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Clarify the difference between an EMR and an EHR
$10.00Electronic Record
If you remember from week one, we have issues with our records system. As promised, I attended a seminar on integrating Electronic Records into an existing practice. What I was hoping for was some clarification regarding electronic records, but now I am concerned about all of the information I was given and about where the facility is in the grand scheme of things as we only use paper records. What I need from you is a two page informational paper discussing the following:
- Clarify the difference between an EMR and an EHR.
- Is our facility (a Primary Care Facility) required to obtain and operate a functional EHR by a certain deadline? If so, what is the deadline?
- What is “meaningful use” and why is it important to us?
- They kept talking about interoperability. Why is that word important to us?
- What would be our first step as a practice if and when we need to move toward an EHR?
- Are we at risk for being penalized if we do not establish and Electronic Records System?
Care of Vulnerable Populations – The Pregnant Homeless Youth
$72.50Care of Vulnerable Populations – The Pregnant Homeless Youth
The paper explores the vulnerability of pregnant homeless youth.
Paper Guideline
I. Purpose and focus
The purpose of this assignment is to develop an understanding of the lived experience of those who are members of a vulnerable population. This increased awareness will provide the foundation for understanding the scope of health problems, and for planning and implementing effective health care programs aimed at confronting health problems correlated with vulnerability.II. Guidelines
A. Describe the characteristics of the selected vulnerable
B. Describe risk indicators/relative risk factors for this population (utilize vulnerable population theory to assess the population and identify risk)
C. Describe the health issues/concerns of the population (utilize Health People 2020 to assist in identifying health issues; additional issues may be added).
D. Analyze current policies and programs/services that address health problems of the population
E. Describe the quality of their access to health care
F. Discuss policies and programs that are still needed to improve the quality of their careNo more than 15 pages, double spaced (excluding the title page and references)
III. Evaluation
The paper will be graded as follows (45% of the Total Grade):
Characteristics of the vulnerable 15
Risk indicators 15
Health Indicators/Concerns 20
Availability of current programs/services 20
Accessibility 10
Needed policies/programs/services 10
Overall Writing
Style/format, Spelling & Grammar, and Organization 10
ReferencesIV. Format
The paper will be referenced and written following the APA format established in the latest edition of the APA. Use 12 point font, Times New Roman. Submit it to Turn In It. Papers are due on the dates indicated in the syllabus unless other
Part I Points points) Comments
Characteristics of the vulnerable 15
Risk Indicators 15
Health indicators/concerns 20
Availability of Program/Services 20
Accessibility 10
Needed programs and policies 10
Overall Writing for Points (10 points)
Style/format, Spelling & Grammar, Paper organization, References 10
Total Points /100 Grade for the Paper14 Pages
APA 35 References
Burden on Informal Caregivers
$49.00Care of Vulnerable Populations: Burden on Informal Caregivers
Paper Guideline
I. Purpose and focus
The purpose of this assignment is to develop an understanding of the lived experience of those who are members of a vulnerable population. This increased awareness will provide the foundation for understanding the scope of health problems, and for planning and implementing effective health care programs aimed at confronting health problems correlated with vulnerability.II. Guidelines
A. Describe the characteristics of the selected vulnerable
B. Describe risk indicators/relative risk factors for this population (utilize vulnerable population theory to assess the population and identify risk)
C. Describe the health issues/concerns of the population (utilize Health People 2020 to assist in identifying health issues; additional issues may be added).
D. Analyze current policies and programs/services that address health problems of the population
E. Describe the quality of their access to health care
F. Discuss policies and programs that are still needed to improve the quality of their careNo more than 15 pages, double spaced (excluding the title page and references)
The controversial issue of Physician-Assisted Suicide
$27.50Physician-Assisted Suicide
To satisfy this assignment, you may make a causal argument, an evaluation argument, a proposal argument, or a combination of arguments, as long as you enter a “conversation” about an issue in dispute, integrating your thoughts with those of experts you encounter via library research. You are to advance your point of view in light of scholarly thinking on the matter. You will need to identify a fruitful, issue-based question and to use your analysis of at least six scholarly sources to develop your argument. In order to responsibly enter this larger conversation about the issue you have chosen, you will need to represent the ideas of others clearly and fairly in advancing your own position, as well as analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different ideas (including your own). Here are two key questions: What do you bring to the table? and What will your argument teach those interested in the issue? As you can see, this is not simply a review of what others have said. I ask for a researched argument rather than a research paper.
As you approach this assignment, look at problems existing in your local community (issues related to schooling or immigration perhaps) or the college community (the marginalization of gays and lesbians, for instance). Limit your focus to what you can adequately handle in 6 pages. Above all, write about something that matters.
Here are your instructions for the researched argument:
- identify a controversial issue
- create and sustain an argument that combines your thinking with that of scholars
- include both analysis and exposition of information
- establish what is at stake in accepting the views of authors (including yourself)
- provide good reasons and relevant evidence to support your point of view
- identify, analyze, and address potential counterarguments
- Paper must be written in 3rd person only
- Paper must conform to APA or MLA standards.
What is the percentage of calls being answered by a physician in the US
$5.00DIAL A PHYSICIAN (Q12 & Q14)
A company has started a phone service that uses overseas doctors to provide emergency medical consultations. The responding doctors are based in a country with low wages but with a highly skilled pool of physicians. Responding to each call takes on average 15 minutes. At any given moment in time, there are 4 doctors overseas on duty. Calls arrive every 5 minutes on average and standard deviation of the inter-arrival time is 5 minutes. The company receives $50 from the patient�s insurance company for each consultation. If one of the 4 overseas doctors is available, the firm pays $20 to the doctor and makes $30 in profit. If no doctor is available overseas, the call is rerouted to the U.S. where a local physician answers the question. A local physician is always available to take a call. In this case, the firm pays the $50 to the local physician, so there�s no profit for the company.
- Q12. What is the percentage of calls being answered by a physician in the US? (Write the percentage, that is, if your answer is 53.22%, input 53.22 as the answer.)
- Q13. How much (in $) does the company pay the physicians in the US over a 4 hour period?
- Q14. What would be the additional profit (in $) per hour if the company managed to have 10 doctors overseas on duty at any given time?
Demand for physician office visits
$2.00An individual’s demand for physician office visits per year is Q = 10 (1/20)P, where P is the price of an office visit. The marginal cost of producing an office visit is $120.
(a) individuals pay full price for obtaining medical services, how many office visits will they make per year?
(b) If individuals must pay only a $20 copayment for each office visit, how many office visits will they make per year?
(c) What is the deadweight loss to society associated with not charging individuals for the full cost of their health care? Draw the supply- demand graph and mark the deadweight loss.
When a physician does a spinal tap to look for meningitis…
$2.00When a physician does a spinal tap to look for meningitis, what structures will that needle pierce from the most superficial to the deepest. Why would the physician order a test in the spinal region to check a problem in the head?
The size of private health insurance premiums depends on…
$2.00The size of private health insurance premiums depends on all of the following except
a)prices.
b)expected utilization volume.
c)administrative costs.
d)profit margin.
e)number of carve-outs in a plan.
Increasing the physician supply can be achieved through all the following ways except
a)increasing the number of medical schools.
b)increasing the number of foreign medical school graduates allowed to train in the U.S.
c)changing immigration laws to allow more foreign physicians to practice in U.S.
d)early retirement of practicing physicians.
e)providing more federal and state funding to medical schools which increase enrollment.
A for-profit hospital is more likely to specialize in which one of the following services?
a)immunizations
b)diagnostic radiology
c)prenatal care
d)emergency rooms
e)drug detoxification
Since the implementation of hospital payment by the DRG system,
a)cost shifting no longer occurs in hospitals.
b)use of RCCAC serves no purpose to the hospital’s management.
c)payment for hospital stays is based on a patient’s diagnosis at discharge.
d)payment for hospital stays is based on a patient’s diagnosis upon admittance to the hospital.
e)payment for hospital stays is less profitable to hospitals.
Over half of all hospital revenues are from
a)federal and state government programs.
b)private insurance.
c)Medicare.
d)Medicaid.
e)philanthropy.
. If it is shown that a newly formed large hospital, which was formed by the merger of two competing hospitals, charges more to uninsured patients than do smaller hospitals in the same market, for providing the same services,
a) the large hospital may have market power to do so.
b) the two small hospitals must be taking advantage of the economies of scale.
c) it is an example of price discrimination.
d) consumers’ welfare would not be affected.
e) the large hospital must be violating the antitrust laws.
43. A proposal to eliminate the tax deduction for charitable contributions would cause a negative impact on
a) physicians’ salaries.
b) the number of patients paying out of pocket for cosmetic surgery.
c) the number of self pay hospital patients.
d) hospitals budget for philanthropic donations.
e) nurses duties.
How does the law of diminishing marginal utility fit into an analysis of the demand for health care? Give some examples of decisions concerning health care where you personally are indifferent between getting medical care or doing without medical care.
Types of physician remuneration schemes
$2.50Health economics question (Economics of health and health care 7th edition)
Describe three types of physician remuneration schemes and comment on physician incentives under each scheme.
For each scheme, summarize the evidence regarding physician behaviour.
