AHIMA believes that hospitals and providers must improve clinical documentation in preparation for the expanded scope of clinical data beyond a single patient encounter to a comprehensive data set comprising the entire continuum of care (www.ahimafoundation.org, 2014). With the use of EHR’s in hospitals and clinics worldwide, improved clinical documentation is possible. The use of electronic health records in the private sector has been widely recognized as an efficient way to improve the provision of health care and enable health care providers to access and share
COMMUNICATION THEORY Andres Nicholas HCS/320 David Bull April 22, 2012 The key to success in every company or industry is communication. Communication is the vital component in the health care industry because keeping open communication with patients makes the job easier. Working in the health care industry, healthcare professionals are exposed and challenged with different cultures, race, beliefs, and gender. All patients are unique in their own and we as healthcare professionals must learn how to accommodate to the patients way of communication before we can provide or explain the healthcare treatment. At Baylor College of Medicine Healthcare facilities and our affiliated hospitals, we strive for the customer satisfaction.
It has both centralized and decentralized structures. The health care delivery system is unique providing services, such as caregivers, hospitals, laboratories, and pharmacies. It is an all-rounder in the health care industry that plays different positions ranging from delivering health care to providing health care treatment. The organization is operated by health care professionals, business professionals, construction workers, and customer service experts. Kaiser Permanente has “universal commitment improving the health and wellness of the members, patients, colleagues, and communities” (Kaiser Permanente, 2012).
The American Nurse Association plays a key role in the health care reformation because it pushes all providers to be even more knowledgable within their field. As a stakeholder, the ANA has proven their loyalty and support for the new health care reform act. Their goal is to " continuously strive for outstanding quality care and feel as if the health care reform is contributing to that goal" (Ana: Ensuring nurses, paragraph, 1). Stake holders within the world of health care are a very imoportant to the role of success for, payers, providers, employers and patients. Each role plays an effect on the next
The Importance of Accountability HCS/475 September 16, 2013 Steven Miracle The Importance of Accountability Introduction This paper will address the health care accountability issues that many hospitals are faced with today. It is important to hold employees accountable for their actions especially when dealing with patients. In this paper it will show solutions on ways to make employees effective and how to reach productivity in the work. Americans have welcomed the world of technology as we see today. Technology has evolved and has allowed every company to expand its horizons.
The company provides the most convenient, multi-channel access to goods and services, and pharmacy, health and wellness services while developing a new customer experience. Their vision is to become “My Walgreens” for everyone in America by transforming the traditional drugstore into a health and daily living destination that offers a range of products and services to help customers get, stay and live well. Their pharmacies – on the front lines of health care in America – serve as a centerpiece in improving patients’ overall health, and improving access to care and lowering costs through an expanded scope of community-based health and wellness solutions. CVS: “Staying healthy isn’t easy these days. Health care costs keep rising.
Clients are much more mobile than in the past, which increases their demands of hospital standards. Hospitals have to respond with improvements in quality, cost efficiency, ability to shorten the health care process and utilize medical facilities and human resources more effectively to remain competitive. "The aim of a value chain framework is to maximize value creation while minimizing costs" (www.wikipedia.org). Hospitals are looking for creative ways to remain competitive and differentiate themselves from the others. An example of a value chain activity would be the hospital you work for bringing on an expert cardiac surgeon, revamping and updating the cardiac unit to a state of the art facility, then marketing the hospital as a center of cardiac excellence.
Training and Development Welcome Knox HCS 341 March 17, 2014 Dr. Rita Fields Training and Development My paper will be about training and development in healthcare and why it is vital to have. I will also discuss the importance of measuring employee’s competencies and the process of tracking and evaluating training effectiveness. Training and development occurs in almost every company today. Both are very important to any business that wants to succeed. It is more vital to health care because we are dealing with people’s lives.
The implementation of EHRs in LTC facilities or home health can manage patients care to promote improvements in the patients outcome and possible help decrease medical cost. In this forever changing healthcare industry, which stresses continuity of care, the movement to push for EHRs in LTC facilities is necessary. Review of another study stressed that the healthcare team is vital in the implementing of EHRs. The healthcare team approach is vital to the success of the EHRs and vice versa. If done effectively, care coordination puts patients at the center of the care process, encouraging, engaging as well as responsibility.
Quality Improvement Report HCS/588 May 26. 2013 Quality Improvement Report Quality improvement is the cornerstone of many health care organizations. Quality improvement is the combination of all the patients, health care providers, researchers, etc. so to ensure that there will be change in patient outcomes. Cindy Janowski, a local health care organization leader, who notices that other organizations had successfully implemented Quality Improvement (QI) plans had hired me to research the industry’s quality standards and provide directions on how to implement or to improve quality in Janowski organization.