Trends In Health Care Flashcards
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Cost Containment
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- means trying to control the rising cost of health care and achieving the maximum benefit for every dollar spent.
- Everyone should have equal access to quality health care.
- Quality of health care should not be lowered simply to control costs.
- Reasons for high health care cost.
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Technological advances
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- Procedures can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- Technology such as computers and others diagnostics equipment can cost millions.
- Advanced technological that help to prolong life can be require expensive and lifelong care.
3
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Aging Population
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- More pharmaceutical products.
- More chronic diseases.
- Need More frequent health care services.
4
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Health related lawsuits
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- Expensive malpractice insurances.
- Order tests even when they might not be necessary just in case.
5
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Methods of costs containments
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- Diagnostics related groups
- medicare and medicaid- classified into payment group and there is a limit placed on the cost of care.
- Encourages the agency to make every effort to keep the expensive within that amount- agency keeps the extra money if its less what is allowed by the government.
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Combination of services
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- used to eliminate duplications of services
- PPO or HMO
7
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Outpatient services
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- care without being admitted to hospitals.
- Skilled cares or home health is cheaper.
8
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Mass or bulk purchasing
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-Buying equipment in larger quantities reduces the cost
9
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Early intervention and preventive services
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- Provide Care before acute or chronic disease occurs.
- preventing cheaper than treating.
10
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Energy Conservation
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- monitoring the use of electricity, water, and gas
- Recycling
11
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Home Health care
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- Care within the home can include a variety of services
- Rapidly growing Field.
12
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Geriatric Care
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- Care for the elderly
- Rapid growth due to baby boomers and the technology available used to prolong life.
- Several types of facilitates will see a growth
- ORBA(Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987)
a. Lead to regulations regarding LTCs and home health
b. States are requiring to establish training and competency evaluation programs for nursing and geriatric assistants.
c. completer a state program and pass a competency exam to earn certification.
d. Also requires continuing education
e. Requirers compliance with patients’ / residents’ rights
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Telemedicine
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- Involves the use of video, audio, and computer systems to provide medicals and/ or health care services.
- Interactive services even when the health care providers is in a different locations than the patient.
- EMRs(electronic medical records )
- Robotic surgery on the patients’/residents’ rights
- one surgeon can direct another via satellite.
- technology in there own homes( checking blood sugar,blood pressure, oxygen, ect.)
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Wellness
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- The state of being optimum health with the balanced relationship between physical,metal, and social health.
- Determined by lifestyle choices made by an individual and involves many factors.
1. physical wellness: well-balanced diet, regular exercise,routine physicals and immunizations, avoidance, of alcohol,tobacco, caffeine, and drugs.
2. Emotional wellness: understanding personal feeling ad expressing them appropriately.
3. Social wellness: promoting by showing concern, fairness, affection, tolerance, communication, and respect.
4. Mental and intellectual wellness: promoted by being creative, logical, curious, and open minded.
5. Spiritual wellness: promoted by using values, ethics and morals to find meaning, direction and purpose in life.
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Holistic Health care
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Care that promotes physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual well being.
