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Healthcare Financing and Sustainability When looking at Healthcare Financing and Sustainability – I think about the cost of care and being good stewards of resources. “Rising healthcare costs and their consequences for Medicare and Medicaid constitute the nation’s central fiscal challenge. Without changes to federal law, the government’s spending on those two programs is onContinue reading “Week 13”

The electronic medical record (EMR) for most of us has been a game changer in caring for patients.  The EMR has allowed for the ease of sharing information, the ability to review historical information, and for multiple providers to be interacting with patient information at the same time. I know I would not want toContinue reading “Week 11 Data and Privacy”

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”― Sir William Bragg From the week 9 article readings a common thread is the sharing of information to gain knowledge and improve the care of patients, through open data bases, artificial intelligence, andContinue reading “Week 9: Private Sector Innovations Policy Advancements”

Medicare was first inacted in 1965 to provide health care coverage to American’s aged 65 and older (Longest, 2010). Once a person reaches age 65 they are eligible to enroll in Medicare or choose to defer these benefits if they have health care insurance through their employer (Roberts, 2018). However, social security benefits cannot beContinue reading “Week 7”

Initiate a change to health policy regarding Medicare, where do I even begin? In utilizing the Congress.gov current legislation search function, there are no bills or amendments currently listed that address prophylactic mastectomies. So, to explore the process of policy change for breast cancer patients a current law Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA)Continue reading “Week 5: Roles and Regulations”

Ethics and Politics Ethics – good, just, moral, fair. Politics – crooked, dirty, dubious, divided. Ethics and politics are often described at opposite ends of the spectrum, but is there common ground where ethically and politically the goals align?  In making decisions and formulating the laws that affect access to medical care I hope thatContinue reading “Week 3”

1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, with the primary risk factors being female gender and increasing age. Some women who have high risk genetic factors, the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation, without a diagnosis of breast cancer elect to undergo a preventative mastectomy, perhaps you recall the story of Angelina Jolie.Continue reading “Week #1”