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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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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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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CASE 11: General Electric Healthcare‚ 2006 1. Was buying Amersham a good idea? Why or why not? We support the idea that GE Healthcare‚ which is one of the biggest conglomerates globally‚ took the right step in acquiring the business Amersham in order to expand the business and restructure its core business into becoming a global standardized business aiming to provide products that answers the needs of consumers in the market today. The following
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My thoughts about entrepreneurship Starting this essay about entrepreneurship‚ offcourse‚ I planned to write down what my opinion about entrepreneurship is. But that appeared to be a little harder than expected. To be honest‚ I am not quite sure what I think about entrepreneurship. There are many pro’s and con’s that have be to taken into consideration when thinking about being an entrepreneur. And I think ones opinion about it is influenced strongly by the examples and experiences with it in
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Entrepreneurship‚ Innovation and Economic Development “‘Discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship‚ innovation and economic development. What role do creativity and problem solving play in this relationship?” In today’s world‚ entrepreneurship and innovation are becoming increasingly crucial as drivers of the economy‚ especially so in the developing economies where trade plays a major part in generating revenue. In China‚ small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for almost
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Introduction to Healthcare This essay will identify and examine the factors that have‚ and continue to‚ influence health care policy and practices within the ever changing health service. It will particularly concentrate on the changes in the National Health Service (NHS) within the last decade and the impact that this has had on the Operating Department Practitioner profession. The National Health Service (NHS) was launched on 5th July 1948 by Aneurin Bevan‚ the then Minister of Health. Its 3 core
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Introduction In the health care field there are a wide range of professions that all have there own important purpose. With such a huge field it is hard to know everything and that is why these different professions exist. The problem with so many professions is that they don’t always communicate efficiently. This lack of communication is where interprofessional care comes in. Interprofessional care is when people from different professions work together and communicate efficiently for the greater
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PROMISE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A FIELD OF RESEARCH 1.0 Introduction To date‚ the phenomenon of entrepreneurship has lacked a conceptual framework. A research has been conducted in the difference social science disciplines and applied fields of business to create a conceptual framework for entrepreneurship. 2.0 Definition of Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is defined solely by the researchers in terms of who the entrepreneur is and what he or she does. The study of entrepreneurship must involve
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