Telemedicine: Benefits and Challenges

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Telemedicine: Benefits and Challenges

Telemedicine can be extremely beneficial for people living in isolated regions and is currently being applied in virtually all medical domains. To address major health issues related to affordability, access, and quality of care, healthcare providers need to consider telemedicine as a reliable option when access to traditional medicine is difficult and out of reach. Healthcare providers, however, must consider legal and ethical issues when planning, designing, and implementing telemedicine. Key among these issues are those of patient confidentiality, privacy, data security, and transmission. Telemedicine: Benefits and Challenges

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How does telemedicine differ from the traditional medicine?

What are other legal or ethical issues involved in telemedicine?

Which of these issues, in your opinion, will be the most difficult to address?

What technologies or infrastructure are necessary for the successful practice of telemedicine?

What obstacles can prevent healthcare providers from seeing telemedicine as a reliable option, even when access to traditional medicine is difficult or out of reach?

Telemedicine: Benefits and Challenges

Adopting Health Information Systems

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Adopting Health Information Systems

Many health care leaders struggle with identifying the advantages and/or disadvantages when adopting a new or improving a current health information system. Many organizations are opting out of acquiring a new health information system due to the high monetary cost. Meanwhile, other health care organizations face resistance from employees and other stakeholders over system implementation . Overall, system acquisition is a challenge for most health care leaders. Adopting Health Information Systems

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Review each of the following articles :

  • Managing the data explosion
  • Catholic health partners to acquire Kaiser Permanente Ohio
  • Mergers and acquisitions may be hazardous to health IT

In your discussion post, refer to these articles as you answer the following questions:

    • Discuss at least three of the barriers faced by health care leaders in adopting health information systems. Can these barriers be prevented? Explain your answer.
    • Discuss some options that are available for health information system acquisition.
    • Discuss systems of checks and balances could be used to eliminate or reduce resistance.
    • Discuss how culture and/or behavioral factors influence acquisition.

Adopting Health Information Systems

Transformation of the U.S. Health Care Industry

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Transformation of the U.S. Health Care Industry

One of the trends marking the continuing transformation of the U.S. health care industry is the dramatic increase in the pace of competition. The heightened competition is taking place among hospitals, health plans, physician groups, and drug companies, and between physicians and hospitals, and hospitals and health plans. Listen to the Looking Ahead: The Future of Health Care Policy podcast from National Public Radio (NPR). Four page paper in which you: Transformation of the U.S. Health Care Industry

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  • Describe the different forms of competition that take place among various types of health care organizations. Transformation of the U.S. Health Care Industry
  • Evaluate the benefits and pitfalls of competition in health care and suggest alternatives if competition was not the primary driver of operations in the U.S. health care system.
  • Explain the elements of successful competition and the use of competitive intelligence.
  • Describe the influence competition has on the services offered by health care organizations and the choices patients have.

Utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published within the last five years. Formatted according to APA style.

Transformation of the U.S. Health Care Industry

Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care

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Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care

Create a 2 page paper, as a presenter, in which you will propose an evidence-based plan to improve the outcomes for the Vila Health patient and examine how remote collaboration provided benefits or challenges to designing and delivering the care. Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care

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The villa patient scenario is in the downloads

1Proposes your evidence-based care plan to improve the safety and outcomes for the Vila Health patient with new content added. Notes areas in which further information or data could have been useful in developing the plan.
2Explains the ways in which you used the specific evidence-based practice model to help develop your care plan. Notes ideas for how to evaluate the positive benefits to patient outcomes.
3Reflects on which evidence you collected that was most relevant and useful when making decisions regarding the care plan. Discusses the rationale or criteria that was used to determine relevance and usefulness.
4Identifies benefits and proposes strategies to mitigate the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration to plan care within the context of a remote team. Discusses how interdisciplinary collaboration could be better leveraged to improve outcomes in future care situations.

Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care

Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Psychiatric Emergencies

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Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Psychiatric Emergencies

The diagnosis of psychiatric emergencies can include a wide range of problems—from serious drug reactions to abuse and suicidal ideation/behaviors. Regardless of the care setting, the PMHNP must know how to address emergencies, coordinate care with other members of the health care team and law enforcement officials (when indicated), and effectively communicate with family members who are often overwhelmed in emergency situations. In their role, PMHNPs can ensure a smooth transition from emergency mental health care to follow-up care, and also bridge the physical–mental health divide in healthcare. Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Psychiatric Emergencies

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In this week’s Assignment, you explore legal and ethical issues surrounding psychiatric emergencies and identify evidence-based suicide and violence risk assessments.

  • Explain your state laws for involuntary psychiatric holds for child and adult psychiatric emergencies. Include who can hold a patient and for how long, who can release the emergency hold, and who can pick up the patient after a hold is released.
  • Explain the differences between emergency hospitalization for evaluation/psychiatric hold, inpatient commitment, and outpatient commitment in your state. Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Psychiatric Emergencies
  • Explain the difference between capacity and competency in mental health contexts.
  • Select one of the following topics, and explain one legal issue and one ethical issue related to this topic that may apply within the context of treating psychiatric emergencies: patient autonomy, EMTALA, confidentiality, HIPAA privacy rule, HIPAA security rule, protected information, legal gun ownership, career obstacles (security clearances/background checks), and payer source.
  • Identify one evidence-based suicide risk assessment that you could use to screen patients.
  • Identify one evidence-based violence risk assessment that you could use to screen patients.

Attach copies of or links to the suicide and violence risk assessments you selected.

Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Psychiatric Emergencies

Health-Illness Continuum and its Relevance to Patient Care

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Health-Illness Continuum and its Relevance to Patient Care

Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following: Health-Illness Continuum and its Relevance to Patient Care

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Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing. Health-Illness Continuum and its Relevance to Patient Care
Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).
You are required to cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Health-Illness Continuum and its Relevance to Patient Care

 

Insurance and Managed Care

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Insurance and Managed Care

Insurance and managed care continue to be an area of concern for consumers, healthcare organizations, and insurance companies as the U.S. healthcare system continue to struggle in meeting healthcare needs. There are various, pressing issues regarding insurance and managed care.  This assessment will provide an opportunity to explore one of the issues in greater depth through research and writing an essay. Insurance and Managed Care

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Select one of the following 3 healthcare categories:

Utilization and quality

Costs, cost-savings

Reimbursement methodologies and incentives

Write a 5 page paper/essay including the following about the selected healthcare category:

Summary of the current state of the selected category of healthcare in the U.S.

Explanation of at least 2 specific issues the U.S. struggles with within the selected category

Description of 3 potential solutions that would improve the selected category in the U.S. healthcare system

Identification of at least 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage of each solution presented

From the 3 identified solutions, select the preferred solution and provide a rationale for the selection

Include a cover page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page with 3-5 references, formatted APA style.

Insurance and Managed Care

Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality

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Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality

Assume that you are a Quality Officer who is responsible for one of the state’s largest healthcare organizations. You have been told that the quality of patient care has decreased, and you have been assigned a project that is geared toward increasing quality of care for the patients. Your Chief Executive Officer has requested a six to eight-page summary of your recommended initiatives. Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality

Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment. Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality

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Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

  1. Analyze three (3) quality initiatives for your organization.
  2. Determine the supporting factors that would aid in the reduction of healthcare cost in your organization without reducing quality of care for the patients.
  3. Differentiate between quality in a free market healthcare system and in single payer government system with three (3) examples for each.
  4. Specify three (3) common law quality initiatives that are still found in 21st century healthcare organizations.
  5. Defend your position on the importance of healthcare quality for your organization. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.
  6. Assemble a plan to protect patient information that complies with all legal requirements.
  7. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Describe the evolution of hospitals and sources of law.
  • Examine tort law and the criminal aspects of health care.
  • Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
  • Determine the factors that affect healthcare quality in healthcare organizations.
  • Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
  • Assess the legal implications of ethical decisions that impact consent for treatment, right-to-die, and patient rights and responsibilities.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.

Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality

 

Mass Media and Healthcare Quality

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Mass Media and Healthcare Quality

In this assignment, you will assess how the general public’s perception of healthcare quality is influenced by the mass media.

Locate an article that reports on the quality of healthcare services. The article must be sourced from the mass media and not from an academic or healthcare journal. The purpose of this assignment is to review information reported to the general public in a news source that does not exclusively cover healthcare issues. Weekly magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Forbes, Money, and Consumer Reports, and newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would be appropriate choices. The article may give various examples of good or bad quality instead of covering just one episode of care. Your selected article must be a comprehensive review or assessment of some aspect of healthcare services. Summarize the article. Be certain to indicate the basis for the report, that is, whether it is the result of academic research, an independent investigation, or something else. Mass Media and Healthcare Quality

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Answer the following questions.

  • In the article, what conditions, processes, or events are noted as good quality or poor quality healthcare? What is your own assessment of these conditions, processes, or events? Explain.
  • Does the article assign responsibility to persons or processes for the problems or achievements it reports? Does it provide sufficient evidence for assigning responsibility? Why do you think so?
  • What are the suggestions for healthcare quality improvement in the article?
  • What is your reaction to this article as a consumer of healthcare services? In answering this question, note how the article uses language and any persuasive techniques.
  • What is your reaction to this article as a provider of healthcare services? Why is this reaction the same as or different from your reaction as a consumer? Mass Media and Healthcare Quality
  • Is the article fair in its reporting and assessing healthcare quality? Why or why not?

Provide reasons and evidence in support of your responses.

Comment on the postings of two of your classmates. Is your assessment the same or different? Why?

Be sure to cite any relevant resources used in framing your responses. Apply APA standards to cite sources.

Mass Media and Healthcare Quality

Changing Landscape of the Healthcare System

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Changing Landscape of the Healthcare System

Analyze the changing landscape of the HEALTHCARE system

Research the following in you above centers and addresses the following:

Analyze the changing landscape of the health care system.
Differentiate the various places health care is delivered. Changing Landscape of the Healthcare System
Analyze what impact cultural demographics have on the health care market.

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Analyze the targeted audience of the clinic or office based on cultural demographics.
Analyze the effectiveness of the marketing approach for the clinic or office to various cultures.
Analyze the marketing techniques that could be used to improve the marketing within different cultural demographics.
Differentiate what effect different generations have on the health care market.
Analyze the targeted audience of the clinic or office based on generational demographics.
Differentiate the effectiveness of the marketing approach for the clinic or office to various generations.
Differentiate the marketing techniques that could be used to improve the marketing within different generations.
Analyze the impact of media and social networking on consumer choices.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

Changing Landscape of the Healthcare System