Healthcare

to rebuild the healthcare system, passed a legislation, whereby health care providers and health facilities are charged to follow all guidelines necessary to ensure quality patient care, patient safety, and patient satisfaction, before federal reimbursement or funding will be allotted (US Congress, 2010). Due to the increasing attention to quality of patient care, an initial standardized patient satisfaction evaluation was provided by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and…

Communication in Healthcare Efficacious communication among the healthcare staff is a necessary element that allows for the delivery of optimal patient care and is imperative for effective teamwork dynamics to transpire. When communication is disjointed, errors tend to occur and; consequently, inadvertent patient harm may ensue. According to Leonard (2004), communication failures are the leading cause of inadvertent patient harm. An analysis of 2455 sentinel events reported to the Joint…

about insurance and the healthcare field. This is when my passion for healthcare started to form. Helping others is something I always knew I wanted to do, but helping others is a broad job description – an umbrella for the countless ways to make an impact. Healthcare is changing year by year and I believe that every individual should be taken care of…

A stakeholder in healthcare is a person or group that play a role in a person or communities health (Deaunno, Alexander & Jiang 2017, p. 100). Stakeholders in healthcare can be big groups that make alliances such as healthcare providers, employers, companies and healthcare agencies and consumer groups (Deaunno, Alexander & Jiang 2017, p. 100). Multidisciplinary teams in healthcare provide a holistic coordinated care to assist a person’s treatment and recovery (Muir-Cochrane, Barkway & Nizette…

differently, healthcare administrators at various facilities generally manage similar responsibilities, with obligations that vary depending on the facility size and practice area. Healthcare administrators are high-level executives that oversee the key responsibilities that keep a medical institutions functioning efficiently, such as information and operations management and the career track offers opportunities in almost any medical setting. Healthcare Administration Scope Healthcare…

Americans deserve a healthcare system that provides quality care at affordable cost to all it citizens. Although thousands of solutions have been proposed by health policy management, medical experts, and insurance companies to help serve the exponentially growing number of patient needs to Medicare cost. Sadly, to say all efforts have been ineffective resulting in great variations of out of pocket outcomes and high cost (Conklin, 2002; Peter, 2016; Mund, 2012). This dramatic growth…

I will be answering the question prompt regarding the top ten technology trends (Healthcare Informatics, 2013). From, the resource in Week 1, the Healthcare Informatics' (2013) website, I feel that one of the most important of the health technology trends is telehealth, as mentioned in Raths' (2013) article. Telehealth is defined as the use of electronic/computer technology and information to provide healthcare and telecommunication at a distance, that is not being physically present.…

During the course of my research, I was inspired to learn about Providence Healthcare Foundation’s $16 million Hope Starts Here campaign and how it will help to transform the hospital so as to better meet patient care through three main key priorities; transform by design, palliative care, and knowledge centre. These are exciting times for Providence Healthcare Foundation and I want to be part of an organization that is innovative and is transformational in making change happen, particularly…

Emory Healthcare. (2017). Emory Healthcare history and mission. https://www.emoryhealthcare.org/locations/hospitals/emory-university-hospital/index.html The author of the website for Emory Healthcare systems, explains the history and existence of Emory University Hospital. It’s explained how at the beginning, in the year 1904 that the hospitals, name was Wesley Memorial Hospital, which at that time started with 50 beds, and now has expanded to 830 beds. Emory Healthcare’s goal for quality…

Healthcare information system is a “computer hardware and software dedicated to the collection, storage, processing, retrieval, and communication of patient care information in a healthcare organization.” (Hebda, 2013, p. 580) T Healthcare information system is a crucial component to today’s health care. There has been a major advancement in the way we keep track of patient information. In addition to healthcare information system, hospital information system is a “group of information systems…