...Healthcare Ecosystems Task 1 Abstract In response to the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (Reconciliation Act), collectively referred to as healthcare reform” (); Wishard-Eskenazi Health of Indianapolis, Indiana has begun to make milestone changes to meet the requirements of the healthcare reform. Being a leader in today’s technology which began thirty years ago with development of one of the nation’s first electronic medical record and continues to excel in the healthcare informatics technology today continues to use this technology in quality improvement initiatives, support for future technology research and improving the quality care of the patient. Wishard-Eskenazi Health remains true to their mission statement and provides a multitude of services to accomplish this statement. With the many legislative changes being brought forward today’s hospitals are forever changing and improving the quality of care provided to the patient. In response to the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (Reconciliation Act), collectively referred to as healthcare reform” ( Basini, 2012); two of Indianapolis, Indiana hospitals have launched a partnership. Community Health Network and Wishard-Eskenazi Health agree to launch this partnership to assist each other in meeting the requirements of the of the Healthcare reform act. Together...
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...Baptist Health, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky is the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in the state. The vision of this HCO is to be nationally recognized as a healthcare leader in the state of Kentucky. Baptist Health was originally founded in 1924 as a single 120 bed hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Expansions in 1953 with the addition of Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky and in 1954 with the addition of Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky created the foundation for the HCO known today as Baptist Health (Welcome to Baptist Health hospitals and clinics in Kentucky, 2013). Baptist Health has expanded on this foundation to become the largest HCO in the state with seven owned hospitals and two managed hospitals. Along with the hospital initiative, Baptist Health has begun to employ physicians, their practices and assets. By doing so, the HCO is positioning itself for increased competition in the Louisville market and across the state. This economic trend will take Baptist Health into the future and continue its vision to be nationally recognized as a healthcare leader in the state of Kentucky. With national health care reform driving the way that healthcare is delivered to patients, Baptist Health with its acquisitions of hospitals and physician practices the HCO will be able to meet the national regulations and still deliver quality patient care. At the end of the fiscal year 2011 Baptist Health employed 230 physicians...
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...EMPOWERING THE NEW HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM 2 EMPOWERING THE NEW HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM Today, the healthcare industry finds itself on the threshold of a new era in which key stakeholders, empowered by technology, are breaking down barriers and redefining what’s possible in medical care. Find out how IT is shaping this new healthcare ecosystem. A NEW ERA Never before has the healthcare industry offered so much hope amid so much uncertainty. In the last decade, we have seen the unlocking of the human genome, which has put personalized and predictive medicine within reach for the first time in history. Advances in biomedicine and pharmaceuticals are achieving unprecedented success against formerly intractable diseases. And the next generation of information technology is sparking innovation across the healthcare value chain. Yet we are also living in a time of great economic and social upheaval, with healthcare businesses and organizations contending with extraordinary new financial, demographic, and regulatory pressures. A challenging global economy continues to strain the bottom lines of providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies - not to mention the businesses and taxpayers who ultimately foot the bill. What’s more, the economics of healthcare are set to become even tougher in the years ahead as aging populations in industrial countries place new demands on both private and public healthcare systems. Tighter finances and thinning margins have made cost cutting and operational...
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...Technology Office The ‘big data’ revolution in healthcare Accelerating value and innovation January 2013 Peter Groves Basel Kayyali David Knott Steve Van Kuiken Contents The ‘big data’revolution in healthcare: Accelerating value and innovation 1 Introduction1 Reaching the tipping point: A new view of big data in the healthcare industry 2 Impact of big data on the healthcare system 6 Big data as a source of innovation in healthcare 10 How to sustain the momentum 13 Getting started: Thoughts for senior leaders 17 1 The ‘big data’ revolution in healthcare: Accelerating value and innovation Introduction An era of open information in healthcare is now under way. We have already experienced a decade of progress in digitizing medical records, as pharmaceutical companies and other organizations aggregate years of research and development data in electronic databases. The federal government and other public stakeholders have also accelerated the move toward transparency by making decades of stored data usable, searchable, and actionable by the healthcare sector as a whole. Together, these increases in data liquidity have brought the industry to the tipping point. Healthcare stakeholders now have access to promising new threads of knowledge. This information is a form of “big data,” so called not only for its sheer volume but for its complexity, diversity, and timeliness.1 Pharmaceutical-industry experts, payors, and...
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...Healthcare Ecosystems LLT Task 2 Jacqueline Sanders Western Governors University Healthcare facilities are required to maintain licensure, certification, and accreditation in order to receive payments from federal government programs such as Medicare. Healthcare facilities must meet the minimum standards in order to operate, such as sufficient staffing, personnel employed to provide services, the quality of equipment, buildings, and supplies, and services provided, including health records. (LaTour, 2013) Medicare has developed Conditions of Participation and Conditions for Coverage, which identifies specific criteria that must be met in order to receive reimbursement from Medicare. Medicare implements these guidelines in order to set a standard for improving quality of care and maintaining the health and safety of its beneficiaries. (CMS, 2013) State agencies conduct annual surveys of licensed facilties to ensure they are operating at or above the minimum standards set forth by the sate and CMS. It is imperative for licensed healthcare agencies to meet the guidelines of the Conditions of Participation in order to receive reimbursement, if they do not meet the minimum standards they could be unable to participate with Medicare, thus losing patients and revenue. Physician Quality Reporting System requires healthcare providers and hospitals to meet clinical quality standards and record them. Physician Quality Reporting System is a program implemented by Medicare that...
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...GGS IP University, New Delhi INDEX S.no | Topic | Page no. | Signature | 1 | Introduction | 3 | | 2 | Objective | 4 | | 3 | Findings | 5 | | 4 | Conclusion | 12 | | 5 | References | 13 | | Introduction In spite of having a large publicly funded science and technology infrastructure and a sizeable education base, India has not been able to realize its innovative potential due to a fragmented innovation ecosystem. The government of India has taken many initiatives towards strengthening the innovation ecosystem, the most important of which are: i) the establishment of the National Innovation Council, whose mandate is to coordinate various innovation-related activities, and ii) the new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2013, which is intended to promote entrepreneurship and science-led solutions for sustainable and inclusive growth. This article describes the current innovation ecosystem and the challenges it faces, and it discusses the efforts made by the government towards the promotion of innovation. With the implementation of this new policy the early indications are that India is poised to take a big leap towards innovation-led growth. In March 2010, Mrs. Pratibha Patil, 12th President of India, announced the government's vision by declaring the current decade as the "Decade of Innovation" (Nation Innovation Council, 2010). Several challenges to the desired creation of an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship development are a cause for concern. However...
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...THE TUCK SCHOOL AT DARTMOUTH MinuteClinic Bringing Change to Healthcare Delivery Peter Albro, Bill Aull, Ryan Fitzgerald, John Goldsmith, Tom Harris, Jon Mohraz 11/14/2008 Introduction In 1999, consumers of the US healthcare industry had a myriad of frustrations to choose from when seeking medical assistance: lack of convenience, no focus on customer service, limitations from insurance providers, billing inefficiency and confusion, and very opaque pricing. One grumbler, Steve Pontius, had an epiphany during an all too common experience when seeking medical coverage for his kids. After waiting for three hours at an urgent care clinic for what he thought was an ear infection, the physician diagnosed in three minutes what Pontius had predicted. Additionally, only after the visit to the doctor had he figured out that his insurance company did not cover treatment at this particular clinic, so Pontius would have to pay hundreds of dollars out of his own pocket to pay for the visit with the doctor.1 Sensing a business opportunity, Pontius, along with Rick Krieger and Douglas Smith, partnered to start MinuteClinic, the retail medical treatment clinic that is widely regarded as the beginning of the convenient care clinic (CCC) movement. Also known as retail based clinics, these facilities are small medical operations located within a larger retail operation such as Target or CVS. They offer a limited scope of medical services and are primarily characterized by...
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...1. INTRODUCTION Economics deals with the economic activities of man. It deals with production, consumption and distribution of wealth. The economic factors play a vital role in the very aspect of our social life. Total development of individual depends very much on economic factors. Without economic conditions, the study of society is quite impossible. All the social problems are directly connected with the economic conditions of the people. That is why Marshall defines Economics as "on one side the study of wealth and on the other and more important side a part of the study of man." Startups have been the flavour of the season over the last few years for the Indian markets. This has resulted into the emergence of a number of home grown unicorns...
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...RLTT Task 1 The healthcare industry in today’s day and age has become an ecosystem of its own with the development of different technology combined with modern day medicine. These technological advances in medicine and machines have allowed the world to diagnose and treat billions of individuals across the world. The problem associated with care of a patient is the monetary factor in helping the needy or people without insurance. One of the hardest things for any parent to watch is for their own child to suffer and not be able to have them treated and cared for. The organization in discussion today will be Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas for children. This is an organization that is doing great things for families and children that cannot afford life saving care for children regardless of the ability to pay or carry a health insurance policy. Changes in current economic times and different health care reforms will soon change for this hospital on how it cares for children with technology and billing in the future. A. In the past 91 years of operation this hospital has never turned a child away because of the families in ability to pay. Since 1921 this hospital has grown and opened other locations all across the United States with the same promise to help children with disabilities that plagued the country with Polio. Funding from a group of individuals known as the Masons was able to help children in need with disabilities from Polio and other muscular diseases. At...
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...Assignment 3 What lessons can other companies learn from Apple’s strategies over the year? Introduction Since the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Incorporation, the company regains its influence and expands to embrace millions of customers worldwide with its increasing brand value of USD $98.3 billion (Mourdoukoutas, 2013). In global market nowadays, it is rare for other companies to imitate Apple’s influencing brand with high customer loyalty. Most Apple product users call themselves as an Apple fan rather than a customer and worship Apple brand as a religion, which shows a strong bond between customers and Apple (Milian, 2011a). Moreover, 59% iPhone owners admit blind loyalty to the brand that they exclude other brands while making purchasing decisions (Kelly, 2014). Apple’s achievement on brand building has reached a level where most companies can only dream for, but it takes more than ordinary marketing to achieve that. Apple’s success can be summarized into cult branding and product innovation. Cult Branding Unlike the traditional marketing which promotes products to customers, Apple’s cult brand creates its own unique customer ‘community’ to share the ideology for a better lifestyle associated with the brand and products (Schneiders, 2011). In order to attract more people to join Apple’s ‘community’, it frequently shares its company’s belief via movement marketing activities with emotional attachment to build a bond with its target market. Instead of simply telling what...
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...Ethic and Corporate Responsibility 2 Nehemiah Leary Legal 500 Professor Morris In our society, we as consumers are continuously being bombarded by advertising ads on T.V and billboards and highways to promote the latest product. a user isn’t always looking at the product or reading the safety warning on the item; they are only looking at who and what athlete and movie star promotes this latest product. For example, Gatorade always uses high profile athletes or famous people to promote its product. These ads provide a sublime message. These Ads are gear to get the consumer to buy their product. In order for me to be like MJ, I have to drink Gatorade. There has been a shift over the last couple of years in product safety. According to Chandra, “product safety has become a major problem for businessmen, consumers and the government” (Chandran, 1979). Advertising can be both influential and persuasive. It presents an issue of product safety. The Consumer Product Safety Commission threatened to ask Congress to give it greater authority. Advertising is protected under the First Amendment, but there has to be limits. “While advertising does not directly contribute to all product related accidents, it does, inadvertently, have the power to promote unsafe behavior” (Chandran, 1979). Advertising indirectly contributes to the problem of consumer product safety. “Advertisers and advertising agencies should therefore do more to educate consumers in a safe and prudent use of products...
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...Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) A vehicle to usher in inclusive growth and bridge the digital divide January 2011 www.deloitte.com/in 2 Contents Message from Chairman, TRAI Message from President, ASSOCHAM Message from Secretary General, ASSOCHAM Message from Deloitte Objective & Methodology Executive Summary Introduction What is MVAS? What is Utility MVAS? Key categories in Utility MVAS A Framework for Utility MVAS Drivers for Utility MVAS Categories in focus Category 1 : M-Commerce Category 2 : M-Education Category 3 : M-Health Category 4 : M-Governance Current state of Utility MVAS in India Utility MVAS: Challenges Utility MVAS: Potential solutions Utility MVAS: Suggested implementation approach Acknowledgements Notes Authors 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 15 18 18 20 21 26 27 33 40 46 51 54 56 62 64 65 68 Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) - A vehicle to usher in inclusive growth and bridge the digital divide 3 Message from Chairman, TRAI I would like to compliment the ASSOCHAM for bringing out a Study Report on Mobile Value Added Services – A Vehicle to Usher in Inclusive Growth and Bridge the Digital Divide in India. Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) have assumed significant importance in recent times due to the rapid growth in wireless subscriber base. They have enhanced the utility of mobile phone as a powerful medium to deliver information viz., News, Entertainment, Advertisement, Music, Games, Commerce, Education and Health. Simultaneously, they help...
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...Should all farming be organic? 1.0 The two main types of farming this report will look into are: (1) Organic agriculture- Organic farming (2) Modern Agriculture- Intensive farming Organic farming (as defined by the Codex Alimentarius Commission) is a holistic production management system that avoids use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and genetically modified organisms, minimizes pollution of air, soil and water, and optimizes the health and productivity of interdependent communities of plants, animals and people 1. To achieve this, organic farming relies on a number of objectives and principles, as well as common practices designed to minimise the human impact on the environment, while ensuring the agricultural system operates as naturally as possible2. Typical organic farming practices include2: • Wide crop rotation as a prerequisite for an efficient use of on-site resources • Very strict limits on chemical synthetic pesticide and synthetic fertiliser use, livestock antibiotics, food additives and processing aids and other inputs • Prohibition of the use of genetically modified organisms • Taking advantage of on-site resources, such as livestock manure for fertiliser or feed produced on the farm • Choosing plant and animal species that are resistant to disease and adapted to local conditions • Raising livestock in free-range, open-air systems and providing them with organic feed • Using animal husbandry practices appropriate to different livestock species ...
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...1 Living on another planet: How would we do it, why, and where? GS 1140 2 Part 1 3 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was formally launched on October 1, 1958, with its headquarters in Washington DC. This was the creation of a pronounced history of distinctive scientific and technological triumphs in human space flight, aeronautics, space science, and space applications. NASA had originally believed itself to be the leader in space technology and missile development however when the Soviet Union satellite Sputnik 1 was successfully launched into space while the first two US launches had failed they were proved to be wrong. This led to the Sputnik crisis. Immediately the space race began and NASA quickly employed possibilities for human space flight. Project Mercury was NASA’s first prestigious program, which was exploring whether or not humans could survive in space. With Project Mercury’s success Project Gemini was to follow, with a spacecraft built for two astronauts. With Project Apollo in 1969, Apollo 11 was launched and NASA put the first astronauts on the moon. Several test projects were to follow in the early 70’s. The Space Shuttle program was born in 1981 and it still continues today to assist with the building of the International Space Station. In addition to their heroic achievements NASA’s humanitarian efforts are unmatched. This year NASA will begin to provide educational camps for underprivileged middle school children...
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...Cloud computing A collection of working papers Thomas B Winans John Seely Brown Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently dismissed without catching the improvements to hosting called utility computing that permit near realtime, policy-based control of computing resources. Or it may be interpreted to mean only data center hosting rather than understood to be the significant shift in Internet application architecture that it is. Perhaps it is the name. Certainly it is more nebulous than mnemonic, if you’ll pardon the poor pun. We happen to think so too. We’d rather use the term service grid, frankly, but that name also has its problems. The fact is that cloud and service grid computing are paradigmatically different from their common interpretations, and their use can shed light on how internet architectures are constructed and managed. Cloud computing represents a different way to architect and remotely manage computing resources. One has only to establish an account with Microsoft or Amazon or Google to begin building and deploying application systems into a cloud. These systems can be, but certainly are not restricted to being, simplistic. They can be web applications that require only http services. They might require a relational database. They might require web service infrastructure and message queues...
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