North Mississippi Health Services is a diversified regional health care organization, which serves 24 counties in north Mississippi and northwest Alabama from headquarters in Tupelo, Miss. The NMHS organization covers a broad range of acute diagnostic and therapeutic services, offered through North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo; a community hospital system with locations in Eupora, Iuka, Pontotoc, and West Point, Miss., and Hamilton Ala.; North Mississippi Medical Clinics, a regional network
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OF RACIAL DISPARITY IN HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA Disparity in US Health Care is multifactorial, they reflect the differences in demographics, social-economic as well as environmental factors. The Journal of the American Medical Association identifies race as a significant determinant in the level of quality of care, with ethnic minority groups receiving less intensive and lower quality care. Ethnic minorities receive less preventative care, are seen less by specialists, and have fewer expensive and technical
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about a patient and any services or care provided. For research and billing purposes, data is grouped into data sets. Each data set needs to be defined to include compatible data elements. Aggregate data is health information that relates multiple patients. It can include such things as, diagnosis, ethnicity, or age groups. Aggregate data can be used to identify common characteristics of diseases and how they should be treated. (Health Information Management: Concepts, Principles, and Practice
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Needs Assessment for Quality In order for a hospital to survive the competition in today’s healthcare world, a hospital must be aware of opportunities to grow and reduce costs and be supported by Total Quality Management Process. The TQM process helps the hospital to create new products, ensure the standards of quality and client satisfaction and deliver improved services. In addition, the TQM process also helps in improving a company's bottom line profits by increasing operating efficiencies
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as well as useful to me in my future field of study and career in Health care Administration and Health Management are both none-profit organizations. One is commonly known as “AHIMA” (American Health Information Management Association) and the other one is known as “HIMSS” (The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society). AHIMA was founded in 1928, and is the primary association of health information management for (HIM) professionals (AHIMA, 2010). AHIMA has more than 53,000
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Communication and Information Technology HCS/320 Cheryl Workman Communication and Information Technology Health care communication and information technology provides health care providers with a way to improve and manage the quality of the delivery of health care information. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is one type of communication and information technology. According to whatis.com an EMR is “a digital version of the traditional paper-based medical record for an individual. The EMR
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In each health care organization, the information system is responsible for strategically managing the cost related from inefficiencies. Managing and reducing the amount of unnecessary care given by providing all information systems with a common database to monitor and document these occurrences. Then develop and implement a strategic solution to further improve the patient quality of care which reflects as a cost saving initiative. Information management systems are responsible for managing
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of the change necessary to improve quality (American Society of Quality, 2004). Recommendations for quality improvement are evidence-based and are often government sponsored studies by independent organizations. The Joint commission’s recommendation of hourly rounding on patients, or shift change huddles regarding patient safety alerts are examples of recent improvement implementations for which the PDSA cycle process was recently activated in many health care organizations. Performance measurement
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Accountable Care Organizations: Key to Transforming Healthcare? The Talia Goldsmith, MHA Candidate 2011 Suffolk University Sawyer Business School HLTH 890AE: Healthcare
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personnel employed to provide services, the quality of equipment, buildings, and supplies, and services provided, including health records. (LaTour, 2013) Medicare has developed Conditions of Participation and Conditions for Coverage, which identifies specific criteria that must be met in order to receive reimbursement from Medicare. Medicare implements these guidelines in order to set a standard for improving quality of care and maintaining the health and safety of its beneficiaries. (CMS, 2013)
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