PROPSECTS AND CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATED ELECTONIC HEALTH RECORDS FOR MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS by Peter Oluseyi Okebukola MPH/MBA Intended audience This is a public policy memo directed to the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). CONTENTS Executive Summary Background Definitions stakeholders Options and implications for managed care Individual practice association (IPA)
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This Woman’s Work Before I watched "A Midwife’s Tale"‚ a movie created from the diary found by Laurel Ulrich chronicling the life of a woman named Martha Ballard‚ I thought the women in these times were just housewives and nothing else. I pictured them doing the cleaning and the cooking for their husbands and not being very smart because of the lack of education or them being unable to work. My view on the subject changed however when I watched this specific woman’s life and her work. To
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the United States of America‚ and they all need effective‚ affordable and accessible health care coverage and services. Within decades‚ the scope and cost of health care has changed dramatically with increased complexity and significance to the healthcare market. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the managed care industry and examine how organizations try to control costs. Managed Care Organizations is a partnership of health care providers whose purpose is to contract with an institution
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MANAGED CARE Managed health care is a system of health care delivery managed by a company aiming mainly at quality/value cost effective services provided to patients. It has been introduced with an intention to avoid paying for unessential facilities and services directly to physicians. It helps in forming an intermediate between patients and physicians in such a way that health insurance organizations pay the physicians from the premiums paid by patients to insurers for the services provided
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The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond The ballad of Charlotte Dyamond is a story about a girl‚ which gets murdered by her Psycho (AND crippled) boyfriend‚ Matthew Weeks. Charlotte Dymond‚ a domestic servant aged eighteen‚ was murdered near Rowtor Ford on Bodwin Moor on Sunday 14 April 1844 by her young man: a crippled farm-hand‚ Matthew Weeks‚ aged twenty-two. A stone marks the spot. The story goes as this Charlotte Dyamond went out on Sunday the 14th in April with her boyfriend‚ as the
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main problem. Out of everything tried‚ the most recent and popular system is known as managed care. Managed care is the most common form of health insurance in the United States‚ and provides more a cost efficient coverage than paying a fee-for-service charge. However‚ it is also a very complicated system. Over the next few pages I am going to try and go over the main parts of the managed care structure. In the end‚ I am going to decide the strengths and weaknesses of this
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At the Intersection of Health‚ Health Care and Policy Cite this article as: E Friedman Managed care‚ rationing‚ and quality: a tangled relationship Health Affairs‚ 16‚ no.3 (1997):174-182 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.16.3.174 The online version of this article‚ along with updated information and services‚ is available at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/16/3/174.citation For Reprints‚ Links & Permissions: http://healthaffairs.org/1340_reprints.php E-mail Alerts : http://content.healthaffairs
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‘Customer service has become a lost art in our society.’ (Zimmerer and Scarborough‚ 2005). According to (Zimmerer and Scarborough‚ 2005) many companies today are rediscovering the fact that customer service is an essential part of doing business. Providing incomparable service and not necessarily low prices is one of the most effective ways to attract and maintain a growing customer base. According to (Robbins and Judge‚ 2007) most organizations today are trying to create a customer responsive culture
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Managed Care Managed care refers to a method of healthcare that strives to restructure health services‚ as well as ensuring cost-effective healthcare. This kind of care aims at ensuring a definite benchmark of care‚ extent of performance‚ and cost management. It guarantees this by ensuring a thorough supervision‚ monitoring‚ as well as counseling. Moreover‚ certain sorts of managed care programs aim to support members to live healthy by preventing diseases. Ideally‚ managed care covers partly or
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The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme was implemented in 1975 by the Government of India‚ with support from UNICEF. The scheme is one of the largest in the world for promotion of maternal and child health. While the ICDS involves multiple government departments‚ the Ministry of Women & Child Development is primarily responsible for its implementation. The primary objective of the ICDS program is to dismantle the inter-generational cycle of malnutrition and reduce mortality arising
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