Care Technology and Ethical Concerns Complete APA Reference Fed'n of State Med. (2014, April 26). State Medical Board's Appropriate Regulation of Telemedicine (SMART) Workgroup, Model Policy for the Appropriate Use of Telemedicine Technologies in t Continue Reading...
Fraud and Abuse United States v. Greber -- 3rd Circuit, 1985 Facts: Dr. Greber's company, Cardio-Med, supplied Holter monitors, a device worn by patients that records heartbeats for later interpretation. Investigations showed that Cardio-Med bille Continue Reading...
Earnings were strong for employees as well as shareholders. Many employees owned stock or were dependent upon a rising balance sheet to ensure that they received their bonus and salary. Additionally, as at HealthSouth, there can be kind of a 'groupt Continue Reading...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The health of a nation's population is the most important sector in the building of the nation's economy (Kovne, Knickman & Jonas, 2011). A sick nation cannot effectively produce anything substantial t Continue Reading...
Hygiene Proposal World Health Organization, (2007) estimates that more than 1.4 million people suffer form one disease to the other and HAI (Health care-associated infections) are the most important infections that occurs globally. In advanced coun Continue Reading...
Future of Managed Care Medical facilities have become much more important today than they were ever before. The complex diseases are treated by treatment methodologies and the equipment that were nonexistent a few decades ago. But these facilities h Continue Reading...
Protection of Digital Health Information With increase health information technology store access patient information, likelihood security breaches risen. In fact, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ): In United States, a whopping 97% increas Continue Reading...
President George Bush proposed a two part strategy with initial implemented drug coverage to low-income beneficiaries coupled with a White House task force to develop a plan to reform Medicare (Health Policy, 2001). Under this plan beneficiaries wit Continue Reading...
Reimbursement Ethics and Compliance: Impact of Health Care Reform on Medical Coding and Billing "Medical billing and coding lays the foundation for any successful healthcare provider," yet its common practices are undergoing significant changes unde Continue Reading...
But the failure must be corrected within 30 days from the time of notification of the violation. Criminal penalty will be imposed on a person who knowingly obtains and reveals identifiable health information and violates HIPAA Rules at a fine of $50 Continue Reading...
Medical Coding Ethics Ethical Concerns in Health Care Delivery: Focus on Medical Coding and Billing Practices The objective of this study is to examine ethical concerns medical coding and billing in the physician office. Medical coding and billing Continue Reading...
There is confusion about laws which are subject to different interpretations and this result in critical information not being made available. This is caused by such laws like the "Educational Rights and Privacy Act -- FERPA, Health Insurance Portab Continue Reading...
The facts that you have provided indicate extremely troubling circumstances that could seriously jeopardize the welfare of your organization. It is well-settled law that entities contracting for the services of subsidiaries are legally responsible Continue Reading...
Obama Urges Tougher Laws on Financial Fraud In the wake of the Wall Street bank bailouts and the various security fraud cases that have occurred nationally the Obama administration has been under pressure to enact new legislation that effectively pr Continue Reading...
HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and Recent Changes On August 21, 1996 a new law was signed called the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act of 1996, which is abbreviated as HIPPA (HEP-C, 2003 & R Continue Reading...
Registered nurses are both qualified, educated, and certified to provide a high quality of various care services that an individual may need in a home setting or elsewhere. Hence, providing these practitioners with the power to certify and provide h Continue Reading...
" (MediLexicon International, Ltd., 2006). The PCIP was formed from the recognition that high costs and low quality inherent in the Healthcare system of the U.S. is largely due to a system that is antiquated and fragmented (DOHMH, 2006a). The inabil Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act signed law President Barack Obama March 2010. Many provisions law directly affect Several different important elements exist as part of the Affordable Care Act, specifically as it pertains to community and public health. One of t Continue Reading...
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Bearing the everyday evolution of the technology used in hospitals and the Healthcare sector in general, there is need to understand the concept of EHR. This paper undertakes to divulge what EHR is, the components, the Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nursing Advanced Practice RN's in the Home Health Care Arena Identification of the phenomenon. There is an urgent need for APRN services in the home health care environment. That is the pivotal position this paper proposes to pu Continue Reading...
Healthcare Law -- Ethics & Policy Memo to ABC Hospital Board of Directors: How to develop strategies to help mitigate abuse and fraud within our organization by understanding fraud and abuse issues. The Department of Health and Human Services h Continue Reading...
CPT Codes CPT coding is a fact of life in the provision of healthcare today. CPT stands for Current Procedural Terminology, and is a system first developed by the AMA (American Medical Association) in 1966 "to convert widely accepted, uniform descri Continue Reading...
HEALTH ISSUES Health Issues to ResolveThe issue with legislative policymaking is that it has to be transparent and efficient in its decision-making to provide justice to the eligible ones without making matters delayed or worse. The accountability le Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act Today There are a number of administrative tasks that stemmed from the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Some of the most eminent of these directly relate to the mandate that employers with more th Continue Reading...
Malpractice in Advanced Nursing Practice A CLOSER LOOK Legal/Ethical Principles When nurses pursued independent practice outside hospitals, the law supported their bid to breach traditional roles (Kjervik & Brous, 2013). This phenomenon was de Continue Reading...
liberty is seldom a win-win situation. Which ethical theory is the best in your opinion for selecting a "winner"? Utilitarianism? Deontology? Other? The philosophy of utilitarianism is problematic, given the difficulty of determining which group co Continue Reading...
Protecting Personal Data Protection of personal data is paramount in any situation. Battered women receiving help in a shelter, part of a community clinic require confidentiality to avoid problems should their abusers locate them. When computerizing Continue Reading...
Community Health Project for Pregnant Women Healthcare is the fundamental necessity for every individual living in any state, regardless of religion, race, sex, color, etc. The population chosen for this paper is that of JMJ Pregnancy Center, which i Continue Reading...
Internet Fraud The slashing of prices of Home PCs and explosive growth of internet has increased the number of net users over the years. The keenness to exploit the advanced features of internet to utilize in the field of education, entertainment, c Continue Reading...
Tyco International is a worldwide manufacturing company that is involved in production of various products since its inception in the 1960s. The company is currently divided into five main business segments which are Safety Products, ADT Worldwide, F Continue Reading...
This type of international fraud occurs due to a desire to develop a climate that allows investors to benefit from the comparative advantages of countries such as Mali and Senegal (Barney and Hunt). These countries generally compete against other Af Continue Reading...
John Mackey said, "Under an alias to avoid having his comments associated with the Company and to avoid others placing too much emphasis on his remarks." He used the pseudonym Rahodeb after his wife Deborah. (Wikipedia). RAHODEB John Mackey posted Continue Reading...
identity is a means of classifying an individual when it comes to private matter and the government. How a government identifies someone or an institution, is through the use of an identity card. An identity card has a serial number and a picture th Continue Reading...
Economic crash can be viewed from a number of perspectives ranging from causes and effects to the 2008 Crash's resemblance to the Crash of 1929, which began the Great Depression. This paper will consider the 2008 recession from the standpoint of the Continue Reading...
They are also required to assess and address risks to customer information in all areas of operations, including employee management and training, information systems, and detecting and managing system failures. They must address what information is Continue Reading...
Furthermore, the overall high quality nutrition intake is efficiently supported with the implementation of sustainable control policies that can help monitor the employee's regularities or irregularities in gaining nutritional knowledge and/or its Continue Reading...
forgiveness on human health. In its simplest form, the purpose of the study is to evaluate human psychological stress that might constitute a risk factor for heart disease. Further, the study will also evaluate the impact of forgiveness on heart dise Continue Reading...
Sociology: Changing Societies in a Diverse World (Fourth Edition) George J. Bryjak & Michael P. Soroka Chapter One Summary of Key Concepts Sociology is the field of study which seeks to "describe, explain, and predict human social patterns" fr Continue Reading...
Ethics Training for Employees "Recently we have become aware of massive fraud and abuses that are tolerated and even encouraged by executives in large and formerly reputable organizations" (Lee, 2004). The Enron scandal sent ricochets through corpo Continue Reading...
