Important Attributes Of Quality Health Care: Consumer Perspectives - Brief Article IMPORTANT ATTRIBUTES OF QUALITY HEALTH CARE: CONSUMER PERSPECTIVES M H Oermann, T Templine Journal of Nursing Scholarship Vol 32 no 2 (1998) 167-172 Personnel at contemporary health care agencies are identifying patient outcomes to evaluate services and patient care. This research focuses on consumer perspectives of high quality health care. Consumer perspectives or expectations have been found to be based on demographic
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towards health has created a new wave among health care attendants. The American citizenry has become more concerned with their health. The level at which people are concerned with lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure has increased the demand for health care. Most citizens are attending health care sessions to know about their level of sugar and their pressure rates. There has been an increase of attention towards the aging in the society. The aging population has health issues
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Shih, K. Davis, S. Schoenbaum, A. Gauthier, R. Nuzum, and D. McCarthy, Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance (New York: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, Aug. 2008). 2 Information about Kaiser Permanente was synthesized in part from a presentation by CEO George Halvorson to a Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health Care System meeting in San Francisco, and from the Commission’s site visit to the Kaiser Permanente
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medical care to the Puget Sound’s Eastside residents. They opened their doors to the community on October 16th, 1960 and after multiple expansions, Overlake is now a 337 bed, level III trauma center. Overlake “offers a comprehensive range of services including cardiac care, cancer care, general and specialty surgery, women’s programs, senior care and psychiatric services” ("Overlake Hospital services," n.d.). The Affordable Care Act is a recent legislation that is changing our current health care system
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2014 Maria Mendez Vulnerable Population and Self-Awareness Vulnerable populations are groups that are not well integrated into the health care system because of ethnic, cultural, economic, geographic, or health characteristics (Urban Institute, 2014). The elderly can become more vulnerable for a variety of reasons. Limited options for health care, physical or mental impairments and lack of transportation all contribute to the elderly being classified as a vulnerable population. Demographics
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Social media is a rapidly growing and evolving driver of patient engagement and social change on a local, national and global scale. The impact of patient education and engagement through social media interaction is felt throughout the health care system and health care institutions and providers are adapting rapidly to accommodate the needs of an informed, involved patient population. The shifting patient-physician dynamic involved in electronic communications poses ethical and moral questions about
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With the inception of the Affordable Health Care Act, an estimated 32 million Americans are expected to join the ranks of those already insured, and the existing shortage of primary care physicians available to provide care will continue to increase (Fairman, Rowe, Hassmiller, & Shalala, 2011). Nurse practitioners are currently helping fill this gap by providing care to a large portion of this population. However, many nurse practitioners providing care are now limited in their practice due
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American Well: The Doctor Will E-See You Now Background American Well is the brain child of Ido and Roy Schoenberg. Brothers, cofounders, and physicians they founded this online company in an attempt to improve access and change the delivery of healthcare. By having physicians available online, it changes the interaction between patient and provider. In today’s healthcare model, the patient is subject to the provider’s schedule and may have to wait days, weeks, or even months to obtain an
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Setting priorities is one of the greatest concerned management roles (Dracopoulou, 1998), and this priorities will be hypothesis that patients get the equal treatment through assessing and applying their needs based on their financial and care. This is essential when a manager determine priorities for services, with the contribution of professionals’ duties to remain with the best interests of service user. There have a duty to be present ethically among manager and practitioner. Uncertainty, this
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Health Care Law, Regulations and Policy HCS/545 November 23, 2015 Health Care Law, Regulations and Policy Health Care law and legislation came about to define the scope of acceptable practice of clinicians, while protecting the public’s individual rights. Miller and Hutton states “Law can be defined as a system of principles and processes by which people who live in a society attempt to control human conduct to minimize the use of force in resolving conflicting interests.” When
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