The security rule also requires the physician to train his staff periodically on security policies and procedures and to come up with a contingency plan in cases of calamities like an earthquake, fire or other events that can destroy his information Continue Reading...
HIPAA Compliant Electronic Medical Record Capture/Management System The successful outcome of medical processes largely depends on complete, relevant, and timely medical data. Up-to-date and accurate data allows for images of surgical wounds, surgic Continue Reading...
Figure 1: Electronic Medical Systems Architecture Source: (Cahn, 2001) The core building blocks of this framework include the presentation and client layers, where web-based applications aligned with the needs of clinicians, specialist MDs and pa Continue Reading...
Medical billing and coding can be described as the process of presenting and following up on claims to health insurance companies for the purpose of obtaining payment for services provided by the healthcare provider. Regardless of whether an insuranc Continue Reading...
Lost medical records are process errors that can cause significant medical issues affecting patient privacy, care and safety. Furthermore, Federal laws mandate the secure creation, retention and use of medical records to ensure the highest quality of Continue Reading...
Institutional Code of Ethics Today, the healthcare industry is faced with rising costs, increasing regulation and growing numbers of patients with age-related conditions as the Baby Boomer segment of the U.S. population enters their retirement age. Continue Reading...
Patient care and recovery statistics demonstrate that the United States has a medical care system with which Americans are less satisfied than other citizens in developed countries. There are many reasons for this: correlation between health and soci Continue Reading...
Healthcare #1 I believe in evidence-based policy, and on that front there is evidence that the glass ceiling exists. I have no personal anecdotes to tell on the subject, and an individual anecdote is meaningless when discussing broad sociological ph Continue Reading...
Schneck Medical Center: The Baldrige Award Schneck Medical Center: Overview The Schneck Medical Center according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- NIST (2011) "is a 93-bed nonprofit hospital providing primary and specialized Continue Reading...
It would then become incumbent on the experienced coder to be able to read through the injuries and determine the accurate code to use. Another issue Kramer, Barancik, and Thode, Jr. (1990) found was that certain areas of the body lacked a code when 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...
, 2005). In addition, the workload on clinicians is often increased past the point of reasonable because it is too intrusive and time consuming to document patient encounters during clinic time (Grabenbauer, Skinner, and Windle, 2011). The amount of Continue Reading...
Peachtree Healthcare IT Architecture Recommendations to Peachtree Healthcare The discussions and cursory analyses in the Harvard Business Review case Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? (Dalcher, 2005) attempt to implement massive IT projects without co Continue Reading...
Communication Electronic communication has become one of the most important methods for people to communicate with one another in recent years. Spielberg (1999) noted that patients have sought to utilize electronic communication with their physician Continue Reading...
But a provider may also "use his/her professional judgment to disclose health information to a parent, even in cases that otherwise meet an exception, as 'necessary to avert a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of the minor'" such a Continue Reading...
Transformation of Electronic Billing Systems From Military Use to Public Medical Facilities The advent of the twenty first century brings with the new dawning a time of extraordinary technological advancement, mega informational system development, Continue Reading...
Risk analysis in disclosure cases also demonstrates that disclosure hazards are events that organizations repeat in cyclic patterns. Thus, to prevent violations and to accurately estimate the probability of an unauthorized disclosure, there are many Continue Reading...
Nursing Objectives By synthesizing knowledge from the natural and behavioral sciences, as well as the humanities, into nursing practice, a nurse can provide much more value when it comes to the proper level of care for all patients (Fitzpatrick & Continue Reading...
Harnessing Unstructured Data in Radiology The harnessing of unstructured data is vital to moving the field of radiology forward. There are methods used for the mining of unstructured data, with one of the most common being Natural Language Processin Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues in Computer Security The ubiquity of information systems, more particularly those that are internetworked, has provided for better personal lives and enabled business to operate more efficiently and effectively ever than before. Cong Continue Reading...
Goal setting works well for simple jobs -- clerks, typists, loggers, and technicians -- but not for complete jobs. Goal setting with jobs in which goals are not easily measured (e.g., teaching, nursing, engineering, accounting) has posed some probl Continue Reading...
" (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nd) Key provisions of the standards include protection in the areas of: (1) access to medical records; (2) notice of privacy practices; (3) limits on uses of personal medical information; (4) prohibiti Continue Reading...
8. Family assistance programs provide assistance for employees and families in need. These have the benefit of strengthening employee commitment and loyalty to the workplace by boosting employee morale. The work-to-family program, for example, hel Continue Reading...
Employee Recruitment When setting up and maintaining the human resource files, confidentiality and privacy are always significant at workplace. Today most organizations are taking different steps of ensuring that the information within the organizat Continue Reading...
Refusal to cooperate with the physician selection on the part of the employee could result in a termination, cancellation or simple refusal of benefits. This physician, the first to treat the patient regarding the work related injury for which the Continue Reading...
It is involved in enforcing effective standards, assist and foster employers to maintain safe and healthful working conditions and to provide necessary environment for its effective enforcement, research, information, education and training in the a Continue Reading...
Intervention Plan in Education This agency has established an early intervention program standards plan to ensure that agency services furnished by its employees and contractors fully comply with applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regula Continue Reading...
United States Department of Labor Case Study Describe the major features of this website and how each feature can be used to monitor employee benefits The website of The United States Department of Labor (DOL), www.dol.com describes the features of Continue Reading...
employee benefits and compensation package for the post of a secretary for Guardian, hired by the firm's Human Resources department. This package will incorporate particulars such as whether the employee will be non-exempt or exempt, and handling of Continue Reading...
At all times, a compliant organization will provide the following to all/each staff/employee: A non-hostile work environment An anonymous and secure system for staff to report sexual harassment/ethical concerns Quick and responsive, unbiased, com Continue Reading...
Managing Human Resources In order to complete this evaluation and to determine the degree to which the human resource helps in addressing the hospital's mission and objectives, one should first start with a brief enumeration of these. The hospital p Continue Reading...
("Protecting the Privacy of Patients' Health Information," n. d.) the variations HIPAA necessitates would be sufficient and the changes would be accompanied by remarkable uneasiness in several respects. Functioning in the type of high- Continue Reading...
The dilemma is often easier to resolve once those emotions and assumptions are put into their rightful context. For this paper, critical thinking came into play was logic. It is understood that initially the nursing profession had issues with HIPAA Continue Reading...
100). Much of the focus of personnel selection using psychological testing was on new troops enlisting in the military during two world wars and the explosive growth of the private sector thereafter (Scroggins et al., 2008). Psychological testing fo Continue Reading...
Electronic Health Records The advent of technology has had an impact on almost every facet of our lives. Today, thanks to technology, the maintenance of patient records is becoming increasingly easy and efficient. In this text, I will concern myself Continue Reading...
Protections for hardware, software, and data resources. (American Health Information Management Association, 2011, paraphrased) V. Legal and Ethical Issues Security professionals are held responsible for understanding the legal and ethical aspects Continue Reading...
Nursing, Leadership and Management Case Analysis Source of motivation The nursing career is a challenging one and needs a lot of motivation and determination in order for one to continue in the quest to offer the service to those who need it and st 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...
