Abstract Accountable Care Organization is a healthcare organization characterized by a payment and care delivery mode. lt seeks to tie provider reimbursements to a quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an assigned population of patients. A group of coordinated health care providers form an ACO, which then provides care to a group of patients. The ACO may use a range of payment methods, (e.g. capitation, fee-or-service with an asymmetric or symmetric shared savings). The
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HMA1: Trends in Healthcare Western Governors University Healthcare Management Case Study HMA1 Linda Gunn August 21, 2010 HMA1: Trends in Healthcare The American healthcare system is in the midst of change. No other time in history has the call for healthcare reform been so strong. It is the emergence of expensive new technologies with an aging population and a new call for equitable quality access of health services for all citizens that have pushed for the impending change. Successful
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PR ACTICE STAndARd Infection Prevention and Control Table of Contents Introduction Standard Statements Application of evidence-based measures Application of professional judgment Risk reduction Communication Maintaining a Quality Practice Setting Case Scenarios Appendix Glossary of Clinical Terms References 3 4 4 4 5 5 6 8 9 11 12 OuR MISSIOn is to protect the public’s right to quality nursing services by providing leadership to the nursing profession in self-regulation. OuR vISIOn is
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6.1 Not bad enough to fail 6.2 Giving the benefit of the doubt 6.3 Consequences of failing to fail 6.4 Chapter summary CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 7.1 Conclusion 7.2 Recommendations for mentorship preparation 7.3 Recommendations for nurse education programmes 7.4 Recommendations for future
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Sandie Hood University Of Phoenix A current law that impacts the delivery of human service is the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act. HIPAA is an acronym for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA is a law, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The HIPAA has rules and standards that help keep a patient‘s information private and safe. What
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and who work with him to address the needs of the various internal and external stakeholders of the hospital. Dr. DoRight discovers that some patients within the hospital have been dying as a result of a variety of illegal procedures by doctors and nurses, and negligent supervision and oversight on their part. This was brought to his attention in a few meetings and he told his Regional Director Compliance Manager and Executive Committee in January 2009. He was told by them that the matter would be
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society-national government levels. Informatics and the development of what are known as tele-health/telemedicine have a variety of innovative uses to facilitate the decisions of health care professionals across the world. Some of these innovative uses are the ability to provide remote consultations among professionals outside of their facility, the ability to diagnosis and assess various disease states, the ability to access patients, and their medical histories, and the ability to prescribe medications
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London: A National Healthcare Perspective Kaye Leonard Pfeiffer University MHA 776 Dr. James Leist Dr. Gwendolan Swain Abstract This paper provides an overall impression of the United Kingdom’s health service, inception of the National Health Service, challenges the NHS faces regarding financial sustainability, providing effective and efficient care, and the move towards more privatization . Comparisons are made between the National Health Service and heathcare in the United States
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A current law that impacts the delivery of human service is the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act. HIPAA is an acronym for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA is a law, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The HIPAA has rules and standards that help keep a patient‘s information private and safe. What reliable resources are available to learn about the implications of this law? Many reliable resources are available to
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Patient Safety Risks Medication safety continues to be one of the most significant issues in patient safety. The increase incidence of adverse drug events makes medication safety an urgent goal and should remain high on the organization’s agenda (World Health Organization, 2008). The process of medication reconciliation identifies the most accurate and comprehensive medications list, which contains all prescription medications, herbal supplements, vaccines, vitamins, and over-the-counter medications
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