Annotated Bibliography Health Care

I. INTRODUCTION Healthcare organizations today are capable of generating and collecting a large amounts of data. This increase in volume of data requires automatic way for these data to be extracted when needed. With the use of data mining techniques it is possible to extract interesting and useful knowledge and regularities. Knowledge acquired in this manner, can be used in appropriate area to improve work efficiency and enhance quality of decision making process. Above stated points that there is a great need for new generation of computer theories and tools to help people with extracting useful information from constantly growing volume of digital data [1].

The clients to be the center of the NHS and changing the emphasis of measurement to clinical outcomes, which is all relevant for the Fleetwood Hall Home. This act ensures that the policies have a specific standard and delivers a greater voice for the client’s health and safety by providing a better patient-centered approach. This will result in higher accessibility of care and improved health and social care competence. The Health and Social care act 2008 introduced the code of practice for healthcare and adult care for the prevention and control of infection.

I find the uptake of evidence-based practice is one of the fields that has profoundly affected the paradigm shift and is woven into each of the nursing fields, and since wide researches have been conducted so far, it imperative to note that the available material will equip and provide needed assistance. Stevens (2013) argues that the use of the knowledge which is gained from quality improvement efforts will definitely generate evidence needed to make systems improvements and transform healthcare. Therefore, utilizing the available resources in addition to conducting further researches, exploring on well-intended expert opinions and working together with the willing partners from the academy for discovering what works to improve health care guarantees growth of the profession. It is true that there a number of challenges to improving the profession, but there is no magic bullet for bringing success into the practice, several strategies are needed. Furthermore, what works in the context of care should be identified and the context variables implementation.

Introduction People hope and seeks long and healthier lives. Thus, health care is the act of taking preventative or necessary medical procedures to improve people well-being. Improvement or preventative may be done with surgery, the administering of medicine, or other alterations in a person 's lifestyle. These services are usually offered through a health care system made up of hospitals and physicians. Although, the health care system is set up to reduce or to prevent disease etc., there is a gap or disparity in the US health care system.

By using balanced scorecard in healtcare management,which is the Office of Strategy Management,it can help the healtcare industry such as hospitals,pharmaceutical company and many more in focusing on strategy execution and alignment. From this,it can help against cost overruns and ineffificient implementation,as example the cost or fees at hospitals. Bob M.D,(2012). In hospital’s management,Balanced scorecard will get the focus towards the patient and meet the expectations.

Introduction Inter-professional teamwork is a critical aspect in the health care profession. Ideally, taking care of patients is highly complex and requires collaboration between the social and health care professionals. However, many studies show that many professionals are not willing to join forces. This has led to the assumption of the Inter-professional Education (IPE) to help into advancing the Inter-professional Practice (IPP). In the medical grounds, IPE strategy is used to encourage professionals such as doctors, radiographers, nurses, therapists among other health workers, to come together, share their proficiencies and have a chance to interact with the aim of providing a better health care.

The health of patient is very important as it takes care of an individual's immediate needs because it offers services to patient with chronic illnesses. The well being of patient in other words public health, offers a wide spectrum of services to the community for healthy living standards. These two areas aim at providing as well as improving people's health hence reducing the cost incurred by the health care provider and the patient. Both disciplines ought to work together to ensure optimal health for all

INTRODUCTION The patient-practitioner relationship has undergone several changes in the past decades. It has moved from a paternalistic relationship, in which the practitioner acted as a guardian and made the decisions on behalf of the patient, to a deliberative relationship in which the patient is more autonomous, informed, empowered and involved in decisions regarding his healthcare. [1] Recently, there has been an increasing interest and research in shared decision making (SDM), which is one of the pillars of patient-centred care. [2] Research suggests that engaging patients in healthcare decisions makes a significant and permanent difference to healthcare outcomes.

All had heavy workloads and were under pressure to see more patients and reduce waiting lists. Work satisfaction was primarily derived from their clinical work, but also from fostering a happy team and from teaching. What is the purpose of this study?

PHARMACIST-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP: Optimal medication management requires an effective relationship between the patient and health care professional. As pharmacists move from the traditional dispensing role to become more actively involved in patient care, factors influencing their relationship with patients need to be identified. A better understanding of these factors will facilitate more effective relationships. Pharmacists' professional roles have transformed to include provision of information, education, and pharmaceutical care services.

The term Evidenced-based practice (EBP) is one of the most talked about concepts in healthcare. Nursing scholars, worldwide, have sought to provide healthcare workers with the evidence from research to be transform this into clinical care. To ease this transference of data into practice, scholars have developed EBP models. These models direct the researcher with the process from hypothesis to implementation of the data. The perplexity of EBP is that the data can come from research, clinical experience, patients, or local context and environment (Rycroft-Malone, et al., 2012).

Finally to summarize my learnings from the course HCA 6280, I want to mention the top five ethical issues that are facing the future of health care industry. First, managers are challenged to create a balance between the quality and efficiency. Due to the fact that there is no consistent framework to measure efficiency, this concept has remained vague and needs more literature research. Second, the disparity in access to care is the biggest dilemma of the U.S. health care system. Third, Due to the increase in the number of baby boomers more healthcare professionals are needed than before to provide coordinated care for chronic diseases.

With workforce shortages in many health professions and occupations, educational institutions and policymakers are attempting to meet the challenging demand for additional personnel. Health professional associations, state governments, and higher education bodies all are involved, in one way or another, in trying to address the changing needs of the health care system. Rather than moving ahead in a coordinated and singular direction, however, there are many contradictory forces operating, often in competition with each other. Much public and professional attention has been directed to medicine, the most influential of the health professions, and nursing, the largest health profession; far less attention has been directed to some of the other health professions and occupations, many of which are undergoing rapid change. It is these other health professions and occupations that are the primary focus of this monograph.

The broader intent of this study was to discover how the experiences of physicians in particular can be used to influence health policy in general, and specifically, whether physician’s experiences should and (or) can be used to

Major categories of external environment issues are political, technological, regulatory, and social. While all of these issues are important in healthcare, I think that social, political, and regulatory issues are the most important in this health care environment because those issues creates a lot of change and problems in healthcare. Health care reform, a social issue, bring forth new political and regulatory issues. Increasing aging population is another major issue in health care that will affect the system drastically. Change is inevitable in the health care industry, and this changes includes new policies and regulations as the healthcare environment shift and is a so why these issues are of most