...Taking a comprehensive look at the quality of healthcare for our senior citizens and answering the question why the United States has a epidemic of obesity and how we can stop it. Today, the health care systems have advanced by prolonging life expectancy and quality of life. Though, providing health care is not cheap and easy to do. Cost, accessibility, and quality is a challenge that they face in order to provide the people with healthcare. Learning and being aware of disease trends can provides us with invaluable knowledge in treating our elderly and preventing obesity in today's society.. The major tend that will influence healthcare in the future of the United States is when the generation known as the"baby boomers", who are the the fastest growing age groups and adults born between (1946 and 1964) will turn 65 in 2011.(1) This group of seniors will also have chronic health conditions as they age that will be the major cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States. The nations population is estimated to increase to to increase to 392 million by 2050 because life expectancy is projected to increase from 76.0 years in 1993 to 82.6 years in 2050. In 2050, life expectancy in the low assumption would be 75.3 years and in the high assumption would be 87.5 years. “About 30 percent of the population in 1994 were born during the Baby Boom. As this population ages, the median age will rise. People born during the Baby Boom will...
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...Chp 1 Questions: (pg 23-4) 1. a. What are some of the industries in the healthcare sector? Healthcare services (ex. hospitals), Health insurance (makes most of the payments to the health service providers), Medical equipment and supplies (maker of medical/diagnostic equipment), Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology (develop/market drugs/therapeutics), and "other" (which includes consulting, educational, government, and research agencies) b. What is meant by the term healthcare finance as used in this book? Healthcare Finance consists of both the accounting (which creates and provides useful operations and financial status information to interested internal and external parties for assessing financial and operation performance) and financial management (provides the theory, concepts, and tools necessary to help managers make better financial decisions) for the healthcare sector of the economy. c. What are the two broad areas of healthcare finance? Accounting and financial management (aka Corporate Finance) d. Why is it necessary to have a book on healthcare finance as opposed to a generic finance book? Healthcare services are dominated by both private and governmental not-for-profit corporations, which differ from investor-owned businesses (learned in a generic finance book) due to the majority of payments being made are from third-party payers (e.g., employers, commercial insurance companies, government programs). 2. What is the difference between...
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...Review Questions 1. What are diagnostics? How is this related to the health sciences? A diagnostic is to identify something. This relates to health science by you have to know what you are working on and how to do you need to identify it first. 2. What is trepanation? Why was this used? A trepanation is where a surge drills a hole in the patient head to release pressure. This is used to help people who are suffering with migraines or other head related injuries. 3. Describe three ways that healthcare is funded. Three ways that health care is funded is by taxation, social insurance, and private health insurance. 4. What are private healthcare sites? What are their characteristics? Private healthcare sites are where the office or hospital are ran by a for-profit company. The patient or insurance company pays for the bill. The characteristics for these is that they can give you more advance testing or having more staff and equipment since they cost more to go to them. 5. What is patient-centered care? Patient- centered care is to focus more on the patients and not just their illness. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Private health insurance is a common form of healthcare payment in the United States. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of private health insurance? Some advantages of private health insurance is more staff members, specialized services, and more equipment. But some disadvantages to this is how much it cost. Requires...
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...Chapter One 1. A. What are some of the industries in the healthcare sector? The major industries in the healthcare sector includes health services, health insurance, medical equipment and supplies, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and other (includes a diverse collection of organization ranging from consulting firms to educational institutions to government and private research agencies. B. What is meant by the term healthcare finance as used in the book? Finance, as the term is used within the health services industry and as it is used in the book, consists of both the accounting and financial management functions. C. What are the two broad areas of Healthcare Finance? Accounting as its name implies, concerns the recording, in financial terms, of economic events that reflect the operations, resources, and financing of an organization. Financial management or corporate finance, provides the theory, concepts, and tools necessary to help managers make better financial decisions. Certain aspects of accounting involve decision making, and much of the application of financial management theory and concepts requires accounting data. D. Why is it necessary to have a book on healthcare finance as opposed a generic finance book? The reason is that while all industries have certain individual characteristics, the health services industry it truly unique. 2. What is the difference between a business and a pure charity? A business such as a hospital or medical...
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...K**** I**** Grand Canyon University: Transcultural HealthCare February 28, 2016 Applying Purnell’s Model What is cultural competence? To be culturally competent healthcare provider one needs to understand their own world outlook and those of their patients, at the same time avoiding stereotyping and their own biases. Cultural competence is obtaining cultural data and then relating that knowledge. Cultural competence is a conscious ongoing process. Cultural awareness allows a healthcare provider to see the entire picture and improves the quality of care and health outcomes. Familiarizing ones self to different cultural beliefs and practices requires flexibility and a respect for others view points. Cultural competence requires the ability to listen to the patient, to learn about the patient’s beliefs of health and illness. The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence is a framework having detailed questions and a format that could be used to assess culture in healthcare setting. The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence in a healthcare setting place an importance on effective communication as well as the need to know the cultural views of patients. Purnell’s definition of cultural competence is, the totality of socially transmitted behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways, and all other products of human work and thought characteristics of a population of people that guide their worldview and decision making (Purnell, 2002,pg6-7). In other words...
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...490 November 25, 2013 Makala Pollard Communications Paper One communication device many healthcare’s use worldwide is the web-based healthcare forums (Url Wire, 1997). This web-based program allows doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and venders to communicate with one another all over the world. Web-based healthcare forums allow others who have the same interest to communicate with one another to gather up any question, experiences, and emotional support. The web portal has help health professionals improve patients care and the efficiency of delivering healthcare. These forums have been known to provide medical professionals with fast and secure exchange of health information for patients, pharmacies, laboratories, insurances, and other providers. A Benefit of Healthcare Forums Some patients may find web-based healthcare a plus cause they do not have to see their physician for little things like medication refills, viewing labs, diagnosis, and medication lists (EHR Bloggers, 2010). The number one benefit many will agree is quite amazing is emailing their physician and knowing the messaging system is secure. Patients have been known to pay extra to have more access to their primary physician (EHR Bloggers, 2010). This saves physicians and patients from having to see one another for unnecessary visits. Web-based healthcare systems can allow physicians to reveal test results to the patient through an e-mail or logging into their facilities site. This will save...
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...like surgeries being done on the wrong site, medication errors, health care acquired infections, falls, and diagnostic errors. Patient safety not only takes place in the hospital, doctors office, and rehab/nursing home facilities, but it also takes place in the home care setting. The Speak Up home care brochure is geared to inform that patient on what to speak up about in the home care setting and if the patient speaks up and the nurse of healthcare worker complies, more errors can be prevented. The home care brochure really gives that patient many options of questions to ask the nurse or healthcare working during their home care. It empowers that patient and hopefully helps them know what they are entitled to as a patient as far as home care, questions they should ask if they are concerned and for information purposes, and I hopefully helps the patient to not be not be afraid to ask question and to participate more in their care, which in turn will improve health care as a whole. Summary of Article The questions on this brochure range from checking credentials of the nurse or health care worker to asking the nurse or health care worker to explain each and every procedure they are performing and what medication they are giving. This brochure...
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...in Healthcare Outsourcing in the health care industry continues to grow in an effort to cut the raising cost, to increase efficiency and quality of care by hospitals nationwide. As annual healthcare spending in United States hit $3.8 trillion (Munro, 2014), and aging population in America is increasing with the retirement of baby boomers and higher demands for patient care, the cost of healthcare will continue to grow. In response to increasing cost, many hospitals will employ outsourcing to save money and combat rising costs. This paper will examine outsourcing trends in healthcare. Prevalence and Trends Outsourcing is not a new trend in healthcare. In the past, medical centers successfully outsourced support services, such as construction, IT, translation, laundry services, housekeeping and food services. Today, in an attempt to reduce rising cost of healthcare services, hospitals increasingly turning to outside contractors for patient care and clinical services, such as medical staffing, radiology services, laboratory services and clinical specialties. The clinical specialties most frequently outsourced are anesthesia, emergency department, dialysis services, diagnostic imaging and hospitalist services (Waller, 2012). For information technology, 97% of respondents report outsourcing one or more of these services, such as EMRs, patient satisfaction surveys, help desk, CPU and peripheral maintenance and local IT support (Waller, 2012). According to Modern Healthcare survey...
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...Health Wearable Technology !1 The Future of Health Wearable Technology and it's Impact on Healthcare Industry Prashanth Nimmagadda Texas A&M University- Commerce Health Wearable Technology !2 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Review of the Literature…………………………………………………………………………..6 Methodology………………………………………………………………………………………8 Findings…………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations…………………………………………………..11 References………………………………………………………………………………………..12 Appendix A………………………………………………………………………………………14 Health Wearable Technology !3 Abstract Innovations in technology paved way for a new category of digital devices aimed at improving the quality of life and cost effective healthcare system. This never before seen intersection between technology and healthcare industry leads to an efficient ecosystem which brings value to customers, innovators and investors alike. Health Wearable Technology !4 Chapter 1: Introduction Background For years since the digital revolution, innovation on technological front in healthcare industry has been limited. The complete transaction between a customer and the healthcare organizations is a tedious process and the information system is unorganized. “Health Wearables” commonly called as activity trackers, are being developed by taking advantage of this revolution and thereby fueling the growth...
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...negligence due from a health care professional not providing the right type of care to a patient that could result to injury or death. It could include errors in giving medication or diagnosing an illness which could result in a lawsuit. “The variation and uncertainty in court standards regarding malpractice liability could dampen enthusiasm among providers to adopt HIT systems, if the information contained therein was viewed as setting an ever-higher, and potentially unattainable, standard of patient care.” (Journal of Law & Medicine, 2009). Identify and explain at least three ethical considerations. There are the rights, responsibilities, and concerns of healthcare consumers in providing care, and treating their patients so that they can function to the highest level possible. When dealing with things concerning healthcare ethics...
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...Jael Lopez Grand Canyon University: HLT- 364 10/11/13 As one studies medical research, they discovers that there are many problems surrounding it. However, one of them can make a tremendous impact, which are, budget cuts. When researching this problem, several questions came arise. How is budget cuts affecting health care administration? Why are there budget cuts? How are budget cuts effecting society? Lastly how was the budget used in the past and if the budget cuts were affected by the actions of those that run research facilities? There are several reasons to why budget is being cut and it is not just one problem that helps explain this. As one goes further into HealthCare research they come to the fact that there are problems that affect this one particular area overall. The first question that arises when inquiring about budget cuts in the health care administration is: Where is the funding they receive going? When there are so many budget cuts and there isn’t enough funding how is this affecting them? As one comes to inquire about budget cuts one has to understand that this affects the health care administration in many ways. As budget cuts arise, problems arise as well. When there is not sufficient money to go around then there are problems as to how much funding does each department receive. As the funding is divided there are shortages that arise. For example, there are shortages in the equipment supply that is needed. A research study indicated that after inquiring...
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...Partners Healthcare System (PHS): Transforming Health Care Services Delivery Through Information Management Harvard Case Solution & Analysis PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM (PHS): TRANSFORMING HEALTH CARE SERVICES DELIVERY THROUGH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Question 01 The Partners Healthcare System (PHS) faced a lot of obstacles in implementing the ERP system whose sole responsibility was to make the current processes as efficient as possible. In addition to this, once this information system is along with Computerized Patient Order Entry (CPOE) system then it would help the health care professionals in accessing patient complete profile from the scratch that is the patients’ first visit to the health practitioner. However, there was a lot of resistance regarding the system from the doctors. It is reported that two-third of the doctors had prior links to the hospitals and were hesitant to adopt the latest technology. In addition to this, the same number of doctors who had affiliations with the PHS hospital also met their patients at some other venues. The already established workforce lacked in its ability to use the advanced technology and was reluctant to this type of system. As they were trained to write prescriptions manually, hence they were not accepting this new mode of data reposition. In addition to a lack in ability to apt the latest technology, they also lacked the basic infrastructure or resources to finance this implementation. Moreover, if the technology gets implemented...
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...Healthcare has played a pivotal role in my life for more than 7 years, both professionally and personally. Within these 7 years I have served as a healthcare personnel in 6 different organizations and I’m currently a member of Presence Resurrection medical center quality improvement team. These positions provided me the unique opportunity to experience healthcare from different perspective, both as a consumer and provider. During these 7 years I participated in "cutting edge" delivery systems that influenced not only individuals but health care organizations throughout the system. In 2013 I was tasked to develop an effective way of ensuring safety in a hospital based workplace; here, I championed a pioneering idea of implementing rotational evaluation of the personal protective equipment (PPE) on the unit to ensure that they are updated at all times for use. My Presentations to my manager was well appreciated and implemented; thus, the goal for Increase hygiene was met with great success. Personally, my experience in the world of consumer healthcare has been less than desirable. My father has undergone 8 total joint replacements in 2 different medical facilities. With my background in healthcare, I was took responsibility in evaluating the care he received. For the most part the nurses were attentive and able to anticipate his daily needs. They appropriately challenged him to push beyond his expected limits in order to utilize his rehabilitation to its fullest effect...
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...Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication HCS 350 May 12, 2014 Kristina Alums Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication Communication is the act of using words, signs, sounds, technology, symbols, or emotions to express or exchange information about one’s ideas, thoughts, or feelings to someone else. Health care communication is information that can be exchanged in the same ways but its main point is to enhance health. It is a necessary element of interaction between nurses, physicians, patient’s, and family members. The communication helps to enhance health by including information about disease prevention, diagnoses, treatment, health promotion, and health care policies which can ultimately improve a person’s quality of life. Effective Healthcare Communication “There has been evidence that communication between providers and patients, directly and indirectly, determine the extent in which patients experience fewer adverse medical events, exhibit higher levels of adherence to their treatment regimens, trust their care and their providers and nurses, are satisfied with their care and their providers, practice effective self-management behaviors, experience less symptom severity, suffer less morbidity and mortality, and access and utilize available health resources” (Marram, G. 2009, p3). Physician-Patient Communication When a patient and their family members understand the information that is being received about their care they are more likely...
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... 2013). Capitalism can be defined as an economic and political system based around property ownership and private industry. It is a different form of government where the system is based upon individual rights. The key component of capitalism runs off competition, all markets are open with little or no government directive. This form of government has a tremendous effect on healthcare in that Capitalism is based on demand and supply and when dealing with healthcare the demand and supply are disconnected. Capitalism is defined as a free enterprise system. It is essentially a competition between markets as well as unregulated supply and demand. Each individual is permitted to sell whatever product at whatever price as long as the market can sustain it. Decisions about products are made solely on the need or demand. If there is no demand then there will be no profit, if the demand is high then there will be a profit; however, if the demand is too high, there will not be enough suppliers. Nearly every nation has a different economy which means capitalism will operate differently. The future for healthcare holds many negative and positive factors. It will be positive in that Capitalism will encourage health care providers to be efficient by concentrating on the things which are on demand rather than those that are not. Capitalism will also allow the health care industry to grow exponentially because the health care organizations will continue to make money and subsequently invest...
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