P2: Outline how legislation, policies and procedures relating to health, safety and security influence health and social care settings. M1: Describe how health and safety legislation, policies and procedures promote the safety of individuals in a health or social care setting. HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ACT: Health and safety at work act legislation influence in health and social care setting by making sure there are no risks and hazards which can cause the staff any harm. This is done by them making sure individuals in the hospital or nursing home need to be careful with the items they are working with. The hospital or care home have to follow these guidelines and legislation because if they need to make sure the environment around them is safe and free from any danger that may cause harm to other patients.
The Cerner System has different sections that are used in the hospital setting. An emergency section (First Net), a section for surgical area (Surginet) and Medconnect for the remaining areas of the hospital. This system also includes Physician Computer Order Entry(PCOE). This allows the physcians to enter orders on the computer either in or out of the hospital. This is a great feature as it prevents errors in transcription and the nurses are not required to call the doctor and translate what he wants.
The focus of the paper is to come up with a strategy that will be used by the health care industry in ensuring that proper services are offered without developing any infections to the patients. This is by using the
Lastly, coding managers need to use strategies to improve coding accuracy and productivity in order for the responsibilities to be carried out adequately. The job description for an inpatient coding position involves a variety of duties for the accuracy and completion of a medical record. The inpatient coder works under minimal supervision. They are only responsible for reviewing all patient records, but they are also responsible for coding the information to be entered into the computer for all inpatient cases. The inpatient coder ensures that the data entered is relevant, indicating the reason that the patient was admitted, which involves the kind of illness and a breakdown of the treatment that was given (Henderson.)
Therefore, once medically cleared, we have to rely on inpatient psychiatric facilities or group homes like the one Dr. Primrose runs to ensure that these patients remain safe while, in this case, initiating prescriptions to manage medical and psychiatric issues and gathering resources that will be necessary for this patient to regain her independence. This teleconference was efficient and cost effective for the following reasons; an unnecessary one hour trip was avoided to the facility where no beds were available. This patient was able to receive appropriate, necessary medical treatment while psychiatry was reviewing the patient’s chart and then, in this case, finding appropriate placement. The two Psychiatrists involved were able to teleconference with the patient and gather necessary information and details of the patient’s present state of mind and ability to act with sound judgment. The patient’s accessible EMR avoided time spent faxing and/or having to orally present patient’s case several times over.
Compliance plans are used to find, correct, and prevent fraud and abuse in medical care facilities. Compliance plans correlate to different medical records by helping prevent mistreatment of a patient’s sensitive personal information. Compliance plans also help prevent fraud and abuse by a medical care facility’s staff. It is important for every member of the medical staff to properly follow the facility’s compliance plan to prevent civil or criminal litigation. If a facility fails to comply with the compliance plan they could face lawsuits from patient’s or fines from government agencies.
A people skill is very important to have in the medical office because you have to deal with patients every day. While having good people skill you have to learn how to communicate throughout the office to be able to get along well with your colleagues. For example, if a patient calls in the office complaining about a bill they have just received from there office and the patient will take it out on the Medical Administrative Assistant who answers the phone. A Medical Administrative Assistant has to have good people skills to handle a situation like this and not get you angry at the patient. Knowing how to communicate with the patient in a low calm tone of voice will help calm the patient down.
However, after this incident he hospital decided to perform MRI testing and biopsies in-house to prevent this error in the future because the Department of Human Services require internal reviews of pathology specimens. The hospital’s mission includes providing “fully integrated, accessible, affordable, and culturally sensitive care, one person at a time” (LAC+USC, 2012, p. 1). Los Angeles Hospital implements a trustworthiness policy that states “We are responsible and prudent stewards of the resources entrusted to us” (LAC+USC, 2012, p. 1). To ease the public perception of the hospital the trustworthiness policy states that “We are transparent in the work we do, honest and fact-based in our decision-making” (LAC+USC, 2012, p. 1). Therefore, the hospital currently agrees to offer individualized patient care, take accountability for actions performed at the facility, and to be fact-based in the decision-making
Evaluating Compliance Strategies There are specific steps that must be taken in the medical and billing process. The guidelines established in the compliance process are put in place by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and healthcare staff members to the protect the patients, the staff and the physicians. The compliance process guarantees that inaccuracies and errors are avoided in the medical office. This paper will cover the linking procedures and diagnoses, the implications of incorrect medical coding and how medical coding, physician and payer fees are related to the compliance process. The entire medical billing process initiates when the patient is seen at a medical facility by a physician.
The meetings are generally about equipment’s safety, input on new equipment purchase order for approval, equipment removal from service and the equipment review board. The upshot of the meeting depend 75% on the presentation of the biomedical technician, because it contains all the technical analysis and safety issues pertaining to equipment’s in question. That is why ethos and logos will very be valuable to me; to help me coordinate a given presentation in a professional style and also being very informative. Thus, the final decision makers will have all information needed to make the right decision for equipment users and patient safety, and improve the hospital quality of care. Wouldn’t that put me on the right track as a better technician?