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Health Care Informatics, 2008.
Compares the benefits and disadvantages in the area of health informatics in health care, especially regarding nursing.
1,707 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 81.95
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This paper explains that the term informatics refers to the management and processing of data and knowledge in a particular discipline such as nursing. The paper then points out that informatics interact with every organizational structure and practice so that, ideally, organization, training, development of innovative approaches, and other tasks become very efficient. The paper also explains that informatics in health care must respond to specific needs and to the various costs and challenges associated with consumer-directed plans. In addition, the paper contendss that effective informatics depends on careful choice and implementation of information systems so that they are correlated with the needs of the organization and of all staff members.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Overview: Impacts of Informatics in Health Care
Current State of Informatics in Health Care
Relevance to Nursing
Personal View
Recommendations for Future Directions and Strategies
From the Paper
"The capabilities of informatics are extensive and soon will be greatly expanded. Information processing is continually becoming more rapid and will be enhanced since innovations are being developed. For instance, many schools of nursing currently make use of the Internet for distance learning programs, teleconferencing classes, or online courses. The practice of nursing will inevitably be transformed as a result of wireless technology.
"The most basic or crucial point related to informatics is that technology and systems can never determine outcomes."
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Health Care Informatics, 2008.
A review of the importance of pursuing enterprise content management (ECM) systems and the implications for advanced practice nursing.
1,803 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 84.95
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The paper illustrates through research how the adoption of an enterprise content management (ECM) system can revolutionize the accuracy and quality of long-term care strategies for patients in the healthcare facility. The paper states that, in pursuing the best practices in patient care through the development and refinement of an ECM system to manage data on patients, the processes healthcare professionals rely on for completing their tasks will also be made more efficient. . The paper details the resultant efficiency, and costs and time saved by the implementation of such a system.
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Executive Summary
How would you envision using information and communication technologies to support and augment your role as an advanced practice nurse in their health care facility?
What clinical information tool would you recommend to them as important for use in their organization to enhance or improve patient care?
What evidence is there that this tool will enhance the quality of care? Are their any limitations or concerns about its use?
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"This isn't simply about being able to see more patients or dispensing treatment plans, it's about being able to have a more comprehensive view of the patient treatment plans for advanced diseases and conditions that optometry specializes in treating. This includes drug interactions that clinicians and specialist MDs both need to have instantly as they prescribe treatment plans for patients. Currently advanced practice nurses and specialist MDs have to look either through multiple systems or through a series of books to figure out what if any interactions there are to medications. Appling IT strategies to this unmet need would include integrating all databases internally to the practice in addition to subscribing to external information sources, all unified with a common search technology that would, from a single query, provide the medical professional with the information requested. Another aspect of this unmet need of increasing productivity is the scheduling of appointments between advanced practice nurses and specialist MDs in addition to those with patients. Moving away from manual systems in this area is also a critical step for higher levels of productivity for advanced practice nurses, specialist MDs and staff at clinics and hospitals alike."
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Child Center Care Vs. Care by Family, 2007.
This paper discusses child care options and looks at the development of children who attended child care centers compared with those in family care.
3,054 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 12 sources, MLA, AU$ 130.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the question over who should care for children is once again being debated throughout North America, with many advocating that very young children be raised with either their mothers or a close member of the family instead of attending child care centers. The writer discusses research indicating that the poor quality of care given in existing centers throughout the United States is the reason for problems within the classroom, as children who attend these care centers are believed to have both development and social problems. The writer concludes that the important point of the debate over child care should be how to ensure quality care for children whose parents have to work, or have chosen to work, through understanding and enabling effective and positive child development and growth within center-based childcare.
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Abstract
Introduction
An Overview of Child Care in the United States
Contemporary Childcare in the United States
Towards an Effective Child Care System
Conclusion
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"The changes in society over the past few decades have completely transformed the contemporary world, mainly through the consequences of warfare and the recent advancements in technology, which has also changed the lives of women. Accounting for almost half of the nation's workforce, a vast majority of them either are already mothers or will be, which means that something needs to be done about the childcare situation in America. Although center-based childcare is not, perhaps, the ideal situation for mothers and their children, most parents have little choice."
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Health Care and Managed Care, 2002.
Shortcomings of health care with the implementation of managed care.
4,150 words (approx. 16.6 pages), 17 sources, AU$ 221.95
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This paper discusses the shortcomings of the American health care system with the implementation of managed care. The risks and future trends in the system are looked at as well as examples of what the system has faced.
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Health Care Managed Care and Fee-For-Service Plans, 2000.
2,790 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 122.95
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This paper focuses on the quality of care delivered by various forms of managed care organizations and fee-for-service organizations as reported by numerous recent studies.
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"There is a current climate of distrust and frustration with managed care which has led many people to question whether health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other forms of managed care really are looking out for the best interests of their patients. Managed care plans have incentives in place which reward physicians and other health service providers for providing fewer services or less costly solutions. With American society?s negative feelings toward managed care medical practices, questions about the quality of care provided by various managed care institutions have been raised. The fact that managed care enrollment has been increasing while at the same time growth in total healthcare expenditures has been declining only serves to increase the frequency of questions about the quality of healthcare provided by managed care organizations. This paper will focus on the quality of care delivered by various forms of managed care organizations and fee-for-service organizations as reported by numerous recent studies."
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Future Nursing Informatics, 2002.
This paper discusses a futuristic scenario for Year 2082 about nursing informatics, applying computer science to nursing processes, especially for mental health.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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This paper discusses that it is important for nurses today to not only know how to use computer technology but also how to collect data for use in patient care. The paper states that in the future nurses will not only be using computer technologies, but over the years information processing, decision theory, language development, and computer interface design will be important. The author feels that telehealth clinics will be abundant, especially in rural areas with nurses increasingly serving as coaches, teachers, and colleagues, working side-by-side with empowered consumers in a high-quality system of computer-supported, low-cost, self-managed mental health care.
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Introduction
What is Now?
What is Possible?
What is Probable?
Conclusion
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"Patients will be able to access information about their disorder and consult health care professionals who are experts in mental health via the Internet. Self-help communities will be established in cyberspace, with each site devoted to a single health-related topic such as anxiety or depression. These communities will provide ?technical medical information, practical coping tips, emotional support, and online second opinions." The patient will be instructed to take more responsibility for his or her care."
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Health Care and Managed Health Care: The Need for Sweeping Reforms, 2002.
A look at role of primary care nurse practitioners in relation to health care reforms.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 130.95
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This paper investigates the role of primary care nurse practitioners in respect to health care and health care reform. The failure of primary healthcare is critically assessed, in the respect that health care is currently "managed" by independent "for- profit" organizations, where there is an emphasis on financial success rather than patient welfare. This paper also places a strong emphasis on the role of nurse care practitioners in the state of Florida and in community health care clinics.
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Nursing Informatics, 2008.
This paper discusses how the nursing informatics industry is based on the unmet needs of medical practices globally.
2,695 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 117.95
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The paper focuses on the five main unmet needs in many medical fields and explores the advances being made in enterprise content management (ECM), digital asset management (DAM) and security and collaboration technologies. The paper explains that nursing informatics is changing every medical discipline by enabling medical processes to be more efficiently accomplished while also delivering a higher quality of information to nurses and physicians as well. The paper dalso iscusses the industry factors that are affecting the growth of nursing informatics strategies.
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Introduction
Background
Nursing Informatics and the Increase in Digital Asset Management (DAM) Systems
Factors Influencing Nursing Informatics' Growth
Conclusions
From the Paper
"Managing, organizing and making available to healthcare professionals the many types of content that comprise nursing informatics requires a flexible yet comprehensive content management framework and a high degree of integration between systems as well. At the center of systems designed to deliver nursing informatics there are Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems that also include digital images of patient's critical information including x-rays and digital images of diagnoses in addition to other forms of digital imaging and content."
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Improving Medication Administration Through Informatics, 2006.
A review of informatics as a solution to problems in the healthcare sector.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 9 sources, AU$ 64.95
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This paper discusses how there are numerous healthcare crises throughout the world including an ongoing nursing shortage, increase in medical errors and a decrease in patient level of care and satisfaction. The paper further discusses how nursing informatics is a relatively new adjunct to the nursing profession that can solve all of these issues simultaneously. This paper presents a high level examination of how medication administration can be improved with informatics.
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Health Care Managers and Health Care Delivery, 2004.
Examines the relationship that exists between health care players, how they perform their duties, and how they join their forces in health care delivery.
2,367 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, AU$ 105.95
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This paper examines and provides information on the roles and responsibilities that health care managers are tasked to accomplish in today?s health care systems. Moreover, this paper examines how a health care manager's job as a leader who ensures a smooth and organized management and operation of health organizations, influences his/her perspective on health care professions. The paper emphasizes the importance of understanding how health care managers perceive their duties in health care service.
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"The basic role every manager must be able to render is the task of providing good human relations to everyone at work. Through this role, the objective of accomplishing jobs in an environment where good work relationship is maintained can be made possible. In the field of health care, healthcare managers must have the ability to perform this basic responsibility. A healthcare manager should be a specialist in managing the condition of the healthcare staffs. Though this duty may be perceived as a simple task, it is critical that a good human resource management be delivered to a health organization to ease the stress and pressure that health care providers, such as the doctors and nurses, experience from their duties."
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Nursing Informatics, 2007.
A discussion of the factors contributing to an ideal and efficient nursing informatics operation.
731 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 38.95
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This paper discusses the role of informatics or ICTs in the field of nursing as a medical profession. The researcher posits that, for an ideal and efficient nursing informatics operation, two important objectives must be met: an increase in the efficiency of handling healthcare servicing to patients and an increase in the potential of getting nurses involved in research and studies. The paper discusses these objectives in relation to the implementation of an ideal informatics system in the workplace setting among nursing professionals.
From the Paper
"The introduction of a database system, then, would automatically quantify patient cases that can become potential data or information that nurses could use for their research on specific topics or areas relevant and significant to the improvement of nursing science. The ease of collecting data/information about nursing and its application in the medical field is an important advantage that an efficient database system can provide to healthcare professionals like nurses. Another potential that nursing informatics can provide for nurses is the determination of "nursing problems, interventions, and outcomes in a standardized format to be stored in administrative and clinical data repositories" (Swan, 2004:330). With these efficiencies in terms of storing and retrieving data and patient cases both for research and administrative uses, informatics or the establishment of a database system in the medical workplace will help pave the way for the improvement of quality nursing care and healthcare service, not to mention the improvement in nurses' skills and knowledge in the field of nursing science and research."
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Primary Health Care, Primary Nursing, and Primary Care, 2005.
A comparison of primary health care physicians and primary nurses.
2,154 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 98.95
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Nursing care was developed, in part, to provide services to patients with multiple needs and evolved with the initial goals of providing efficient and effective care. Among the delivery systems used to provide this care include primary nursing, primary care, and primary health care. Primary nursing originated in the United States and emerged because of concern about the fragmented care patients were receiving particularly in hospital settings. Primary health care follows many of the same principles and is concerned with providing comprehensive, individualized, patient care from point of contact to completion. Primary care may be defined as a service provided by primary nurses and primary health care physicians. The similarities and differences between these concepts are explored in detail.
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"According to Sergei Vinogradov (2002) primary health care or PHC is "based on family health teams, working in family health centers" whose goals include prioritizing prevention and addressing 90% of health problems and patient concerns (p.39). In primary health care systems, doctors bear the brunt of the responsibility, sometimes at the expense of efficiency according to some critics (Vinogradov, 2002). PHC teams are comprised of many individuals including medicine doctors, nurses and other relevant health professionals, but it is the doctor (usually a family doctor) that bears the brunt of accountability and responsibility in terms of patient care (Vinogradov, 2002).
Primary health care is often provided in a managed care setting which requires that a centralized medical decision be made by a primary care physician, thus enhancing according to some the 'attractiveness' of care, suggesting it is quality oriented and scientifically based (Brekke, et. al, 2002). Primary health care usually is offered in hospitals and primary medical offices, less so in community based settings."
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Social Informatics, 2006.
An overview of the relatively new field of social informatics.
1,460 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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Social informatics, or the collection of research that examines the social and cultural aspects of information technology, is a relatively recent field. From its conception in the early 1970s as an unnamed field of research to its current discussions in popular computer science and social science, the concepts behind social informatics have been widely examined, utilized and commonly misunderstood. This paper discusses the contributions of the field in general and attempts to show that the usefulness of the discoveries made from the research does not, by its self, make it the prime approach for integration discussions.
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"Another study which focuses on the drastic differences in research outcome is discussed by Kling (2001) in the analysis of how oversimplification of the effects of social informatics can have negative consequences for organizations. Kling notes that the introduction of credit card machines and automated tellers would allow travelers wider access to money when traveling. However, due to this oversimplified, unorganized view, credit card issuers in the United States were able to market their product to a wider variety of consumers, some of which were unable to pay the debt they amassed. This caused a higher number of bankruptcies, and a difficulty in regulating interest rate changes (Kling, 2001)."
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Nursing Informatics, 2002.
The newest technology on informatics.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This is an annotated bibliography. The author finds that nursing on the internet can be an interesting way of researching informatics.
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Informatics and Patient Privacy, 2000.
An examination of the benefits of technology in information management in the medical field, weighed against threats to privacy.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 15 sources, AU$ 116.95
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"Application of the Concept of Informatics to Patient-Specific Data by Health Care Delivery Organizations: Exploring the Issue From the Perspective of Privacy
Introduction
This research explores the application of the concept of Informatics to patient-specific data by health care delivery organizations. The focus of this exploration is the issue of patient privacy.
The Issue
No information about a person is more sensitive, and no information has a greater stigmatizing potential than does the information stored in personal health records. The application of the concept of Informatics to the construction, maintenance, and distribution of personal health records, therefore, raised..."
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AIDS/HIV Patients and Health Care, 2002.
A thorough examination of health care for HIV and AIDS patients and a review of the literature relevant to access to care, quality of care and funding.
9,785 words (approx. 39.1 pages), 46 sources, MLA, AU$ 291.95
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A research study is proposed that investigates the experiences of HIV/AIDS patients with health insurance. The specific problem that is investigated concerns variations between HIV/AIDS patients and non HIV/AIDS patients in relation to denial of coverage, premium levels and experimental drug approval. Literature is reviewed is support of the proposed research study. The major bodies of literature reviewed are those related to access to care for HIV/AIDS patients, the quality of care received by HIV/AIDS patients and health care funding, especially as such funding applies to HIV/AIDS care and research and with a further emphasis on future funding prospects.
Introduction
Access to Care for HIV/AIDS Patients
Bioethical Issues
Social Psychological Influences
Effects of Managed Care on Health Care Access for HIV/AIDS Patients
Quality of Care Received by HIV/AIDS Patients
HIV/AIDS Funding
The Welfare State
Summary of the Literature Review
References
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"A critical factor affecting access to necessary health care for HIV/AIDS patients is health care insurance coverage. Approximately 60-percent of the American population is covered by private health care insurance programs (Congressional Budget Office, 1999). Most of these programs?the very great majority?are either fully or partly funded by employers, while the remainder of such programs is funded fully by the covered individuals and families. For the remaining 40 percent of the population, the delivery of health care services is dealt with in a variety of ways, as follows: (1) for approximately 25 percent of the population, health care services are funded by the federal government, primarily through the Medicaid and Medicare programs; (2) approximately five-percent of the population, both individuals and families, who for whatever reason do not choose to contract for health care insurance, are in the financial position to pay for health care services at the time of delivery; and (3) approximately 10 percent of the population defer health care services to the point where they can non longer be deferred, at which time they typically enter the health care system as emergency patients (Congressional Budget Office, 1999). As emergency patients, their care is more expensive than it would have been if treated earlier, and the care is either (1) paid by government or charity or (2) results in charges to the patients and their families that they seldom have any hope of ever paying. In the latter case, caregivers, typically public hospitals, must absorb the losses.
When all is said and done, approximately 12 percent of the country?s population is without any formal health care insurance coverage (Minahan, 1999; Rosen, Fanshel, & Lutz, 1999), although some estimates of this proportion are higher. Further, in most cases, such individuals are not in a financial position to fund such services as required. With the size of the American population established at approximately 273 million by the 1999 census estimate (Population Reference Bureau, 2000), the 12 percent without formal health care insurance translates into approximately 33 million people."
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