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Module 4 – Reducing Healthcare Spending President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as ACA, in March 2010, to reign in the excessive costs of healthcare in the United States. Three key goals of the newly adopted healthcare reform are improving quality and lowering healthcare costs, elimination of pre-existing condition clause, and increased access to healthcare (HHS, 2015). In 2015 more than 11.4 million people signed up for ACA in the

Introduction The Department of Veterans Affairs is a government run program to assist the U.S. Veterans who are disabled soldiers. It began when the Pilgrims passed a law that required disabled soldiers to receive benefits from the colony, as early as 1636 (U.S. Dept. of VA, 2014). By 1776, the Continental Congress provided pensions to disabled soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Later, the Veterans assistance program expanded to include benefits and pensions not only for Veterans, but also for

E-authentications E-authentications refers to government website users logging into one site using their credential and being able to have use multiple e-government services. As seen in the vertical and horizontal stages of e-government a person would only have to log in once to get the benefit of multiple services. However, systems that use common credentials and share information will have privacy risks. One issue the Federal Government face in providing e-authentication services as it provides

22, 2014 U.S. Department of Veterans Affair: VA Medical Center Introduction The Department of Veterans Affairs is a government run program to assist the U.S. Veterans who are disabled soldiers. It began when the Pilgrims passed a law that required disabled soldiers to receive benefits from the colony, as early as 1636 (U.S. Dept. of VA, 2014). By 1776, the Continental Congress provided pensions to disabled soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Later, the Veterans assistance program expanded to include

In 1917, as the United States entered World War I, Congress established a system that addressed Veterans benefits which included programs for disability compensation, insurance for service members and Veterans as well as rehabilitative treatments for those that were disabled (www.va.gov). Three years later, 3 separate federal agencies: the Veterans Bureau, Bureau of Pensions of the Interior Department and National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers were charged with administering these benefits

doctors. Even that provides a notification of appointment and several updates with your current doctor. Technology as an Enabler, at the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC), a data-driven approach was essential in improving the patient experience. Based on a data driven model, OSUMC focused on two strategies, nurse rounding and patent discharge calls to generate significant improvements in patient experience. Leveraging the use of HIT to sustain and hardware the strategies, OSUMC experienced

Case Analysis: Multispecialty Group Practice EMR The United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham (UCPGB) has recently moved to a new LINCPoint facility and identified the relocation as an opportune time to develop an electronic medical record keeping system. The UCPGB is a not-for-profit organization that provides various clinical health services to patients that have been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy within the population of Birmingham, Alabama and reaches to the ten surrounding counties. The

Abstract Title: Evaluation of pharmacist impact on antipsychotic and benzodiazepine utilization in veterans with dementia Purpose: It has been well established that use of Antipsychotics (APs) and Benzodiazepines (BZDs) in the elderly population is associated with increased incidence of adverse effects including sedation, falls, and cognitive impairment. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) introduced the Psychotropic Drug Safety Initiative (PDSI) to improve evidence-based psychotropic drug

The men and women who serve our country risk their lives every single day to protect their country and the people in it. Out of all sacrifices one could make, going to war to protect their country is the largest offering a human will ever be able to make. It is not of monetary value that these sacrifices are paid, but rather in blood. And if these soldiers are able to come home, treatment is less than mediocre. A census report shows, “There [is] 21.8 million veterans of the U.S. armed forces as

Description and Background: The Veterans Affairs (VA) uses the Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning Value Model (SAIL) to analyze the performance of each of their hospital systems within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). VA Medical Centers are assessed individually using 26 quality measures that include avoidable adverse events, access to care, patient satisfaction, and care transitions.1 Care transitions are when the movement of a patient is coordinated from one health care