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.
N487 Module 1: Health Policy Decisions that have shaped U.S. Health Care Delivery & Nursing Practice Module Overview: In this first module we’ll begin with a review of how today’s U.S. health policy has evolved. We’ll learn about the public policy process and note how significantly public policy decisions are influenced by sociocultural, economic, legal and political factors. We’ll examine landmark policy decisions which created our current pluralistic health care financing system with multiple reimbursement programs on a continuum from exclusively individual financial responsibility to exclusively state-sponsored. And finally, we’ll review a sample of the health policies that authorize, define and regulate today’s nursing practice. Learning Objectives: After completion of the module, you should be able to… 1.
Reflection Journal: Cost/benefit of Sustaining Life Social and Organizational Issues in Healthcare Southern New Hampshire University Written by: Pratikkumar Patel The economic evaluation of health and environmental interventions for sustaining a life is becoming increasingly important. In the light of limited funding, such evaluations can provide an important tool to demonstrate the economic return of investments in intervention, compare the effectiveness of one intervention against another and help policy-makers allocate their limited budget. As I see my career as a Healthcare Administrator, it is important for me to know method of economic evaluation that values all benefits against all costs. The resulting cost-benefit ratio gives an indication of whether or not the benefits outweigh the costs of an intervention, and hence provides a decision-making tool with a broad societal perspective. In this journal, I will be reflecting about how insurance companies, hospitals, and patients can use Cost-benefit analysis for sustaining a life.
Patient Privacy HCS 335 February 18, 2014 Patient Privacy In today’s health care organizations, patient privacy is a major problem within the health care system. Current improvements in technology have reformed the provision of health care and the systems used to record and retrieve health information. During the course of this paper, it will discuss the affect patient privacy has on the community and legal and ethical issues associated with patient privacy. It will also discuss managerial duties as well as proposed solutions to maintain patient privacy. Health care professionals have an obligation to protect the rights to patient privacy when it concerns patient’s personal and medical information.
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.
Pros and Cons of EMR Before electronic medical records many facilities were keeping their records manually. For a long time this was working for the healthcare industry. Today, many healthcare company use electronic medical record keeping due to the advantages of the electronic way versus the manual way. Keeping records manually would protect the company from dealing with computer issues and malfunctions and well as protect confidentiality of the records (Administrative Medical Assisting). These are both huge advantages in a fast paced industry however; electronic medical record keeping seems to have more advantages to the industry.
Lowering health care costs while providing increased quality of care and protecting patients’ privacy is the federal government’s goal with the use of the electronic medical record. Pushing the use of the electronic medical record and developing meaningful use criteria that must be followed for increased reimbursement motivates health care providers and facilities to comply. In 2009 the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was put into place with $27-$30 billion in incentives to motivate health care providers and hospitals to adopt the use of the electronic medical record. This was one of the largest public infrastructural investments made by the federal government in the health care industry (Kaushal 2013). Legislation was motivated by the expectation that the use of the electronic medical record would lead to increased quality of care and lower health care costs.
It is first important to understand the concept of health promotion in today’s environment. Health promotion allows one to empower and educate individuals to make lifestyle choices and changes to promote their health and help prevent disease. This can be challenging when individual health beliefs differ. According to Whitehead (2004) the concept changes with demands, it is delivered by health workers but has become politically driven as the nation’s health changes. As a consequence strategies for health promotion can be influenced by the financial demands to the NHS.
Medical records can also provide critical information for others. The second reason records exist is to offer legal protection for those who will be providing for the patient. The third reason is that medical records can provide statistical information that can be helpful to researchers. Forth reason is medical records are very vital for financial reimbursement(Young, 2009). 2.
Definition of Health Care Communication According to the Centers for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute, health care communication is "The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual decisions that enhance health." Health care communication is recognized as a strategic way of communication that utilizes a science process to address imposing public health challenges. It incorporates behavioral, social learning theories, and models to develop program planning. These programs identify steps to create social change by influencing audience's