Geographic information: Kaiser is a multistate enterprise. California is the largest user of Kaiser services. Kaiser has clinics and health care facilities in California, Colorado, Virginia, D.C., Ohio, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington , and Maryland. Kaiser was founded out of the need for health care to Kaiser Aluminum during WW2. It grew out of a physician clinic system to an organized health maintenance organization.
THE ADMITTING SYSTEM CRASHES Disaster Recovery case Emily D. Orellana Danita Hunter Health Information System Week 8 Jones Regional Medical Center (JRMC) is a large academic health center. With 900 beds, JRMC had 47,000 admissions in 2007. JRMC frequently has occupancy in excess of 100 percent; requiring diversion of ambulances. In addition, JRMC had 1,300,000 ambulatory and emergency room visits in 2007. JRMC is internationally renowned for its research and teaching programs.
Introduction For the purpose of this assignment I have chosen to review a client with atrial fibrillation in a primary care setting. I will discuss the patient’s original presentation, including analysis and interpretation of his 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG), diagnosis and subsequent management. Throughout the assignment I will discuss local and national guidelines and the evidence behind the chosen management for this client. For the purpose of this assignment the client will be referred to as Mr. Jones. Cardiac arrhythmias affect more than 700,000 people in England is one of the top ten reasons for hospital admission (Department of Health 2005).
Bayer Consumer Care, a division of Bayer HealthCare, is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. With 2005 sales of €2,355 million, Bayer Consumer Care is among the largest over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare products companies in the world. The division was created in 1994, following the acquisition of the North American OTC drug business of Sterling Winthrop, which expanded the Company's product portfolio. The acquisition returned to Bayer the North American rights to Bayer Aspirin®, as well as the rights to the Bayer name and trademark in North America. It also led to the company's U.S. name change in April 1995 from Miles Inc. to Bayer.
The Australian health care system is made up of public and private health, has 3 national subsidy schemes, Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and a 30% Private Health Insurance rebate. Life expectancy in Australia is an average of 78 years for males and 83 years for females, which is one of the highest rates among developed countries (Allianz Worldwide Care 2013), so with this in mind the Australian health care system continually needs to improve. Originally Medicare was established on 1 July 1975 as Medibank by the Whitlam Labor Government, which involved free treatment for public patients in public hospitals and subsidised fees to private hospitals. On 1 October 1976, Medibank Mark II was launched where a levy of 2.5% tax levy
Ῠ= | 1.41+.67X | (b) Predict the total expenses of a hospital with 90,000 admissions. 61.71 Million (c) Find: SST: 30,670 SSE: 788.7739 SSR: 29,881.226 and MSE: 2,555.8333 (d) Find the coefficient of determination, and interpret what this value means in the context of this hospital data. R2= 0.9742819 The value of R2 is very high at 97.4%. It means that the hospital data very well establishes the relationship between expenses and number of admission (e) Find the significance of F. Based on this value, is our model statistically significant at the 5% level? Is there a relationship between total expenses and number of admissions?
According to Shi & Singh (2012), reports showed that 1 in 3 or 87.6 million Americans were uninsured between 2008 and 2009 under the age of 65. This has contributed to the raise in health care costs. In order to reduce costs, the U.S. health care delivery system needs to have a plan in place to ensure that all of America’s population is insured such as the creation of the Obama Care Plan. The term delivery refers to the provision of health care services by various providers (Shi & Singh, 2012). Providers include physicians, hospitals, clinics, private doctor offices, and other entities.
refers to the social institution that seeks to prevent, diagnose, and treat illness and to promote health in its various dimensions. This social institution in the United States is vast, to put it mildly, and involves more than 11 million people (physicians, nurses, dentists, therapists, medical records technicians, and many other occupations). Finally, health careThe provision of medical services to prevent, diagnose, and treat health problems. refers to the provision of medical services to prevent, diagnose, and treat health problems. With these definitions in mind, we now turn to sociological explanations of health and health care.
Its product range includes Losec--marketed in the United States as Prilosec--the world's top selling prescription drug, and Seloken, the world's leading cardioselective beta-blocker. The company is the result of the 1999 merger of two European pharmaceuticals companies: Astra AB of Sweden, which made pharmaceutical products and medical devices, and Zeneca PLC of the United Kingdom, a bioscience company that focused on pharmaceuticals, agricultural and specialty chemicals, and disease-specific healthcare services. One year after its merger, the company achieved sales of US$15.8 billion, with an operating profit of US$4 billion. Astra: Early Development Astra AB was formed in Sweden in 1913 by the initiative of more than 400 doctors and apothecaries who joined together to establish the company and to become its first shareholders. Two products--Digitotal, a heart medication, and Glukofos, a nutritional supplement--emerged from Astra's facilities in 1914, and the company began to prosper.
GSK’s prime activities include creation, discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing pharmaceutical and consumer health-related products the world over. GSK operates largely in two segments, Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Healthcare. GSK has more than 36,000 SKU’s manufactured across over 80 manufacturing plants worldwide. GSK has a market share of seven percent in the pharmaceutical business. Year Merger/Acquisition New Company Name 1989 Beecham merged with SmithKline Beckman SmithKline Beecham 1995 Glaxo acquires Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Glaxo Wellcome 2000 Glaxo Wellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham GlaxoSmithKline 2001 GlaxoSmithKline acquires consumer health care company Block Drug Co. GlaxoSmithKline Exhibit 1: Merger and Acquisition activity at GSK The Challenges Post merger Integration Issues With the spate of mergers and acquisitions, GSK faces three major integration challenges: * Integrating the separate identities * Integrating different strategies and * Integrating the packaging and manufacturing operations of Glaxo, Burroughs Wellcome, Beecham, SmithKline Beckman and Block Drug Co. Complex product portfolio Market dynamics and short life expectancy of patients have tilted the demand in favour of specialised drugs.