ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Dennis, J. (2000) Privacy and Confidentiality of Health Information. This book explores the emerging risks to patients’ confidentiality and privacy. The author of the book finds some solutions to this problem. He is sure that every health care organization should be responsible for protecting patients’ confidentiality. The author also describes some laws and ethical codes which should be taken into consideration by health care providers. He states that it is
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Analysis of Health Management Systems and Electronic Health Records Epic Patients benefit in many ways from Epic. First, patient safety is enhanced with computerized physician-order entry. Epic has clinical decision support built in that alerts physicians during the ordering process. For example, if a patient is allergic to penicillin and the physician places an order for a drug containing penicillin, an alert will pop up to warn the physician the patient is allergic to the drug. Physician
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The given “Healthcare Compliance and Coding Management Effectiveness Scenario” describes the day to day challenges that a Health Information Management (HIM) department Manager/Supervisor will face. In this case it is actually a newly hired HIM department’s Manager/Supervisor. My approach to address the challenges presented in the scenario would be to first access and analyze the current workforce that I am responsible to manage, evaluate the new requirement that has to be fulfilled as a result of
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Unit II Case Study: “Supporting Mobile Health Clinics: The Children’s Health Fund of New York City” The Children’s Health Fund is a national non-profit organization that was founded on providing health care to the nation’s needy and underprivileged children. The CHF began over 25 years ago by reaching out to homeless kids in New York City and delivering health care through a mobile medical clinic (MMC) driven around the city to locations and neighborhoods seeking out children to provide basic
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Systems Information Security Considerations in Health Care IT Systems A combination of health statistics from various sources used to derive information about health status, health care, provision and use of services and health impact Informatics Hospital information system A system that provides information management features that hospitals need for daily business Features Pt tracking, billing and administrative programs; may include clinical features Security for the Healthcare IT
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Standards In order for a hospital to be eligible for reimbursement through Medicare, they have to show that they are compliant by way of the Conditions of Participation. One way to show this is by getting an accreditation through The Joint Commission who meets the Medicare Condition of Participation standards. (La Tour, 2013). Clinical Quality Medical professional should select quality measures for reporting such as commonly treated conditions, the types of care that are frequently delivered
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OSI Model Protocol K. Johnson NTC/361 June 2, 2014 OSI Model Protocol Protocols and standards are important for network designs, they provide a guided format for transferring data. These protocols can be defined by exclusive system or organizations such as American Health Information who oversee Health Information Exchange (HIE). In this essay the OSI model will be examined, especially in the health care field. An Open System Interconnection Model (OSI) is a layered representation
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The Evolution of Health Care Paper Abdallah Muqedi, Ashall Smith, Brandi Bevely, Karla Hopkins, Kendrick Bogan, Latasha Cormier HCS/531 June 9, 2014 Dr. Rachael Kehoe Abstract The Evolution of Health Care Paper The health care industry has changed dramatically as the years have passed. One major way that health care has evolved is the use of technology. Technology has helped health care expand in a major way. It has changed simply from the way people can be seen by a doctor to the technology
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Communication Paper Jansen York University of Phoenix HCS 490 January 10, 2011 Communication Paper There are many different methods use in the health care world to help improve the communication between the healthcare providers and the patients they provide services to. There are different facility provided forums and health care information hotlines where patients can receive information with out seeing a provider but the most important new development in the health care related communication
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Anita Kennedy October 14th 2013 Literature Review Test Construction Project Online Health Information Seeking Behavior The purpose of this literature review is to briefly discuss the existing literature about online health information-seeking behavior. For the purpose of this particular research we will focus on these behaviors by adults only and from the perspective the Health consumer. Other studies have looked at these behaviors in adolescents, who happen to have very different reasons
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