HIPAA PRIVACY RULE ASSIGNMENT HCA322: HEALTH CARE ETHICS AND MEDICAL LAW In health care, physicians and team members must comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule when dealing with a patient. If the HIPAA Privacy Rule is somehow breached, a physician or a health care team member can be penalized. In certain situations, the penalty can be severe and the team member involved can lose their license. On top of losing a medical license, a hospital can also be fined and lose their business. This paper will help to analyze exactly what the HIPAA Privacy Rule means and what the consequences are if it is breached.
The inpatient coder ensures that the data entered is relevant, indicating the reason that the patient was admitted, which involves the kind of illness and a breakdown of the treatment that was given (Henderson.) The inpatient coder uses the current version of ICD-CM classification for the most appropriate DRG assignment for assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures. They have to be able to determine the correct diagnosis and secondary diagnosis, identifying and assigning co-morbidities and complications and principle procedure codes. The inpatient coder is also responsible for selecting the proper DRG and Discharge Disposition Code. The impatient coder sends the documentation to HIM Operations for follow-up when Physicians documentation is not clear or straight forward.
Wesley Hunter 000450445 RTT1 task 2 This sad scenario is an example of when well-meaning people try to do too much and in doing so forgo their clinical judgement, training, and the hospital policies designed to keep them and the patients safe. This paper will attempt to analyze the sentinel event of Mr. B, a sixty seven year old man with left leg pain and deformity presenting to the emergency department. A root cause analysis (RCA) that takes into consideration causative factors, errors, and/or hazards that led to the sentinel event (this patient’s outcome) will be presented. A process improvement plan that would decrease the likelihood of a reoccurrence of the outcome of the scenario will be discussed. Change theory will be utilized to implement the plan.
In this case study Jerry Mccall takes a call asking for a prescription refill, the person requesting the refill isn’t a normal patient of Dr. Williams he states he is a close friend. This situation puts Jerry in a real tough place, however Jerry is not the doctor and shouldn’t issue refill request to anyone including
This act allows the detention of such a person in a facility with or without their consent. In the legislation there are specific provisions that identify the types of help that those admitted under this act will receive. In section 2 of the Act it specifies that a person can be admitted to hospital for an assessment of their mental health and receive any necessary treatment. Assessment covers if you suffer from a mental disorder, type of mental disorder or how you might respond to treatment. In section 3 of the Mental Health Act a person can be admitted to hospital for treatment for health reasons, which include for their safety or for the protection of other people.
There are so many things that the Medical Law and Ethics course has covered that pertains to the healthcare field. This includes situations that have to do with patients, healthcare workers, laws & procedures, and patient confidentiality, which I will now tell about briefly. The Medical Law and Ethics course has covered many situations pertaining to the relationships between healthcare workers and patients. Healthcare workers must make sure that a patient understands any procedures that they may be given, and they must have the patient’s consent to give the procedure. If the consent is not given by a patient the practice, physician, or the healthcare worker can be held liable in a lawsuit.
The clinical outcome in this situation was clearly that Mr. B was over-sedated leading to a very dangerous situation. Hypoxia during sedation is a common side affect, which is treated by giving the patient O2 or reversing the sedation. However in this situation the staff was not aware that he was hypoxic, and why weren’t they? The answer a nurse had silenced the alarm but had not done an assessment nor alerted anyone else of the situation. Why did the nurse choose to silence the alarm with no further action?
It is also argued that Mr. Bartling was not medically fit to make meaningful decision because of his vacillation. The nurses had on several occasions heard Mr. Bartling make several statements to his doctor and nurses to the effect that he wanted to live and did not want the ventilator disconnected(“Bartling v. Superior court”, 1984). This clearly gives a strong prove that the hospital had the responsibility to treat Mr. Bartling based on his persistence request to the doctors and
Susana Rodriguez PS360: Applied Behavioral Analysis Unit 4 Project CASE STUDIES Professor Stacy Daniels 28 August 2012 Bobby's Case Bobby Kelly worries his dad as he behaves in a way that does not take into account the significance of looking after himself and his space. This makes Mr. Kelly think that this is problematical behavior and could be a sign of other possible issues. Therefore, wants help in escalating the logic of responsibility in the Bobby, by first looking after his room in terms of cleaning it frequently. This appears then to be a case of behavior modification. Identify the target behavior and describe that behavior in 1 or 2 sentences In this case Bobby’s behavior is the lack of following his parent’s
Physical health behaviors and health locus of control in people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional comparative study with people with non-psychotic mental illness. BioMed Central Psychiatry, 11(104), 1-10. Chadwick, A., Street, C., McAndrew, S., & Deacon, M. (2012). Minding our own bodies: Reviewing the literature regarding the perceptions of service users diagnosed with serious mental illness on barriers to accessing physical health care. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 21, 211-219.