DECISION-MAKING APPROACH IN REGARD TO THE HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES SET FORTH BY THE PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010 CECILIA AVEROS MBA IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT ‚ ABSTRACT Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act( PPACA) also known as Obama care is a healthcare reform signed in March 23‚ 2010 whose main goal is to conceptualizes the “ Universal affordable Healthcare Coverage “making significant
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alliances as an essential component of strategy. This concept called ‘Strategic Alliances’. The objective of this cooperation is to gain access in new markets and new supply sources‚ capitalize on technology and become more profitable. Companies may share resources‚ information‚ capabilities and risks to achieve this objective. In this research‚ I am going to present how strategic alliances work in related to our main article “Strategic intent”. In recent years‚ the increasing in globalization of
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This week’s reading left me with a sense of confusion at the complexity of the healthcare system. Teitelbaum and Wilensky (2013) the lack of a unified healthcare system makes health care overly complicated and obtuse. There are many players and a lack of coordination allows for unnecessary redundancies and is costly. In 2009‚ the United States spent the equivalent of $8‚086 per person on healthcare‚ moreover‚ this represents a 4% increase over 2008 spending. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) set out
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Health Care Management – HCS/325 February 11‚ 2013 Health Care Management What is healthcare management? Let’s sum it up to get a better sense of all what partakes in it‚ as well of doing it in an effective way. Simply put is the overseeing of all the healthcare facilities. Most likely patient encounter is not so likely‚ unless there is a means to speak or deal with a situation directly with patient. Healthcare relates to insurance companies‚ organization‚ and hospitals. It can get a little difficult
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State Healthcare and Lifestyle Most of people may want a healthy life‚ but perhaps very few people adhere to a healthy lifestyle. Healthcare providers are supposed to be responsible for providing healthcare services to citizens. However‚ they could not directly control one’s health. Because there are many diseases which may be uncontrollable‚ and also associated with one’s family health background and age. (Palmer‚ 2008) Apart from that‚ large numbers of diseases may propagate due to unhealthy
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Assessment of Healthcare outcomes in term of Cost‚ Access and Quality Health outcomes Health Outcomes include a number of aspects that help in assessing the health care system of any country. Parameters like cost of care‚ quality of care‚ access to care‚ morbidity‚ mortality and use of specified services are indicative of how well the health care system is performing. Healthcare outcomes motivate practitioners to compare their performances and improve from each other. It highlights value enhancing
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Goal/Purpose Inform on the changes of health care Introduction I. I’m here to educate you about the changes to the state of healthcare today. II. Health care is something that will affect us all and we need to know what is going to happen. III. I have been a licensed life and health agent since 2008. Thesis Statement Today I would like to educate you about healthcare reform. Body I. Timeline A. Past 1. 2010 children age 26 and younger will remain covered under parents plans
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The Use of Assistive Robots in Healthcare The Use of Assistive Robots in Healthcare CINAHL Article Summary The article found from CINAHL‚ entitled Assistive Robots in Health Care Settings written by Nejat‚ Sun and Nies (2009) focuses on the current and future role that assistive robots take in the healthcare system. Two main types of robots are discussed: Noninteractive and interactive. Noninteractive robots are primarily used to assist healthcare professional with their daily work tasks.
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Name: Joie Vincent R. Dagohoy Date performed: 07-01-13 Student Number: 2009-33281 Date submitted: 07-08-13 Exercise 2 Formulation‚ Testing of Hypothesis‚ and Experimental Design I. Objectives: a. to define diffusion and demonstrate this process in gases b. to cite molecular weight and time as two factors affecting the rate of diffusion c. to formulate a hypothesis on the relationship of each of these factors on the rate of diffusion d. to conduct and experiment
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Introduction to Strategic Analysis 1 Every organization needs a strategy. Be it an established business‚ an emerging entrepreneurial venture‚ or a non-profit organization‚ a strategy sets the direction of the enterprise‚ informs priorities and the allocation of scarce resources‚ and helps guide the myriad decisions that an organization makes every day. But what exactly is strategy? Kenneth Andrews provides the following definition: [S]trategy is the pattern of decisions in a company that
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