Report highlights need for hospital emergency cover – and hospital insurance costs – with caregiving responsibilities ‘inadequate’
The U.S. health care industry, which is dominated by hospitals, has no effective plan for covering health care costs when they arise – but has only limited options for preventing such crises.
Hospitals pay for emergency care primarily with their own resources. The federal government pays only a small fraction of emergency hospital expenses. Most funds go to Medicaid, which covers about 20 percent of health care costs for the poor and poor and disabled.
This is not enough. A good hospital should be free from any pressure to provide care, free to ensure that its care gets done in as timely and appropriate a manner as possible. But the federal government does not provide a clear, easy way to reduce administrative overhead in cases of acute problems – and medical professionals do not have the skills to manage an ever-growing amount of paperwork.
Such decisions are made only when an emergency needs to be averted, said Dr. 대구 출장 안마J. Michael Wood, medical director and chief of emergency services for the Cleveland Clin창원안마 창원출장샵ic. It is also important for hospitals, he said, to help the patient «communicate» with medical care workers.
The report «A Practical Guide to Establishing a Medical Emergency in the Health Care Industry» was released Monday, March 24, by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. It was prepared by the task force’s Health Care Management System (HCMS), which works to protect taxpayers and the public from adverse impacts on the health care system.
Among its recommendations for reform are:
A simple, affordable, simple-to-use emergency card system that uses a simple, simple form. The card should require no more than a two-second scan of a user’s face. The user might tap on an object or cl세종출장샵ick the card, which should then send a brief message to a medical specialist. The card would allow health care professionals to immediately respond, even in an emergency.
A standard 24-hour telephone system to contact the hospital emergency department, which could include text messaging, email, telephone calls, a web page and phone calls.
A patient registry to keep track of all patients at each hospital. No more patients entering their names to the hospital on the emergency patient card. Such a registry also would increase the patient’s chances of getting the care they need.
More thorough training at all hospitals to ensure that staff have knowledge of emergency medicine, and that the hospital emergency departmen