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.
There are many ways in which prescription fraud can occur. Because of the plethora of ways, pharmacists must be alert and responsible in their actions. Many seem to believe that electronic prescribing has been found to reduce the number of errors and statistics and data reflects that. America cannot be ignorant in this matter. The new electronic system not being implemented is like going through life with a contagious deadly disease, you have the money for the cure, but yet you complain, sulk, and feel sorry for yourself instead of going to get the cure.
Campaigns are competing for mental space of an audience that is bombarded with many other ideas and messages. This means programmes need to get creative and learn a little from commercial marketing strategies. Relying on fear or guilt to elicit long-term behaviour change is less effective. Thought-provoking, benefits-based messages are more meaningful. Awareness raising is only the first step in a campaign to change behaviour in our care setting.
Without prior market penetration of an organization’s competetitors, the usefulness and effectiveness of properly marketing a new product or service can be quite burdensome. This is due to the fact that an organization runs a major risk of constantly striving to maintain its customer base, as the new type of product or service has not yet been introduced into the maintstream. Additionally, pricing may be an issue based upon: Should pricing be very low to attract new buyers?, or Should pricing be set high to offset initial entry into a new marketplace? These are the questions that an organization must face, but for the most part, being a
Brennan (2009) argues that ‘the NHS may be viewed as unprepared to deliver such a fast-paced, radical and extensive modernisation program.’ The risks and uncertainties on embarking on the world’s largest civil IT program should not be underestimated. The reality of delivering such a program without significant unforeseen issues, delays and need for change from the original plan would be unlikely. The NPfIT program has delivered some major benefits to users of IT systems in the NHS, but still has a long way to go to fully integrate information management between organisations. More importantly, gaining the support and trust of clinicians in order to begin delivering the kind of benefits to patient care and service improvements originally aimed for will require a change in culture not seen before in the
Campaigns are competing for mental space of an audience that is bombarded with many other ideas and messages. This means programmes need to get creative and learn a little from commercial marketing strategies. Relying on fear or guilt to elicit long-term behaviour change is less effective. Thought-provoking, benefits-based messages are more meaningful. Awareness raising is only the first step in a campaign to change behaviour in our care setting.
Bearing with a patient, especially an elderly patient who might be a little slower at comprehending medical terminology can make all of the difference in the world. Medical terminology can be overwhelming to those who study medicine, so to a carpenter or super market manager it can be extremely flustering, so it is important to break down the meaning of the diagnosis to avoid the patient feeling lost. Doing this adds to the patients comfort which is crucial. Developing a trusting, healthy, doctor-patient relationship can take healthcare to a whole new level. One can describe this phenomenon almost as a 'slippery slope' affect in the fact that having a positive, friendly bed side manner with a patient makes the patient more willing to trust the advice of the physician, leading to a faster treatment, ultimately making the patient better with ease.
pp. 398). Due to the realization that managed care has not been successful in controlling healthcare costs, advocates have begun to speak out for more basic changes “in the hope that they might be able to establish universal coverage in some states” (Blau, 2004. pp. 398). The hope is that the behavior of one state will influence the others.
As we age and the population is constantly change, we the people are more effectuated to our health especially as the technology and social media are the new living standards. As the standard are chaning the, pharmaceutical companies play a significant role in promoting good health. If we are governed to obi by rules and regulation, then it necessary for the Pharmaceutical companies to live up ethical principles and corporate social responsibilities. Although, we tend to turn the blind eye there is tons of violations in pharmaceutical industry that money continues to cover up. This will lead us into a case where, Pfizer failed to keep its commitment to corporate social responsibility as one of the most successful pharmaceutical companies, the choice they made to choose to bear unethical behavior in 1996.
The company’s dependence on word-of-mouth advertising in lieu of utilizing effective, established media channels for more effective product market saturation is expensive in terms of lost sales and losing market share to competitors. Biolife QR Origins The source of the QR product startup was definitely by a Type C idea. When the creators of QR, Jim Patterson and John Alf Thompson, immediately realized the usefulness of their product, they began to market it as a “new and improved way of performing old functions” (Longnecker, Moore, Palich & Petty, 2008, p. 68). There were various antihemorrhagic agents on the market at the time, but few painless, immediate acting products like QR. Biolife and its QR product began in 1999 when Patterson and Thompson were experimenting with resin and salt in a quest to create a water purification solution.