Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set

Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the Joint Commission have called for fatigue countermeasures to be researched and implemented so nurses can provided the highest level of care to their patients. The necessity for fatigue countermeasures transcends healthcare according to Scott et al. (2010) where successful implementation of fatigue countermeasures is standard…

Health Care Accountable Care Organization Model- Alliance ACO MHA 536 Strategic Leadership in Healthcare Candice Cole 04/12/2017 Introduction The advent of medical advancement has grown over the past decades. The access to this technology is also limited depending on the level of Health care services in a certain country. ACOs or Accountable Care Organization is specifically available in the United States. It is a group of health care practitioners that ties up cost-efficiency to…

The evaluation of an organization is a task that often presents with its own set of challenges. Despite this, the evaluation should be as comprehensive and accurate as possible, especially when considering the impact it has upon the lives of others. The following is the analysis of a healthcare organization known as the Get Well Clinic (GWC). Our evaluation of GWC utilizes a framework-based perspective that outlines both findings and suggestions for improvement. First, we examine GWC’s…

in the Broward healthcare system providing expert care to the Broward County community offering more than 50 medical specialties including pediatrics emergency services, level 2 pediatric intensive care unit and pediatric inpatient services with multiple specialties (Broward Health, 2016). Furthermore, Broward Health states that CSMC is an innovator in adhering to the health and medical needs of the Broward County community (2016). The mission of CSMC is to provide quality healthcare to the…

1997 also included provisions that signified the most impactful set of changes in Medicaid since 1991, twenty-six years after its enactment into the Social Security Act in 1965. Along with its goal to balance the federal budget, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 introduced the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). The SGR was established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to control costs and spending in relation to healthcare services received by Medicaid recipients. According to…

influenza vaccine. A CDS system is comparable to hiring a new member of a clinical practice. The technology helps providers aggregate and synthesize data at the patient and population levels to increase the rates of intervention (McLeod, Eidus, & Stewart, 2012). Employing the CDS as a partner in patient care is a significant development in the way healthcare is delivered. Previous studies have…

provided by EBM is an established strong piece of evidence that in most cases has gone through metanalyses thus eliminating bias. So, in effect the clinician is acting upon a known method of treatment that is most effective according to comprising summary data. Without EBM, clinicians may have to rely on trial and error or conduct own research that could be exposed to a confirmation bias, exposing the patient to…

The need for individuals and small business employers to be able to shop for insurance coverages was the reason the mandate for an online marketplace. The marketplace will allow all individuals without insurance to purchase a plan the will fit their needs. Most of the individuals will shop at the marketplace because their employers not offer insurance, or they are self-employed. The exchanges are established by each individual state today there is sixteen states that run their own exchange,…

availability of the data from many access points at the same time, and nearly immediate retrieval time (Gurley, 2003). The paper record is fragmented and depending on the charts used (e.g. some tend to fly open when dropped, causing paper to be scattered), pieces of the record can be lost. Additionally, when a patient is hospitalized more than once, their old chart must be retrieved in order to provide continuity of care. Electronic systems bypass this and allow clinicians to obtain…

Parents bear the responsibility of making life-shaping decisions in issues such as education and healthcare for their children. The growing skepticism against vaccines and the healthcare industry is worrying because it can potentially cause preventable deaths. In this paper, I will be responding to Sarah Pope’s entry in The Healthy Home Economist where she argued against vaccines. Pope established her family’s medical background to show that her claims are not unfounded. It is ironic that she…