An Evaluation Of A Technological Solution For Healthcare

lesson learned for me. The steps that I took to create my capstone project was to first design, delivery, and evaluation of an instructional package. The steps in the project broadly consisted of: • Project Proposal • Design Document • Instructional Solution • Evaluation of the Instructional Solution • Weekly Reflections Throughout the creation of the MS Office 2013 for Healthcare Employees Training Course, I learned many new things, like the importance of planning the course objectives…

Technological Advances Healthcare delivery in the United States has morphed through substantial changes over the years with most changes occurring as a result of technological advances in medicine. Though technological advances directly affect health care delivery in America, other factors affect it as well. As reported by Ball (2012), two of the earliest and most important technological advances that affected the system of health care delivery in the United States were the invention of the x-ray…

Evaluation of integration technologies In an attempt to provide a clear perspective of the available technological approaches that can be implemented in the healthcare supply chain, this section discusses the overall advantages and disadvantages of each integration technology, in particular, message- and object-oriented technologies. Electronic data interchange For many years, EDIFACT has been the most widely used protocol for EDI messages. Many healthcare organisations, as well as businesses…

Discussing Healthcare Issue and Solutions With a Nurse Practitioner The healthcare system in America, is a system that the nation is working hard to improve and perfect. This means the rules and regulations in healthcare continue to change, and often times change rapidly. In the years to come, nurse practitioners (NPs) are predicted to hold a prominent role as healthcare providers. Currently, there are many rules and regulations that prevent NPs from practicing to the full extent of their educations…

National Healthcare Spending in the United States: Healthcare spending in America has continued to increase to an extent that it exceeds the growth in national income and the increase in spending in other developed or industrialized countries. Despite of the huge healthcare expenditure that has characterized the nation's annual budget, many Americans are without adequate healthcare. As a result, several measures have been adopted by the government from time to time in attempts to solve the problem…

Introduction and Evaluation In medicine, our knowledge of errors has been derived mainly from research of adverse occasions in hospital surroundings. Researchers record the incidence of adverse occasions in between 2.9% and 3.7% of most hospitalizations. Even though research workers disagree around the precise reason for adverse occasions, they often report avoidable clinical errors which happen throughout diagnosis as well as treatment supervision, especially throughout medication purchasing…

profession is the main factors that affect it. According to the authors, these factors include demographic changes, economic changes, and technological changes. Training needs to focus on all three, using them in combination to ensure that training targets the needs of the demographic being served in as economic a way as possible, while using the most recently of technological advances to ensure effectiveness. One important demographic change, for example, is the aging population. Currently, there are more…

has perfect information, which means that individuals have full knowledge about prices, quantities, and qualities of goods and services, but this does not quite apply to the health care markets. There is imperfect information on the demand side of healthcare, where patients lack full knowledge of things such as current health condition, diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, effectiveness of treatments and possible side effects, as well as costs of treatments. Information in the health economy…

When a patient and their family come to the outpatient Geriatric Assessment Center, the patient will receive a comprehensive evaluation by a team of healthcare providers. This comprehensive assessment is designed to collect information on medical, psychosocial, functional capabilities and limitations or risks of older adults. Berkman et al. (2003) believes that having a trusting relationship with the client system can result in the clinical value of knowledge needed to develop an effective individualized…

Partners Healthcare Executive Summary Partners Healthcare is considering the introduction of real assets into the organization’s portfolio. The analysis will demonstrate the effects of having one risky asset and one risk-free asset in a portfolio. Our analysis will also show that the introduction of real assets can decrease the risk of the hospital’s portfolio. Each hospital in the healthcare system can determine the appropriate portfolio mix based on their desired expected level of…