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According to the US Department of Labor, healthcare will generate 3.2 million jobs between 2008 and 2018, more than any other industry, largely in response to rapid growth in the eldery population.

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Obamacare Backfires: Employer Mandate Postponed to 2015

Last year Obamacare cleared a big hurdle when the Supreme Court ruled that a healthcare “tax” is constitutional. However, the Affordable Care Act has run into quicksand after the Obama Administration postponed the employer mandate to 2015. Employers who don’t provide health insurance will be spared penalties of up to $3,000 per worker until 2015, […]

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Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security Concerns Over Electronic Health Records

Privacy, confidentiality, and security have always been a concern whenever electronic transmission of patients data are involved The definition of privacy was explicitly explained by Justices of the Supreme Court Warren and Brandeis (1890) as the “right to be let alone,” entailing that the “the foundation of individual freedom in modern age is the protection […]

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Automating Medical Records in the 21st Century

The first ever paper medical record was the brainchild of none other than Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C. Accordingly, a medical record must achieved two goals: one, the medical record must be precise and accurate to indicate the progression of the disease process; and two, the medical record must reflect the symptoms, the probable […]

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ACO (Accountable Care Organizations) – New Buzzword in HealthCare

What are ACOs? A new buzzword in health care is ACOs, which is actually an acronym for Accountable Care Organizations. It is one of the pilot programs in the new health care law that is administered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) [aha.org, 2012]. ACOs are network of physicians and hospitals agreeing […]

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Total Quality Management (TQM) in Healthcare

Total Quality Management (TQM) Total Quality Management (TQM) may have been the first quality oriented philosophy to transition into healthcare. TQM is based on three principles: continuous quality improvement (CQI), customer focus, and teamwork. To date, limited research attention has been given to challenges involved in adopting such practices to healthcare. Despite the enthusiasm raised […]

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Shortage of Nurse Aides, Home Health Aides, and Personal-and-Home-Care Aides Projected

Nurse aides, home health aides, and personal-and-home-care aides are classified as direct care workers. Direct-care workers are paraprofessionals who are trained to assist the elderly and the disabled with assisted daily living (ADL) such as grooming, bathing, and eating. They are the backbone of the long-term delivery care system (Weiner, Anderson, Khatustsky, & Squillace, 2009). […]

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Does Health Care Rationing Exist in the United States?

Does health care rationing exist in the United States? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 or otherwise known as the Obama Care calls it misinformation, maintaining explicitly in the statute that “The proposal [by the Independent Payment Advisory Board] shall not include any recommendation to ration health care…” (NRLC.org). The Washington Post argued to […]

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Increasing Demand for Healthcare Workers

Is there really a job shortage for healthcare professionals? Experts agree that there is a real shortage of healthcare workers in the United States, although there are some who believed that it is just a faulty distribution of health professionals in certain areas (Derksen & Whelan, 2009). It begs the question, why is there a […]

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