Why the planning of activities within the medical office is important for the MAA. ANSWER: The planning of activities within the medical office is important for the MAA because, Medical Administrative Assistants perform errands which are interrelated to the healthcare industry and general administrative duties. These errands can include answering the phone, greeting the patients and visitors, ordering supplies, sorting mail, bookkeeping, or creating invoices. 3. How the concept of “empowerment” can make you more effective in your dealings with other colleagues in the medical office.
Name of the person interviewed Paulett Blackwell Contact information (business phone or email) 229-336-7427 Date interviewed: 10/8/2012 Company name: Camilla Family Center Highest degree earned: Doctor Degree College or University where the degree was earned: Albany State University If you want to interview someone without a degree, please contact your instructor first. Be sure to give the credentials of the person you would like to interview to obtain approval to interview a non-degreed individual. Interview Questions: 1. What is your title and what are your main responsibilities? My main responsibility is to be a doctor to sick patients and do whatever I possibly can to get them well.
(See Chapter 14, page 238–239 of your text for the reasons.) Medical records are an important part of the patient/Doctor relationship. The medical record has all of the medical notes, findings, test results, medications, and diagnoses of the patient that the Doctor uses treat the patient. They are the stepping stones that the physician has used to get to the heart of the health issue the patient has been experiencing. Medical records are the written history of the care and treatment given to the patient by the current physician and can be accessed by any future physicians (Adams, 2013).
Ethics Case Study HCS/335 March 29, 2012 Ethics Case Study Ethical decision making is very important in the personal and business world. Most of the time, these decisions are based on policies and procedures in a company. When trying to decide whether certain decisions are ethical or unethical, an individual would have to determine certain ground rules and use their discretion. In the case of Jerry McCall, a trained LPN and medical assistant, who is working the front desk while the receptionist is at lunch receives a call from a patient requesting a refill on his valium before his flight in thirty minutes. Jerry now has to make an ethical decision to either call in the medication or wait for the doctor to come back.
Lessons To Be Learned From Urgent Care Centers September 5, 2002 Submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for election to Fellow status in the American College of Medical Practice Executives Introduction “The successful practice,” “the efficient practice,” “tips for improving performance” – all phrases describing the “best” ways to practice. Medical groups are currently offered a large body of seminars, surveys, books, and magazine articles broadcasting well-documented techniques and benchmarks leading to success. Currently-listed titles on the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) website include topics
Week 4 Health Care Economics Issues HMO Simulation Name University of Phoenix Economics: The Financing of Health Care HCS440 instructor date Health Care Economics Issues HMO Simulation In 1997, Castor Collin Health Insurance Company was established in Plattsburg, New York. It offers health maintenance organization (HMO) plans to companies and organizations. There are two big companies who to vying to get the contract for their employees and looked forward to see the big plan Castor Collins was going to offer them. These two companies are named Constructit and E-editor respectively. They want coverage for their employees and are seeking policies that are affordable as well.
Business Consulting Consulting/527 March 23, 2014 Professor Paul Nesbitt Business Consulting A person who is a business consultant can be defined as a professional who analyzes a business in depth, and tries to develop solutions for the various problems encountered, (University of Phoenix, 2014 ). The business consultant helps other companies into the development of effective plans to large size companies, non-profits, and this includes small companies. Business consulting has numerous types of sub-categories, which includes marketing consultants, financial consultant, and human resources consultant (University of Phoenix, 2014 ). Organization uses internal and external consultants. For example, a healthcare business consultant can help and develop training programs for its employees or hire a logistics business consultant to streamline distribution or shipping department.
Interviewing and communication skills are not only used by clinicians on clients but also by human service managers when they need to evaluate, and assess their staff members. We tend to evaluate or assess them for many reasons, such as promotion, possible termination, and reinforcing skill sets. The succeeding scenarios will focus on these skills, and we as managers have to decide whether to retain, release, or refer employees at Family Support Services Center. Tom Martin is a 32- year- old Caucasian male who is currently divorced. Tom has been employed with Family Support Service Center for the past four years.
Organizational Design Paper Mildred Williams HCS/514 November 4, 2013 Vinnette Batiste Organizational Design Paper According to Baldwin (2013), some factors that impact an organization are more difficult to master than others. It varies to which degree a director, manager or corporate leader can control. At the same time, a leader can improve the condition of the internal and external factors affecting the organization. When a leader understands the factors at work, it prepares him better for the challenges ahead (Baldwin, 2013). In this paper, we will analyze the design of the Naples Community Hospital (NCH) Healthcare system, its internal and external factors that defined and shaped the organization.
Human Resource Management Roles Michele Frizzell HCS/341 October 20, 2014 Key Smith Human Resource Management Roles The Human Resource Management (HRM) role wears many hats. Employment, Compensation and benefits, and training and development are some of the most traditional responsibilities of a human resource manager. Over the last several decades, leadership development and business strategy have been the focus of Human Resource Management for many organizations (Society for Human Resource Management, 2008). This paper will address the importance of federal and state laws that affect the health care industry, staffing the organization, as well as training and developing the organization in the role of Human Resource Management. There are federal and state laws and policies that have been executed to protect health care consumers and health care providers.