What is alternative medicine? What role does it play in the delivery of health care? 8. Why is the hospital emergency department sometimes used for non-urgent conditions? What are the consequences?
IT Project Implementation Failures Implementing a new IT project of any kind can be a time consuming task and require a great deal of preparation. It is not a task that can be rushed and if it is, chances are it will not be successful. In the case of the CPOE implementation at the Memorial Health System, the project was destined to fail because of the rushed requirements analysis. It only took six months to complete the acquisition process but a more appropriate and thorough process would have taken longer. From the time the project was introduced, organizational inertia was present in the way physicians responded to the changes that would be required to implement the new system.
To express this in other words, if you are working on a hard problem, you are going to make mistakes. It’s easy to expect perfection from ourselves and/or the fear the judgment that comes with “messing up”. Even at its worse, we learn from those errors to really dive into the problem for a successful result. That is not a new concept, but it is one that is often forgotten. Mistakes are actually indicators that you are actually trying to succeed, so without them you are not doing much at all.
However, token economy has issues, such as that you could argue that you are taking away patient’s basic rights to use as rewards. Another criticism which shows why token economy may not be and appropriate and effective therapy is that it has low ecological validity; it may not transfer into the real world. Once patients are away from institutions, they often discarded desirable behavior as there are no longer any rewards to reinforce it. Another disadvantage is the ethical issues surrounding the use of behavioral therapy. It could be argued it doesn't really help the patient; it just makes their behavior more acceptable to others.
Trinity Community Hospital should seek ACOS accreditation. However, hospitals seem to survive better than independent practices. The costs of many oral oncology drugs have become an issue since the patient still have large out-of-pocket expenses to cover. Many of the oncology patients are covered by Medicare but the 2003 Medicare Legislation did little to help patients pay for oncology medications (Georgetown University, 2014). The expansion of 340B discounts, where oncology drug makers provided outpatient drugs at deep discounts to facilities that met their criteria, also faced lots of criticism since the facilities where to pass on the discounts to the patients but did not (Wang, Tao & Hamilton, n.d.).
I am curious to know why the insurance companies started this trend on restrictive billing practices or how come the contracts were not clearly understood by each Payee. I was shocked to see how recent this article was. With updated national licensing requirements for PTAs, in a perfect world, these insurance companies should have been educated and informed on the PTA role before encountering these billing issues. PT being not only a focus on reactive but preventative medicine, I would hope that principal or prevention would be engrained in this profession; shouldn’t the role of the PTA been clearly defined
Although the Socratic seminar and the novel left many questions unanswered for me, it made me understand more why things are they way they are in the healthcare and scientific research industries. It made me look more closely at the specific details health care professional do in their line of work. In society, money is the key to getting things to happen. It is inferred by the book that informed consent and bioethics are not as important as the appropriation of funds for research. I can tell that this idea is a huge controversy among different individuals.
Such singular ideas are what intolerant readers hold near and dear to their hearts, they are the easy convictions that do not change because the reader does not allow them to do so. They are frozen in production, predictable and therefore comforting, but they will never realize the full potential that comes with interacting and discussing, and are therefore
This creates unnecessary high cost for the hospital. The emergency department becomes over crowded with non-paying patients leaving no space for patients with private insurance. Majority of ED visits from the uninsured could be better served by a primary provider the problem is the uninsured does not have the means to receive such service from primary physicians. One solution is to create a case management program that focuses on serving individuals with a history of using the Emergency Department for non-emergent issue. The program would use case managers and a database tracking system to enhance patient access to regular healthcare services, connect patients to regular healthcare services and help combat logistical interference in getting the right care.
Matt Jones 4/11/13 Biggest Moral Issue in America The biggest moral issue in America is the mistreatment of others. I know this is a very general issue but bear with me. The gold rule I feel for the most part is dead… no one treats others how they want to be treated. We treat others in a way that we make ourselves feel elevated. I have never met a person, male or female, black or white, smart or dumb, that has ever said “I want to be second best.” We all want to feel that we are accomplished.