AHMIA keeps professionals up to date on issues in HIM field and gives access to recourses to further education and skills. AHIMA is also interestingly one of four parties responsible for the ICD-10. Professional Journals • Medical News Today (MNT). Medilexicon International Ltd. www.medicalnewstoday.com. Medical News Today is an online publishing company, founded in 2003.
When it comes to understanding health doctors and other medical professional’s use what is know as the biomedical model of health. The biomedical model treats illness as strictly something that is wrong with the workings of the body caused by things such as germs, disease and accidents and doesn’t take in to account a persons social or mental factors. The biomedical model also gives doctors a set of basic guidelines in which to work to. These guidelines include some practices that the general public would just take as obvious, for example; putting the care of the patient as top priority, to do no harm to the patient and to provide a cure for the patients ailment. These are all things we expect to get when we visit the doctor as this is why we go there.
Health care providers should provide care that meets the needs of each individual patient, including the use of appropriate advances in medical technology. Health care should also be non-discriminatory, providing the same quality of service regardless of race, ethnicity, age, sex or health status” (Quality of Care, n.d.). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) named a program ‘the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative’ (PQRI), based on the 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act (TRHCA). The Act necessitated the creation and implementation of a physician quality reporting system which includes incentive payments for those eligible professionals who disclose measures of quality taken for covered Medicare beneficiaries. The quality reporting is done on a voluntary basis offering contributing physicians bonus payments based on Medicare claims for services.
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It was mentioned in a seminar discussion that Health Care Professionals have a professional responsibility to be aware of cultural differences and diversity in order to encourage self enlightenment. Providing care and interventions that not only makes a positive difference, but also do so in ways that respect and value diversity is now high on the agenda for Mental Health Practice (UK DoH, 2004). It is important that Health Care Professionals recognise that it is inevitable that they will provide care for members of society who come from a diverse background. NHS Kensington and Chelsea provide services to an ethnically and culturally diverse community. With over 100 languages spoken, nearly half of all residents are born outside the UK.
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.
Health information system or HIS; is a system for the collection and/or processing of data from an assortment of sources, and using the information for policy making and management of health services. It could be paper-based or electronic. HIS incorporates data from civil/vital registration, censuses, population surveys, facility surveys, individual records, service records and resource records for policy making and efficient management of health services. (web.worldbank.org) There is general agreement among all that a strong HIS is a key component of any health system. Any type of physician’s office would greatly benefit from health information systems.
This consists in meeting and committees. Readers Digest) Learn the medical lingo- The abbreviations and terms used by paramedics and doctors September 8, 2 This article detests about the Lingo that Doctors throw at you and we are supposed to know what they say. I believe this because we are handling their dictations and transcriptions. Learning the Lingo is a great asset in the medical field. Professional Associations: American Heart Association: American Heart Association is a group of researches in the Cardio and vascular researching.
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 EHR is a computerized electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. Included in this information are patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports. The EHR automates the clinician's workflow and has the ability to generate a complete record of a patient encounter - as well as supporting other care-related activities directly or indirectly, including evidence-based decision support, quality management, and outcome reporting. In this paper I will discuss the many benefits and drawbacks of EHR’s, the types of software used and their functions as well as my thoughts on the future of Electronic Health Records. Many healthcare organizations have switched over to electronic health records since President George W. Bush called for health records to be stored electronically by 2014, and President Obama’s administration plans to continue pushing for that deadline.