Disadvantages Of Multispecialty Hospitals

At a first glance, it may appear absurd to suggest that healthcare systems used elsewhere in the world may be better alternatives to the beloved National Health Service used in the United Kingdom. The NHS ‘provides free or low-cost health care to all legal residents of the U.K.’ and the UK was ranked the highest out of 11 Western countries for health care in 2014 .

The human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) test is done to check for the hormone hCG in blood or urine (Staff, 2012). The hCG hormone is made during pregnancy by the placenta or can be abnormally made by certain tumors. The hCG test can be performed to test if a woman is pregnant or not, as part of a screening test for birth defects, in a woman who may have abnormal tissue growth in her uterus, a molar pregnancy, or a cancer in the uterus rather than a normal pregnancy. HCG levels can even be measured in a man to see whether he has

According to Duford (2009), high dollar radiology costs, which have a twenty percent annual growth rate, are now the fastest rising medical expense. The author also stated, according to a report by the Association of Health Insurance Plans, one hundred billion dollars a year are spent on imaging services in the United States and expects to double in four years (Duford, 2009). Completing the task is overwhelming because there are many providers to reach and convince to reconsider his or her way of using high dollar radiology. Completing the task is overwhelming on the member side as well because there is education to provide to members as to why his or her benefits will not cover any high dollar radiology services until other course of treatment have been tried and failed. The task is difficult too because consumers are demanding these high dollar radiology services for prevention as well as diagnosis purposes (Duford, 2009).

Mandatory staffing ratios have been suggested as a way to meet nursing staffs’ concerns of high nurse to patient ratios. Mandatory staffing ratios are used as a way to reduce workload and patient mortality and are aimed at addressing the perceived imbalance between patient needs and nursing resources. (American Nursing Association, 2014). However, issues have been raised on applicability of staffing ratios since it could lead to increased costs without the guarantee of improvement in the quality of health care and could also lead to unintended consequences including unit closures, limited infrastructural development and limited access by patients (American Nursing Association, 2014).

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis between for-profit hospitals and not-for-profit hospital. It will discuss the characteristics of each as well as factors affecting the operations of both systems. Additionally, it discusses potential areas of improvement and some of the challenges associated with each relative to finance and operations.

Although the United States is said to offer poor health services among other developed countries, it still has some internal features that makes the system thrive over most healthcare system. One of the major strength in the healthcare system is the breakthrough of technology advances. “Some technologies may improve the efficiency of care delivery by reducing procedure time, length of stay, or number of hospitalizations, thereby increasing the capacity of the hospital to treat additional patients” (Sorenson et al 2013). In which, also favors many patients whom wished to receive their test results sooner or on the estimated arrival date.

HL7 allows the organization to meet meaningful use, Improve patient safety, and reduce cost through the using compatible systems (Glandon, G. L., Smaltz, D. H., Slovensky, D. J. 2014).

When choosing to update their facility Dr. Maritah and Dr. June spent months researching information on new devices and services that they could provide to their community. They view health reports, statistics, and evaluated what would be most useful and bring in the most revenue for their facility. After review they realized that their community needed more child based care and decided to focus on establishing a pediatric department during their expansion.

At Hill Physicians Medical Group (HPMG), health innovation is three fold. First, physicians track the individual medical records of the consumer using NextGen EMR which is more effective and efficient than passing paper charts. Secondly, they utilize software called Ascender to enhance screening and testing. Finally, they implemented RelayHealth that allows the consumer a free portal to communicate with the physician or staff (Emswiler, and Nichols, 2009).

Acclimating the hospital workflow to the clinic environment can be like fitting a square peg into a round hole. The high volume, high velocity clinic environment is unique from the hospital environment, pushing IDNs to find a solution that can meet the distinct ambulatory demands while still integrating with the hospital system. Each specialty clinic has unique needs and complexities — multiple locations, a wide range of diagnoses and treatment protocols — that demand independent workflows. At the same time, each clinic must be integrated into the whole for communication across the continuum of care.

Centricity Prenatal is a revolutionary electronic medical record system that helps not only deliver one of the best fetal surveillance systems available to physicians but also helps provide the best care possible to a mother and her infant. GE Healthcare an industry that provides amazing HMIS technology that not is not only revolutionizing healthcare technology but also saving lives engineered centricity Prenatal. After more than twenty-two years of industry experience with parental and electronic medical rerecords GE developed this remarkable system. Centricity Prenatal has been delivered to almost forty four million babies according to their live tracker on their website and has been successfully integrated into 1500 projects.

The United States has a unique system of healthcare delivery, it is complex and massive. Twenty-five years ago; American citizens had guaranteed insurance, meaning the patient could see any physician and the insurance companies and patients would share the cost. But today, 187.4 million Americans have private health insurance coverage (Medicaid, 2014). The subsystems of American health care delivery are Managed care, military, vulnerable populations and integrated delivery

This decreases the chance of medical errors, in that current treatment plans are accessible, and therefore interactions from an additional treatment plan are predictable, enabling the provider to choose the best plan with the least unwanted interaction. As well, the access to diagnostic tests and laboratory tests through HIE, allow all disciplines to previously ordered tests and the results. This decreases the duplication of orders, as well, as limits the patient to the risks associated with the tests. The greatest benefit of HIE is continuity of care. Through HIE, providers can provide continuous care, which is cost effective and delivers a greater quality of care. “Continuity of care improves the uptake of preventive care, enhances adherence to therapy, and increases patient and physician satisfaction; as well, there is increasing evidence that patients' health status and chronic disease outcomes are improved with continuity of care” (Rosser & Schultz, 2007).

In the article, The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital, written by Anthony R. Kovner, a through description of a struggling hospital, Blake Memorial Hospital, is given. This paper is a SWOT analysis, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses within the hospital, as well as opportunities and threats outside of the hospital and in the surrounding community.

An hospital is an institution for health care and patient treatment provided by specialized and experienced staff and equipment and often but it is not always providing for longer-term patient stays.