Examples include county departments of social services, hospitals, schools, and counseling agencies. They may also be ethnic, those private agencies targeting the needs of refugees, immigrants, or other designated ethnic populations" (Kirst-Ashman & Hull 2011: 125)
Bella Vista continues to attract a high percentage of recent Italian immigrants to the area: "of the top twenty tracts for Italians, three are in the Marconi Plaza/Packer Park neighborhood, including tract 47, where those born in Italy made up over 9% of the population, the city's highest. The Wharton/Hawthorne/Bella Vista area contained three tracts with large proportions of Italians, Girard Estates had three tracts, and South Philadelphia had two tracts" (Patusky & Ceffalio 2004: 34)
A new law would need to address an area of weakness for these laws. One area where a new law could be beneficial is with respect to the governing of nanotechnology and biotechnology, which are currently governed under the FDA's approval process for medical devices (Crasto, 2014)
This occurs at the federal level, and it could take one or two years to make this happen, depending on the level of support. It is best to present a completed draft of the bill to the legislators being targeted as champions, so that they can take that draft directly to Congress with little delay (Walenta, 2010)
Not only does this help in making it more easily available, but it also increases its qualities and sellers have to compete and deliver better product, especially in places like Colorado where marijuana is legal. "Given its widespread availability throughout the United States and expanded use for medical conditions, it is reasonable to anticipate increasing number of adolescents turning to marijuana to treat chronic pain" (Harrison, Bruce, Weiss, Rummans, & Bostwick, 2013, p
In fact, in the past people used marijuana for a myriad of things, some of which were pain and loss of appetite. "During the mid- to late 1800's and early 1099s, cannabis was also used to treat symptoms of dysmenorrhea, insomnia, gonorrhea, stomach pain, loss of appetite, migraines, and typhoid fever" (Johnson, 2013, p
Analysis of issues Many see the positive effects of marijuana, however they do not believe in the delivery system. "Scientific data indicate the potential therapeutic value of cannabinoid drugs, primarily THC, for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation; smoked marijuana, however, is a crude THC delivery system that also delivers harmful substances" (Nunberg, Kilmer, Pacula, & Burgdorf, 2013, p
Patients are rotated to different doctors with an average of fifteen times in a five day stay at the hospital. Young doctors often accept appointments of more than 300 patients in a month, in their initial training period just because of time pressure (Chen, 2009, p
It was found out through a recent Harris Interactive survey that almost 10% of sub-specialist and 15% of primary care physicians often use some kind of automated tool for management of clinical information. Some circumstantial evidence also reveals that only three-fourth of ambulatory practice settings possess some sort of settled practice management billing system (Encinosa and Bae, 2011)
If doctors have access to the chart, they may not be successful in getting some relevant information out of it, even most of the times the chart is inaccessible. It has been depicted in a study that medical information accessed through computer may result in an approximate $596 on per patient for old aged patients per year (Epstein, et al
These strategies include the betterment of the span and the capability of hand-off communications. Furthermore, they can aid in the exchange of important information regarding the patient in both the forms; verbal and written, thus, creating a team-approach for the support of free interchanges of views and observations (Kitch et al
A shift among the doctors is a common practice. There are a number of old patients who approach around 16 different doctors in a year, while young patients who are healthy refer to normal physicians and to specialists as well (Philibert, 2008)
That is why handoffs are often considered as misleading and complex. An important detail regarding the patient which is missed from the handoff due to slight forgetfulness of the doctor might lead to wrong or delayed decisions in future, which may even risk the life of the patient (Salvi, Schostok, & Pritchard P
Most of time, the physicians cannot find the patients information in the medical records (Philibert, 2008). Today the medical records are kept without taking advantage of information technology in the prospect of vast majority of ambulatory practice-settings (Shawahna et al
Mostly the records are kept as hard-copy (on paper) and this lead to a problem in the coordination of healthcare and the providing of the detailed information regarding the quality and health-care expenses, so that the consumers can be well informed and can easily discuss regarding their healthcare. There are numerous literatures regarding healthcare which indicates that there are many errors because of the untidy writings of medical records of patients which lead to the administration of such a drug which cause allergy in patients (Solovy, 2009, p
(2008), the description, procedure and storage capacity of EHR system should be complementary among the associated techniques. Patient care, supervision, study, quality enhancement, and settlement are the applications which should be obtained via EHRs (Stocker, 2010)
The care plan must collect and process a tremendous quantity of information about members' health risks, histories, habits, and hopes." (Jennings 101)
"With the assistance of high-performance parallel computer to enhance the network connections and interactive user interface, the scaleable parallel computer architectures provide the biomedical researchers with massive amount of accurate data for long searches or computations in record time." (Lei 1998)
Those who advocate for tort reform state that "noneconomic damages are arbitrary and unpredictable and, as such, complicate the settlement process." (Ottenwess and Ottenwess, 2011, p
It specifically supported HIPAA's provisions for small-group and individual market reforms, the long-term care insurance tax incentives, the medical savings account demonstration project, and the standards for the electronic transmission of health information. The federal law that previously required standard formats in obtaining health care transactions through electronic means and protecting patient privacy will enforce a new security mandate by April 2005 (Chin 2004)