Download or read book Healthcare from the Trenches written by Alejandro Badia and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis. As Americans, we're facing serious problems - not only with skyrocketing healthcare costs, but also lack of patient access and inefficient delivery. Despite all the political debates and media coverage on healthcare policy and reform, there is always one glaring omission: Feedback from the people in the trenches - the doctors and other healthcare professionals who actually provide care to the patients. This book is written from a doctor's perspective, by Alejandro Badia, M.D., F.A.C.S., who didn't want to write this book, but felt he had to because of the incredible problems he sees every day in getting the patient the care they need. As an expert, his treatment plans are constantly second-guessed and obstructed by the system which has a near zero understanding of the problem that the patient faces. It became unbearable for Dr. Badia to continue to practice without calling out what is happening every day, as the norm, and is not the exception anymore.Medicine, once a noble calling, as evidenced by The Hippocratic Oath (Do No Harm), has transformed into an oppressive burdensome system for both doctors and patients. Non-Medical Experts hired by the Insurance Companies with zero medical training, and without any degrees or knowledge (in most cases) are calling the shots and continue to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, delay and prevent the delivery of care, and present an obstacle to innovations that would improve patient outcomes and reduce overall healthcare costs. This is a life and death matter and people are dying because of this flawed system.Healthcare from the Trenches will give you an in-depth behind the scenes look at our system from a practicing doctors' perspective along with contributors ranging from fellow colleagues to beleaguered patients, who offer their insights and share their personal stories to illustrate the inherent shortcomings in the U.S. healthcare industry as well as proposed solutions.
Download or read book The Medical Response to the Trench Diseases in World War One written by Robert Atenstaedt and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the trench diseases—trench fever, trench nephritis and trench foot—and examines how doctors responded to them in the context of the Great War. It details the problems that they faced in tackling these conditions, “new” to military warfare. After an introduction to the subject, the second chapter sketches the socio-economic and scientific context within which the response was mounted. The development of bacteriology, sanitation and medical research in the British Army is examined, as is the structure and role of the wartime RAMC, the main body involved in the response to the trench diseases. Divisions between medical practitioners concerning the aetiology of epidemic disease are also described. The third and fourth chapters present a detailed inquiry into how the diseases were defined, and how these definitions were used to counteract them. The effectiveness of the medical response is evaluated in the conclusion, which also examines the impact that the response to the trench diseases had on military-medical progress and medical specialisation. An analysis of the medical response to the trench diseases reveals a conflict between clinicians holding views on disease causation along a spectrum—contagionists, contingent-contagionists and con-figurationists. Faced with their inability to treat the trench diseases effectively, the book argues that the extremely diverse initial interpretation of the trench diseases was replaced by a majority view that all three were a product of the trenches. This enabled an effective response to be mounted, using public health methods, reinforced by discipline, close surveillance, administrative organisation, and cooperation between military and medical branches, as well as within the Army Medical Service.
Download or read book In the Trenches written by Bruce Etchison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of memories, and stories from U.S. Public Health Service Officers assigned to the Indian Health Service. The IHS serves Native American and Alaska Natives with healthcare and preventive healthcare services. The engineer and sanitarian category officers provide water and waste water facilities, as well as preventive health services to natives from Alaska to all states with native populations. The Office of Environmental Health and Engineering staff has done remarkable work over the last sixty-four years to improve the health and well-being of the native people. This publication will help to document some of those accomplishments and the valued-added to those communities by using commissioned officers to do that work.
Download or read book Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise Lessons from the Trenches written by Bryan Bergeron and published by HIMSS. This book was released on 2013 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is a straightforward view of a clinical data warehouse development project, from Inception through Implementation and follow-up. Through first-hand experiences from Individuals charged with the Implementation, this book offers guidance and multiple perspectives on the data warehouse development process--from the Initial vision to system-wide release. The book provides valuable lessons learned during a data warehouse Implementation at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH & RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a large, modern, tertiary-care hospital with an IT environment that parallels a typical U.S. hospital.
Download or read book Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise written by Bryan P. Bergeron and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition to the award-winning book is a straightforward view of a clinical data warehouse development project, from inception through implementation and follow-up. Through first-hand experiences from individuals charged with such an implementation, this book offers guidance and multiple perspectives on the data warehouse development process – from the initial vision to system-wide release. The book provides valuable lessons learned during a data warehouse implementation at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – a large, modern, tertiary-care hospital with an IT environment that parallels a typical U.S. hospital. This book also examines the value of the data warehouse from the perspectives of a large healthcare system in the U.S. and a corporate health services business unit. Special features of the book include a sample RFP, data warehouse project plan, and information analysis template. A helpful glossary and acronyms list are included.
Download or read book Madness In The Trenches of America s Troubled Department of Veteran Affairs written by Andrea Plate and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the Kafkaesque world of America’s famous but notorious Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where returning soldiers seek a new start to the rest of their lives. Can they overcome the traumas of war, and military service, if they are also at war with the VA? The answer is both No – government bureaucracy can be as formidable a foe as that on any battlefield or in the barracks – and Yes, given veterans’ willingness to face the demons of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), drug addiction and other military-related traumas with the help of fiercely committed social workers, psychologists and healthcare experts. Andrea Plate, author and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, spent 15 years working with America’s wounded warriors. From battlefield to bedside to group talk-therapy, she exposes the human face of war, up close and personal, and some of the most remarkably resilient souls who survived it.
Download or read book Electronic Medical Records written by Neil S. Skolnik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physician adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) has become a national priority. It is said that EMRs have the potential to greatly improve patient care, to provide the data needed for more effective population management and quality assurance of both an individual practice’s patients and well as patients of large health care systems, and the potential to create efficiencies that allow physicians to provide this improved care at a far lower cost than at present. There is currently a strong U.S. government push for physicians to adopt EMR technology, with the Obama administration emphasizing the use of EMRs as an important part of the future of health care and urging widespread adoption of this technology by 2014. This timely book for the primary care community offers a concise and easy to read guide for implementing an EMR system. Organized in six sections, this invaluable title details the general state of the EMR landscape, covering the government’s incentive program, promises and pitfalls of EMR technology, issues related to standardization and the range of EMR vendors from which a provider can choose. Importantly, chapter two provides a detailed and highly instructional account of the experiences that a range of primary care providers have had in implementing EMR systems. Chapter three discusses how to effectively choose an EMR system, while chapters four and five cover all of the vital pre-implementation and implementation issues in establishing an EMR system in the primary care environment. Finally, chapter six discusses how to optimize and maintain a new EMR system to achieve the full cost savings desired. Concise, direct, but above all honest in recognizing the challenges in choosing and implementing an electronic health record in primary care, Electronic Medical Records: A Practical Guide for Primary Care has been written with the busy primary care physician in mind.
Download or read book Trench Warfare written by Sue Bradford Edwards and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the conditions, designs, soldiers, diseases, and warfare tactics of World War I's trenches. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Madness written by Andrea Darvi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moms in the Trenches written by Jill Ombrello MOM and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had an unstoppable and undeniable survival instinct? Maybe it was a gut feeling that what you and your family are experiencing wasn't normal. Or perhaps you felt you needed to educate yourself on other options because you were desperate for a solution. Sometimes, it feels like fighting for health is a fight against the world. Dr. Jill Ombrello understands these feelings. As a general dentist, she took a more holistic approach a decade ago after facing her own health struggles. Then, Dr. Ombrello carried her knowledge forward and started looking at the root causes underlying some of society's most prevalent health issues with her patients. With her years of research and application, she is the expert you need. Moms in the Trenches will help you: Understand the path to sustainable health so you enjoy lasting wellness. Learn your healthcare options so you can make the best-informed choices. Advocate for your kids' health so you lead your family into a better future. This book isn't meant to skim and then set it down. Instead, it's intended to educate YOU to take action and create change. Children are sick and are only getting sicker. Begin to understand why and what to do. It's time to get down in the trenches and fight alongside them. Are you with her?
Download or read book HIMSS Publications Multimedia Catalog 2014 written by HIMSS and published by HIMSS. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care in the Trenches written by Jimmie K. Butts and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her second book, Health Care in the Trenches, nurse, humorist, public speaker, and author Jimmie Butts recounts her experiences on the road as a temporary-replacement family nurse practitioner in locations as diverse as Bethel, Alaska, and Morenci, Arizona. She worked with a wide variety of patientsincluding many from marginalized ethnic groups such as Native Alaskans, Native Americans, and Hispanicsin both urban and rural settings. These experiences quickly acquainted her with the real trenches of health care in America.Far more than a mere medical travelogue, Health Care in the Trenches describes both the colorful, unique cultural milieus the author found (including their indigenous humor) and the often unusual cases she encountered, as well as what she learned during those seven years about the present state of American health care and the art of nursing: My journeys . . . convinced me, more than ever, that one must perfect the art of caring for people.. . . The art of nursing requires active listening, looking into a patients eyes, looking and touching a patients body, and honing the skills that one needs in order to understand who the person is and what he or she is all about. . . .I hope you will see, through my experiences, that connecting with people, whether they are patients, customers, family, or co-workers by listening, touching, laughing, and caring, with your eyes, ears, and heart can make a difference. The rewards for you are priceless.Jimmie Butts observations and reflections are all the more significant because they come not from an idealistic novice, but from a highly experienced professional caregiver: she began the adventures recounted here after she passed age sixty, after she had retired from a distinguished forty-year career in nursing. And her perspective on American health care encompasses both ends of the stethoscope: in the midst of her time on the road, she became a patient herself, experiencing all the anxiety, pain, and treatment of breast cancer in 1996. Today she is alive and well, focused on communicating to others the value of loving life in spite of the nagging fears that they might have about recurrent illness.Health Care in the Trenches is a book for those interested in a first-hand account of the stark realities of the American healthcare system (especially as it applies to often-overlooked minority groups) and the art of nursing as described by one of its masterful practitioners. It is a book from and to the heart
Download or read book The Trust Crisis in Healthcare written by David A. Shore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of trust in our healthcare system brings ominous results, from decreasing health outcomes to increasing costs, from organization inefficiencies to a pervasive pattern of litigation. This will only worsen as healthcare becomes subject to greater market mechanisms, and as patients, providers, and payers view each other with increasing suspicion. Healthcare professionals are just now coming to realize what other professionals have known for years: trust is earned, not assumed. The Trust Crisis represents the first comprehensive survey of the causes and consequences of declining trust in healthcare, and more importantly, it provides suggestions for restoring that trust. Editor David A. Shore, founder of the Harvard School of Public Health's Trust Initiative, brings together an unparalleled collection of healthcare leaders for this volume. Chapter authors include Donald Berwick, Robert Blendon, Lucian Leape, and George Lundberg. The book also features an introduction by Cokie and Steve Roberts. Causes, consequences, and cures for the crisis in trust are specifically addressed. Critical areas treated by the authors include: - systemic conditions that lead to medical errors, and remedies for promoting quality of care. - outdated modes of doctor-patient communication that hinder compliance. - novel modes of interaction to improve satisfaction. - patient-centered care and metrics to evaluate its presence or absence. - media communication and miscommunication, and new standards for medical reporting. - clinical insights applied to the use of human subjects in biomedical research. - recommendations for revising medical school curricula and strengthening the peer-review process in medical journals. - practical strategies for decreasing the lingering discord between patients, providers, and health plans. While presenting a diversity of topics and opinions, the authors of this volume agree upon a few principles. The trust famine will have dire consequences if it continues unchecked. Healthcare leaders can take measures to improve trust. Regaining trust requires that entire organizations pay closer attention to the "human factors" of healthcare. And perhaps most critical for change, trust-building is not only good medicine, but good business as well.
Download or read book Health Communication written by Richard K. Thomas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a textbook for classroom use Glossary and bibliograpy will be useful pedagogy
Download or read book The Wealth from Health Playbook written by Douglas Ratner and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telemedicine is serving as a significant tool for our healthcare delivery system with the powerful potential to serve as a focal point to manage over 100 million chronic disease sufferers in the United States and significantly higher numbers worldwide. During this "Great Pause" as this period has been labeled, telemedicine consults has become a game changer in that it is easy to perform for the patient and the provider alike, cost effective and highly convenient (average cost is much less than $100 and wait time is 4 minutes). Furthermore, it creates a platform for dovetailing a number of other innovative initiatives outlined below and discussed in detail in this book and with proven track records already. Additionally, it sets the stage beautifully for full practice transformation with significant reengineering. We have already created and tested our initiatives in real time. * Primary Care Transformation with telemedicine as the hub * The Wealth from Health Navigation and Reward System * Environmental Housecall (asthmatics) * Race to Zero (palliative care) * Community Health Trust (social determinants) * Help the Helper (caregiver program) * Precision Medicine and AI (leverage data) * High Value Care Center (diagnostic and management accuracy) * Survivorship Programs (Cancer, HIV, Sickle Cell, Depression, and others
Download or read book Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise written by Osama Alswailem, MD and published by Productivity Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition to the award-winning book is a straightforward view of a clinical data warehouse development project, from inception through implementation and follow-up. Through first-hand experiences from individuals charged with such an implementation, this book offers guidance and multiple perspectives on the data warehouse development process - from the initial vision to system-wide release. The book provides valuable lessons learned during a data warehouse implementation at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - a large, modern, tertiary-care hospital with an IT environment that parallels a typical U.S. hospital. This book also examines the value of the data warehouse from the perspectives of a large healthcare system in the U.S. and a corporate health services business unit. Special features of the book include a sample RFP, data warehouse project plan, and information analysis template. A helpful glossary and acronyms list are included.
Download or read book HIV AIDS New Insights for the Healthcare Professional 2013 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Diagnosis and Screening. The editors have built HIV/AIDS: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Diagnosis and Screening in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of HIV/AIDS: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
