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Computer-Generated Medical Records.

Potential to computer-generated medical records is the ability to retain all or most of the patient records for 5 and/or more years, which may seem unwieldy, but it makes the task feasible, while also increasing the efficiency for many other health information management processes. Huge medical centers are generating more than 100,000 orders a week. […]

Public-Private Health Partnership

Introduction: I prefer to write on public-private partnership in healthcare because of its enormous benefits in the healthcare communities. Healthcare partnership allows multiple or diverse groups of healthcare communities to work together, in a common prospect and ideology (Sasenick ,1994). Accordingly, Sasenick(1994) further mentioned that both the state and the private healthcare communities could partners […]

Malawi and Ghana—Healthcare Review

Ghana (World Health Organization, n.d.): Total population (2013) 25,905,000 Gross national income per capita (PPP international $, 2013) 3 Life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2013) 62/64 Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births, 0) not available Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1 000 population, 2013) 261/222 […]

Health Inequality and Inequity in Developed Nations

There is an important article that furthered the discussion of health inequality and inequity. I think there is an issue of an unexplained idea of health inequality in today’s society. This is because accurate measurement of health inequities is indispensable to track progress or to identify needs for health equity policy interventions, (Yukiko, Hurley, Norheim & Johri, 2015).  According […]

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act known as EMTALA (Section 1867 (a) of the Social Security Act) and sometimes referred to as the “Patient Anti-Dumping Act” was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Reagan in 1986. The requirement of the Act was to ensure that acutely ill patients who are uninsured […]

EMTALA action vs. Malpractice Action

EMTALA action differ from a malpractice action in the sense that it requires that a Medicare-provider hospital offer an appropriate medical screening examination to determine whether an emergency medical condition exists for any individual who presents to the emergency department seeking treatment. Any violation to the said requirement is a ground for claim of action. […]

Examples of medication errors

Prescription errors include wrong patient, wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong frequency, wrong route, transcription errors, inadequate review of ordered drug, and insufficient review of medication for appropriate prescription. Dispensing errors include improper preparation of medication, failure to properly formulate medications, dispensing expired medications, mislabeling containers, wrong patient, wrong dose, et cetera. Administration errors include wrong […]

Provider Participation in Healthcare Benefits

Early evidence on primary care models has shown is promising outcomes. The patient-centered medical home pilot test at Geisinger Health System reduced hospitalization by 20 percent and overall cost trends by 7 percent in its first year (Paulus, R.A., Davis, K., and Steele, G.D., 2008). The North Carolina Community Care Model (NCCCM) of medical homes […]

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