On July 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The objective of the regulations was to ensure that all employees were covered by healthcare insurance, reduce healthcare fraud and abuse, simplify and standardize healthcare administrative tasks and protect the privacy of the patient’s healthcare information. Contained …
Issues surrounding death and dying seem larger in the hospital setting. Healthcare professionals who work in departments such as Oncology where the loss of life is inevitable must learn to cope with these issues. In spite of the success rate in treatment of cancer patients, some people can not be helped. I remember when I …
Those suffering with chronic fatigue syndrome have frequently experienced a painful stigma from society. Because the syndrome had no known cause, despite study from the medical community, and revolved around complaints of unceasing tiredness, many criticized those complaining of the syndrome of being more like hypochondriacs than a victim of a physical disease. Now that …
Remaining positive through chronic illness makes you look like you’re all better when you feel like you’re done for. So, try not to get too upset with friends and family when they expect you to be “normal”. They don’t understand what you’re going through. Believe it or not, that’s a good thing. It means they …
For parent of a premature infant, the weeks and months following your child’s birth can be a time of high stress especially as it relates to your newborn’s cardiopulmonary development. If you are struggling to understand and manage your premature infant’s respiratory complications, one area of education you may want to pursue is in the …
It can be difficult to understand what it means to experience Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Family and friends, for example, may become irritated if you frequently need to postpone plans for a get-together, or if you make excuses to leave a get-together early.
I have a friend with CFS (let’s call her Jane) who told …
The American Medical Association (AMA) has complied a list of virtually every licensed physician in the United States of America. And to date, that number totals more than 690,000 for medical doctors alone. As a matter of fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the healthcare industry, on a whole, provides around 11 million …
Australia boasts one of the finest healthcare systems in the world. The system is both privatised and public, providing healthcare to all.
Medicare is the public healthcare system. It is funded through a tax-levy from all taxpayers. The fee is 1.5%, but this can be lowered for low-income residents and raised for high-income residents who …
Healthcare eligibility is the process by which it is determined if a person qualifies to receive benefits under a particular healthcare plan. In most cases, this determination is used to verify whether or not a patient is eligible to receive free or low cost medical or hospital services under the Medicaid or Medicare programs. A …
It has been proven that those care taking for family members or other individuals will experience extremely high levels of stress, thus the stress can compromise an individual’s entire wellbeing. Care taking for someone else, whether a family member who is sick or a friend in need of constant care creates a fine line between …
