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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Cultural Competence in Health Care and Its Implications for Pharmacy discusses discrepancies in care due to differing cultures and ethnicities‚ along with possible solution to alleviate them. Many cultural beliefs influences healthcare decisions. This may limit possible treatment options or even if you can give them treatment at all. Health care discrepancies are on the rise for minority groups. Data shows that minority groups are more at risk for illness for many reasons. For example; lower vaccination
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care field. With the information that current patients provide‚ it would aid in making quality better for patients in the future. Surveys acknowledge changes that may need to be implemented in the system. The HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) survey is the first national‚ standardized‚ publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care. It is also known as CAHPS Hospital Survey. This survey is used for measuring patients’ perceptions of their
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1847. The Flexner Report was published in 1910 and impacted the status of medical school education. Hill-Burton Act of 1948 provided federal monies to update hospitals JCAH which is now JCAHO was created in 1951. JCAHO is an independent accreditation agency for health care facilities (all types). Medicare and Medicaid were enacted by Congress in 1965 Privacy Act of 1974 - protect the privacy of information systems in federal health care facilities HCFA (now called CMS) was created
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With the vast growth in the healthcare population and medical technology over recent decades‚ patient health care as well as medical records continue to become more complex and require a more efficient means of data collection and abstraction amongst healthcare providers. In addition‚ ensuring efficient communication between various health care professionals has become a tedious task in providing high quality care and safety in health care. Paper medical records has become to encounter many obstacles
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Sociology and Healthcare Health-care is a sociological institution within the American Culture. Health-care has many different aspects that pertain to patients‚ care givers and governmental approach to supply healthcare to all citizens. Sociology is the “scientific study of social behavior and human groups.” (Schaefer‚ 2009) Sociology plays a large role in how Americans look at our health-care systems and approach health and illness in one’s own life. Health-care has many different definitions
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What is the purpose of delegation in healthcare? HCS/350 April 30‚ 2012 Patrice Ross What is the purpose of delegation in healthcare? Delegation is defined as the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from one individual to another individual. The purpose of delegation is designed to provide overarching principles and guidelines for practice situations where registered nurses delegate tasks safely to other medical teams such as LPNs (Licensed Practical Nurses)
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be regulatory factors like legal issues and requirements. Social forces such as demographics and cultural trends. Economic factors‚ like if patient’s parents have health insurance‚ family income. Competitive forces. 5. A major concern for many healthcare professionals is the belief that marketing "creates" needs. Explain complexity of this issue. A “need” is defined as a “condition in which there is a deficiency of something”. Marketing does sometimes confuse patients and they come to the doctor
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There are two basic types of reimbursement for healthcare related costs that are in use today: fee for service (FFS)‚ and capitation. The FFS model can then be broken down into three separate sub-types: cost-based‚ charge-based and prospective payment (Gapenski‚ 2012). The FFS model pays according to the service provided‚ whether it is an office visit‚ procedure‚ etc.‚ though the amount reimbursed depends on the subtype of fee for service model. In the cost based system‚ the payer reimburses
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Cognitive empathy plays a critical role in the medical field because it significantly influences a health care provider’s clinical decision regarding patients. “Sir‚ you are not experiencing my pain; you do not know how I am feeling right now.” That was one of the most shocking sentences that I had ever heard from one of my CVS customers when I started working as a pharmacy technician two years ago. That incident always reminds me of the moment I realized I would never understand someone else’s feelings
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