...healthcare administration. Five years were spent working in Managed Care and the other eight has been spent working in information technology. Over these thirteen years, I have witnessed a lot changes and growth with healthcare becoming acclimated with incorporating information technology into its workflow. In my current role as a project manager, I have been in charge of implementing several information technology projects that will enhance the way physicians and nurses care for their patients. For a hospital, its main goal is caring for their patients. Day in and day out, hospital workers continuously strive to improve the safety and quality of care for their patients. Research has proven that when certain types of information technology, such as CPOE (computerized physician order entry), computerized decision support systems, barcode scanning for medication administration, computerized health care records, can decrease human error and improve care and efficiency. Hospitals have long been pioneers in incorporating IT to improve patient care, quality, and efficiency. The current challenge now is to extend the use of information technology and integrate it into the routine care processes in all hospitals, both big and small, and in rural and urban areas. Hospitals who are interested in developing electronic medical records and other health information systems must overcome quite a few barriers to actually implementing these systems. Things to consider are: health information...
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...University of Phoenix Material Health Care Information Systems Terms Define the following terms. Your definitions must be in your own words; do not copy them from the textbook. After you have defined each term in your own words, describe in 40 to 60 words the health care setting in which each term would be applied. Utilize a minimum of two research sources to support your claims—one from the University Library and the other from the textbook. Be sure to cite your sources in the References section consistent with APA guidelines. |Term |Definition |How Used in Healthcare | |Health Insurance Portability and | | According to "U.s Department Of Health And| |Accountability Act (HIPAA) |According to "What Does Hippa Stand For" |Human Services" (n.d.), the Office for | | |(2012), HIPPA stands for the Health |Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy | | |Insurance Portability and Accountability |Rule, which protects the privacy of | | |Act, enacted by the US Congress in in 1996.|individually identifiable health | | | |information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which| | ...
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...Electronic health records with satellite facilities supported by remote technology. Electronic health records emerged as one of the most relevant topics in health care; EHRs are central in the strategy of federal government to transform health care providing in the U.S. (Henricks, 2011). Federal actions are promoting EHR in order to guarantee important implications for nursing practices. The technology implies also payment penalties for those providers who do not manage to meet the requirements of EHRs use. EHR technology has to be certified according to technical and functional criteria that are set forth by the government. The using of EHR technology is significantly important for laboratories (Henricks, 2011) since the certification criteria of EHR have to be related directly to laboratory testing or laboratory management. Federal government identified the goals for improving healthcare and EHRs are central for these goals. EHRs with satellite facilities aims at the following points, it should: * improve safety, efficiency, and quality of public healthcare and reduce people's health disparities; * engage the patients and their families in healthcare services; * improve healthcare coordination; * improve public health and population in general; * reduce costs; * maintain security and privacy of health information provided by the patients (Henricks, 2011). Electronic health records become more and more usual. The use of electronic health records...
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...ADMINISTRATION AND TECHNICIANS Camille Patch HCR/210 September 14, 2014 Connie Anderson ADMINISTRATION AND TECHNICIANS In this research paper I will be discussing the job that I want to do when I get my associates degree. The job that I want to do will be Medical Record Administration. I will be discussing what the job title and also if there are any jobs in New Hampshire. What Medical Record Administration job responsibility is that it oversees the medical records staff, which is responsible for the maintenance of patient records? Electronic medical records system requires staff to be familiar with health records software and security issues. A medical records administration must be familiar with the legislation to ensure compliance. Medical Record Administration does play a vital role in managing a hospital or clinic. They must perform many supervisory duties and create a safe environment for employees and patients. Most have to work in an entry-level position before attaining a promotion to administration. So far when it comes to jobs in my community, I live in New Hampshire and I have only found one position available. The job title was under Data Analysts: Quality Management. The responsible for this position was to support medical practices and the administration team. I do love this exercise because it made me aware of the qualifications that a medical record administrator does for a living. I had no clue what the position entitles and also...
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...Electronic health records are becoming more common as a means of recording patient information. In some cases, the transition from paper charting to the use of electronic medical records has not been easy. Nurses may find the system more time-consuming and more difficult to use initially. Without modern technologies decision support systems cannot be effectively integrated into routine clinical workflow. Electronic health records present many advantages over writing medical records. As with any new system, electronic health records will take some time in adjusting. As the use of electronic health records becomes more common, nurses will undoubtedly adjust as they become more familiar. “Acquiring immediate access to key information such as patients' diagnoses, allergies, lab test results, and medications is readily available. It has improved caregivers' ability to make sound clinical decisions in a timely manner. The ability for providers participating in the care of a patient in multiple settings quickly access new and past test results would increase patient safety and the effectiveness of care” (New England Journal of Medicine 348, no. 26, 2003: 2635–2645). “The ability to enter and store orders for prescriptions, tests, and other services in a computer-based system should enhance legibility, reduce duplication, and improve the speed to execute orders. Using reminders prompts, and alerts, computerized decision-support systems would help improve compliance with best...
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... access some of part of a patients file. All informations in shadow charts should be copies and all original records should always remain in the patients primary chart. The patients main chart must contain the most up to date information and be available to any department that may need access to it. To accomplish this ancillary departments use shadow charts that contain copies of any information they may need. Shadow charts should be maintains with the same safety and security as a primary chart and must be kept in locked files with access limited to authorized personnel. A2. Information Technology Staff It is the responsibility of Information Technology (IT) staff to educate the clinical staff on ways to diminish security breaches by securing their workstations when they are not being used. Teaching clinical staff the importance of not sharing passwords and securing stations will greatly help security. The IT staff could use a power point to explain the policy to staff along with the disciplinary policy for violation of company policy or the HIPAA Privacy Act. Criminal Liability Montana Code 41-1-402 states that a minor can consent to treatment if it is an emergency situation and the guardian is unavailable. a minor who needs emergency care, including transfusions, without which the minor's health will be jeopardized. If emergency care is rendered, the parent, parents, or legal guardian must be informed as soon...
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...Communication Paper Celletta Tate HCS/490 Health Care Consumer-Trends and Marketing 5/6/13 Yvette Thompson Electronic medical records are digital records of a patient’s medical information. This is helpful because if the patient has to go to another physician for some reason then his or her medical information can easily be transferred over without any issues. EMRs help to decrease the amount of paperwork that a patient has to deal with when visiting a physician’s office. It also helps the patient because it is a secure way to protect the private medical information that he or she discloses to the health care providers. EMRs are just as useful for the health care providers. Health care providers do not have to worry with paperwork as well. Easily transferable and easy to get to helps make the job of health care providers much easier. It has always been the duty of the physician to keep their patients’ confidences. Basically what this means is that the physician does not have the right to release any medical information given by the patient or discovered by a physician in connection with the treatment of a patient (“Patient Confidentiality”, 2013). In general, AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics states that the information disclosed to a physician during the course of the patient-physician relationship is confidential to the utmost degree, (“Patient Confidentiality”, 2013). A physician’s ethical duty to maintain patient confidentiality serves a purpose which...
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...Ethics Paper: Cignet Health Care Anna Administrative Ethics Paper: Cignet Health Care Health care administration have to deal with many ethical problems; one being HIPPA’s regulation. Heath care administration need to insure patient that their information is safe and patients have access to their medical information. In recent months Cignet health center has been found they are not following the privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Affordability Act (Amednews.com, 2011).Cignet Health Care was fined $4.3 million for not handing over 41 patient health information and also turning over thousands of other patient information without disclosers. Cignet Health Care also got violation in providing health care coverage without a license. The Department of Health Care was informed by many of Cignet Health Care patients that they have not turned over their health records as requested. When the Department of Health Care tried to request them as well they did not receive any of the records till they got a court order. The Department of health Care administration has to look at the population that is impacted but not protecting patient privacy, what are the legal and ethical issues, what the manager’s responsibilities and what the proposed solutions are. The department of health care has found that Cignet health centers have not complied in turning over 41 patient medical records. It is important that patients have access to their personal medical information. Patients...
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...cheated or plagiarized in the process of completing this assignment. If it is found that cheating and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act/s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University. Thesis The health care industry each years spends millions in medication errors that could be prevented. By implementing a data entry system that would allow access by medical professionals and pharmacies to collaborate and reduce the chance of medication errors dramatically. The data systems are pricy but when compared to the cost of medication errors and loss of lives it saves most medical establishments money. Annotated Bibliography The need for data entry systems to reduce medical errors Rinda, J. (2012). integration helps clinicians reduce medication errors. Health Management Technology , 33 (10), 12-13. With the risks of medication errors endangering lives, the technology has been gearing towards linking smart infusion pumps with health information platforms. Electronic health records have already been developed and are currently being used in some areas. This can lead to reductions in health care costs and increase in workflow. The medication errors could result in 400,000 preventable injuries each year. 1.5 million errors occur in the U.S. each year, resulting in $77 billion in cost annually. The iv integration system which is a form of the medication entry system, resulted in no...
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...Electronic health record as a learning tool A teaching strategy from the QSEN project specifying a specific student assignment relevant to nursing informatics. Conclude your discussion with a well-developed reflection on the significance of healthcare informatics to 21st century nursing education. In response to the Institution of Medicine call to improve the quality of healthcare the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative was started. The QSEN initiative consisted of the development of quality and safety competencies that serve as a resource for nursing faculty to integrate contemporary quality and safety content into nursing education. Nurses are on the front line of patient safety. It is important for the nursing profession to realize all the benefits healthcare informatics can offer to ease their jobs and improve patient safety. Introducing health care informatics into the nursing curriculum will prepare the student for new and innovative technologies on the horizon in the healthcare community. Safety benefits are consistent with the use electronic health record. If electronic medical records are being used by the nurse, the physician is using them as well. Implementing EMR has solved the challenged of illegible handwriting that has led to increase medical errors. Another benefit of the electronic medical record is that it often works in conjunction with another valuable technology tool: electronic medication administration records, which provide...
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...time care and medical treatment for people who are unable to take care of themselves, Golden living nursing home is a facility for elderly and dementia people, ,it is a detached nursing home with purpose built extension, it situated in a quit residential area of hove, close to local shops and public transport, they don’t have a parking space available and people pay to pack outside, although resident and visitors are allowed to pack et then the opposite going although parking permit will be giving to you on, accommodation is located over two floors, management uses the third floor while the management occupies the second floors. The third floor is used for management and administration duties; there is a passenger shaft lift at the home that assists residents to access all residential areas of two homes. There are twenty one rooms for single occupancy. Ms jean anagor is an RN at the nursing home and was the nurse I spoke with on the phone concerning the use of health information technology and these are her answers. In the nursing home sophisticated information technology system assist in the diagnosis of a patients, support care management and adherence to clinical guidelines. They have five information system computerized provider order entry, medication administration, telemedicine, telehealth, personal health record, she said that each system can provide quality improvement, improve patient’s safety and be cost effective, I again asked again the type of health care information...
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...Health Care Information Systems Terms Define the following terms. Your definitions must be in your own words; do not copy them from the textbook. After you have defined each term in your own words, describe in 40 to 60 words the health care setting in which each term would be applied. Utilize a minimum of two research sources to support your claims—one from the University Library and the other from the textbook. Be sure to cite your sources in the References section consistent with APA guidelines. Term | Definition | How Used in Healthcare | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) | HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a US law designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. | HIPAA should be used in all health care settings because it protects patients and deals with privacy rights. The new standards provide patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used and disclosed. So if someone other than the patient’s calls into a medical facility trying to get information about the patients care, the clerk is not allowed to give the person any information unless instructed by the patient that the person is permitted to have the information. | Electronic medical record | Electronic medical record also know as EMR is is...
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...Abstract This paper will explore the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and discuss the following questions: What is the purpose of HIPAA? How does the HIPAA law affect health information managers? What are some ethical issues to consider regarding HIPAA? Finally I will provide some examples of how HIPAA has changed the way the practice of health care and health information is managed. Health Information Portability and Accountability Act In 1996, the United States Congress enacted the Health Care Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and President Bill Clinton signed it into law. HIPAA was introduced as an act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes. (Wikipedia) Health Information Managers play critical roles in their day to day work load to ensure compliance with regulations that pertain to the privacy and security of patients’ medical records and information. After the HIPAA was passed in 1996, these HIM professionals were introduced to a new and changing forefront of legislative and regulatory requirements when it comes to dealing with the wealth of...
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...Definition of terms Chinedu HCS/533 Health Information Systems AUGUST 25, 2014. Definition of terms This presentation will translate and define the following abbreviations: AMR, CMR, CMS, CMS-1500, CPT, DRG, EPR, HL7, ICD-9, and UB-92. Technology today has revolutionized the health care system, as technology evolves, so does the environment promoting quality care for those in need of it. AMR- An ambulatory medical record (AMR) is an electronically stored file of a patient’s outpatient medical records, which includes all surgeries and care that do not involve being admitted to a hospital. An AMR is similar to an electronic medical record (EMR), but while EMR’s keep track of inpatient care (surgeries and care that require spending overnight or longer in a hospital), AMRs only apply to medical procedures and cares that do not result in an overnight stay in a hospital or that are given in non-hospital settings such as urgent care clinics, physicians’ offices and at home medical care. AMRs are stored in electronic databases called ambulatory medical record systems that are accessible by doctors and other medical professionals. CMR- Computerized medical record is an electronic information system and keeps records of each individual patient’s health. Computerized medical records (CMR) provide a viable mechanism for implementing clinical governance. Computers are involved in all aspects of the clinical interaction-from consulting room to system-level use of large systems...
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...the policy addressing terminology and abbreviations was integrated into the Information Management standards as elements of performance 2 and 3 under IM.02.02.0 by Joint Commission. The hospital administration or HIM administration should have a committee to ensure the terminology and abbreviations are updated and distributed to all clinical areas, are posted within the electronic record system, and performed within specific time frames. The policy for addressing backup of electronic information systems can be found in Standard IM.01.01.03. The policy for managing interruptions to information processes is located within this Standard. This standard should be in the HIM department’s policy as well as IT department. The Medical Records Manager and IT Manager should maintain communication as to backups, updates, and scheduled downtime. IT will ensure all hospital employees’ awareness of any downtime for maintaining equipment as necessary. The release of information policy would be accessed in the Standard IM.02.01.03. This policy addresses protection of health information including access and disclosure. The protection of privacy is located in the Standard IM.02.01.01. The hospital should have a written policy on privacy, the limitations, and compliance to protect health...
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