HEALTHCAREANALYSIS VOL.3:196-204 (1995) c Phil Shackleyand Mandy Ryan Health Economics Research Unit‚ University of Aberdeen‚ Scotland Abstract This paper considers ways of involving consumers in decisions regarding the allocation of scarce health service resources. Specifically‚ two levels of consumer participation are highlighted and discussed. These are: (1) at the level of deciding whether or not a particular service should be introduced or its scale changed; and (2) at the level of deciding
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Chapter 3 – Medical Record | History of Present Illness | Patient is a 35 year old male complaining of nausea‚ pyrosis‚ indigestion‚ and melena stool. Patient stated that he has been experiencing abdominal pain that wakes him in the middle of night for over a month. He stated that he normally can drink a glass of milk or baking soda water to relive the pain‚ but this has no longer been effective. | Past Medical History | Patient is a smoker who drinks daily and suffering from obesity.
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Communication refers to the degree to which the patient heard‚ kept informed through understandable terms‚ afforded social interaction‚ and time during consultation and provided psychological and non-technical information (Tucker‚ 2002). If communication is good‚ which includes information from the service provider to the patient on the type of care he or she will receive‚ uncertainty is alleviated that will increase the patient’s awareness and sensitivity of what to expect‚ then patient satisfaction
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being consumed by information retrieval and the billing process of most Local Community Hospitals without computer generated system is slow. To be able to provide the medical needs of the rapidly growing population‚ Local Community Hospitals must be versatile to the current trends and innovation in today ’s changes in technology. One of the concerns of Local Community Hospitals nowadays is how to lessen the number paper works in having a transaction with the patient that could fasten the process of
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Development of an Electronic Medical Image Archiving System for Health Care in Nigeria Olaniyi‚ Olayemi Mikail Department of Computer Engineering Federal University of Technology Minna‚ Nigeria Omotosho Adebayo and Robert Jane Department of Computer Science and Technology Bells University of Technology‚ Ota‚ Nigeria Oke Alice.O Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ladoke Akintola University of Technology‚ Ogbomoso‚ Nigeria. e-mail: alitemi2006 {at] yahoo.com Abstract—Medical images require
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Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity: First Draft The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and acceptance of a diversity of faith expressions. The purpose of this paper is to complete a comparative analysis of two faith philosophies towards providing health care‚ one being the Christian perspective. For the second faith‚ choose a faith that is unfamiliar to you. Examples of faiths to choose from:
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Medical errors occur with such frequency and regularity that most states require periodic‚ ongoing medical education for all health care providers as part of their licensing requirement. Hundreds of thousands of patients are victims of medical errors each year and many of them suffer from permanent disabilities as a result‚ some even die. In its report‚ To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System‚ the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that 44‚000 to 98‚000 Americans die each year not from
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quality of health care services in spite of the hard work of benevolent‚ well-trained clinicians. Policy makers in collaboration with health care leaders have implemented a considerable number of changes including reducing errors‚ enforcing guidelines and implementing electronic medical records‚ but more still needs to be done given the current state of health. In the US‚ the healthcare system is facing unmatched force to change especially from a supply-driven system that emphasises on what physicians
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Computer-based patient records is a system in which its function are becoming an essential technology for health care in part because the information management challenges were being faced by health care professionals that are increasing daily. The system stores data regarding additional medical information records in a relational database. Most published studies to date have been in the area of keeping the records safety. The database is a general setting of compiling not only the records of the
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From the past ‚Health care workers wear facing a very serious and sensitive problem while treating patient which is Medications Errors. Patient safety is characterized as opportunity from incidental harm because of medical care‚ or absence of medicinal blunders‚ or absence of abuse in administrations. Medical error is: "a failure in the therapeutic process that can possibly lead to harm to the patient"(1). It occurs when a health care provider selects improper technique in care or improperly executes
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