Cumberledge, Courtney Tools that Support Health Care Business Services
by Courtney Cumberledge
1. What is it? Staffing is a major part of healthcare budget so it must be done properly. New technology is constantly evolving to make sure hospitals have enough staff to have safe patient to provider ratios.
1.1. New vocabulary
2. Refrences
2.1. Maths
2.1.1. Text book, exercises 34, 35, 36, 37
3. Healthcare staffing technology (first tool in business services
4. Leadless pacemaker (tool improving the health of patients)
4.1. What is it? Instead of running leads from the chest to the heart, it is placed directly in the heart. This helps reduce a lot of the infections that come along with pacemakers. It is extremely small, about the size of a vitamin.
4.1.1. Research and prepare experiment
4.2. Advantages: Reduces the risks of infection that is caused by pacemakers, It is small and does the same thing that a conventional pacemaker does. Disadvantages: Possibilities of it not providing the therapy to your heart that is needed. Patients can still get an infection from the incision site.
5. What is it? 3D printed drugs are drugs that are being made by 3D printers. In order to make the drug, a company must have all the ingredients that go in to it. Several drugs have already been approved by the FDA. They can be made in to many different shapes.
5.1. Benefits: They can be made into fun shapes that make them easier for kids to take. They can also help with different reactions that people get from the same drug because of the capsule, or the dye.' Risks: Still such a new technology that it will take many years to learn more. It does cost a lot more to make at this point.
6. Master Patient Index (second tool in business services)
6.1. The Master Patient Index includes very specific information specific to a patient. It is all digital records that include financial, clinical, and administrative services done for the patient. This helps make services much more efficient, and thorough for the patient.
6.1.1. Text book p. 55-60
6.1.2. Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness"