Secondary Sources and Measurement Scale for Healthcare Ratings

Edwin Romero

Ashford University

BUS642: Business Research

Dr. David Bouvin

September 29, 2014

Abstract

As information technology makes it easy for us to do our daily jobs and manage our personal lives, we have put out too much personal information out. In the healthcare field as medical institutions either have both a hard copy and electronic medical record (EMR) of their patients, or just an EMR, which at times give patient data for studies excluding demographic information. That was not the case before July 2003 as medical facilities and providers were using all patient information and giving it to third-party agencies like pharmaceutical companies for profit, but now is unethical and illegal in accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Act. I’ll be presenting to the reder, what types of secondary sources exist, as well as the type of measurement scale will be used in order to prove if healthcare institutions’ ratings are partly based on how well the institutions themselves manage their information systems regulate ethical and legal management and use of patient data.

Secondary Sources and Measurement Scale for Healthcare Ratings
As Information Technology (IT) is widely used in almost every field, and making everyone’s jobs easier, and helping in maintaining records and history in compact form versus a few decades ago where it was mostly paper tracking and hard copies of documents, it has improved the way services are being rendered in the healthcare arena. In the medical field, IT is widely used throughout all departments from billing, laboratory results, x-rays, and Health Information Management (HIM, a term used for Medical Records Department). IT and its’ management not only is used in all fields, but has made our lives easier.
Due to the many issues unethical and