EHRs in Health Care x x x Abstract In 2009‚ the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was passed into law mandating interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption throughout the United States health care system for all providers who serve Medicare or Medicaid patients. The HITECH Act sets “meaningful use” requirements‚ goals‚ and objectives‚ and gives specific timelines for which to achieve them. As an incentive
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SOURCE: PHILLIPS‚ D. Health and Health care in the 3rd World‚ Chapter 2‚ “Epidemiological transition: the range of third world experience”‚ pgs.32-62‚ Longman group‚ UK Ltd and John Wiley‚ 1990 ABSTRACT: Phillips organized an epidemiological and demographic approach to understanding the health transitions in third world countries that dealt with mortality‚ morbidity‚ population‚ and life expectancy indicators. Such indicators have been focused on children’s health profiles within the third world
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A.S. Course: Health Policy $ Ethics in Public Health April 8‚ 2013 Health care as a right or privilege Our moral duty is to take care of each human been regardless the cost. There is nothing more valuable that we possess rather than our health as well there is nothing that should be more costly and more protected then life itself. On the question “whose responsibility is to protect” our personal health‚ the right answer‚ about the individual or society responsibility most probably “lies somewhere
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Smart phone applications in the HealthCare Industry By Parul Darbari 1.Abstract Providing cost effective and efficient health care is‚ and remains‚ one of the most pressing challenges facing our nation. Health care has a long way to catch up with other industries in terms of exploiting the new technologies. From just documenting expenses to tracking consumer behavior from just about anywhere in the U.S.‚ smartphone applications (apps) have changed the way many businesses operate. Now‚ more industries
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Connected for Health The Potential of Health Information and Communications Technologies to Reduce Health Care Disparities In today’s technology-filled world‚ we have become dependent on the Internet for everything from doing any research (“Google it”)‚ making travel and restaurant reservations‚ paying our bills‚ managing our investments‚ finding recipes for dinner‚ making charitable and political contributions‚ all types of shopping‚ and on and on. And we communicate primarily by e-mail
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The role of primary health care in preventing chronic disease The role of primary health care in preventing the onset of chronic disease‚ with a particular focus on the lifestyle risk factors of obesity‚ tobacco and alcohol. Mark Harris Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity‚ UNSW January 2008 Abstract The potential impact of primary health care in assessing and managing smoking‚ hazardous drinking‚ poor diet and physical inactivity has been demonstrated among patients who are at higher risk
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Catherine Anne Heywood October 12‚ 2012 Impact of Culture on Health STUDY GUIDE: EXAM 1 Chapter 2 – The Starting Point: Defining Culture‚ Defining Health * What do we mean by culture? * Culture is one of those concepts that most people seem to intuitively grasp‚ yet cannot define clearly. * The process of categorizing groups of people as others (other than one’s own group) is a common feature of the way human beings think‚ and it forms a part of the whole phenomenon
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Health Care Utilization Health care in the United States is teetering on the edge; it will either turn into universal health care or become too expensive for the majority of Americans. Recent health care reform has been developed to lower the cost of health care and make it more widely available. However‚ health care in the United State may start trending towards becoming a universal system. There are many arguments to both sides of health care reform and universal health care. The Affordable
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ECONOMIC TERMS AND HEALTH CARE HISTORY Economic Terms and Health Care History Jodi Meaux Broussard University of Phoenix November 13‚ 2012 HCS/440 Health Care economics has been around for a long time. There have been many changes over the years. Health care economics are there to figure out what issues are in health care and try to come up with a plan to fix the problem. Economists also analyze every possible issue and solution in order to fix the problem. “Health economists use the
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Our health care system has undergone several reforms in order to improve its functionality‚ cost‚ access‚ and effectiveness. Take the evolution of hospitals‚ for instance; originally they existed to “provide shelter and care for the destitute” (Almgren‚ 2013‚ p. 50). As time passed and infectious diseases prevailed‚ more protocols needed to be instilled to increase patient’s quality of life. Florence Nightingale and other professional’s emphasis hygiene‚ proved to be the type of reform needed to
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