Access to Insurance Versus Access to Care October 23, 2011 Access to Insurance Versus Access to Care Access to insurance means that a person has a contract where a company will reimburse either the person or health care professional for treatment of a certain disease process or medical problem. However, one may have insurance for a condition but not be able to access care for that condition. This can arise for several reasons including physical proximity to the care being rendered, available
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Health Care Reform By: Tamika Williams August 2, 2014 HCS/235 In the United States, health care reform is a major topic that many people are talking about and how the sources available will help Americans with health care. During the presidential election in 2008, health care reform was a great deal for them to promote the ideas to helping health care but no one actually can explain how it was going to become resolved. America was to the final point, where we as people, thought that the biggest
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A N A S S E S S M E N T O F T H E SAFETY NET in Detroit, Michigan Urgent Matters The George Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services Department of Health Policy Acknowledgments The Urgent Matters safety net assessment team would like to thank our community partner, the Voices of Detroit Initiative (VODI), for its help in identifying key safety net issues in Detroit and connecting us with stakeholders in the community. At VODI, Lucille
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Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program Student Name Name of Instructor University Location of School Date Introduction The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was initially created in the U.S. in 1997 in an effort to respond to the needs of millions of children that lacked health insurance coverage. Although the primary focus of the program was to assist in improving the access to health care services among children, it was also a relief to parents who
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Population health is defined as the organized, all inclusive method to health care, the division of health outcomes in a population, the determining factors that affect the distribution of care, and the policies and interventions that influence, and are influenced by the determining factors. The population health framework seeks to repair a health care system what is considered ineffective, and economically unfair, and managed poorly. Some of the attributes of population health are it is centered
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Smart Health Care System - A Smart way for a Healthier world Usual problems that we come across in most of our health care systems are raising costs, inconsistent quality, and limited access to timely care. What we need to realise is that our health care system is not a ‘system’ yet. There is indeed an urgent need to work on this area and bring about improvements in the overall quality
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Policy: SCOPE: This policy impacts all staff and departments in National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services PURPOSE: This policy demonstrates a commitment to a comprehensive linguistic and cultural competency plan and describes how it will meet the linguistic and cultural needs of the residents it serves. The objectives of this policy include the following: 1. To ensure that National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services is aware of and identifies enrollees who may need additional
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concepts are used in health care to determine the accessibility as well as availability of health care to the public. The tools are also fundamental in determining the quality of health care services and facilities that are availed to different categories of people. Various key players in the industry hold critical roles in determining the nature of services offered at public as well as in private institutions although the government has a more significant role in regulating the health care industry. In
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Effective Controls of Health Care Information Michael Lewis CMGT/400 April 15, 2014 Kevin Hutchison Effective Controls of Health Care Information Protecting health care information has been a constant battle for the health care industry. Understanding and executing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) has proven to be challenging because of the availability of health care information. Electronic Health Care (EHC) has taken
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Affordable Care Act into law. There is no denying that Healthcare reform is a necessity at this point. Something absolutely has to change in America’s Healthcare. “It seems clear that if we continue down the path of healthcare delivery we current practice in this country, even if it is practiced a bit more efficiently, we will have failed. We will bankrupt this country, and the health of our citizens will continue to decline” (Riley, 2009). The question remains however, is the Affordable Care Act the
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