Potential to computer-generated medical records is the ability to retain all or most of the patient records for 5 and/or more years, which may seem unwieldy, but it makes the task feasible, while also increasing the efficiency for many other health information management processes. Huge medical centers are generating more than 100,000 orders a week. Computers-generated medical records heal in retrieving demographic information and consultants’ reports, as well as laboratory, radiology, and other test results. It helps in reducing costs,
Introduction: I prefer to write on public-private partnership in healthcare because of its enormous benefits in the healthcare communities. Healthcare partnership allows multiple or diverse groups of healthcare communities to work together, in a common prospect and ideology (Sasenick ,1994). Accordingly, Sasenick(1994) further mentioned that both the state and the private healthcare communities could partners for collaborative effort in handling healthcare delivery. Infact, Hadi et al.(2012) opined that health care delivery system has become more business oriented, because
Paradigm: A paradigm is simply a belief system (or theory) that guides the way we do things, or more formally establishes a set of practices. This can range from thought patterns to action. “In everyday usage, paradigm refers either to a model or an example to be followed or to an established system or way of doing things. The concept was introduced into the philosophy of science by Thomas Kuhn (1970) in his discussion of the nature of scientific
Ghana (World Health Organization, n.d.): Total population (2013)25,905,000Gross national income per capita (PPP international $, 2013)3Life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2013)62/64Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births, 0)not availableProbability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1 000 population, 2013)261/222Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2013)214Total expenditure on health as % of GDP (2013)5.4 Malawi (World Health Organization, n.d.): Total population (2013)16,363,000Gross national income per capita (PPP international $, 2013)750Life expectancy at birth m/f (years,
There is an important article that furthered the discussion of health inequality and inequity. I think there is an issue of an unexplained idea of health inequality in today’s society. This is because accurate measurement of health inequities is indispensable to track progress or to identify needs for health equity policy interventions, (Yukiko, Hurley, Norheim & Johri, 2015). According to the article by Yukiko, Hurley, Norheim & Johri, 2015, the treatment of unexplained inequality is not only methodological but ethical in question.
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act known as EMTALA (Section 1867 (a) of the Social Security Act) and sometimes referred to as the “Patient Anti-Dumping Act” was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Reagan in 1986. The requirement of the Act was to ensure that acutely ill patients who are uninsured or underinsured receive proper emergency care services and to prevent hospitals from refusing to treat certain populations of patients who present to the emergency department.
EMTALA action differ from a malpractice action in the sense that it requires that a Medicare-provider hospital offer an appropriate medical screening examination to determine whether an emergency medical condition exists for any individual who presents to the emergency department seeking treatment. Any violation to the said requirement is a ground for claim of action. In general, medical malpractice liability is not limited to medical doctors as well. It also can extend to nurses, dentists, osteopaths, health care facilities and
Prescription errors include wrong patient, wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong frequency, wrong route, transcription errors, inadequate review of ordered drug, and insufficient review of medication for appropriate prescription.Dispensing errors include improper preparation of medication, failure to properly formulate medications, dispensing expired medications, mislabeling containers, wrong patient, wrong dose, et cetera.Administration errors include wrong patient, wrong route, double-dosing error, failure to administer medications, wrong frequency, administering discontinued drugs, administering drug without an authorized order, and wrong dose.Documentation errors as the name
Early evidence on primary care models has shown is promising outcomes. The patient-centered medical home pilot test at Geisinger Health System reduced hospitalization by 20 percent and overall cost trends by 7 percent in its first year (Paulus, R.A., Davis, K., and Steele, G.D., 2008). The North Carolina Community Care Model (NCCCM) of medical homes achieved $231 million in savings in 2005–2006 (Rittenhouse et al., 2008). Shared-savings payment models also provide the promise of slowing the growth in Medicare outlays over time.
People who work in the health system can be resistant to learning from other sectors. They may claim that health care is different, and it is hard to argue otherwise when looking at the range and diversity of the stakeholders and the ways in which authority is distributed between them. But some challenges are common to all sectors, and it would be wasteful to ignore transferable solutions. Health maintenance organizations reduce health costs through programs, including an initial screening and
