Compliance Management from a HIIM perspective Gregg Moore Western Governors University Compliance Management from a HIIM perspective A. We sure do have a problem here! Actually, we have a series of improper actions that have culminated in a rightfully outraged patient and his equally distraught family. The lax attention to detail on the part of every staff member involved in this incident has resulted in a flagrant violation of the senior Mr. Stevens’ HIPAA privacy. This violation would have never happened had Sue’s staff been vigilant when dealing with their patient’s protected health information.
Bill tells Micah for every patient Anna receives as a new client, he will pay him 50% of what he makes. He also gives Micah options; he could hand out private hospitals documents or he could just provide the patients with Anna’s business card. Major Problems/Secondary Problems The major issue is that employees and vendors who work in the hospital are distributing patient’s medical records. All hospitals and/or health care facilities have very strict policies and guidelines that are set in place for employees and vendors to comply by. When guidelines are not followed, due to employees abusing their privileges, it places the hospital at risk.
There is a meeting held for all the doctors and nurses where the directors enforces new regulations on the supplies doctors can use on patients. The hospital’s staff is required to account for everything they use like a thermometer or even just a towel. The director threatens the doctors that if there is extra missing, that will be deducted from the departments operating budget. The insensitivity that is shown is disgraceful and it is all because the bureaucrats’ only priority is getting the most “bang for your buck”. The administrators even go as far as to not keep medical records.
The cost of health care that he receives for the heart transplant after leaving a hospital is about $1 million. As the guy recovered, he still had to serve 25 years to life in prison. There is a debate about whether the felons deserve organ transplantation. Most people would find it troubling that a criminal would get a major organ transplant while hundreds of law-abiding citizens who desperately need the organ, such as heart, kidney, liver, lung, and etc., are made to wait. National Kidney Foundation stated, “Over 95,000 U.S. patients are currently waiting for an organ transplant; nearly 4,000 new patients are added to the waiting list each month.” On the other hand, there is valid argument regarding convicted felons should receive organ transplants .
The JAMA states, if the burden of treatment outweighs the benefits and if the family disagrees even after serious attempts of discussion, it is legal justification for “futility of care” (Ufema, J. 2001). Conclusion The purpose of this paper was to discuss, compare, and contrast futile care and the ethical dilemmas that it can create. Articles have been compared and discussed that support the right to a natural death and the dilemmas created when the family chooses not to honor the patient’s wishes, or serve in the best interest of the patient. Ethical dilemmas not only affect nurses, physicians, and patients, they also affect families.
Anya Gugliemotto MBA 600: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Barbara Barresi, Ph.D. July 21, 2011 Physician Aid-in-Dying Physician aid-in dying is a highly controversial issue that has many ethical concerns. I would like to present a summary of this issue, including its etymological history, background, and laws. Also, I will examine the arguments for and against physician aid-in dying. Finally, I will determine which views most accurately reflect my own and I will discuss why I chose to research the ethical issues surrounding this topic. “Physician aid-in-dying” (PAD) is the official term used under the Washington and Oregon Death with Dignity Acts (DwDA).
The director of the hospital told the doctor that the “normal people” won’t come in for treatment now because they are scared of all the people in the hospital with AIDS. He was purely concerned about the money they were losing because of this epidemic instead of caring
We all have an idea that the act was an unlawful one, to handle another human beings life as something we can take control over whenever we see fit. From an ethical standpoint, I can understand how the doctors did what was done, but moral they had no right to make a unanimous decision to end lives. The laws may vary from state to state the U.S. Supreme Court has walked into this arena, but the end effect has been to let the state decide what to do. “The Hippocratic Oath, traditionally taken by doctors, states: “To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug, or give advice which may cause his death” Hippocrates (c. 460 BCÐ380
When McMurphy discovers that many of the patients are in the hospital because they don’t have the courage to get out into the real world he gets upset but also embarrassed because it is evident that Nurse Ratched’s therapy and methods to help the men are designed to undermine the little confidence they do have, not encourage it. In my opinion Nurse Ratched’s should be put into the asylum for abusing her authority and dehumanizing the patients and replacing it with blind conformity. McMurphy, is the person who sees everything that Nurse Ratched is doing. By showing the other patients how to create their own standards of sanity, McMurphy greets a bunch of institutionalized nervous wrecks back towards their humanity. McMurphy and I both think that society is corrupt and if you are no danger to yourself or society you are not insane, you may be different but you are most definitely not
This is an unfortunate event for the patient and any health care team member. A breach in confidentiality goes against the HIPAA privacy rule and has severe consequences. First, the patient is affected because they feel like it’s the hospital’s fault for the leak in their health information. The patient feels betrayed and loses all trust in the facility. This causes a potential loss of business from the patient and whoever the patient tells about the incident.