1. State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program The State HIE program falls under The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, and funds the implementation and creation of statewide health information exchange. States can work independently to complete the task, or they can combine their finances and work together on a multi-state program. The awardees have the important job of creating and putting into action a State plan that makes sure…
Turkey is a country, bordering parts of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, in the midst of the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Turkey covers 783, 562 square kilometers of the planet (The, 2014). Elections in 2014 yielded its first popularly elected President: Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Davutoglu’s, 2014). Political stability has benefited not only the health care system, but the economy of Turkey as well. Long-term strategies have been put in place due to this stability (Country, 2013). The Republic of…
The health information technology is a broad concept that encompasses an array of technologies to store, share and analyze health information. The use of HIT will help in preventing medical errors, improving quality of health care, reducing health care cost, decreasing paperwork, increasing administrative efficiency, and expanding access to affordable health care (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d.). The meaningful use is defined as the use of certified Electronic Health…
March 2010, the loopholes of obtaining health insurance from Obama Care are lengthy and cumbersome. The delivery of health care and insurance premiums is part of the reason for the unintended consequences. First of all,…
health care industry. With many laws and regulations that have passed over the decades the US still comes up short and has many disaffects towards, the funding of the health care industry. There is an incredible amount of financial costs for both insurance based public and private within the administrative portion. Financial management is an extremely important aspect that is impacting health care the health care industry. There are major sources of healthcare finances, which include the out…
Blue Cross Blue Shield began offering private coverage in several states. In the 1960’s, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. Prior to that is was found that 56% of Americans over the age of 65 did not have health insurance. In the 1990’s…
automatically enrolled you are given the opportunity to have insurance but you either have to purchased it, qualified for government assistance or pay a penalty. Americans now have more affordable insurance options and subsidies to cover their costs and the lowest-income may be eligible for public coverage through the expansion of Medicaid (Obamacare vs. Canada 2012, p.). But even with this, millions will still be without health insurance. Another key difference between the U.S and Canada…
Acute care service is a level of health care in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness, for conditions that are the result of disease or trauma, and during recovery from surgery. Acute care services are usually delivered by a team of health care professionals from a range of medical and surgical specialties using technical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and medical supplies. The acute care settings include but are not limited to the emergency department, intensive care…
Calabio 1 Caryn Calabio PUA 405, 1001 Spring 2016 March 11, 2016 Fredric Jackson Department Analysis Assignment III: Responsiveness and Competence A major issue in the Department of Health and Human Services is the issue of health care. It is a long disputed issue with several topics of discussion and debate. The Department provides two major health care programs, Medicare and Medicaid. These two programs are caused for reform and add to the overall health care problem the nation faces on a day…
the provisions to come from the 3,000 page law. “The most [egregious] provision is a tax penalty on businesses with at least 50 workers who fail to offer adequate, government-approved health insurance.” (By Rep.) The tax penalty that these businesses receive for failing to provide adequate health insurance for workers can be anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 dollars; unfortunately consumers, shareholders, and workers have the burden of paying the tax penalties. (By Rep.) The employees at…