emerging technology in healthcare In the last decades, advancement in technology has shaped the medical field. The old techniques of the manual recording of data and verbal charting to patients are now dwindling. The emerging technologies in electronic keeping and telehealth grants patients access to their data, a case that was not there before. According to online sources, advancement in technology facilitates the nursing process to improve The Regulatory News Service (RNs) hence improving communication effectiveness and efficiency (Avant healthcare, 2020). Even though emerging trends of technology have met opposition and criticism, some nurses still believe that technology improves the care of patients. For these nurses, emerging tools help to prevent wastage of time when handling patients and prevent nurses from suffering from severe cases of burnout. Therefore patients’ engagement in healthcare fosters improvement of experiences, outcomes of health, and safety. With emerging technology, patients are now more aware of the care given and engage fully with the treatment procedures. Besides, the solutions generated to develop the health sector improves the profession of nursing practice. The explosion of technology provides…

Managed Healthcare The Affordable Care Act provides that large employers need to provide a specific percentage of their full-time employees and their families with minimum essential healthcare insurance.  A large employer is an organization that employs at least 50 full-time employees for six months or more of the previous year. The insurance must have the capacity to cater for at least 60% of covered services (Abraham et al., 2016). Employers can have employees contribute to their insurance. However, such contributions should not be more than 9.86% of their household income. The large employers who fail to comply with the requirement must pay a no-coverage penalty to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The condition is placed to ensure that large employers comply with the expectations of the ACA and ensure that their employees are fully covered. On the other hand, small employers are not mandated by the ACA to provide health insurance for their employees. However, where they do, they may qualify for the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit. Given the requirements of self-insured health insurance plans, there are certain…

What is the Christian concept of the imago dei? How might it be important to healthcare, and why is it relevant? Reply to 2 answers below, 1 reply should be half of the page with 1 or more reference. First answer: Christians’ understanding of Imago dei or “the image of God” is that “human beings are created in the image of God which confer dignity and honor on every person, regardless of their social, mental or physical status (Shelly & Miller, 2006). To support this belief, Christians often refer to Genesis 1:26-27 in the bible that reads, “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”(Religious Facts, 2017) Knowing that we are all created in the image of God helps reiterate…

Barriers to Healthcare Access for Clients from Puerto Rican and Cuban Americans Introduction Cultural competency is an essential principle in healthcare since most patients are getting treatment from physicians from the majority group. Therefore, a healthcare provider is culturally competent when there is a collaborative partnership between the patient and the healthcare provider that provides for the satisfactory and successful delivery of healthcare. As a result, the healthcare provider by all means finds ways of overcoming language barriers and appreciates differences in cultures. The 2017 United States Census Bureau reports that 58.8 million Latinos/Hispanics live in America, which includes 18.1% of the total population of the United States (OMH, 2020). The Latino ethnicity includes Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, South or Central Americans, or any individuals from the Spanish culture regardless of the race. Determinants of the health of the Latinos comprise factors such as language or cultural barriers, lack of access to preventive care, and the lack of health insurance. The language barrier is the major obstacle to obtaining healthcare for this ethnicity. Most health facilities depend on ad hoc…

systems theory to solve issues in a healthcare provider’s erratic patient identification system                                                                  Introduction             Healthcare management has been the focus of intense management and technological improvement over the last three decades for reasons associated with patient welfare. Part of these developments have been improving the system through which patients are received, treated, and managed afterwards to ensure cost effectiveness, patient satisfaction, high quality services, and the lowest number of errors possible. One methods used in this process is utilizing the systems theory approach to investigate the possibility of healthcare management systems to have errors. This paper uses the systems theory to solve issues in a healthcare provider’s erratic patient identification system while offering viable solutions aligned with the institution’s vision, mission, and values and ensuring patient satisfaction. Systems Theory The patient identification department is part of the larger electronic patient health records management department. This system is responsible for assigning each patient under treatment at the healthcare institution a unique identity that professionals can easily identify while being safe from errors or tampering. As with all systems, this…

Healthcare Finance Question#1 Financial statements and the calculations make management and the governing boards to view and even determine cash, cash equivalents, short-term securities, accounts receivables, inventories, prepaid expenses, and the working capital (Winkler, Smith & Calabrese, 2018). Question#2 The key objective to the management of cash flows is to have the right amount always of the cash-on-hand through maximizing as well as expediting the cash inflows and even minimizing or delaying the cash outflow (Wright, 2017). Question#3 The financial leaders show concerns in having the cash-on-hand so that the organizations may meet the expected demand for the cash to carry out transactions such as paying the employees and the suppliers (Lee, 2016). The cash-on-hand also helps in taking precautions because it assists in meeting the unexpected demand of the cash in paying the emergencies and different unplanned events. Cash-on-hand is also meant for speculation issues in that it helps in meeting unexpected demand for the money in scenarios that the vender provides the price reduction or good deal that the organizations do not want to miss. Question#4 Three factors…