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Quality in Healthcare Risk Management

http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Risk management seeks to reduce potential negative impacts on patients, staff and the organization through the identification and reduction of potential dangers or threats (Authenticity Consulting, LLC., 2010). However, in [+]

Health versus Healthy

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Two primary schools of healthcare arose from within the Ancient Greek culture: Aesculapius, associated with the healing of illness, and Hygeia, associated with disease prevention through lifestyle (Rodriguez, 2009; [+]

Healthcare Information Systems

Via Guest writer: Michelle Riley of MedicalStudentBlog.co.uk Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Information systems will change the fundamental structure of the healthcare organization. Information systems are strategically designed to give an organization a competitive edge by [+]

Strategic Formulation in Healthcare Organizations

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Businesses may use various strategies to focus how they will manage the resources within the organization; these fall under primary categories of directional, portfolio and parenting strategies which may be further broken down into [+]

The Ethics of Healthcare

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Consider the costs associated with the American healthcare system, the contentions associated with managed care implementation, and the continued problems associated with macro and microallocation within this system. What ethics do you believe [+]

Confidentiality and Disclosure

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk A young woman, who states she has just been raped, comes into the emergency room requesting a pelvic examination and a morning-after pill, but she insists that the staff not call the police. [+]

Stare decisis and the healthcare industry

Riley, M.http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Stare decisis is a legal principle that allows for observance of precedence set in previous court rulings (Fremgen, 2009). Stare decisis promotes following decisions as previously determined and then reapplied to the current [+]

Protecting confidentiality with technology

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Health information may be compromised in multiple ways, including from internal and external sources. There may be accidental disclosures when protected information is overheard by another party; there may be internal disclosures [+]

Accessing medical technology while controlling healthcare costs

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Introduction & Background One of the chief concerns in the debate over healthcare reform is the universal need to contain healthcare costs while still providing reasonable healthcare services to the millions of uninsured. As technology [+]

Addressing Ethics in Healthcare Management

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Ethics are a major component of the US healthcare system. As technology advances, laws are developed to govern the developments; however ethics are used to shape and influence the practical application of the processes [+]

US Government: Healthcare Cost Containment

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk One of the most important social and political topics of the current environment is healthcare. Skyrocketing costs as well as an aging baby boomer population have driven concerns, especially within the [+]

Healthcare Challenges due to Financial Mechanism Changes

Guest Author: Riley, Michelle http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Due to significant changes in the mechanisms of financing, the entire healthcare system now faces significant challenges. The three most significant challenges are: the ability to service and fund public programs such as [+]

Evolution of the American Healthcare Industry

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk To better understand the current healthcare setting and the future development of the constantly evolving system, it is important to understand the historical evolution. By looking at the factors that contributed to the [+]

Medical E-Commerce

via MMR of http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Legal territory is expanded daily through the technological advancements; specifically within the medical world. As more clinics move to paperless client records and use digital mediums to gather research, collect patient histories, [+]

Email isn’t the only way…

Submitted by Guest Author: Michelle of http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk At a recent staff meeting, the topic of email came up as an effective way for the multisite medical organization to stay in contact. While the immediate cost savings [+]
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