Connected for Health The Potential of Health Information and Communications Technologies to Reduce Health Care Disparities In today’s technology-filled world‚ we have become dependent on the Internet for everything from doing any research (“Google it”)‚ making travel and restaurant reservations‚ paying our bills‚ managing our investments‚ finding recipes for dinner‚ making charitable and political contributions‚ all types of shopping‚ and on and on. And we communicate primarily by e-mail
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Smart phone applications in the HealthCare Industry By Parul Darbari 1.Abstract Providing cost effective and efficient health care is‚ and remains‚ one of the most pressing challenges facing our nation. Health care has a long way to catch up with other industries in terms of exploiting the new technologies. From just documenting expenses to tracking consumer behavior from just about anywhere in the U.S.‚ smartphone applications (apps) have changed the way many businesses operate. Now‚ more industries
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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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Perspective on Health Care Paper (HCS 212) January 14‚ 2013 Submitted to: Professor Mary Helen A)What interested me about the history of health care? There’s no doubt that the healthcare industry offers plenty of profitable careers. In fact most of the best paid and the fast growing careers belong to this industry. That’s why I am heading in Health Care Administration because I want to be an administrator for Center of Disease Control (CDC). I have passion for serving people and to make positive
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EHRs in Health Care x x x Abstract In 2009‚ the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was passed into law mandating interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption throughout the United States health care system for all providers who serve Medicare or Medicaid patients. The HITECH Act sets “meaningful use” requirements‚ goals‚ and objectives‚ and gives specific timelines for which to achieve them. As an incentive
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HIPAA is a very important health care law that all health care providers are required to comply with and is designed to simplify administrative aspects of health care. Established in 1996 HIPAA is used to protect and secure the privacy of patients’ health care information and health insurance portability. It also standardizes electronic data transactions(Austin‚ Wetle‚ & Wetle‚ 2012). Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA is a federally enacted law‚ although if the state
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Nursing Assistant (CNAs) The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNAs) department at Arbor Springs Health and Rehab Center consist of nurses and nursing assistants providing direct‚ physical‚ and emotional care to the patients. The type work done in this department deals with one-on-one care from the nursing assistant to the patient. The interviewee has the responsibilities of helping patients with personal care tasks such as feeding‚ toileting and bathing‚ as well as transporting patients and providing
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Priorities of Health Care Priorities of Health Care With the current changes happening within the United States of America‚ one of the major changes is with Health Care. We take a look at what someone in the Healthcare profession feels are some of the top priorities that should be looked at. I interviewed a friend on November 7th‚ 2013 who is a Registered Nurse at a local hospital and what he feels we need to focus on. Quality of Care The
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CheckPoint (Assignments Link): Features of Health Plans When reading week one’s listed material of chapter one I have found there are five major types of health care plans that are covered in the material. These five major types of heath care plans are Indemnity Plans‚ health maintenance organizations (HMO’s)‚ Point-of-Service (POS)‚ preferred provider organizations (PPO’s)‚ and consumer-driven health plans. All of these different types of health plans‚ or insurance have both similarities
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Health Care Reform On March 23‚ 2010 President Barack Obama signed The Affordable Care Act‚ also known as health care reform‚ into law. (whitehouse.gov‚ 2013) The Affordable Care Act has brought on a lot of controversy within our country mainly because the people who oppose the new act are not well informed on what the aspects of the new law entail. With so many details to this new law‚ it is no wonder why so many American’s are confused; the Affordable Care Act is meant to help us not to hurt us
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