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    Nursing Trends That I Foresee in 2020

    2020 In the last thirty five years, nursing care has branched out from strictly clinical, hospital and nursing home setting to other areas. Due to strict health insurance payment guidelines, patients today are being sent home from the hospitals faster and sicker. This in turn increases the demand for more nursing care in the home. A lot of today's nurses are filling this need between the patient’s home and the hospital health care team. This trend continues to grow. Due to shorter

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    Hipaa Summary

    HIPAA Summary Colleena Ness HCS/320 2/22/2013 Kristin Thrun HIPAA Summary HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This is the ability to protect the privacy of individual’s health information. The HIPAA privacy rule was passed by congress in August of 2002. The HIPAA tutorial was very informative. Among the many things I learned from this tutorial I found the online information the most intriguing. I started in healthcare shortly before we had electronic medical

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    Information Technology Acts

    Information Technology Acts BIS/220 February 25, 2013 Abstract The basis of this paper is to explain the advances in information technology that ultimately resulted with the creation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and the Children’s Online Protection Privacy Act (COPPA). These two acts are beneficial to the privacy of oneself regarding medical files and the protection that the Federal Trade Commission provides to children

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    Comparative Research on the Development and Implementation of Philippine Health Information Systems

    Development and Implementation of Philippine Health Information Systems Nasak, Leah Grace B. University of the Cordilleras Blk 7, Quirino Hill, Baguio City 09475813872, 2600 leahgracenasak@yahoo.com Martinez, Erna-Kristi N. University of the Cordilleras 25 Engineer’s Hill, Baguio City 09063177093, 2600 ekjmartinez@yahoo.com ABSTRACT This document is a comparative study of different researches conducted regarding the implementation of a health information system in the Philippines. The

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    Sick Around the World

    hospitals all across Japan. What are the advantages of this system over the US system? Everyone is covered and it is very cheap. There is no gate keeper, no appointment is neccessary so they can go see any specialist they want. Insurance takes care of the bill. What are the disadvantages of this system? The doctors can’t charge what they want which limits the amount of money they can make. 50% of hospitals in financial trouble. Spend too little on medicine which cause this financial trouble

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    Nursing Shortage

    has affected their health care quality. This article investigates the impact of the nursing shortage in three different countries United States with a rapid aging of its population which has an effect on the health care system, Philippines with the policy of exporting a massive of nurses oversees by the government which in return creates a vacuum in the country for skilled nurses, and South Africa where poor working condition, low wage and social unrest distress the health care system. By using literature

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    Hca Paper

     Army-Baylor University Graduate Program In Health Care Administration     A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for HCA 5325 Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations   12 December 2003 Executive Summary Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a well-established, international health care industry leader that provides patient services on two continents. Ranked number one in both sales and profit rankings, HCA continues to provide quality health care as it expands into new markets

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    Career Action Plan

    Professional Career Action Plan My objectives are to work in the State Health Department as a Healthcare Administrator. In this paper I will speak my professional objectives and what I will need to work on in order to reach this goal. I will consider the skills that I presently have and the abilities that I need to either change or perfect. I will speak of the different steps that I will need to take so as to reach this final goal. There are many ways that a professional may take in order to

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    Leading Nurses Through Hospital Change Case Study

    there is constant pressure for it to provide quality care while maintaining rising cost. The pressure exerted on a healthcare system is exemplified by managed healthcare. This type of care involves integrating and comprehensive systems of health care providers, insurance, companies and government programs. University Hospital is a very large teaching hospital which scores well on accreditation tests and is known for its high quality level of care. Like all hospitals, they need to work on improving

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    Community Health Nursing: Quality of Life and Functioning A. Personal Perceptions After reviewing the case of Mrs. Thomas and her situation, there are many feelings I have about the final outcome. As nurses, we always have to take our feelings into account and rationalize what we feel about the health and well being of our patients. After a BRAC analysis was performed, significant results were indicated. I feel empathy for Mrs. Thomas because this technology showed what her odds were for

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