Joint Commission has laid out a strategic and detailed set of expectations that hospitals and other healthcare organizations can use to ensure they are in compliance with health laws. At Nightingale we seem to be in compliance with a number of these standards. According to a recent periodic performance review we are in compliance with the Joint Commission standards in the Emergency Management requirement section. The EM develops a plan in case the facility has an emergency that includes the planning of activities of hospital administrators and leaders. This plan should include details that would identify what an emergency is, how it would be communicated to the staff, and what arrangements will be made for the facility.
“A continuum of aging services is a comprehensive and integrated network of services that guides and tracks patients/clients over time and includes acute, transitional, long-term, and preventative care” (Clapp, 1993, General Definition, para. 1). A continuum in the long-term care field will help ensure quality care because more resources are involved to make sure the patient is being taken care of properly. The goal for long-term care in the twenty-first century is to
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. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) devoted millions of dollars and formed financial incentives as part of their support for adapting EHRs and the meaningful use of EHRs. There are two concepts that are used when trying to define meaningful use. “The concept of meaningful use rested on the '5 pillars' of health outcomes policy priorities, namely: 1) improving quality, safety, efficiency, and reducing health disparities, 2) engage patients and families in their health, 3) improve care coordination, 4) improve public health and population, and 5) ensure adequate privacy and security protection for personal health information” (Meaningful Use, 2012, para 2). “Ultimately, it is hoped that the meaningful use compliance will result in: better clinical outcomes, improved population health outcomes, increased transparency and efficiency, empowered individuals, and more robust research data on health systems” (Meaningful Use Definition, n.d., para 1).
The implementation of EHRs in LTC facilities or home health can manage patients care to promote improvements in the patients outcome and possible help decrease medical cost. In this forever changing healthcare industry, which stresses continuity of care, the movement to push for EHRs in LTC facilities is necessary. Review of another study stressed that the healthcare team is vital in the implementing of EHRs. The healthcare team approach is vital to the success of the EHRs and vice versa. If done effectively, care coordination puts patients at the center of the care process, encouraging, engaging as well as responsibility.
What would be a value chain activity in a hospital or health care organization? Where would you need to ensure connection activities for your value chain to be successful? Explain A value chain is defined as "The separate activities, functions, and business processes that are performed in designing, producing, marketing, delivering and supporting a product or service" (Spector, 2010, p. 144). Health care is changing from a supply oriented to a demand oriented market. Clients are much more mobile than in the past, which increases their demands of hospital standards.
Management Role in Technology Initiatives What is managements role in healthcare technology? One of the first steps in creating any project with an organization is to create a project steering committee. He or she must be able to understand the different types of organizational change with information technology initiatives. Have strong communication skills to discuss the strategies for implementation of the new system. To assure that the process is going at the time allotted, while staying on budget, and should be able to deal with factors that may cause failure in the project (2004).
Its scientific, evidence-based clinical practices lead to better outcomes for patients. Consumers want to find the best medical facility with the best medical services and products when they need to be
Running Head: Module 5- GAH Quality, Ethical and IT Controls [STUDENT NAME] [INSTITUTION] [COURSE NAME] [DATE] Module 5- GAH Quality, Ethical and IT Controls With the major core components of the Golden Age Hospital complete as well as for the Community Center, it is time to focus on the other aspects that are found in a health care organization environment. These aspects include quality control and accreditation, ethical issues in regards to HIPAA, and an IT system. The health care organizations core organizational competencies and functions will be defined in order to set a goal for the health organization to achieve. Further, methods of controls will be implemented into the newly established organization
To understand better the evolution of HCIS, this discussion will include a comparison of a contemporary health care facility with one of 20 years ago as well as two major events and technological advances that influenced the evolution of HCIS. Health Care Information Systems According to Wager, Lee, and Glaser, the definition of an HCIS is “an arrangement of information (data), processes, people, and information technology that interact to collect, process, store, and provide as output the information needed to support the health care organization” (2009, p. 88). The two main types of health information systems are administrative and clinical. Administrative systems collect and
The program will require integrating the cost into next year’s budget. The future shift from inpatient to outpatient services will require nursing staff, to also shift from inpatient to outpatient services. This will, in the long term plan, is estimated to pay for this new service. The service is more of a cost savings than revenue generating. The Health Care Reform (HCF) is implementing value based purchasing that entails pay for performance.