Article Reviews Telehomecare and Remote Monitoring: An Outcomes Overview, Stachura M, Khasanshina E, October 31st, 2007, Partners Healthcare: Center For Connected Health; Retrieved September 23, 2013 from http://www.connected-health.org/programs/diabetes/research-materials–external-resources/telehomecare-and-remote-monitoring-an-outcomes-overview.aspx Telehomecare involves the checking of vital signs from remoteness via telecommunications equipment and the replacement of home nursing visits with video conferences. The field of telemedicine […]
Qualitative research theory often equates with the methodologies used but this is a complex relationship, plagued by lack of consensus among scholars regarding how theory and methodology are related. There is an article Bradbury-Jones, Taylor, & Herber, (2014) that furthers the debates how theories are used in qualitative research, how they might influence a study and how they are articulated in […]
Community participation is essential to the planning process—whether it entails a planning to engage community participants or delivering community health assessment outcomes. The two listening strategies observed in the Laureate Education (2012) media format was the idea that organizational leaders listen and understand the concerns and problems of the community members. The community health workers […]
Aetna is an American managed health care company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care and disability plans, and medical management capabilities. Aetna provides employers and employees with choices between paying on a fixed monthly basis (premium) […]
The Theory of Reasoned Action, curtailed as TRA, is a theoretical model originally developed by Martin Fishbein (1975) and Icek Ajzen of 1980. These are the two theorists identified as the original founders of the theory of reason action. Like many social and cognitive theories, TPB is also the one with derivative and with original […]
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 […]
Market research is broader in choice and examines all aspects of a business setting. It asks questions about competitors, market structure, government regulations, economic trends, technological advances, and numerous other factors that make up the business environment. Sometimes the term refers more particularly to the financial analysis of companies, industries, or sectors. In this case, […]
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, […]
An appropriate care score, also known as Appropriate Care Measure (ACM), is a composite measure identified by Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) that captures whether a patient received all the care he or she was eligible to receive based on the applicable measures being publicly reported. The ACM is a total patient level score versus scores for […]
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 […]