical bills. The philosophy of the Singapore Ministry of Health is to ensure a quality and affordable basic medical services for all where it also promotes a healthy living and preventive health programs and also to maintain...
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