HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS * Laboratory Medicine (clinical pathology) * A medical discipline in which clinical laboratory science & technology are applied to the care of patients. * Comprises several major scientific disciplines: clin chem & urinalysis‚ hematology ‚ microbiology‚ immunology & blood banking‚ for some laboratories cytogenetics‚ toxicology & other specialized divisions are present. USE OF THE CLINICAL LABORATORY * Serve to educate the physician
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Suggest the key financial drivers that most likely will cause health care organizations to merge. Provide support for your rationale. Cost is the driver that will most likely cause healthcare organizations to merge. Most healthcare organizations have issues with spending. Most industries today are faced with a variety of obstacles in achieving or remaining profitable. The healthcare industry is no exception. Profitability is enough of a challenge under normal circumstances‚ but especially so during
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University of Phoenix Material Types of Emerging Health Care Information Systems Based on your review of the course materials for Week One‚ review your current health care organization or an organization with which you are familiar. Then‚ in the table below‚ provide a list of systems used‚ the scope of each system‚ its components and uses‚ and how the system supports the health care organization’s strategies. In the section following the table‚ include APA-formatted citations for the sources
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ACA has granted more Americans access to health care insurance. As discussed earlier‚ the increase in insured persons means more patients in the already burdened health care system. The up-front cost of providing care to nearly 16.4 million Americans will be great to health care providers and organizations. The ACA presented new concepts to health delivery that move away from the traditional fee-for-service payment model in hopes to increase quality of care‚ improve patient outcomes‚ reduce costs
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Health Care Delivery Model: Childhood Asthma Sara October 22‚ 2005 University of Portland School of Nursing Abstract Childhood asthma affected an estimated 5 million children under the age of 15 during the year of 1995. The diagnosis of this disease is on a continual rise in the United States‚ and it is the responsibility of all health care providers to busy themselves in providing the proper patient education‚ treatment‚ and preventative measures available to prevent unnecessary suffering
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Model Approaches in Health Resource Allocation and the Ethics Involved. Christopher Kono Resource allocation is simply the distribution of recourses. Health care resource allocation on the other hand is the distribution of health care resources‚ it includes material things such as equipment or drugs and the human aspect which is the people involved like
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The health belief model comprises of the level of concern‚ motivation‚ and previous experiences that individuals have‚ and the intertwining of these components to explain and predict behaviour in the prevention of an illness (Singapore University of Social Sciences‚ 2018). The elderly’s access to healthcare are marked by factors such as the elderly’s gender as well as the area that they live in‚ be it in an urban area or a rural area‚ where these factors determine the level and type of accessibility
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Our organization is a multi-specialty‚ multi-facility private medical practice consisting of six urgent care centers‚ three primary care offices and one pediatric office‚ providing services in six counties of Northeast Georgia. The practice is over 30 years old and is privately held as a limited liability company and currently employs approximately 110 in personnel. The physician-owned practice exists in an evolving market‚ which traditionally did not require highly skilled positions apart from
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Research paper in focus Does access to care still affect health care utilization by immigrants? Testing of an empirical explanatory model of health care utilization by Korean American immigrants with high blood pressure (Song‚ et al.‚ 2010) Research question The research was aimed to study the extrapolative capability of the health care utilization model by exploring the interaction of predisposing‚ enabling‚ and need factors and their effects on health care utilization of Korean American immigrants
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The Biomedical model of health: The biomedical model of medicine has been around since the mid-nineteenth century as the predominant model used by physicians in diagnosing diseases. According to the biomedical model‚ health constitutes the freedom from disease‚ pain‚ or defect‚ thus making the normal human condition "healthy". The model’s focus on the physical processes‚ such as the pathology‚ the biochemistry and the physiology of a disease‚ does not take into account the role of social factors
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