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Electronic medical records not only have advantages. But there are also some challenges identified for the use of electronic medical records such as financial burden with the start of high system use, high maintenance costs and rising prices. According to PeterChris Okpala (2013), high start-up costs for obtaining electronic medical record systems. The cost of obtaining an electronic medical record system is from sixteen thousand dollars to thirtysix thousand dollars for each doctor. During the…

The Rising Cost of Health of Health Care in America Access to health care is a vital component in the health and well-being of a population. Individuals routinely allow symptoms of diseases or ailments go untreated due to a lack of health insurance. As stated by the Kaiser Foundation, one in five adults claim that they went without care in the past year because of cost. The country that has the highest spending on healthcare in the world is the United States. Approximately 17% of the gross…

3. Motivational factors for health workforce’s migration: There are many factors motivating Health workforces’ migration called pull and push factors. Push factors refer to the existing internal factors in the origin countries which drives the healthcare workers to migrate to better place for working (Cole 2017).These factors include economic factors such as poverty and few job and career opportunities. Furthermore, political factors such as political instability, poor policies and…

The Vblock drug not only decreases recovery time and requires less administration work, but also has no restrictions with being used alongside other drugs. Because Vblock and Nobarf are virtually identical when it comes to reducing nausea, the economic value of Vblock comes from the increase in time efficiency. Despite that, I would not charge a price equivalent to the economic value (to patients) because 1. it does not effectively capture the psychological values of the new drug (for instance,…

Introduction The Healthcare Industry, with global health spending to increase at a rate of 5.3% per year for next four years(2014-17)[1], is one of the biggest industries. Despite of the high growth rate, there is an enormous pressure on healthcare providers due to high costs, government regulations, increasing competition, and requirement of delivering higher quality services. In this industry, supply chain costs constitute a significant fraction of the total costs. Further, its Supply chain…

Healthcare accessibility at “Bottom of the Pyramid”: A study of scope of eHealth in India Introduction According to World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Statistics 2013, India has a ratio of 6.5 doctors, 10 nurses and 9 beds per 10,000 people compared to the global average is of 13.9 doctors, 29 nurses and 30 beds. In order to meet the healthcare requirement of its population of 1.25 billion, India needs an additional 1.54 million doctors, 2.4 million nurses and 2.6 million beds. At the…

Background Health inequality in America cannot be fixed by spending more money on health care. It is suggested that taking care of ourselves by creating healthier communities to create healthier lives is the best way to build a healthier America. The article indicates that a person’s Zip code is a greater determining factor of poor health and life expectancy than a person’s DNA is. Another main focus is that getting good quality care is not always the key to living a long-healthy life,…

healthcare. Aetna also has multiple subsidiaries including Aetna Specialty Pharmacy, the Chickering Group, Aetna Global Benefits, and Active Health just to name a few. Insurers compete over membership, prices, and offerings. Recent Health Care Reform significantly increased the number of individuals looking for insurance; however, the government did place limitations on the prices insurance companies can charge. Getting the right quantity of members mixed with the right quality of…

In the 1930s, only 12% of all live births were of blacks, only 17% of these births took place in a hospital. Times were hard for everyone, especially the blacks. Many could not afford to go to a hospital, and if they did, the quality of that hospital was normally not very good. That 12% were born into a society where they were the misfits, the rejects, the unwanted. They would always be looked down upon, segregated, and hurt with words and actions. The only reason for their extra pain was that…

Orphan drugs under normal market circumstances would not be produced by the pharmaceutical companies due to the expense incurred and potentiality of financial loss due to low levels of sales. Orphan drugs are created to treat, prevent, and diagnose rare diseases with a prevalence of less than 5 in 10,000 per community. An Orphan medicinal product must show an enhanced therapeutic benefit over existing treatments against rare life threatening or debilitating diseases. An orphan drug is not a rare…