Case Analysis Report Telehealth vs. Telemedicine By: Matt Wood Kelley Cox Greg Collins John Weiner Part One: Telemedicine at ECU The telemedicine center at ECU has been around longer than similar operations around the world. Its inception was in 1992 and has grown tremendously since then. The main purpose of the telemedicine system at ECU is to utilize telehealth and technology to assist in healthcare when needed. The current focus is on improving clinical staff, quality, and convenience for health consumers. The area served by ECU’s telemedicine center is Eastern North Carolina.
Improvements in surgical technique, in the preservation of organs and in anti-rejection therapy have opened up the live-saving option of organ transplantation to thousands more patients each year. Improvements in the care of patients with advanced chronic illness have also boosted the numbers of potential organ recipients. In the United States, for example, 63,782 patients were on the National Transplant Waiting List on June 30, 1999. Despite this need, only20,961 transplants were performed the previous year, because organs were available from just 9,913 donors. This critical shortage of donor organs is considered the number-one issue inorgan transplantation, because many more lives could have been saved.
GERIATRIC NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF EMERGENCY NURSES XXXX XXXXXX For CCC GGGGG BSN May 23, 2011 The Emergency Department (ED) is the entry point into the health care system for many people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported increasing ED visits with the greatest increase being among individuals 65 years of age and older. If the trend continues, ED visits in the United States for the geriatric population could reach as many as 11.7 million visits by 2013 (Roberts, McKay & Shaffer, 2007, p. 769-74). Up to 27% of older adults discharged home from the ED experience revisit, hospitalization, or death within three months after discharge (Hwang & Morrison, 2007, p. 873-876). Also a survey conducted of older patients discharged from an inner-city ED revealed that most believed that ED staff were not attentive to their questions or needs (Nerney, Chin, Jin, Karrison, Walter, Miliken, Miller, Hayley & Friedmann, 2001, p. 140-145).
Stryker Corporation: In-sourcing PCB State the business case for option #3: the PCB in-sourcing proposal. Executives of Stryker Corporation’s Instruments business were looking forward to changing the sourcing strategy of printed circuit boards (PCBs), an electronic component for many medical products. At the present, Stryker is purchasing PCBs from small of different contract manufacturers. As per projections, Instruments business would spend more than $10 million in each of the next two years on PCBs; this amount would rise as the Instrument business would grow. With the aim of changing the sourcing strategy of printed circuit boards (PCBs), managers studies three options.
Impact of Technology in Healthcare Delivery Technology makes the world go round and it comes as no shock that it continues to have a major impact on how healthcare is delivered in the U.S. Hospitals depend on many different types of technology to allow them to be able to function daily. One example would be information technology. About 10 years ago, most hospital records were kept in files and folders in cabinets. But over the years there has been a shift to information technology.
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections? Jonathan Gruber NBER Working Paper No. 17168 June 2011 JEL No. H3,I18 ABSTRACT The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most comprehensive reform of the U.S. medical system in at least 45 years. The ACA transforms the non-group insurance market in the United States, mandates that most residents have health insurance, significantly expands public insurance and subsidizes private insurance coverage, raises revenues from a variety of new taxes, and reduces and reorganizes spending under the nation’s largest health insurance plan, Medicare.
| Computer Help Inc. | Memo Re: Proposed Health Care Program for Computer Help Inc. Computer Help Inc. has been very profitable, and up until recently, before the company went public, it was owned by partners who were invited to take an ownership position to attract them to the company. Due to the growth in the non-consulting side of the business, Computer Help Inc. has had to hire staff, who will be working for a paycheck, versus company ownership. The staff counts have been increasing steadily, averaging 10% per year. In addition, the company has expanded from its base, and now boasts midtown sales offices in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta, with development staff in New York and Los Angeles. Prior to the public offering , there was no need for a benefits program at Computer Help Inc.
Running Head: Costa Rica and Medical Technology History of Medical Technology Medical technology has been around for thousands of years. Over time, with improvements in technology and our understanding of body, medical technology has grown much more advanced. Over 4600 ancient Egyptians were performing simple surgeries. (DeMiranda,Doggett & Evans, 2005) In the past two hundred years, medical technology has allowed the medical profession to view and measure the body’s interior. The stethoscope was invented in 1816.
Proposed Healthcare Policy The most important healthcare policies in the world is an increase in life expectancy by people. People are living longer and healthier for several reasons. One reason is that technology has made medicine better and improved the quality of medical care people receive. One improved quality of medical care is the advancements that medical machines such as MRI, x-rays, and others have made to diagnose patients quicker that helps to treat them better. People used to have to wait several days or weeks to get results which are available now in a few minutes.
When signed into law on March 10, 2010, the Obama-approved Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “ ...increased health care coverage to include 32 million previously uninsured Americans, [and] under the new law, 95% of Americans will be insured" (ProCon.org, 2009). The goal of this health insurance plan is to provide affordable health care to all. The closest the government has come previously is with Medicaid and Medicare programs which grant the elderly and the poor a guaranteed minimum of health services (Carmalt & Zaidi, 2004). Meanwhile, with the current system, policy makers, politicians and insurance companies are reaping the rewards from how the current health care system is run. According to Senator Sanders (2010), 30% of each health care dollar private insurance companies spend is on “...administration and billing, exorbitant CEO compensation packages, advertising, lobbying and campaign contributions”.