Essays on Wager

Question #1

The major problem, in this case, is poor implementation of the new electronic clinical documentations system by the end users. The problem is likely to have been caused by the hurried implementation, inadequate training, and minimum involvement of the end users during the early stages of the project.

Question #2

I agree with the nurses’ views regarding the differences existing between pediatrics hospitals and intensive care units, and adult hospitals. The conditions handled as well as the workflows in each respective setting are different, and each one should be treated independently. There might be some similarities between adult and pediatric settings, ...

Policy Manual Introduction

A policy manual is a general guideline that details the policies and best practices that an organization in a particular industry should follow. This is the case with health care in general and protecting patient data in particular. Starting from a manual system, an electronic or automated system has been found to enhance best practices in the field of health care (Hamilton, Jacob, Koch & Quammen, 2004).

Importance to Organization

It prepares a roadmap for daily administration. A policy manual is also a yardstick for performance. It can be used to train fresh recruits about the conduct desired. It can also be resorted ...

The types of Networks

A computer network describes a collection of computers and other devices. These computers and devices are interconnected by channels of communication which allow for the sharing of information and resources among the said devices that are interconnected. The classification of networks follows different characteristics such as the medium used for the transportation of data, the protocols of communication used, scale, topology, and the scope of an organization as stated by Akyildiz & Rudin (2013). The categories of networks, therefore, constitute; a local area network, a Wide Area Network, a Metropolitan Area Network, Wireless Local Area Network, System Area Network, and ...

Throughout history, there have been many great thinkers. They have sprawled among many disciplines, from philosophy to physics. Nevertheless, some of these have made important contributions to many fields at the same time. One of these cases is that of Blaise Pascal, who was deeply influential in mathematics, philosophy and theology. In a sense, one could say that these three disciplines were intertwined in his work. By studying the loftier aspects of the human experience, Pascal was able to bring together probability theory and his worries about the existence of God. As such, his notorious wager was a turning ...

Discussion

The technological terminologies selected include clinical decision support, EHRs, nursing informatics, software, and Telehealth. As stated, clinical decision support systems (CDSs) are information system-based platforms that offer healthcare workers with patient-specific information to enhance service delivery. The best example of such a CDS would be the Zynx Health system. This CDS acts as a clinical reminder support system used by health practitioners in the consultation room to provide information on care plans given patient conditions (Campbell, 2016). Second, EHRs are digital representations of a patient’s information maintained by providers for ease of access in clinical practice. In the ...

Quality Control and Accreditation

Core Competencies and Functions Following the proposals for the Community Clinic and the GAH as well as their structure, there are various functions and competencies that relate to their mandate. They are defined as follows. The design, development and implementation of an integrated care that is centered on the patient. The main goal for this core competency is to build the capacity for the measurement, management and improvement of the quality of care and the efficiency in the delivery of care across the continuum of care (American Hospital Association, 2011). The continued organizational-wide collection and use of data to ...

Allen Hajek formulates his “Many Gods Objection” against Pascal's Wager. In his opinion, Pascal's Wager does not exhaust the relevant options regarding whether there is a Christian God or not. In this paper I shall defend Pascal's Wager against this objection. Hajek's objection to Pascal's wager can be reconstructed as follows. Hajek points out that (1)Pascal's either-or proposition is an oversimplification. (2) We could derive an infinite degree of expected utility from more than one religious option. (3) According to Pascal's Wager, we can either choose only one Christian God or not choose one Christian God (4) This ...

Review on the article “Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime”

Full reference of the work: Fondation Scelles Group. (2012). Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime. Retrieved from http://www.fondationscelles.org/en/prostitution/prostitution-by-countryhttp://www.fondationscelles.org/pdf/rapport_mondial/sexual_exploitation_prostitution_Fondation_Scelles.pdf

The article of the Fondation Scelles Group (2012) is against prostitution, and considers prostituion as sexual exploitation in whichever cultural, economic or political contexts. The article gave overview of the prostitution globalization, commoditization and trivialization. Global prostitution is possible because it surpasses borders since human go from one country to another so as to perchance sex or practice prostitution. Some people leave their country with the hope of a better opportunity but were caught by traffickers who exploit them around the ...

Heath care HRM operates within a challenging environment and the future of HR management in healthcare must focus on the trends specific to delivery of healthcare and the prevailing changes will have a profound effect on HR functions. The dynamic and unpredictable nature of the healthcare field due to it being influenced by changes in all societal aspects such as immigration, economy, popular culture and politics makes it necessary that awareness is created on how to approach the future (Bratton & Gold, 2012). Worldwide healthcare systems have increasingly focused on human resource management which represents system inputs, consumable human resources ...

Clifford was a philosopher in the medieval ages of philosophy, that is, the seventeenth century. Clifford advocated that a person is rightfully justified in believing in an event or something if only they have sufficient evidence in believing in the occurrence of that event. Clifford was against beliefs people had in doing things without sufficient evidence before embarking on such events. In this accord, Clifford wrote a book to support his belief. However, many non-evidentialist philosophers saw his advocacy as an act of atheism and that he did not believe in God. Non-evidential philosophers believed in God and put ...

Three healthcare information systems include administrative, clinical and subject/task based health information systems. Clinical information systems (CIS) focus on the collection, storage, manipulation, and access clinical of information that is essential for the delivery of healthcare process. Accordingly, CIS provide clinical data repository that contains information such as patient’s illness history as well as their interaction with healthcare providers (Wager, 2013). On the other hand, administrative information systems are widely designed to provide technical and programming support services to a health organization or institution’s administrative department. They support various accounting, payroll, human resource, and business functions. The ...

Abstract

Telemedicine can be said to be the use of information of a medical nature, shared by one site to another via the internet or intranet or any mass medium to help in the strengthening of the patients’ health (Sharpe, 2011). This involves the use of modern technology to communicate with patients and health practitioners. This may be through the use of e-health, videoconferencing, patients’ portals, still images and many others.

This technology results to the improved access by the patients to health care and improves the productivity of the health practitioners if well installed. It has also ...

Data security for network and health information systems makes patients’ information private. Unauthorized people should not access patients’ information. Kaiser introduced an internet patient portal. This portal was subjected to greater insecurity. People accessed patients’ data. Sometimes, the portal would mix the patient’s information. This was an element of concern to the organization. Breaching internet security occurs when unauthorized persons access data online (Wager, 2013).They can edit it. Others can cause communication to be ineffective.

The e-mail security breach was very serious. The portal was at great insecurity. It concatenated patients’ information. Programmers wrote a flawed script ...

Philosophy of Religion – Pascal’s Wager

The question of existence of God has been a bone of contention among many philosophers ever since philosophy existed. Earlier the arguments in favor of God dominated, but later, close to the time of modernity, it appears as if arguments against God’s existence have dominated, irrespective of the validity and plausibility of the arguments. However, even in the modern times, many philosophers tried to defend the existence of God. Among those Blaise Pascal was also one whose argument became famous with the name of Pascal’s wager. The main idea of the argument was that one must wager for ...

Introduction

Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy were from extreme opposites of the economic spectrum in Russia during the dying days of the nineteenth century. Chekhov was a grandson of a serf, while Tolstoy was an aristocrat. In spite of this, however, both writers saw and deeply felt the ironies of life as reflected in their own lives. This is especially brought out in the way that their short stories, Chekhov’s “The Bet” and Tolstoy’s “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”, employ character, irony and plot to explore the same theme; that is, the corruption involved in the acquisition ...

Part I Question 2: Ontological arguments

Ontological arguments are a category of philosophical arguments that support the existence of God using ontology. There are many arguments classified under the category of ontological. Normally ontological arguments normally start a priory theory about how the universe is organized. The argument states that if it is true that the universe is organized, then it will give reasons as to why God must exist (Schlesinger, 85). They rationally support God’s existence. The ontological argument that God exists was first created in the proslogion of Anselm (1033-1109). Immanuel Kant was the first person to call the argument ‘ontological.’ Kant said that ...

The Double Integration cloud system is a new application on the cloud that help the user, the physician usually or pharmacist or any health care provider, to integrate all the patients’ information from all over the nation hospital or from one hospital and different system. By using central database that contain a table with at least three different ID’s. First is National Id, which refers to the Id of each country such as Riyadh and Jeddah. The second Id is the Hospital Id witch refers to each hospital in one country. The last Id is the local Id, which refers ...

The question concerning the existence of God exacerbates controversy in the theologian world. Which view shall one incline to? How will a person wager? Reason will not help in deciding the question since it cannot prove either wrong. According to Pascal, one must wager to a choice that offers the best interest. This paper will argue on God exists point of view where one will gain everything and lose nothing. Wager that he does exist. Pascal observes that if you believe in God and God exists you win while if God does not exist you will lose everything. Aczel (par. ...

Blaise Pascal formulated the Pascal’s wager in the seventeenth century. The mathematician and philosopher presented his thoughts in his Pensées. Pascal made his arguments based on probability theory and game theory. He tried to explain the reason why people should believe in the existence of God despite the fact that this cannot be proved or disapproved rationally. The wager attempts to justify people’s belief in God with an appeal to self-interest rather than an evidence- based argument. The argument thus suggests that it is rational for people to believe in god because it is in our ...

An Appealing Answer Defeated by Assumptions

In his book, Think, Blackburn summarizes the major approaches to justifying the existence of God (1999, pp. 152-185). In each case, major weaknesses are identified in the thinking process that makes the final proof elusive. However, the next approach to this problem he presents is appealing. If philosophy cannot develop an approach to convincingly justify the existence of God and support belief in God in that way, perhaps it can formulate reasons for why it is logical to believe in God by examining the various outcomes of believing or not believing. This logic would be useful even without absolute ...

Evil is a force that has been at work in the world since the very beginning of time. Some of the very first deeds in recorded history show the influence of this budding corrosion tht began to grow within the human heart almost immediately after creation. The Old Testament tells the story of Adam and Eve, placed in a paradisical garden and given access to every blessing, only to eat from the only tree forbidden to them. One of their sons (Cain) would kill the other one (Abel) in a simple argument over the acceptability of sacrifices to God. Much of human ...

Definition of gambling

The term gambling involves the act of wagering/betting of either valuable assets or money with the anticipation that the uncertain outcomes will enable the wager to continue winning more valuable items. Gambling involves two or more parties who voluntarily bet their valuable assets; commonly referred as skates, with the anticipation that one party will emerge the win. In most instances, gambling may take many hours, but the outcome of wager is realized after a short period. The term gambling is often confused with gamming, despite both terms having different contextual meanings. The word gamming is used when the government ...

Introduction

Around the World in Eighty Days is fantastic read written by Jules Verne. The book is a vivid description of a perfect Englishman who bets a wager to travel around the world in eighty days (Verne Ch. 1). The journey peels off the hardened layer of the aloof English man who shows very little emotions and he evolves into an emotional, adventurous man who cares for his friends and is also very resourceful in challenging situations. The story fascinates the reader for the love, adventure, friendship, and culture that oozes from cover to cover. Even through the hasty detail of events, the ...

1. What is the strongest objection to Anselm's Proslogion 2 argument? The greatest objection to Anselm's Proslogion is the fact that Anselm contradicts his views. It is not clear what Anselm's perception of God is. According to him, God is a supreme being that exhibits traits of perfection. At the same time, Anselm describes God as being a simple being that goes about the activities of the universe calmly and in a silent manner. The next set of traits that Anselm describes brings out God as being an associated with eternity. Eternity in this context refers to life everlasting. This is a ...

Optimism has never done very well in literature, or any of the written media. From the very beginning, the stories that were recorded for posterity revolved around chaos, around, heartache, around tragedy. The Book of Job, considered by many to be the oldest part of the Old Testament, is about a wager between God and his adversary over the morals of a man; that man's family and possessions are the chattel in that wager. The earliest Greek writings include the tragedies of Sophocles and Aeschylus; the plots include twists that might even make the Kardashians blush: a son murdering his father (without ...

The existence of God is a question which has caused much debate for many years. A vast number of philosophers, such as Pascal, have attempted to resolve the issue but, so far, none has managed to convince enough people either way. The Design Argument claims that an Higher Intelligence exists which designed and created the Universe (IEP, 2012). Pre-Darwin, the Design theorists claimed that evidence for this was in the apparent design of nature. Following Darwin’s theory, the Design Argument was revised to agree that the process of Evolution took place, but that an Higher Being set it ...

1. In the teleological argument for the existence of God, it is said that a higher power must exist in order to create the specific and complex conditions for life in the universe. In essence, the existence of intelligent life itself is evidence that God exists; an intelligent creator is implied in the existence of these forms. The complexity of life, much like a pocketwatch, implies the existence of the watchmaker.

While this is a compelling argument for the existence of God, one of the main criticisms one can levy against it is the fact that this argument severely underestimates the ...

Breaching the Security of an Internet Patient Portal

Synopsis Health care information system is a fundamental facet in any health care organization, attributed to the fact that the system holds all the data and records that are useful in patient care, and this is clearly depicted in the Kaiser Permanente Internet Patient Portal case. Kaiser Permanente was an amalgamated health care information system that was privileged to serve over eight million people in nine states and Columbia District. The system introduced an Internet Patient Portal, also referred to as KP online in the late 1990s, purposefully to enhance a plethora of processes. The processes encompassed appropriation of appointments ...

1. What are the four mind-sets about the environment? Why are they important to our thinking about business ethics?

Four critical mindsets about the environment must be put into consideration in the management practice. These mindsets help to steer the organization towards a financial prosperity including generosity, vulnerability, candor and accountability. Generosity is the belief in mutual existence between the organization and the society. Other behaviors arise from this major behavior. It is the commitment to mutual support. It begins with the willingness to show up and willingly share our deepest insights and ideas with the world (Freeman, York & Stewart, 2007). Vulnerability entails fearless friendship where risks are taken up. Candor, on the other hand, is the freedom ...

1. Aquinas claims that he has five arguments that God exists. Do you think that he really has five different arguments? The first argument has to do with motion and movers, and the second argument has to do with cause and effect. Are they distinct arguments or just variations of the same argument?

There are examples of cause and effect that do not involve motion, so they are distinct.

2. Assume that Aquinas is right and there must be a prime mover or a first cause. Why must this first cause be God? That is, God is traditionally defined as a being that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnivenevolent. Does Aquinas provide any reasons for thinking that the prime ...

Process: System Implementation and support

Health care practices based on evidence are currently readily available for a number of health care issues like heart failures, asthma, and diabetes. Unfortunately, these practices do not always get implemented in healthcare delivery, and related practices bounded by the same (Houser & Oman, 2011). Formerly, the main focus of any research dealing with healthcare was to enhance analysis of data in order to identify safety concerns of the patient and to show likelihood of arriving at advanced quality and patient safety.

There is much less attention given to practice implementation. It is important to note that by putting emphasis ...

Fatigue: Processes, Side-effects and the Wingate Bicycle Test

When a person overexerts himself from doing strenuous activities through the say, he may feel sore and tired in each part of his body. This type of problem is called fatigue. Fatigue is mostly connected to the feeling of exhaustion because of the lack of energy and stress because of too much work, lack of sleep, lack of exercise or even because of boredom. But how exactly does this process work and how a person can discern fatigue once it is happening in the body. This paper will discuss the processes on how fatigue takes into place in the body, how ...

10. There is plenty of evidence of divine design on planet Earth. The intricacy of design and processes in the world is massive. When considering this, it is easy to see how it must have been ‘designed’ by an Higher Intelligence. However, Darwin’s theory of evolution explains the intricacies in the world without the need for a divine force.

11. The Design Argument claims that an Higher Intelligence exists which designed and created the Universe. Pre-Darwin, the Design theorists claimed that evidence for this was in the apparent design of nature. Following Darwin’s theory, the Design ...

Introduction

As part of his presidency bid campaigns, president Barrack Obama had promised people of the United States that he will do changes in the countries systems for the advantages of the people. Iin addition he made several promises for the purpose of making better the life of the American people. Due to his successful win over his opponent, he succeeded to become the president of the United States. He had the roles therefore to fulfill the promises he had promised his people.

One of the major changes that he had promised was reforming the health care sector. His main ...

Information technology, a term which was quite rare in the earlier centuries, is a term used to refer to the use of computers and software’s to manage information. This stirs up the question of when and how the computers and information technology begun. This paper therefore seeks to show the origin of computers, information technology and how some world views influenced the development of information technology. In computing the history of information technology it is important to understand that the evolution of this area played a significant role in the invention of computers. There may not be a clear cut date ...