AHIMA believes that hospitals and providers must improve clinical documentation in preparation for the expanded scope of clinical data beyond a single patient encounter to a comprehensive data set comprising the entire continuum of care (www.ahimafoundation.org, 2014). With the use of EHR’s in hospitals and clinics worldwide, improved clinical documentation is possible. The use of electronic health records in the private sector has been widely recognized as an efficient way to improve the provision of health care and enable health care providers to access and share
In an effort to realign the hospital staff; administration decided that it was costing the organization a lot of money to employ a high flux of Registered Nurses (RNs) at the Extended Care Facility (another 24-hour Skilled Nursing Services and Rehabilitation inpatient services provided by Hilo Medical Center). Leadership decided to weed out the number of RNs in the ECF and have more LPNs work in the ECF instead. LPNs were targeted due to what management thought as LPNs were limited in their scope of practice in the acute care setting, so the management decided that they would not be needed on the Acute Care Units any longer. All LPNs employed in the hospital would be transferred in doing duties in the ECD. The only downfall on leadership for the Medical Unit was getting backfill for the LPNs that were being transferred off the floor.
DynaCorp is a major leader in the ITC domain with a large customer base providing value added service and solutions to its clients and customers. Dynacorp has offices located all over the globe, Europe, Asia and Latin America to name a few. DynaCorp is currently undergoing an organizational crisis. As per feedback got from its own employees, the issues currently being faced are that new products were being developed at a very slow pace and the cost associated with them were way too high. There was a lack of proper supply -chain command.
Meaningful Use Implications and Recommendations Meaningful Use Implications and Recommendations Quality of care improves every day through the advancement of electronic medical records (EMRs). To encourage the use of EMRs and increase patient safety, Medicare and Medicaid offer incentives to eligible professionals, hospitals, and critical access hospitals that act in accordance with meaningful use criteria. Based on the level of meaningful use reached, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) makes it suitable to receive incentives (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Following is an overview of meaningful use, an analysis, and meaningful use recommendations. Overview of Meaningful Use Managing and documenting through health information technology (HIT) and electronic hospital records (EHRs) allow improvement in the quality of care that we provide each patient.
Importance of Teams After recognizing that our health care organization could make some more improvements, we made a decision to incorporate more teamwork that will improve our customer service. As the manager, I am writing this proposal to describe the ways that teams are important in the health care industry, the importance of teams in different industries such as aviation, military and what the health care field can learn from the lessons learned by these industries. This proposal also states that the SWOT analysis and planning procedure have been proven effective to solve problems and these are the methods our organization will use. The health care industry is demanding and consistently changing. Team members should set both large and small goals for their company to meet and achieve these goals to ensure that our organization can stay one step ahead of the competition.
2000 Mar-Apr ;) “A leader knows how to manage the organizational impact of information systems can sharply reduce the behavioral resistance to change, including to new technology, to achieve a more rapid and productive introduction of information technology.” By changing our company with this new technology we also open up doors to more accounts and even gain access to help our patients and doctors communicate and help patients get the best possible advice and medical help they can get. Employees are the ones who are the back bone of the company and keeping them happy is one of my goals. I hope that they will see by changing to the (EMR) that their jobs will become so much easier and effective in so many different
Strategic Plan Part I- Organizational Structure Jennifer Janke HCS/589 Health Care Strategic Planning Sheryl Mc Gee, PhD April 13, 2015 Strategic Plan Part I - Organizational Structure Strategic planning is necessary in health care organizations since change is a continuous aspect and implementation is necessary. For this project, Health South Sunrise Rehabilitation Hospital is the chosen organization that is moving forward by improving itself to provide better services to their patients. Mission and vision statements as well as values are important to be communicated with employees, stakeholders, and everyone else. Strategic planning will have successes and failures, but leaders need to think positive at all times. This paper will
The 2010 IOM report also puts a light on the importance of nurse as a leader . Nurses should take part and act as full partners in redesigning the future of health care with physicians and others in the health care team. Be accountable for the care delivered and efforts to improve at all levels to avoid and prevent errors from happening. Today we need more nurses as leaders in fields of policy making advisory boards to local and federal levels and in legislative levels ,to bring forward ideas to improve health care system and there by ensuring the safety and health of our patient and community
The coordinate and use shared technology. (CITE) This type of collaboration provides strategic insight, organizational support, and guidance on federal standards to advance the healthcare and humans services enterprise. (CITE) These efforts have gone to improve service coordination and lower the cost to advance the health and wellbeing of the people, families, and communities. (CITE) The organization wants to be able to become interoperable. Meaning that HHS will have the ability to exchange information from state to state.
The results of this study came out to be exactly what they were afraid of. It is not a coincidence that the referral rate is higher in physician owned practices. This initiation of therapy by the physician clearly proves that they are in it for simply for the money and not for the health of the patient. 575 million dollars each year is lost in California due to physical therapy compensation costs and “generates approximately $233 million per year in services delivered for economic rather than clinical reasons.” This is hurting everyone involved as well as many who are not involved. Each state as a whole is losing much needed money and it is going down the drain due to these physician owned practices.