Patient Rights Requirements in Health Information Management Jamie Trun Legal & Reg Issues-Hlth Info Vanda Crossley April 13, 2014 It is known that today, with the growth of computerized health information systems, there is a potential threat to the patients’ confidentiality. Easy and rapid access makes it possible to get any information concerning the patient’s medical records which can cause damage to the patient’s life and psychological state. Some patients are not aware of the fact that the details of their treatment can be put into the database accessible to any physicians, and their staffs only but as well medical laboratories, employees of insurance companies, researchers, public health insurance and
The Electronic Medical Record, Dollars or Sense? Anne Wolfersberger Ball State University Abstract In recent history, it has become increasingly necessary, that facilities, especially inpatient acute care hospitals, implement an electronic medical record. Clinical information technology is recognized by champions of healthcare quality as a means to save lives, improve less than optimal care, and reduce costs (J Healthcare Finance 2004). There are several advantages to adopting the EMR, from reducing preventable adverse drug events to improving drug prescribing. On the patient side it has been shown that patient compliance with medication regimens as well as follow up appointments and preventative care greatly increase with the
BIBLIOGRAPHY HIM-220 – Healthcare Data Systems Nakia B. Logan AHIMA. "Homeland Security Act, Patriot Act, Freedom of Information Act, and HIM." (Updated November 2010). Retrieved March 27, 2015, from http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_048641.hcsp?dDocName=bok1_048641 Best Practices for Healthcare Data Breach Cividanes, E., Luehr, P., & Krenek, B. (2011, May 1).
Managed care has become a buyer with considerable influence in all of health care” (Pratt, 2010). A few years ago one looked at long-term care facilities as being in nursing homes. Today facilities are opening up that is not a setting for nursing home though that is what others thinks. With the government involved today it has restraints with the pricing and the quantity of service one provides. When the government gets involved with making decision on health care they divert resources away from one provider and looks at another.
Medicaid is a government program that provides medical insurance for adults and families living at or under the poverty line ("How Did Healthcare Come About In The United States? ", 2013). The health care industry accounts for 17% of the GOP in the United States. Health care services have grown to be a trillion dollar business. The largest source of funding for health care expenditures is the government.
This initiative was to see if factors are reliable in increasing compliance rates among all categories of hospital workers. Factors associated with poor hand hygiene compliance include: being a doctor versus being a nurse, surgical unit and intensive care unit (ICU) setting versus medical unit setting, wearing gloves and gown, before patient contact versus after patient contact, performing high-risk activities, weekdays versus weekends, having a high number of opportunities for hand hygiene per hour, and overcrowding or understaffing. The study was conducted in the United States in an urban academic medical & level I trauma center for the intervention time frame of July 2008 to December 2012. There are 1,767 affiliated physicians and 7,400 healthcare workers at the hospital where collected data was analyzed across all inpatient units providing current supportive information on hand hygiene conformity. | Review of Literature | Several reputable
Retrieved December 8, 2011, from http://unu.edu/wpcontent/uploads/publication/000/001/370/report417.pdf Providers. (n.d.). - National Non-VA Care Program Office. Retrieved August 3, 2014, from http://www.nonvacare.va.gov/providers.asp Veterans Affairs Strategic Plan 2014-2020. (2013).
Medication reconciliation. Retrieved online: http://www.psnet.ahrq.gov/primer.aspx?primerID=1 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (2012). Medication reconciliation basics. Retrieved online: http://www.ashp.org/menu/PracticePolicy/ResourceCenters/PatientSafety/ASHPMedicationReconciliationToolkit_1/MedicationReconciliationBasics.aspx Barnsteiner, J.H. (2008).
Annotated Bibliography HCS – 531 Healthcare Organizations and Delivery Systems Taylor Jackson, Deb Wilcke, Teresa Brennan, Yokeshia West, Kristina Smith Georgetta Baptist April 29, 2013 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Indicators. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.qualitynet.org/dcs/ContentServer?cid=1228695321101&pagename=QnetPublic%2FPage%2FQnetTier3&%20c=Page This website discusses the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Indicators. The website discusses quality measures for inpatient care. They also discuss the quality of care for adults inside hospitals.
The United States is making huge changes in the health care industry. The health care reform can improve the health care industry and lower the cost of health care if policies are developed with health care experts. There are many countries that have mechanisms in place that have lower the health care and improved the quality of their health care system. The United States is a leader in many areas and should be able to figure out a health care system with the P4P