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The US Health Care system: beliefs, Values and health
The health care system is a wide area that spans over the medical aspect, the financial aspect, the ethical field, the management aspect, the political angle and the individual aspect of it where the personal beliefs, values and the health of an individual is looked into. This indicates that healthcare is wide in scope and each aspect is important in the well being of individual American.
In the study of this week, the most important and outstanding issue that came up is the fact that in a health care facility, people therein, both the patients, medics and the support staff go through a lot of challenges. These challenges are not restricted only to medical conditions but extend to the personal issues that affect the social life at the family level, at work, career wise, in the school and the community at large. Amazingly all these facts converge at the health care facility. This means there is need to have empathy as a medic or someone working in the health care facility setting to help each individual go through their challenges stronger and not to restrict ones role only to the ailment or the...
This points out to the need for the medic to not only look at the infection, or the ailment, or the condition or symptoms presented, but to be empathetic enough to probe further to determine if the other related social factors could be changed to improve the health of the individual. This means hence that blaming one for the poor health or praising one for the good health is inappropriate.
Average length of stay
The efficiency of healthcare has been a key point that patients and the beneficiaries of health care look into. One of the ways that can be used to measure the efficiency of healthcare ion any facility is the average length of stay (ALOS). ALOS is calculated by adding the total length of stay for each discharged resident in the month and dividing this by the…
Analysis The ability to schedule online and also have the ability to view records online significantly increased he patient satisfaction levels, judging from how much happier the families seemed to be to get into see the physicians. This same location had in years past been run with completely manually-driven systems and it was common to wait 90 minutes to see a doctor. That was painful and there was this continually re-looping
What emerges from these efforts are two essential understandings. First, in spite of whatever evidence may exist to the contrary, system building will continue apace in the hospital industry. Whether the battlefield is risky is immaterial, for the battle is joined. Some individual hospitals may decide to remain solo or stay in modest-sized systems where problems are more manageable, at least until some future time when some of the cloud
5) Celebrate the customer decision and ask for feedback- Many customers will be with us for the duration of their lives. Everyone will inevitably become sick and will need to make tough decisions in regards to their health. Whatever their decision, we must be there to help console or celebrate their success and triumph. The essence of good customer service is genuine appreciation, not flattery. The distinction between the two
Workarounds in Healthcare Facilities Workarounds refer to the alternative methods "of accomplishing an activity when the usual system / process is not working well" (Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory, 2013). In as much as workarounds may temporarily solve existing problems, they also indicate inefficiencies and deficiencies in the current system. Workarounds may at times be effective and more convenient, compared to the system in existence, but a regular use of the same
Provide sustained technical assistance (Expert Panel Meeting: Health Information Technology: Meeting Summary, 2003) Evaluation of the process in rural and small communities includes: (1) scope of the project; (2) goals; (3) critical success factors; and (4) technical assistance." (Expert Panel Meeting: Health Information Technology: Meeting Summary, 2003) Community grants have been focused on the provision of 'personal digital assistant (PDA) systems in assisting with the decision support role. The initiative is
Health Care in the U.S. And Singapore Healthcare in the U.S. And Singapore This paper compares the U.S. healthcare system with the Singapore healthcare system. It starts with a brief description of both healthcare systems and then explains and compares the issues in both the systems. The number of underinsured in both systems are also compared in the paper. The paper also gives the pros and cons of both the system. It