...New to Health Care Technology in the health care has changed over the years with medical developments and techniques, to help those in need. Advances in the technology span from innovations that make data collection, entry, recording, and tracking easier; to 3-D imaging, which enhancing body images. Methods that can protect when individuals come into contact against viruses. There are also techniques and mechanics that make at home health care easier for patients and their families. With the new health care reform being set in place focusing on creating products that can deliver faster, less costly, and more efficient patient care is something companies are focusing more on. The article I chose pertains to digital health. Digital health care consist of the use of information and communication technologies to aid in public health problems and challenges patients come into contact with. This article was chosen because I feel that the outcome from it will greatly assist people in so many different areas. Especially being that I feel digital health is very important to the receiving, viewing, and analytics of health information on a larger scale in order to better educate people about it. Health Care Exchanges (HIEs) play a big role in the communication between hospitals as well as ambulatory care centers. HIEs allow healthcare information to be shared electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system. The composures of (HIEs) add to Electronic...
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...Disease in the News Lynn Adams HCS/245 August 28, 2012 Dr. Gail Hollins, PhD, RN Disease in the News According to Encylopedia.com (2012), West Nile virus is a disease that is sweeping North America that is normally spread by mosquitos, ticks, or other arthropods. This disease generally affects the nervous system and can lead to terminal encephalitis or meningitis, which are inflammations of the spinal cord and brain ("West Nile," 2012). On August 27, 2012, I read an article online titled “West Nile virus: Should you be worried?” By: Jennifer LaRue Huget of The Washington Post. This article is in reference to the disease trend known as West Nile and reflects on the number of Americans that have died from the West Nile virus from the time when it was detected in 1999. Within the readings, just last week; The Centers for Disease Control reported that more people in the United States have shown symptoms of infection with West Nile virus at this particular time this year than any other year since the virus was first detected in New York in 1999. In addition, 1,118 people had been diagnosed and 41 have died with West Nile since August 21, 2012 (Huget, 2012). In 2012, The Centers for Disease Control stated that 20 percent of persons infected with West Nile virus will show signs of illness usually 3-14 days after being bitten and those who do not will experience mild cases such as fever, pain, aches, vomiting, rash and inflamed lymph glands. Although these cases require...
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...labo PHYSICAL T TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY: This technolo even after treatments need therapies and so role in giving post he CONTRIBUTION IN USA: Physical th numbers in schools, rehabiliation houses a EFFECT ON CLINICIANS AND ORGAN as they are not getting complaints of po organizations are getting benefit LIFE SUPPO TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY: The techn support system for coma CONTRIBUTION IN USA: The life suppo rate in USA and is benefitt rate in USA and is benefitt EFFECT ON CLINICIANS AND ORGAN revolution for health care organizations Health care organizations also benefits eco Refernces: http://cse.unl.edu/gem/essays/09-10/MS3.pdf Part II 1. One trend that has affected the health care in USA is the rising cost of the health care services. 2. One important factor that has greatest impact on the health care utilization pattern is the introd References: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/04/barack-obama/obama-said-health-care-prem ENDOWRIST TECHNOLOGY F TECHNOLOGY: This technology is related to robotics where robots are being designed to carry out special surgeries. RIBUTION IN USA: Large number of USA hospitals are preferring this ogy as it is cost effective. In 2009 around 50% surgery was performed by Endowrist technology. ON CLINICIANS AND ORGANIZATIONS: The technology have reduce or errors which occurs during surgery by other procedures. Organizations are getting benefitted as labour charge is getting decrease. PHYSICAL THERAPIST ...
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...Proposal for a New Health Care System XXXXX HCA/210 Proposal for a New Health Care System The government or insurance companies are not entirely responsible of reducing the expenditures on health care. Health care is the responsibility of the entire nation, in which everybody should contribute to change the system, and the quality of their lives making changes for their own benefit. People should have a better education, alimentation, and access to the basic health care, if these could be possible the country could have a better life status. Parents, relatives, teachers, nurses, doctors, insurance companies, government and many more institutions could contribute to this change providing valuable information to the people helping them to obtain a better quality of life. With this object in mind, the entire society will make a difference in the health care system, as well as improve the quality of life for everybody. My proposal includes four changes needed to restructure the system and offer a better quality of life to everybody. These changes are standardize the salaries of specialist, physicians, and medical personnel; cut some funds in some areas of the system; implement educational programs in schools, jobs, and medical facilities; and the implementation of a system in which every individual is covered by some form of health insurance. Health care needs a better structure in its system, standardizing the payment of the specialist and medical...
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...Targeted Therapy: A New Generation of Health Care Innovation Michael A. Kline University of Phoenix HCA/210 Introduction to Health Care Jon Lasell February 9, 2014 Targeted Therapy: A New Generation of Health Care Innovation Could targeted therapy be the “new” trend in fighting degenerative cancer genes that are affect nearly 13,000,000 people in the world? Scientific and technological advances and in the health care system have, and will continue to change as long as there are researchers willing and able to create new innovations for the continuum of care. There is no general definition for molecular or targeted therapy. Targeted therapy can block the growth and spread of cancer, thus preventing cancer cells from dividing or destroying. The idea behind this therapy is to create drugs that attack molecular pathways that cause disease, without upsetting the normal functions of other cells and tissues throughout the human body. The American Cancer Society list Breast cancer as the second cause of death in women, right behind brain and other nervous system cancers. Over, 2,000,000 women have been diagnosed with HER2 positive breast cancer, and this number will continue to rise and fall. Targeted therapy has already had a significant improvement for the outcomes for patients with HER2 positive breast cancer. However, Chemotherapy continues to be the mainstream way for cancer treatments because of evaluations on safety and ability from the drug combinations of...
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...In 1607, the early English colonists left their mother country and disembarked at the Jamestown Island in confidence even though they knew hard times had awaited them ahead. By the year of 1611, the percentage of the colonists’ death had rose to eighty. This enhanced the history of their settlement and made the people after them questioning the season of their deaths in New England. So here I give you the answer. The English colonists left without thoroughly filling their ship what needed to maintain their health. They packed their ship with many gentlemen, laborers, tailors, goldsmiths, but only one or very few doctors, surgeons, pharmacists [document C]. Because of the lack of health care, about one fifth of the number could not endure...
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...T. 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 San Francisco Medical Center in March 2007. Additional information was obtained from presentations, telephone interviews, or e-mail communications with the individuals named in the acknowledgments; from information and documents available on the organization’s Web site (www.kp.org) and from regulatory filings; and from other presentations and publications cited below. 3 A summary of findings from all case studies in the series can be found in D. McCarthy and K. Mueller, Organizing for Higher Performance: Case Studies of Organized Delivery Systems. Series Overview, Findings, and Methods (New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 2009). 4 For examples, see A. C. Enthoven and L. A. Tollen, “Epilogue,” in Toward a 21st Century Health System, edited by A. C. Enthoven and L. A. Tollen (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004). 5 The Colorado region developed an EHR in collaboration with IBM Corporation that was fully functional by 1997. Physicians in the Northwest region...
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...Affordable Care Act By Year On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. The law puts in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will roll out over four years and beyond. Use the links below to learn about what’s changing and when: OVERVIEW OF THE HEALTH CARE LAW 2010: A new Patient's Bill of Rights goes into effect, protecting consumers from the worst abuses of the insurance industry. Cost-free preventive services begin for many Americans. See More 2010 Changes. 2011: People with Medicare can get key preventive services for free, and also receive a 50% discount on brand-name drugs in the Medicare “donut hole.” See More 2011 Changes. 2012: Accountable Care Organizations and other programs help doctors and health care providers work together to deliver better care. See More 2012 Changes. 2013: Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace begins on October 1st. See More 2013 Changes. 2014: All Americans will have access to affordable health insurance options. The Marketplace allows individuals and small businesses to compare health plans on a level playing field. Middle and low-income families will get tax credits that cover a significant portion of the cost of coverage. And the Medicaid program will be expanded to cover more low-income Americans. All together, these reforms mean that millions of people who were previously uninsured will gain coverage, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. See More 2014 Changes. 2010 NEW CONSUMER...
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...Health Care Utilization Kelly A Faust HCS/235 July 21, 2015 Dr Lisa Church Health care in the United States is teetering on the edge; it will either turn into universal health care or become too expensive for the majority of Americans. Recent health care reform has been developed to lower the cost of health care and make it more widely available. However, health care in the United State may start trending towards becoming a universal system. There are many arguments to both sides of health care reform and universal health care. The Affordable Care Act is one of the most recent and controversial of the health care reform acts. The Affordable Care Act was created to lower the costs of health care for patients, providers, and the United States government. The Affordable Care Act is estimated to “reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $100 billion over the first decade and by more than $1 trillion between 2020 and 2030” (Orszag & Emanuel, 2010, para. 3). On top of saving the government money the Affordable Care Act also expands the access to health care. Starting in 2014 patients cannot be decline health insurance coverage due to a pre-existing condition. This will allow patients who have been without health insurance for at least six months to get insurance no matter their income (The United States Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). Allow all patients to get health insurance will help lower the cost of premiums for those who already have insurance...
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...Funding the Rising Cost of U.S. Health Care. BY Vilando. HSA500 November 15, 2015 Funding the Rising Cost of U.S. Health Care. The United States continues to spend significantly more on health care than any country in the world, however, even though with this statistics the U.S has a lot of uninsured and does not have the healthiest citizens. In this paper, opinions will be given on the rising cost of overall’s health care’s impact in the U.S economy, followed by a comparising and contrasting factors impacted by the new health care act, pros and cons of using the private insurance rather than using the new health care reforms and the cost associated with its implementation and access to different groups will also be discussed. Rising Cost of Health Care The cost of the U.S health care system is higher than any country in the world. Its efficiency is also under serious scrutiny. If it was not an emergency, most physicians would require insurance verification. Therefore patients will be delayed of treatment. Moreover, the health care system in the U.S should be redesigned in terms of prevention rather than treatment with people who are already sick. Insurance should not go higher for people that have pre-existing conditions or with more health risk. Also the emergence and new discoveries in the field of medical...
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...Health Care System in Turmoil Alice Felton MHA 622 Healthcare Ethics & Law Dr. Teresita Gonzalez August 5, 2012 Health Care System in Turmoil The current health care system in the United States is in turmoil for many years because of two major problems which continues to be: patient access to care and the cost of care. There are well over 50 million Americans who continue to be uninsured today and a national health care tax called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has been passed and challenged and upheld by the United States Supreme Court, as a tax not a law, here recently which is suppose to be an answer to most of our health care insurance issues. Even though most Americans may agree that our health care system is in turmoil and needs to be reformed, not everyone agrees that a national health care tax is the solution. In the United States as the health care system continues to be in turmoil the patients are continuing to struggle to keep their medical care and that can be either if they are trying to maintain at least a standard of care or just simply hoping that the medical facility that they may prefer, such as a local hospital or community center will be able to stay in business, or that they will have continued accessed to emergency rooms even if they are the uninsured. In the midst of this health care system turmoil there are other segments in the health care sector that may be experiencing financial problems, such...
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...Engaging the Health Care Workforce The restructuring of the health care industry and ongoing efforts to improve quality are changing how the work of health care is organized. Many health care workers are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Some are excited by these changes and the new opportunities they create. Others are unsure about whether their training has adequately prepared them for the dramatic changes that are taking place. While understanding the need for change, many of these workers are asking for more of a voice in the process of change. The challenge for industry leaders is to harness the tremendous talent, energy and commitment of the ten million people who have been drawn to work in the health care industry because of its strong sense of mission. In order to improve the quality of health care, they must build a health care workforce that is strongly dedicated to caring for patients, knowledgeable and well trained, committed to continuous quality improvement and cooperative work, secure in their employability, confident in the safety of their work, fairly compensated, and competent in caring for the wide diversity of the American people. RECOMMENDATIONS The training of physicians, nurses, and other health care workers must change to meet the demands of a changing health care industry. Education and training of health workers should provide those individuals with greater experience in working in interdisciplinary teams, the provision of care in nonhospital...
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...Introduction A major goal of health care reform is to provide affordable health insurance to millions of Americans who are currently uninsured. The new health care reform is a process and will take years to be fully implemented however there will be visible changes seen over the next few years. Without a doubt people who are uninsured will probably be most affected by the new health care reform. New Regulations The bottom line is that there are too many individuals in this country who do not have health care insurance. There are many reasons for the large population of people who are uninsured. The cost of health care is a major factor for people who are uninsured. The new health care reform focuses on the large population of uninsured and the high cost of health care as well. Under new regulations, any individual who does not have health insurance because they are unemployed, don't make enough to afford it, or can't get coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition will have easier access to health care by 2014. By 2014, many uninsured people are going to find affordable coverage, either with a subsidy or through Medicaid. The subsidy will be based on their income. The result will be that many people who could not afford health care insurance in the past will find health care easier to access and more affordable. Consequences It is great that the government has finally acknowledged one of the main factors that have caused so many people to be...
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...The Role of Technology in Rising Health Care Costs. What should or shouldn’t be done. Neha Para, MPH Student 5453-001 US Health Care System University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center December 8, 2010 Abstract Health care costs are a longstanding concern to policymakers. For years, health care spending has been rising faster than the rate of economic growth, raising the question of what factors are responsible for rising health care costs. This paper explores published articles that report results from research conducted on technological innovations in health care and its relation to rising health care costs. The cost increases have a significant effect on households, businesses, and government programs. Health care experts indicates the development and diffusion of medical technology as primary factors in explaining the persistent difference between health spending and overall economic growth, with some arguing that new medical technology may account for about one-half or more of real long-term spending growth. Rising health care expenditures lead to the question of whether we are getting value for the money we spend. On an average, increases in medical spending as a result of advances in medical care have provided reasonable value. An alternative viewpoint holds that although new technologies represent medical advances, they are prone to overuse and thereby excess cost. Most of the suggestions to slow the growth in new medical technology in the U.S. focus on...
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...Health Care Reform: Impact on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Economics November 7, 2015 Health Care Reform: Impact on Economics, Patient Safety and Quality of Care With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, never before in the history of the United States has there been a more opportune time to cater to the stakeholders, American citizens, and health care industry to improve quality and the way in which health care is delivered. Health care reform has changed and improved the entire spectrum of the health care environment. The three primary goals of the ACA are; consumer protection, improving quality/ lowering cost and increasing access to affordable care (DHHS 2014). Health care reform has affected all three of these goals and have impacted both positively and negatively, patient safety, quality of care and American economics. Impact of Health Care Reform on the Economy According to a study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), there have been substantial savings in Healthcare costs. One major reason for the savings is preventative health care. Preventative healthcare saves money on prevention and early detection of illnesses and diseases. The result is people don’t have to wait until their illness becomes so serious that they end up having to go to an emergency room for costly procedures. It has also lowered heath care cost by making preventative health care available and affordable for 33 million Americans who would...
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