One benefit of using asset mapping is that it is an efficient instrument for the conception and understanding of the richness of faculty and resources that exists in a community. Asset mapping is important even in small communities with few members or of a community suffering from poverty and economic anguish (Beaulieu & Southern Rural […]
As a public health professional, it is likely that you will conduct focus groups as part of community health assessments. Focus groups are useful when exploring community issues and developing good survey questions. As with all research, planning the focus group is important so that the data you seek can be easily and reliably collected […]
Awareness of possible partialities is important for both public health assessors and policymakers, in a community health assessment: for assessors when crafting and steering studies, and for policymakers when reading study reports and making verdicts. It is highly important to access risk of bias in all studies review irrespective of preventive unpredictability, in […]
Effective marketing process puts in the right product in the right place, at the right price and the right time. Since products and services are interchangeable in most marketing cases, when you put in the right product, it could simply means putting in the right services for your patients, at a reasonable price to attract […]
SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and so a SWOT Analysis is a technique for assessing these four aspects of your business. You can use SWOT Analysis to make the most of what you’ve got, to your organization’s best advantage. And you can reduce the chances of failure, by understanding what you’re lacking, […]
As the use of dashboards continues to grow, it is time to step back and ask how they can help hospitals increase quality and lower costs. We know emergency department (ED) tracking boards have reduced the time-to-be-seen and left-without-being-seen rates, while clinical dashboards have helped clinicians with care protocols, drug administration and patient status, which improves the quality of patients’ care […]
Using dashboards in a hospital facility are very useful in managing many of the key sides of medical operations and that also guarantee care providers are fairly compensated while the quality of patient care is continued. capturing information that provides real-time process and cycle data as two of the important benefits of using dashboards. This […]
Cowie, M. (January, 2011). Group Purchasing Organizations and Antitrust Law: Recent Developments. DecHert. Retrieved February 3, 2013 from http://www.dechert.com/Group_Purchasing_Organizations_and_Antitrust_Law_Recent_Developments_01-20-2011/ As an important subject matter in the effective delivery of healthcare products and services, GOPs (Group Purchasing Organizations) were created to help hospitals and other providers put in their purchasing power to secure substantial discounts on virtually […]
A tort lawsuit is a legal proceeding in which a person sues another party for injuring him. For example, a person may file a tort lawsuit after someone breaks his arm in a fight or hits him with his car. Additionally, tort lawsuits are often filed because of medical negligence or some other type of negligence like physician […]
Suppose a patient has a test, which discloses certain genetic data. Recall that data is said to become information when it is used to make a classification of a decision. List the parties who might be interested in such data about a patient, and what information each might obtain from the data. Which of these […]
