1 QUICK FACTS ABOUT PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: - Partners HealthCare was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital - Now, Partners HealthCare, is a massive Boston-based non-profit hospital and physicians network - According to the Boston Globe, by 2008 Partners became Massachusetts's "largest private employer and its biggest healthcare provider, treating more than a third of hospital
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experiencing (Rattue, 2011). As part of this legislation there are ten provisions, all which are important to comprehensive healthcare reform. Each provision addresses specific functions of the current healthcare delivery system including insurance, reimbursement, medications, and taxes. In this paper, specific provisions of the PPACA will be discussed as well as the legal implications of the legislation. Provisions The PPACA has ten provisions which supply legal guidance for the health care reforms
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Oncology Services- There are several risk factors affecting the community if cancer treatment isn’t addressed in an appropriate manner. New cancer cases are expected to grow at a 34% rate in the next five years and currently the facilities and equipment to diagnose and treat patients is not able to keep up with the growth of cancer patient volume and physicians and nurses say that the available services are disorganized and poorly put together. This is a visible risk to the community and Trinity Hospital
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create a list of what the needs of the employees might be. In the U.S. today many companies are made up of a diverse workforce and making a cost-effective and employee-friendly decision when it comes to employee benefits can be difficult. In this case, the company is looking at their benefits package as a means of saving money. Employee benefits can be used to by employers to strengthen the relationship with their employees. So, when choosing the best benefits package it is very important to consider
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(McGonigle & Garver Mastrian, 2012, p. 554). The CIS that is used at Texas Health Dallas is CareConnect. CareConnect is used by all of the Texas Health Resources (THR) encompassing 25 hospitals, affiliated physician offices, and ancillary facilities. CareConnect allows physicians and management to access the system on their mobile devices and home computer for real time data. The shift for CIS is set for implementation throughout the United States by 2015. The clients served are those in
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outpatient, physician, and other services. Medicare Parts A and B are known as original Medicare or Medicare FFS. Medicare beneficiaries have the option of obtaining coverage for Medicare Part A and B services from private health plans that participate in Medicare's MA program, also known as Medicare Part C. All Medicare beneficiaries may purchase coverage for outpatient prescription drugs under Medicare Part D. Medicare is sometimes described as a heavy-handed, dictated reimbursement entitlement
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The Economics of Health Care Quality and Medical Errors Charles Andel, Stephen L. Davidow, Mark Hollander, and David A. Moreno Charles Andel, MBA, BSRT, is Manager of Radiology Quality and Compliance at Loyola University Medical Center and a graduate of Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business MBA in Healthcare Management program. He may be reached at cjandel@lumc.edu. Stephen L. Davidow, MBA, APR, is a health care marketing and communications professional with a strong focus
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Health & Medical Informatics Review Article Raghupathi and Raghupathi, J Health Med Informat 2013, 4:3 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-7420.1000132 Open Access An Overview of Health Analytics Wullianallur Raghupathi1* and Viju Raghupathi2 1 2 Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA Finance and business management, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA Abstract Objectives: We examine the emerging health analytics field by describing
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Best Practices in Implementing Work-Life Balance Programs Srirang Jha Apeejay School of Management, New Delhi E-mail: sjha.asm@gmail.com Swarn Kant Mishra Footwear Design & Development Institute, Noida E-mail: mishra.swarnkant@gmail.com Abstract Work-life balance programs are important for contemporary organizations not only for ensuring long-term wellbeing and good health of the employees but also to attain long-term competitiveness. There have been a number of researches establishing
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Healthcare Facility Equipment Acquisition Cost Analysis Project Professor Class 19 August 2012 Abstract Acquisition Background An equipment acquisition proposal had been received by a health care organization for a medical array machine. The array machine will allow the hospital to perform in-house autoimmunity tests rather than sending them off site to a reference laboratory. The off-site laboratory currently has a two day turn around time and charges the hospital $10 per test. The
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