Standardization is paramount and will require practice changes for all healthcare providers. There are lists of abbreviations that have been compiled by multiple organizations in an attempt to standardize medical abbreviations. Unfortunately, this has not solved the problem as hospitals and universities that bother to adopt a standardized list have many to choose from and there is no rhyme or reason for selecting one over another. While most medicines, procedures and patient information are standard across the board, there are important differences between them that can result in confusion. Abbreviations are short and there are only so many letters, many abbreviations come to stand for several things.
Healthcare Financing Medicare was created in 1965 as a way to provide affordable health care to qualified United States residents age 65 and older. In addition to the age criteria, a person can quality for Medicare if they are disabled and receiving Social Security benefits for at least two years or have End Stage Renal Disease. Since the majority of the costs are paid by the working citizens in the form of payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act, the insured is not responsible for the premium costs. Part A and B were two parts of Medicare originally but now the program has expanded to four parts. The author will discuss the differences in Parts A, B, and D. Medicare Coverage Part A Medicare Part A is often called the hospital insurance because the coverage is primarily directed at hospital services.
The only time someone other than the physician of record should obtain the information is when the patient has given written permission. The written consent should consist of who to release the information to, what information to release, and for how long. The need for health care organizations to manage medical information systems has expanded, which in turn has increased the number of people having access to patient records. This expansion increases the chances of unsuitable use of patient records and violates state or federal privacy laws. Legal and Ethical Issues According to Pendrak and Ericson (1998), “Most states currently have laws that require healthcare organizations to maintain the confidentiality of their medical records as well as
Healthcare: Plato’s View Versus Modern Western Society People in today’s society have an immense number of expectations in regards to their quality of life. Perhaps the most prevalent is the expectation to the healthcare they choose. On the surface, it seems pretty clear cut. After all, why shouldn’t the individual patient be allowed to make choices that directly, or even indirectly, effect their general health? The waters become murky, however, when one takes into account the amount of resources allocated to providing some services or procedures to certain patients.
Healthcare Ethics Case Study Abstract Today’s healthcare professionals are immersed in an ever-changing environment. The advent of managed care, a variety of medical practice arrangements, and a multitude of healthcare specialty areas have resulted in the continual need to understand health care law. Health care workers are faced with tough decisions that require ethical considerations. The case of Jerry McCall, an Office Assistant that received professional training as both medical assistant and a licensed practical nurse (LPN), is an example of a situation that caused a dilemma. Jerry was accused of a medical malpractice because of prescribing a refill without the authorization of a physician.
My role as a psychiatric nurse and/or manager is understanding that as there are issues with confidentiality in medicine, so are there issues with confidentiality in behavioral health. If not more so this becomes an issue secondary to patients/clients seeking help within the context of a stigma, a labeling of a disease, what is looked upon by others as an imperfection. “Attention to ethical issues at the intersection of computing and mental health began more than a decade ago and has tended to emphasize confidentiality and privacy, professional standards, therapy, and most recently care management.” (Goodman, 1998, p. 19) What values are threatened by the increasing use of information and communication technologies in health care. Values such as respect are threatened by the use of information and communication technologies. “The inclusion of advanced directives in the electronic medical record whether respect is improved or not.” (Goodman, 1998, p. 19) Goodman speaks about the use of electronic
How does this value compare with the values for Sunnyvale Clinic and BestCare? The before-tax profit margin for Green Valley is operating income divided by total revenues. Calculate Green Valley's before-tax profit margin. Why may this be a better measure of expense control when comparing an investor-owned business with a not-for-profit business? 3.4 Great Forks Hospital reported net income for 2007 of $2.4 million on total revenues of $30 million.
Upon an observation of a healing property, a medicine needs to be developed that contains such a healing property but also should not be easily replicable. For this reason, many of the western world’s medicines are chemically based. “While proponents of EBM eventually acknowledged that skills beyond an ability to obtain, interpret, and integrate the results of clinical research were important to clinical practice, the centrality of the evidence said to derive from such research remained immutable. With the acceptance of evidence as the currency of the medical realm, attention and argument has concentrated on establishing hierarchies of evidence, a process where the most important decision is not the rank order, but what is included in or excluded
Amy Bauer 16 February 2011 SCI 115 Professor: Susan Kennedy Personalized Medicine Personalized medicine is a medical model emphasizing in general the customization of healthcare, that have decisions and practices that are being tailored to individual patients in whatever ways possible. Recently, this has mainly involved the systematic use of genetic or other information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient's preventative; extension of traditional approaches to understanding and treating illness. Since the beginning of the study of medicine, physicians have employed evidence found through observation to make a diagnosis or to prescribe treatment. In the past, this was presumably tailored to each individual, but personalized medicine makes treatment more specific. Over the years of medical care have been focuses on standards of care based on studies.
This core principle also relates to any discussions, assessments, treatments and medicines that are given and the patients records should be completed and updated as soon as an event has occurred. The Data Protection Act (1998) also addresses that information held about a patient for health reasons should be fairly and lawfully processed, accurate and secure. The recent Francis Report (2013) discovered the inadequacies in record keeping at Mid Staffordshire NHS and discovered that a number of deficiencies were occurring too frequently. The inquiry found inaccuracies in the recordings of patient's deaths, authors who had inputted information on records were not clearly identifiable and limited background information was recorded about a patients history, condition or social history. As a result a review of note keeping amongst healthcare staff is to be carried out.