Future Trends in Health Care Future Trends in Health Care The use of a telemedicine can be incorporated in any electronic health record system, with the proper applications patient can be seen face-to-face or in person with a documented assessment or evaluation being conducted simultaneously. The important use of telemedicine is to increase productivity however, many health care professionals can evaluate just as many patient via EHR as they can in person without
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continues to be an issue with increasing shortages of registered nurses (RN) and the increasing demand for health care services. There is a higher demand for registered nurses because of the increase in population, aging baby boomers, and increase in chronic diseases. The shortage of registered nurses impacts the health status and quality of life of the population. Factors that impact health care are the importance of supplying adequate nursing personnel and retaining RN’s in the workplace. There is
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Aging Demographics in Health Care Cynthia Mays HCS/490 University of Phoenix January 19, 2012 Aging Demographics in Health Care The expected growth of the older population in the United States over the next fifty years will have an exceptional impact on the U.S. health care system. Population aging is a complex issue that concerns not only the well-being of today’s older American’s but also comprehensive areas and sectors affecting the total
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Home Health Care and the Value of the Registered Nurse Home Health Care and the Value of the Registered Nurse The home health care system is one of the fastest growing industries in America. Today, there has been a vast growth of services with approximately 7.6 million clients receiving care from about 83,000 providers (National Association for Home Care and Hospice, 2008, pg 1). This is an increase of 63,000 suppliers since 2004. Factors affecting these figures are; an aging population
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and technology and the authority of medical professionals. Its evolution includes the acceptance of the "germ theory" as the cause of disease, professionalization of doctors, technological advancements in treating disease, the rise of great institutions of medical training and healing, and the advent of medical insurance. Governmental institutions, controls, health care programs, drug regulations, and medical insurance also evolved during this period. Most recently, the healthcare system has seen the
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH in ZAMBIA “…Our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot." - Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean Poet - Notes to the grader ✓ If not cited as a footnote the data (ex; 102) used for analysis is from the World Development Indicators Database. When data belongs to the WHO database (http://www.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select.cfm), the sentence indicates this but
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HCS/ 533 Health Information Systems May 30, 2011 Professor Linda Mesko The health industry has been under major construction in its efforts to catch up in this age of technology. These efforts are referred to as Health information technology (HIT). HIT imparts the architecture to explain the complete management of health information throughout the various computerized systems. It safeguards the exchange between government, quality entities, customers, suppliers and insurers. Health Information
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Sociology of Health Author’s Name Institution’s Affiliation Sociology of Health The social perspective in sociology of health explains the society's view concerning health. It is a discipline that describes an illness using social factors present in daily activities of life. Sociologists show how wellness and disease, the treatment and explanation of illness production in a social organization can be understood differently from a medical perspective of nature, biology, and lifestyle in an attempt
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on the expert committee report on community health nursing of the World Health Organization “A community is a social group determined by the geographic boundaries and/ or common values and interests. Its members know and interact with one another. It functions within a particular social structure and exhibits and creates norms, values and social institutions” World Health Organization (WHO), 1974, p.7). However, the direct, hands-on clinical nursing care delivered to individuals or families in a community
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the U.S. Health Care System James Hackett HCA305 The U.S. Healthcare System Kendra West June 20, 2011 The Future of the U.S. Health Care System Healthcare continues to evolve at an alarming rate in reference to the services available. This research paper will focus on the delivery of our countries health care system that is radically different now than at the time of the U. S first becoming of a country. I will identify the essence of hospital facilities as well as outpatient care. In a
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