medication administration. Because of medication errors‚ the patients’ mortality went up‚ which costs the U.S. healthcare systems billions of dollars yearly. It was also reported that every year‚ there are approximately 450 000 unfavorable medication circumstances of which 25 percent could have been prevented‚ that caused an injury to the patient. Therefore‚ other than the CDSS/CPOE implementation‚ the following systems were being used to aid in the improvement of the medication administration efficiency:
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Ideal healthcare system will be the one that works for all the individuals in the community without disparity or confusion. With an ideal healthcare system‚ members in a community will get adequate access to care‚ basic information‚ better research and information for the patients (Yvonne‚ 2009).In this paper; I will discuss the various key factors to be addressed in the development of an ideal model of care. Access to health care Access to healthcare is a factor of
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Healthcare Reform This paper will relate my attitude towards other health professionals‚ based on my understanding that healthcare reform includes not only insuring more Americans but changing the way we deliver services and think about health. It will also identify the knowledge/insights that will be most useful in moving healthcare reform forward. Attitude towards Other Health Professionals It is not easy to describe one’s attitude towards other healthcare professionals because it is
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Diversity in Healthcare Have you ever been to the doctor and don’t quite understand what the provider is telling you‚ or are you a healthcare worker and you don’t understand your patients? Should the healthcare provider get diversity training or should they maybe learn new languages? More than ever before‚ healthcare professionals are subjected to dealing with a number of immense and different cultural diversities. While diversity is often a term used to refer specifically to cultural differences
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Healthcare Reform Calls for Enormous Payment Restructure for Health Care Providers and Facilities Healthcare reform has been a topic of great interest and a highly debated public issue for the past several years. Opinions are split on the reasons behind growing health care costs and methods to bring healthcare spending back in line. However‚ a consensus has formed surrounding the conviction that drastic changes must be implemented within our healthcare system. Some of these changes include
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In a recent article on healthcare‚ entitled Value in Cancer Care‚ it was announced the American Society of Clinical Oncology are proposing to provide “a tool to help patients decide if cancer drugs are worth it”. A group of doctors are proposing this tool to give people a way of measuring “what treatment will cost them and how much good it is likely to do” in making an informed decision on their care. (Marchione‚ 2015) The reason for this is cited as being due to the rising cost of cancer treatment
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From 2013 to 2015 healthcare has spent 17.4 percent of GDP and expect to intensify over the years to come‚ according from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Service. The reason for an increase‚ is due to increasing treatments‚ medications‚ medical research and more (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis‚ 2015). Moreover‚ Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) involves an increase in the economic activity in healthcare considering everyone has to partake in health insurance. However‚ the output of the GDP
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The passage of the ACA has changed and still changing the quality of services delivered to four major stakeholders: patients‚ employers‚ healthcare providers and states. As the result of the ACA‚ the congress established the Center for Medical & Medicaid Innovation (called now Innovation Center) and mandate “both robust financial support and unprecedented degree of flexibility in testing and evaluating care delivery and payment/reimbursement models” (p.459). The purpose of the Innovation Center
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HOME HEALTHCARE TENCY THOMAS AMERICAN SENTINEL UNIVERSITY HOME HEALTHCARE Home health care helps seniors live independently for as long as possible‚ given the limits of their medical condition. It covers a wide range of services and can often delay the need for long-term nursing home care. More specifically‚ home health care may include occupational and physical therapy‚ speech therapy‚ and even skilled nursing. It may involve helping the elderly with activities of daily living such as bathing‚
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especially as it relates to labor issues. III. Future Care Models: a. Address team training as an essential component for the delivery of care. The Health Care Work Force A Proposal The Healthcare Workforce accounts for the greatest proportion of spending and holds the key to quality of Healthcare delivery (WHO 2000) America’s five million health care professionals directly influence the cost and quality of health care through their diagnoses‚ orders‚ prescriptions‚ and treatments. These
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