An advantage of the electronic health record is the allowance of patient information to be accessed anywhere, communicated to all physicians involved in a patients care. In a case study Dr. Holly miller stated “Patients are particularly vulnerable when they are transitioning across care environments, such as being referred from their primary care provider to a specialist for a consultation, or at the time of discharge from the hospital when the patient returns back to the care of the patient’s…
Before diving further into this topic, it is necessary to define several terms relating to cybercrime and identity theft. Dictionary.com defines cybercrime as criminal activity or a crime that involves the Internet, a computer system, or computer technology. Identity theft is the fraudulent appropriation and use of someone's identifying or personal data or documents, such as a credit card. Phishing is defined as trying to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users,…
Obamacare a noun has changed the course of our nation’s progress The ACA(Affordable Care Act) was introduced and activated to present the american people with elevated quality health insurance that they and their families could not break the bank when purchasing. Throughout this paper I will give my absolute best ability through sources that I find on the internet and outside references in books and catalogs that I will list below. I claim none of this info as my own as I have no idea what…
Weeks et al.’s (2008) state that “literature on rural veterans' health care needs warrants expansion and investment so that policy makers can make informed decisions in an environment of limited resources and competing interests.” In general, it’s understood that studies of access to care found that rural veterans have less access to care and were more vulnerable to travel barriers than their urban counterparts. Weeks et al.’s (2008) “conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature that…