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Are Inflated Medical Bills Legal? So What is the Future of Healthcare Really Going to Cost?

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March 27, 2013

HEALTHCARE COSTS ESTIMATED TO RISE ABOVE

7.5% in 2013

THIS NEW ESTIMATE IS NEARLY DOUBLE

U.S. GOVERNMENT PREVIOUS PROJECTIONS

The True Cost of Healthcare

In this video the medical billing system is uncovered showing as Time Magazine Special Report exposes that Americans now spend nearly 20 percent of our GDP or a staggering figure of $2.8 trillion for healthcare this year, ( Review the estimated growth rate .pdf).

VIDEO BY DAVID BELK MD

Access: The affordable care act summary.

Future of Nursing in America is BIG DATA, as RN’s Will Be Rewarded and as for Doctors it Stinks

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February 24, 2013

It makes sense to expand nurse and PA responsibilities, while reducing the physcians role. Forbes: “The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts that the registered nurse (RN) will be the fastest growing profession between 2008 and 2018.”

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Health IT: Using Data for Evidence Based Quality Improvement

Published on Aug 14, 2012
Electronic Health Records (EHR), data warehouses, and registries are critical components to quality improvement efforts. If used properly to maximize their functionality, it’s possible to generate quality measures that provide timely, understandable, comprehensive, clinically valid, and meaningful feedback to safety net providers and their practice teams. This information is critical for informing a quality improvement strategy and especially important when participating in a Patient-Centered Medical Home or Accountable Care Organization.

Presenters include a quality improvement specialist from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement who will focus broadly on quality improvement. The other two presenters, HRSA grantees from rural and health center settings, will provide useful tips on obtaining data from EHRs, as well as using this information to drive quality improvement and implement practice changes. (See registration information below.)
Presenters include:

• Rebecca Morse Steinfield
Improvement Advisor, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

• Maria F. Casaverde Marin
IT & Data Specialist, Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association

• Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee MD, MPH
Chief Executive and CMO for Clinical Services, Lone Star Circle of Care

NURSING STATISTICS

The Nursing Workforce:
A Comparison of Three National Surveys

Number of Jobs, 2010: 2,737,400
Job Outlook, 2010-20: 26% (Faster than average)
Employment Change, 2010-20: 711,900+
Projected Employment 2020: 3,449,300
The lowest 10 percent earned less than $44,190 and the top 10 percent earned more than $95,130.

In March 2000, the Division of Nursing, BHPr, HRSA conducted the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, the seventh in a series of surveys on the characteristics of the nursing workforce; the previous survey was completed in 1996. This survey provides the latest and most comprehensive data on the characteristics of the registered nurse workforce. The preliminary findings were released in February 2001 and the full report is to be released this summer. Preliminary findings show the following:

There are an estimated 2,696,540 registered nurses (RNs) in the US today. The overall number of registered nurses (RNs) increased by an estimated 137,666 between 1996 and 2000. This represents a 5.4 percent increase between 1996 and 2000 and is a substantial drop from the 14.2 percent increase in the nursing workforce seen between 1992 and 1996.

An estimated 2,115,815 (81.7 percent) of the total licensed RN population reported being employed in nursing.

When asked about job satisfaction, 73 percent of nurses employed in nursing indicated that they were satisfied; however, only 68 percent of staff nurses working in hospital settings indicated that they were satisfied with their jobs.

An estimated 71.6 percent of RNs in the nursing workforce reported working full-time and 28.4 percent reported working part-time in nursing.
A breakout by highest educational preparation of RNs in 2000 revealed that 23 percent had a diploma in nursing, 34 percent had an associate degree in nursing, 33 percent had a baccalaureate degree, and 10 percent had a masters or higher degree in nursing.

The RN population is aging. The average age of the RN is 45.2 years, up from 44.5 years in 1996. Nine percent of the nurses are under the age of 30, and 51 percent are over the age of 45.

The average age of the employed RN is 43.3 years, up from 42.3 in 1996.

The average age at graduation from basic nursing education programs has increased over time. Between 1995 and 2000, the average age of a graduate from a baccalaureate program was 27.5 years; from an associate degree program was 33.2 years; and from a diploma program was 30.8 years.

An estimated 12.3 percent of the RN population reported being in one or more of the identified racial and ethnic minority groups, up from 10.3 percent in 1996. Of these RNs, 4.9 percent reported being Black/African American (non-Hispanic); 3.5 percent reported being Asian; 2.0 percent reported being Hispanic; 0.5 percent reported being American Indian/Alaska Native; 0.2 percent reported being Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; and 1.2 percent reported being of two or more racial backgrounds.

Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and Black/African American RNs were more likely than Hispanic and white (non-Hispanic) nurses to have at least baccalaureate preparation in nursing.

An estimated 5.4 percent of the RN population are men, up from 4.9 percent in 1996.

Five major employment settings for RNs were identified: hospitals (59.1 percent), community and public health settings (18.3 percent), ambulatory care settings (9.5 percent), nursing homes and extended care facilities (6.9 percent), and nursing education (2.1 percent).

The average annual earning for RNs employed full-time was $46,782. Salaries have remained relatively flat since 1992.

An estimated 7.3 percent of the total RN population reported being prepared as advanced practice nurses (clinical nurse specialists, nurses practitioners, nurse-midwives and nurse anesthetist); this was up from 6.3 percent in 1996.

A breakout of advanced practice nurses revealed that an estimated 44.9 percent reported being nurse practitioners; 27.7 percent reported being clinical nurses specialists; 7.5 percent reported being both a nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist; 15.2 percent reported being a nurse anesthetist; and 4.7 percent reported being a nurse-midwife.

The New England area had the highest concentration of employed RNs in relation to the area’s population with 1,075 employed RNs per 100,000 population. The Pacific area had the lowest concentration with 596 per 100,000 population. The average number of RNs employed per 100,000 population in the country is 782.

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Science: How Do We Predict the Future and the Brains Rewards a Presentation by the Salk Institute with Jerry Sejnowski

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July 11, 2012

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In this fascinating presentation, The Salk Institute’s Terry Sejnowski explores how by its nature the human brain is susceptible to the effects of addictive substances. Series: “Grey Matters”

Using functional MRI (fMRI), they found that this system encodes prediction error when viewers are forced to choose what will happen next in a video of an everyday event. They found that between 80 and 90 per cent of viewer predictions were correct.

Glass: A Day Made of Glass is Corning’s Vision for the Future

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July 2, 2012

Watch “A Day Made of Glass” and take a look at Corning’s vision for the future with specialty glass at the heart of it.

Materials manufacturer Corning put together a futurist video last month called “A Day Made Of Glass,” which has spiraled into stratospheric popularity on YouTube. The premise of the video is that we’re about to live in an era of ubiquitous touchscreens (made with glass) and smart windows (made of glass) as well as appliances like stoves which are also made with glass.
What’s striking about the video is mostly how we see the touch screens working, and the way the mobile devices seamlessly network with household appliances, TVs, and bendable flat screen computers. There’s also a very paranoia-inducing, panopticon feeling to what we’re seeing. As one person walks along, we see giant pictures of her (or her avatar?) leaping up the walls of buildings. And when she walks into a store, she’s shown pictures of herself in the clothes she might want to try on. A world made of glass may promise easy information access, but it also seems to be a world where everybody is always looking at themselves and each other to an alarming degree.

Still, I wouldn’t say no to some of this tech. Especially the user interface where you plop your phone down onto a surface and it instantly networks with it and allows you to get a large screen version of the data on your mobile.

This is obviously a concept video so enjoy…

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Tweaking Moore’s Law Intel’s Future Vision

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June 28, 2012

Intel has taken their perception, vision and predicitons on how the future of our productive lives will most likely look like. The video offers and array of scenarios that are futuristic in our time!