Control of Health Care in Puerto Rico Josie Valentín Walden University Overview of the health care system The Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDH), the State Health Agency (SHA), is a free-standing, independent agency. Under its jurisdiction are all the health-related affairs of Puerto Rico. The PRDH performs the following functions: Planning, evaluating, and regulating as well as auditing the programmatic, administrative, and fiscal aspects of health facilities and services. The PRDH
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Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Pat King April 15, 2012 To compare and contrast my search in the library database, I observe there was plenty to learn when it comes to healthcare and health promotion in the three journal articles I have read. The articles stress the evolution of health promotion from primary, secondary and tertiary level of care in the healthcare field. Before this evolution, we were just treating the individual as they become sick; but with the health promotion in the
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Chapter Opener What Information Is in a Human Genome? Clinical Connection 1.1 Exome Sequencing Saves a Boy’s Life Bioethics: Choices for the Future Genetic Testing and Privacy CHAPTER OVERVIEW Chapter 1 provides a glimpse of the basic concepts of genetics and genomics, and offers examples of DNA information impacting daily life. In this new era of genomics, individuals have access to their own genetic information, and health care providers are learning
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factor in health care delivery. The way health care is financed impacts it’s delivery. The continual increase of health care cost caused health care reform initiatives to control cost to focus on reimbursement models. Pay For Performance (P4P) is an increasingly popular initiative. The use of pay for performance has effects on the cost, quality, and efficiency of health care. This paper will discuss the effects the use of pay for performance has on patients, provider, and the evolution of health care
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Information Technology and Business Value CareGroup Case 1. List two strengths and two weaknesses of CareGroup (the organization) in its competitive forces at the time of the case. Before coming to the point to of selection of two strengths and weaknesses of CareGroup it is necessary to know the background and history before the merger. The increased competitiveness of health care industry has driven development of integration in order to provide better services with involved medical
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Advancing Technology in Our Healthcare World The development, rise and evolution of today’s technology has made an incredible impact on society and has exceeded all boundaries including the transformation of our healthcare industry. The organization, structure and access to healthcare has made profound changes over the years. Technology is now being embraced by healthcare to help lower cost, streamline facilities and improve patient outcomes. One area of technology that is making a big impact on
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Risk management in the health care in the past risk management and quality improvement job was separate in the health care organization. Even though, the job function may have been different the goal was the same. As up today they have close the gap to provide a better, and safety quality patient care. Rationale What is risk management any way not everyone has the same meaning. It can be define as such Risk management is a process for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks of different
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Changing the System Abstract The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in March of 2010 by President Obama, these set of new laws and regulations is designed to provide ethical changes to a fragmented health care system. Cultural bias and social stigmatism have hampered the acceptance of such sweeping changes to the American health care system. Culturally some Americans feel they are handing over their health care choices to government control, socially some Americans believe that the government
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drastic changes and has called for health care reforms. In March of 2010 legislation was passed that indicates insurance coverage for 32 million more Americans and is known as The Affordable Care Act (ACA) (" The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.) The (ACA) produces a challenge for the health care system and how it will meet the increase demand and still provide high quality, safe, and effective care, to these growing numbers. In 2012
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Health Care Spending “More health care is not always better health care” (OECD, 2013, para. 2) Throwing money at the current health care system won’t necessarily help or solve the present-day crisis. The United States is #1 in the world in per capita health care spending yet our life span is not the longest or of the highest quality (OECD, 2011). This paper will overview the current and future health care programs, how they are currently financed and in the future, and how we can decrease spending
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