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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Us Healthcare"”.
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Transformation of the US healthcare system with the advent of wireless sensing technologies
The US healthcare system is looked at from the point of view of various stakeholders and how its current structure has emerged over the years. With the shifting demographics, change in disease mix, ICT revolution and other factors at play, the system is in a state of flux. Sensor technology on the …
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Healing at the Margins: A Cultural/Historical Perspective on International Medical Graduates in the US Healthcare System
… has also long been controversial, engendering suspicion from organized medicine and concerns from policy analysts about physician surpluses in the United States and a “brain drain” of needed medical talent from much poorer nations. The past, current, and future role of IMGs is a window into …
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'Healthcaring': Learning to Resist the Logic of Letting Go through Arts-Based Curriculum in a Student-Run Free Clinic
Contemporary healthcare education does not adequately prepare students for some of the most persistent moral challenges of medical practice in the United States. Healthcare in the US includes practices and policies of exclusion limiting who has access to life- extending and life-saving treatments. …
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HOW INSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS SHAPE THE QUALITY OF WORK PRACTICES: EVIDENCE FROM THREE CARE COORDINATION PROGRAMS IN NEW YORK STATE
… of reducing costs and increasing quality in US healthcare. It is unclear, however, under which conditions organizations implement high-quality work practices that are essential for achieving improved outcomes in the context of care coordination programs. My paper examines two institutional …
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How Informational Imperfections Lead to Sub-Optimal Solutions in Health Savings Plan and Potential Remedies in a Competitive Marketplace
… where consumers can save pre-tax income for healthcare but also face higher out-of-pocket prices, in hopes that consumers will become smarter shoppers. The Health Savings Plan is successful at lowering costs, but at the expense of consumers lowering their adherence to healthcare, raising …
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A multi-domain process design and improvement framework
Processes in manufacturing, services, and healthcare are complex socio-technical systems composed of intricately sequenced activities supported by elements drawn from multiple domains. While many of these processes offer high performance, their complexity can make their design, improvement, …
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The Good, The Bad, and The Taxed: How Taxes Shape Morals in Markets
… currency across the United States and beyond. I use evidence from a factorial survey to show how taxing a morally debated commodity influences people’s moral evaluations of consumption. I also experimentally manipulate the race and the class of the imagined soda consumer to test how social status …
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Applying systems thinking to healthcare data cybersecurity
… of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in US healthcare organizations has increased significantly. Along with the rapid increase in usage of EHR, cybercrimes are on the rise as well. Two recent cybercrime cases from early 2015, the Anthem and Premera breaches, are examples of the alarming …
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System interfaces to facilitate follow-up pharmaceutical care in the United States
… context of follow-up pharmaceutical care in the US Healthcare System. To achieve this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with various healthcare system stakeholders. The transcripts of these interviews were analyzed to identify the needs expressed by each interviewee, which were then …
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Protecting the Rights of Limited English Proficiency Patients During Hospital Discharge
… hospitalization to outpatient care. The US healthcare model's evolution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has firmly distinguished inpatient providers from outpatient providers, with little continuity between them. As a patient leaves inpatient care there is an increasing need for …
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Nonemergency visits to the emergency room : revelations from the COVID era.
Emergency rooms ("ERs") in the United States ("US") must see all patients regardless of their ability to pay. Many uninsured patients that cannot pay for healthcare treatments tend to use ERs for primary care. This contributes to excessive healthcare costs in the US, financial challenges for …
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An integrative predictive model for hospital acquired complications
Hospital Acquired Complications (HACs) are a serious problem affecting modern day healthcare institutions. It is estimated that in US hospitals, HACs cause an approximately 10% increase in total inpatient hospital costs. With US hospital spending totaling nearly $900 billion per year, the …
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A case study of Vioxx using STAMP
… of the prescription drug Vioxx (Rofecoxib) was used as a test case to study whether STAMP (Systems Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) could be used to outline the interactions between the different pharmaceutical system components, identify the safety control structure in place and …
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Use Of Teach-Back During Informed Consent In Cancer Clinical Trials
… diagnosed with cancer in the United States (US) enroll annually in a clinical trial (American Cancer Society, 2021; Institute of Medicine Committee on Cancer Clinical Trials; National Cancer Institute Cooperative Group Program, 2010). Flawed research consent practices are detrimental to …
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Abortion Beyond the Binary: Transgender people have historically been left out of abortion and reproductive health research. Now, two researchers are bringing their experiences to light.
… to accessing abortions and other reproductive healthcare, transgender people throughout the United States face a minefield of issues—from getting insurance coverage to dealing with medical providers who don’t know how to treat them, to weathering discrimination—but very little research exists …
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Healthcare technology, patient engagement and adherence : systems and business opportunity analysis
In the current shift in the US healthcare system, lower cost, higher quality of care, access and safety are the main drivers that are effecting changes. Patient compliance with medication and technology enabled wellness and engagement programs play an important role in ensuring the cost and quality …
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Early Predictors of Post-stroke Motor Recovery
Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. Despite robust spontaneous biological recovery mechanisms and provision of intensive rehabilitation therapies, most stroke survivors experience persistent loss of upper extremity function which is directly related to reduced independence …
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Transforming a Primary Care Practice into a Patient Centered Medical Home
… adoption of the PCMH model of care has lowered healthcare expenditure by 15-20% (Nielsen, Langner, Zema, Hacker, & Grundy, 2012). In an effort to reduce healthcare cost in the United States, private and public sectors have embraced the philosophy of PCMH by developing national programs and …
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