Healthcare

Introduction One thing that is consistent in healthcare is that healthcare is forever evolving. With the concept of evolution one particular area that plays a major role in how healthcare system evolves is revenue and the other is how the healthcare facilities get payment for the services provided. When exploring healthcare services reimbursement there are checks and balances that must take place. The healthcare provider orders services such as radiology and laboratory services just to name a few of the services that can be provided to a patient. Next the facility, whether it being the hospital or doctor’s office sends a claim to the insurance company and depending upon how the healthcare facility has coded the service and the documentation…

It is important to note that although Weberg (2012) views transformational leadership as an outdated approach to healthcare leadership, combing both complexity leadership theory and transformational leadership is essential for healthcare leaders to implement successful healthcare transformation. This view is supported by Kernick (2004) who discusses the benefits of combining both complexity leadership and transformational leadership theories. Complexity in healthcare affects leadership style by…

As presented in the HFMA article (Grube, Cohen & Clarin, 2014), healthcare is increasingly being altered by a retail presence. According to the authors, retail care is an approach that delivers healthcare to proactive consumers within the market-driven framework of other purchases. In a sense, consumers are now "shopping" for healthcare rather than "going to get" treatment or medical attention when needed. The paradigm shift this represents is that healthcare is increasingly weighed on a…

and 1930 a number of “almshouses”, the predecessors to modern hospitals were established in larger cities of the United States to provide care to those who were ill. Bellevue Hospital, established in New York in 1736, was one of the first hospitals in the United States. Through the years it became a trendsetter in patient care, recognized for strict standards, treatment during the yellow fever outbreak, and furthering healthcare through its affiliation with New York…

Public and Private Healthcare According to Institute of Medicine (IOM), healthcare costs and quality issues have risen in the last ten years (Linsley, & Morton, 2014). Healthcare is provided through both public and private health agencies. Public healthcare agencies are provided by the government such as Medicaid. Private healthcare agencies are non-government providers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS). Both agencies have set rules of addressing cost and quality of care to the community.…

Introduction The healthcare debate is ongoing, more so now than ever. At its core is a fundamental question: is healthcare a right or a privilege of the American people? A news article I read in the LA Times compared the experiences of a married couple, both of whom needed urgent care for a similar health problem. While they were traveling in England, the wife fell ill, and as a result she went to an English hospital. Her total healthcare bill was $37; all she had to pay for was the…

Introduction: Healthcare workers who are focused on providing the best care possible to their patients are exposed to a wide variety of workplace hazards. Some of these hazardous exposures include infections, needle sticks, sharps injuries, back injuries, allergy causing substances, violence, stress, and radiation. “Worldwide, approximately three million needle stick or sharps injuries occur annually during healthcare procedures” (Zaidi, 2012). As a healthcare professional the first goal is to…

Introduction Hacking the Healthcare System Healthcare has the highest cyber-attacks in the industry. This is only growing. Nearly half of all health care organizations have reported criminal attacks that caused a breach in their systems (Goodman, 2015). These hackers are gaining access to the electronic health information. Identification, banking information, and pharmacies used are just some of the data that these online hackers are getting their hands on. This is costing over six billion…

need for patient privacy. “Mass data can inform medicine like nothing else and save countless lives, including, perhaps, your own,” Agus argues in his Op-Ed. And he’s right. Agus also tells doctors and patients to move past their respective resistance to providing patient data because it delivers tremendous benefits for the future of healthcare delivery. But, that’s easier said than done. As a result, too much valuable healthcare-related data remain in silos and therefore unusable in any…

Healthcare-associated infection (HAI), or nosocomial infection, develops when a patient receiving treatment in a healthcare setting acquires an infection secondary to their original condition. These serious and costly adverse outcomes of medical care affect nearly two million people in the United States annually and lead to substantial morbidity and mortality. With increased days of hospitalization and direct medical costs, HAIs account for an estimated $20 billion per year in national health…