Essays on Healthcare Costs

The affordable Care Act 2015 formerly christened as Obamacare is one of the major reforms in the health sector. Obamacare seeks to expand and improve health care access to a majority of Americans by curbing costs of healthcare through taxes and regulation. The primary focus of this policy was to provide more Americans with access to health insurance, improved quality of health insurance and health care, reduce healthcare expenditure in the country and more importantly regulate the insurance industry. However, the policy has received support and opposition in equal measure. Proponents of the policy call it a monumental legislation ...

The word “Stress” raises the alarm in the mind of a normal human being as soon as it is mentioned. However, stress may sometimes be good for the human being if tackled correctly. If the stress level is within the comfort zone of a person, it may even be constructive and help him focus on the job more. It is when the stress exceeds the bounds of the comfort zone that it becomes disturbing (Helpguide.org, n.d.). Workplace stress is one of the most common types of stress known to the humankind. Induced by events such as economic and financial ...

While many provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have been considered necessary for the safety and health of all uninsured Americans over Obama’s presidency, one that may often be overlooked but is considered to be crucial is located in Subtitle B: Immediate Action to Make Coverage Affordable and More Available. Within Subtitle B, Section 1101 ensures immediate access to insurance for Americans who have a preexisting condition, which has been considered anything from a previous cancerous condition, to having flat feet . When initially enacted, the provision allowed for a temporary insurance program to be put ...

Q. 1 The health care reform brought by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a fundamental influence on the social, political, and economic environment of the U.S. According to Rosenbaum (2011), ACA has raised Medicaid enrollment by 15 million beneficiaries and reduced the number of uninsured by 31 million Americans. However, economically, it has led to increased healthcare costs for small business employers and politically, it has caused political differences between Republicans and Democrats, with the former vowing to repeal it. Q. 2 According to Norris (2016), the state of Florida is one of the active resisters of ...

The core values St. Leo’s represents is applicable to the debate surrounding the ACA. St. Leo represents and firmly believes in community and integrity. The ACA is reportedly designed to provide for the welfare of the community, meaning Americans at large. The issue surrounding the ACA is that many say the provisions lack integrity due to various different reasons. Regardless of these issues, integrity is often defined as doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. World leaders and policy makers have a responsibility to maintain integrity to benefit the communities in which they live, whether ...

The ACA establishes a relative decrease in healthcare costs for some, improve access to healthcare for others, and an improvement of quality of care. While many are impacted by these stipulations, perhaps none are more affected than the elderly. Medicaid is expanding in many states, as well as nationally at a rapid pace thanks to the Act. For example, the Act’s Title III asserts that today’s healthcare system is ensuring Medicaid’s dedication to future generations, and it is doing so by expanding on the state level, as well as the federal level. It is able to ...

The main aim of this research proposal is to show that the clinical question warrants investigation. The clinical question asks whether toileting patients every hour reduce the incident of falls. Included in the paper are PICO question and evidence proposal. The paper uses Johns Hopkins Nursing EBP Model and Guidelines.

Change model overview

John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Process is an approach used to solve problems related to decision making, and it contains tools that give guidance to users. John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-based practice model involves the PET process which includes practice question, evidence, and translation. Application of the PET process includes ...

Abstract

The healthcare systems comprise of many services that can lead to the successful delivery of treatment to the patients. Patients can receive their treatment and then the member or the hospital can contact the third party payer to reimburse them. There are numerous reimbursement methods and clients chose one that they. The methods include; the Value-Based Purchasing Medical Reimbursement, pay for performance, fee-for- service and episode-of-care payment. Each method has both its advantages and disadvantages to either the patient or the hospital. An acute care hospital which provides quality treatment to the patients within a short period utilizes the ...

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Abstract Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a method of combining traditional and well-established practices with research-based evidence for better healthcare related outcomes. It has become a priority in many parts of the world. International organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO) as well as the European Commission are emphasizing on the adoption of EBP. It is important in nursing profession as it helps in fulfilling the gap between what nurses know and what is good for patients, and removal of this gap can help in reducing undesired outcomes. It is also helpful in decreasing the healthcare costs, ...

MEMORANDUM

First I’d like to thank everyone for their hard work. Even though Southwest Business Forms is a small company operating in a capital intensive business, we were able to achieve success in a relatively short period of time. We are proud of the people that have helped build this company. This company started from nothing, but people like you made it what it is today. As a result, we were able to offer all full-time employees and their family healthcare benefits at no cost. This is something that is difficult to achieve, even for a larger company. As ...

Improving Health Quality

The main research question will be restated as follows: Is there a relationship between the quality of healthcare to ICU patients and the costs? The quality of healthcare is often associated with an increase in the cost of healthcare because providing better quality care requires more resources of higher quality. Therefore, the null as well as alternate hypothesis will be as follows:

Null Hypothesis

There is no relationship between the quality of healthcare to ICU patients and the costs. H0: β = 0 Null Hypothesis

There is a relationship between the quality of healthcare to ICU patients and the costs.

H0: β ≠ 0 Independent and Dependent Variables This study seeks to assess whether cost reduction is associated with a ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) became a federal statute in March of 2010 (H. R. 3590, 2010). The PPACA required that group health plans and health insurance issuers cover all applicants for health insurance without regard to pre-existing conditions or sex of the applicant. Dependent insurance is required to cover uninsured children up to the age of 26. The PPACA further required that group health plans and health insurance issuers provide a stipulated minimum standard benefit at the same rates for everyone. Subsidies were available for eligible individuals, small business, and families. Government subsidies were made ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as the Obama Care, represents one of the most laudable healthcare policy reforms in the US since the 1965 when Medicaid and Medicare were passed into law. It has variously referred to as a watershed in the country’s public healthcare policy since it breaks away from the previous system whereby healthcare insurance was given by private insurance companies, a situation that kept quite a number of Americans out of healthcare insurance coverage (Rosenbaum, 2011). According to this author, the ACA is slated to significantly alter the US healthcare policy landscape ...

Over the years, the nursing profession has undergone various changes that have expanded as well as reshaped the concept of nursing. The evolution of the nurses’ roles have subsequently led to changes in the scope of practice. For instance, most of the current nursing functions were initially within the domain of medicine and other related disciplines (Barker, 2015). As such, this metamorphosis is part of the gradual maturity as well as evolution of the profession over time. In the light of this, Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) is one the key nursing specialties that has significantly evolved to become one ...

Fast food is cheap, mostly accessible around the corner, and available around the clock. People coming home tired after work, children whose parents are at work when they get back from school, college kids living on a low budget and individuals who don't know to cook or just too tired to cook all go to a fast food place as the waiting time is less and they get food that is cheap and filling. However, this cheap and convenient food has been linked to a lot of adverse health effects such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and in some ...

Introduction

Studies relating to lung cancer treatment can save lives and make the lives of cancer patients more comfortable besides increasing the quality of life. According to Lardinois et al., (2003), there are three primary types of lung cancer; they include non-small cell, small cell, and carcinoid lung cancer. Statistically, non-small cell lung cancer, for example, Squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma account for the highest occurrences of all lung cancers to a tune of 85% [1]. It has been established that both environmental and genetic factors do contribute to lung cancer significantly. Continued exposure to carcinogens, ionizing ...

Introduction

Research in lung cancer treatment can save lives and improve a patient’s quality of life. There are three main types of lung cancer: Non-small cell, small cell, and lung carcinoid cancer. Non-small cell lung cancer, such as Squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma make up about 85% of all lung cancers (Molina, Yang, Cassivi, Schild, & Adjei, 2008). Both environmental and genetic factors are significant in the cause of lung cancer. Chronic exposure to carcinogens, ionizing radiation, and viral infections can lead to alterations of the DNA in tissue lining the bronchial epithelium of the lungs. Furthermore, ...

Executive Summary

Implementations of care paths will/may help cut healthcare costs. This report argues that the adoption of the care path approach is necessary to ensure MGH's costs are sustainable, but to ensure success, a phased approach to implementation approach, stakeholder engagement, constant, communication, and use of formal change management models will help.

Summary of the Case

As one of the largest hospitals in the country and a pioneer of open-heart surgery, MGH its ability to rein the costs of one of the most expensive procedures would serve as an important guide for the rest of the industry. Its costs are higher than its competitors ...

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) better known as Obamacare is a federal statute that was signed into law in early 2010. Under this Act health institutions as well as physicians would change their clinical, technological and financial practices to improve health outcomes, lower healthcare costs and ensure accessibility to health services. The act is aimed at increasing affordability and quality of health insurance, lowering the uninsured rate and reducing healthcare costs to both the government and individuals through the expansion of private and public insurance. However, it is impossible to support the scheme unless the underlying challenges ...

Background

Consumer Driven Health Plans (CDHP) are high deductible healthcare models that have savings accounts. They also refer to medical plans that have higher deductible and relatively lower premiums (Jost, 2007). They are widely based on the idea that increased financial exposure encourages patients to behave like consumers; therefore, they compare healthcare costs and quality and negotiate for relatively lower prices. It is an employer-provided plan that has particular elements intended to motivate employees to participate in the healthcare procuring process. In most instances, CDHP are widely based on the principle of lowering the costs of a healthcare plan (Novak, ...

The passing of the new law, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has provided new opportunities and direction for the troubled healthcare industry. In this instance, the healthcare industry has been plagued by the continuous increase in healthcare costs while at the same time, affected the quality of healthcare offered to individuals (Emanuel, 2015). The most vulnerable groups in the society comprised of the elderly and the poor, are the most affected by these adversities. Therefore, the PPACA has been seen as the right step in the right direction in the industry. In this instance, the provisions as ...

The government has issued a lot of policies in the past years so far. One of the major moves of the Obama administration as far as policymaking is concerned was the issuance of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. What this policy is all about is overhauling the entire American healthcare system so that the focus would be placed on the affordability of healthcare for patients . Prior to its ratification, the focus of the American healthcare system was on the insurance companies and healthcare providers and institutions, at least based on theory as well as the preliminary research ...

Part 1

Notably, the cost of receiving healthcare in the United States has been on the rise in the recent years. It is, therefore, imperative that for the nation to address the problems associated with lack of sufficient healthcare there is the need to have caps on the skyrocketing nature of the healthcare costs (AHIP, 2016). The most notable areas where the rising costs have been detected include soaring costs of medical services, costly pharmaceuticals, unhealthy lifestyles, expensive medical technologies and the fee-for-service payment system whose only focus is on volumes instead of the expected value. It is worth noting that ...

Aging and Biogerontology

Technological changes during the past century have resulted in an improved life span for the average human being. At the same time, people in the wealthier, more industrialized areas of the world are having fewer babies . What this means, at least for the more affluent countries, is that the age gap between the young and the elderly is growing. It also means that we are seeing an increased number of elderly in our society. This change in demographics is going to have a psychological, sociological, and economic impact on the future. The combination of lower birth rates and increased ...

Position for Opiates: The Benefits to the Community, Cost Savings in the Long Run

This brief summarizes recent analysis examining the advantages and costs of material opiates therapy. An estimated $275 billion dollars yearly goes to investments in the U.S. on healthcare costs, lost work productivity, costs associated with drug-related criminal offenses, and on other costs relevant to drugs like opiates (Doweiko, 2011). The approximately $18 billion dollars invested yearly on substance therapies is funded primarily by public money, and studies to address the affordability of these therapies are growing. Issues arising include the extent to which therapy applications fall under the cover of healthcare benefits and the come back on these financial ...

- Access The market based approach to healthcare financing is premised on the idea that healthcare is like other consumer products and should be sold in the open market. According to this approach, only those with resources have access to health care. Unlike the market based approach, the government-financed approach offers access to all the members of the population, though to a basic standard of healthcare (Rita & Michael 156).

- Coverage The government-financed approached has more coverage compared to the market-based financing of healthcare. This has a lot to do with the fact that market-based approach to financing ...

Healthcare organizations earn revenue through different means. Examples include; payment from provision of medical and non-medical services, donations and grants from persons, organizations and the government, and also from various forms of investments. Different factors affect the revenues generated from payments of medicinal and non-medicinal services. They include; the nature of medical services provided to patients, volume of outpatient procedures and the costs of such services. The main sources of revenue are as follows:

- Medicare

Medicare is a wellness program whose management lies with the Centers or Medicare and Medicaid Services. The program majorly avails healthcare services to individuals ...

Patient Advantage. (2009). Proposal for a pilot study to identify cost saving measures in management of muskuloskeletal conditions. Patient Advantage.

The proposal gives details the methodology, objectives and expected outcomes of a pilot project aimed at identifying the opportunities for saving cost in the management of musculoskeletal problems, with a particular focus on myofascial pain. The literature reviewed in the proposal identifies myofascial pain as a major underlying factor in many cases of chronic musculoskeletal pain and yet it is grossly under diagnosed and under treated. This justifies the need for the study using the action research modality. The proposal identifies different methods used to measure the cost of healthcare which include direct costs, indirect costs, claims cost and goes on to ...

Assignment 4.3: Report – Revised Version

Dear Sir,

I would like to inform your good-self that, today we are finding several challenges of healthcare amongst the Middle Level Managers within the organization. They are not only facing with the issues of physical pain, but are also facing with the issues of tension and stress, due to which they are not able to perform as per the required expectations. As a result, the productivity is affected from both the ends, and hence, we are not able to achieve our desired objectives. I have therefore prepared this report, which shall try to provide you issues on health ...

Customer Inserts His/her Name Reimbursement and Pay for Performance

According to the American Society of Health System Pharmacists the American healthcare system is at a critical juncture. While the proportion of the total GDP spent on healthcare is extraordinarily high the quality of actual care provided is relatively low (2010). In order, to decrease the gap between money spent and quality of care provided, insurance companies and employers in the United States and Europe have adopted a health care provider reimbursement method known as pay for performance.

Traditional reimbursement methods have involved “fee for service,” “capitation” and ...

Health Information Systems is a discipline that connects computing and information technology and health care practices and research. Computer hardware, software and communication equipment, forming a complex network. It entails the resources, equipment and means of obtaining, storing, retrieving and analyzing information in the health sector. This involves use of programmed systems to manage health information and securely exchange it between patients, health institutions, insurers and even government agencies. This interaction will improve value, safety and effectiveness of health delivery. These health information systems will find application in multiple healthcare disciplines including nursing, public health, pharmacy, pathology and dentistry.

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Introduction

The American healthcare system is the most expensive in the world as indicated by mirror reports in 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 (Davis, Stremikis, Squires & Schoen, 2014, p. 7). According to Bhattacharya & Hyde, (2013, p. 251), by 1960, America’s expenditure on healthcare was low to an extent that it could only spend a twentieth of her Gross Domestic Product on healthcare costs. The U.S. ranks the first in term of cost related problems since the price elasticity of healthcare services in America is relatively elastic. Considering that many people are price sensitive, they opt for alternative care other than ...

Healthcare in the United States over the last few decades has been in need of relevant, practical and effective reforms. The disparities between the wealthy insured and the poor uninsured, dependent on government provided healthcare, only continued to get wider and wider. Millions of Americans were unable to afford healthcare insurance of their own, are not offered insurance via an employer and many were unable to be accepted by insurance companies if the already had been diagnosed with a, costly, preexisting conditions. There is no doubt that change was called for. When President Barack Obama won the officer in 2008, ...

The Affordable Healthcare Act of 2014 has many economic implications but most significant ones are the negative consequences. The provisions of the act include a mandatory health insurance coverage for the employees that would inhibit the growth and employment rate. Especially for the small businesses, there are very serious issues regarding this law: the healthcare costs are skyrocketing and there is very little choice available among the health plans (Van Tassel, 2013). The healthcare costs have been increasing and it is difficult for these businesses to afford health insurance. But then there is also an exemption for those businesses that ...

Argumentative Essay on Legalizing Marijuana

Introduction Marijuana is a preparation of the cannabis plant and it is intended for the purpose as a psychoactive drug and as medicine. Marijuana is a natural plant, which is found throughout the world. Marijuana is recognized to be a drug that gives pleasure to the users and using marijuana is considered as illegal in almost every country. Some nations are very strict when it comes to imposing law to legalize marijuana while others are not strict. Marijuana has physiological and psychoactive results when consumed. Present-day uses of marijuana are as medical or recreational drug.

Nowadays, many people are determining to side ...

Introduction

The quality of the health care system is meant to be improved by the introduction of the pay-for-performance (P4P) system. Likewise, P4P is designed for cost reductions in the health care system and for stabilizing the continuously increased health care services. Quality and cost optimization are, therefore, the main objectives of the P4P system. Nevertheless, other secondary benefits are targeted to be achieved through the implementation of this program. As such, the pay-for-performance system intends to change the behavior of the health care providers, influencing them to become more proactive and increasing their motivation for delivering improved qualitative services ...

Taking the current meteoric and disturbing rise of lifestyle and chronic diseases into account, the shift from treatment diseases to chronic diseases will be a significant issue in the delivery of healthcare. Diseases and conditions such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, mental disorders, heart disease, pulmonary conditions, and stroke are projected to see a 42% rise by the year 2013. Chronic diseases cause about 60% of deaths worldwide. Most developed countries in the world are facing aging populations, and this will also affect the health delivery system because older people are more likely to be affected by chronic diseases. Older people are ...

1.Pro forma statements which is used as a tool of business planning and control entails setting up different scenarios of performance to produce various financial results. Assumptions have to be made in terms of expected market conditions, marketing penetration, competitive landscape which related to the sales volume for the company. Sales volume used in forecasting is the pinnacle of the pro forma planning process. The sensitivity in sales volume helps present a variety of outcomes simply by manipulating the figure of units sold and price of the goods. Assumptions on expenses and production planning cannot be put into place without a viable ...

Healthcare

Background While the right to life, happiness and the pursuit of liberty are enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the concept of a ‘right to health’ has proven evocative and also divisive in the national discourse over the past three centuries. A mix of pragmatism, opportunism and pressure from special action groups has dogged the issue. A yellow fever epidemic in 1793 forced the American government to evacuate from Philadelphia. In response, George Washington came up with the first federal health law, proposing powers for the Executive to convene the government outside the capital in the event of ...

Introduction

The most efficient mechanisms to offer services and goods are the markets. Nonetheless, markets are not essentially the best means to distribute everything. All the markets need some form of regulation. As a result, a government-run court system ought to be present in all the legal markets to enforce legal contracts. A number of individuals argue that a free market mechanism distributes healthcare most efficiently whereas others disagree arguing that healthcare should be privatized. In fact, a number of people always claim that healthcare ought to be more private than public. The debate about healthcare raises the question of whether it is a public ...

Is There an Inherent Right to Healthcare in the U.S.?

David Orentlicher Is There an Inherent Right to Healthcare in the U.S.? David Orentlicher This review is based on the analysis of the paper by David Orentlicher, outlining the inconsistency and instability in the U.S. Healthcare system in the current scenario. The explosion of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease are on the brink of overturning the current structure of the national healthcare insurance system in the U.S. At the very outset, this paper disagrees with the suppositionthat there exists an inherent right to ...

Introduction

The healthcare sector plays a crucial role in the society and promotes physical, social, and economic wellbeing of a country. Hence, health information should be well managed for better service. Advancements in technology have led to the emergence of various systems for managing client data. Key among these is the healthcare informatics technology.

What is EHR?

EHR stands for Electronic Health Records, an informatics system that allows access and evaluation of a wide pool of data entities ranging from a diverse spectrum. Data sources such as population-specific and non-patient information and articles can help generate the data entries. Moreover, data entities can be drawn from prescribable ...

Healthcare is an important perspective for any given nation. The government needs to frame policies and provide necessary funding to provide quality healthcare services to the people of that nation. There could be both public and private sectors associated with a given healthcare industry in that nation. However, we would like to focus upon the spending of an individual toward the healthcare. Today, man has turned more conscious. Hence, we can find, each of the developed countries spending nearly 8-17% of their Gross National Product on health care (Kocher, Emanuel, & DeParle, 2010). We can assume that, it is a large number, ...

Healthcare is one of the most important or essential needs that often, an individual has to pay a steep price for, especially in developed or highly industrialized countries such as the United States. In this country, the United States, for example, roughly 46 million Americans have been considered as insurance holders in 2006 alone. As more reforms are set to take place in the U.S. healthcare coverage and policies in the next years to come, that number is set and expected to increase as well. Estimates suggest that by 2016, more than 20 percent of the American population will already ...

Economic questions and considerations

Overview Robotic surgery, just like any other new technology has economic implications. The economi9c implications influence the development and the adoption of a new technology. The costs and expected revenues from robot assisted surgeries together with the medical implications of the technology are the main factors to be considered before investing in the technology. Healthcare managers will have to determine whether the technology is expensive, has high fixed costs and would require frequent use in order to break even with acceptable charges to the patients, third party financiers and physicians. Economic analysis is also vital in the determination of ...

Introduction

According to the Institute of Medicine (2004), part of the National Academy of Sciences, there are more than 43 million uninsured Americans, based on data for year 2002 alone (p.1), while data from the US Census Bureau report that the number of uninsured has risen to a record of 46 million, in 2009 (census.gov). The enormous number of uninsured individuals, which is as large as the population of 26 states combined, brings harmful effects to the uninsured, their families and the entire country too (Institute of Medicine, 2004 p.1). Despite the fact that medical technology has significantly advanced over the ...

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Abstract

The main reason behind the increase in the median age of the global population is a reduction in fertility and two decade increase in the average life span in the 20th century. These factors together with increased fertility in several nations throughout the 20 years post World War II will lead to elevated number of citizens aged >= 65 years throughout 2010 to 2030. The rising number of older adults results in an increase in demands on the public health system as well as on the social and medical services. One of the diseases affecting older adults is chronic disease ...

Universal healthcare is a contentious topic in the United States. On one side, people argue the benefits of a single-payer system where individuals are covered by the government as the ultimate insurer. On the other side of the debate are those that argue that the government mustn’t intervene in the healthcare marketplace at any cost. Healthcare consumes approximately 16% of the American GDP. This is due to a number of factors including: the high costs associated with long term advanced treatments such as dialysis and chemotherapy, as well as the fact that physicians earn more in the United States than in ...

Abstract

Obesity is considered to be one of the most important public health problems facing the global community today and it is a recognized risk factor to other more serious diseases like diabetes cancers and heart disease (Rigby, Leach, Lobstein, Huxley and Kumanyika, 2009). The diagnosis and treatment of obesity have caused a major impact on the federal healthcare and social resources. Health in general is viewed as a commodity, a need that every state should be able to address and to provide adequate resources in order to maintain a high standard of healthcare services to become available in the global community. The demand for ...

Abstract

Health is a problem that concerns everyone in the population. Weather it is the ethical aspects regarding IVF treatment or medical engineering, or the fact that health care costs are on the rise and the number of doctors are decreasing. The first set of documentaries viewed concerning healthcare ethics, brought up points for and against the practices in regards to the medical community, the people involved, and the religious aspects of it all. The news documentary viewed brought up many aspects on why healthcare costs are rising, and what is going on now in our state and federal legislature as ...

Problems in the Us Healthcare System

There have been numerous debates regarding the state of healthcare in the USA. The country’s healthcare system was declared broken a decade ago. Healthcare consumers have long complained about the quality of services received without much reprieve. Industry players including physicians, nurses and allied workers have been caught between blame and concern over the future of their profession. The only hope remains with healthcare administrators and policy makers to make the necessary changes. Some of the issues such as the cost rising cost of healthcare services and the huge number of uninsured Americans require strategic solutions and committed implementation. ...

The bill aims to ensure that more than thirty million people will be under insurance cover. By providing subsidies and expanding Medicaid, middle class earners together with low-income earners have access to private coverage. In addition, the bill prevents insurers from denying coverage to individuals based on pre-existing conditions. This gives access to insurance to millions of citizens. In the end, it contributes largely to the existence of a healthy nation. The bill also aims to ensure, more people are able to access them private insurance coverage. The policies main objective behind the drafting of the bill involves ...

An Investigation into the Effective Transference of Medical Knowledge from Human Minds into Digital Minds An Investigation into the Effective Transference of Medical Knowledge from Human Minds into Digital Minds Introduction Knowledge is a key resource in organizations, whether in business or in the field of medicine, where the proper management and development of knowledge can result in innovations and process improvements. This is especially important in the field of medicine or healthcare as the optimized utilization of knowledge can lead to improved patient care, in particular, and improved public health, in general. However, with the vast ...

What are the specific financial, social, cultural, and other issues mentioned in the article that are impediments or barriers to Ms.Kaur receiving the care she needs for her eye condition?

Primarily Ms Kaur is denied treatment due to the fact that she is an immigrant and comes from India with her earnings level above that of Medicaid putting her in a complete quandary which is grossly unfair. The American healthcare system with all its complexities is also a huge barrier to Ms Kaur’s eventual treatment as she suffers substantially from discrimination even though her earnings are higher than the poverty ...