Its Primary purpose is to ensure quality patient care and managing the cost of that care. Its secondary purpose as defined by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) deals with individual users for education, regulations, policies and public health from data entered, verified, corrected or analyzed directly or indirectly. Homeland Security has recently been added to the list of users, including patient care providers, managers and staff, coders and patients themselves. Patients can make changes as necessary. Other users might include lawyers, employers, law enforcement and researchers.
According to Kaplan University (n.d.), medical office managers must be competent in medical records management, billing and coding, and insurance processing. Medical office managers, also known as medical practice managers or medical practice administrators, oversee single and multiple medical offices within the same company. A manager’s responsibilities can vary depending upon the type and size of the medical practice, along with the structure of management. (Medical Office Manager Job Descriptions & Career Opportunities, n.d.). Whether in a large facility clinic or a small medical office, managers are responsible for the overall business operations.
I have tried to incorporate the model in the essay to facilitate critical thinking and relating theory to practice in the essay. This essay also aims to include a discussion about the knowledge underpinning practice and the evidence base for the requirements of an important clinical skill for the students of nursing. I will also provide a conclusion to the essay which will discuss my reflection skills, acknowledge my insight and competencies gained during the clinical practicum and show my personal and professional development. The clinical skill I have chosen to reflect on within this essay is the management of peripheral intravascular devices (PIDs). My clinical placement was in the day surgery ward of the hospital so I had numerous opportunities of
Project 1 There are many confidentiality, privacy and security issues that relate to working as a medical receptionist in a medical practice. It is very important to have a senior person to oversee all administrative functions. A senior person will outline the tasks your job entails and will teach you the practice’s policies and procedures. They will teach you how to access patient records and how to know what information is relevant to your work. A senior person will also check your work and will be there for guidance if any conflict of interest occurs.
For these reasons there’s the need for Clinical decision support system (CDSS) to support the physicians in making right clinical decisions. Defining Clinical decision support system (CDSS) Clinical decision support system (CDSS) provides clinicians, staff, patients or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and health care. [1] CDSS encompasses a variety of tools to enhance decision-making in the clinical workflow. These tools include computerized alerts and reminders to care providers and patients; clinical guidelines; condition-specific order sets; focused patient data reports and summaries; documentation templates; diagnostic support, and contextually relevant reference information, among other tools. This paper will discuss the need for CDSS in the health sector particularly on clinical tasks.
Introduction Effective leadership by professionals is crucial in all healthcare organizations. The way workers define leadership has changed from generation to generation, however, a common description of leadership is the motivating behavior of an individual directing the activities of a group towards a shared goal. (Ward, 2017) Influencing group activities and coping with change are some of the key aspects that an individual in a leadership role will be working towards. According to an article, "management is about coping with complexity" and "leadership is about coping with change", therefore, both aspects are critical to a successful leader. (Blumenthal, Bernard, Bohnen, & Bohmer, 2012).
Medical Assisting Careers Danielle Abstract: After obtaining the Associates of Applied Science in Medical Assisting degree from Kaplan University one has many career path opportunities that they can become gainfully employed in. Follows is a look at the different specialties one can work in, the type of national certifications that are available to sit for, the average salaries of the field, current issues within the field, how my own personality aligns with the required personalities, my career goals and how Kaplan University’s Career Services can help me obtain those goals. Medical Assisting Career Overview The Associates of Applied Science in Medical Assisting degree at Kaplan University will prepare one to be successful in the medical assisting profession. The medical assisting field opens the door to numerous careers assisting different types of doctors within the medical field. Some potential career paths include physician office or clinic assisting, hospital setting medical assisting, optometry assisting, and chiropractic assisting.
The relevancy of effective personal healthcare communication with other healthcare professionals, clients, patients It is very important for the health care team to communicate with all team members regarding assessment, intervention, outcomes, and client status. The healthcare team consists of the client and all medical personnel involved in providing care and all members of the team perform different and important roles in the delivery system. The breakdown of communication between different team members can interfere with the client’s treatment and could lead to adverse healthcare outcomes (Lowenburg, 2003).The relevancy of effective professional healthcare communication to health outcomes Effective communication is also relevant to the health care communication because it provides an avenue for achieving health care goals. Health communication is important to ensure the patient’s safety at the highest quality of care possible. Successful communication between health care professionals and the patient is a vital component for enhancing patient compliance, satisfaction, and outcomes.
Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Introduction Health care communication facilitates inter-dependence among health care members. It involves sharing ideas and thoughts with physicians, student nurses, nursing peers, patients, families and, other interdisciplinary health care members in a professional manner. Effective health care communication is important in care delivery because it enhances higher outcomes, patient safety, patient compliance to treatment, creates trust, utilization of healthcare, and satisfaction. Definition of Health Care communication Health care communication is the process in which an individual can collect and process adequate or basic health information needed to make the right health care decisions. Communication is the process of sharing information using a set of common rules (Northouse & Northouse, 1998. p.2).
Georgina A. Martin MAN 324 Feb. 26, 2015 Healthcare Delivery Systems: Employment in Health Care Healthcare Delivery Systems: Employment in Health Care Health Care Delivery Systems are organized systems that professional healthcare workers and administrators work together and provide services for health care; these systems could include hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, home health care, assisted living, physicians, health treatment plans, and other services. This paper will cover the roles of health care providers as well as other clinical and non-clinical health care providers. Doctors and nurses are the strength of the health care system in the United States. “Of course, many other medical professionals, such as orderlies, radiology technicians and dietitians are employed in the health care industry, but the vast majority of diagnosis and patient care is performed by doctors and nurses” (Browne, 2015). Physicians are extremely educated medical specialists that completed undergrad degree then four more years of medical school followed by 3- to 6-year residency working doctors of their chosen specialty.