Risk Management Nur/492 April 1, 2013 Kendra Slatton, RN, MSN, CDE In 1996, the United States Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law. The purpose of the law was to focus on providing greater access to health care for Americans and to address administrative activities regarding claims submissions to insurance carriers (American Medical Association, 2011)
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NCQA (National Committee of Quality Assurance) and JCHAO (Joint Commission on Accreditations of the Health care Organization). With so many laws and regulations, only two governmental agencies will be viewed and focused on to try and understand and see how they are used, and work or not work in today’s health care. It is also important to see the cause and effects of regulations. **** The JCHAO which stands for the Joint Commission on
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by Holzberger (2015), the Joint Commission new standards for diagnostic are intended to help prevent unnecessary medical imaging of patients as well reduce harmful exposure to radiation. Beginning of July 1, 2015, diagnostic procedure require “protocols, documentation and data collection, staff education and other criteria that raise the bar of quality and safety at ambulatory imagining and critical access hospital” (Holzberger, 2015). Furthermore, the Joint Commission coupled with the White House
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wrong site. Eight hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers in the United States recognized that never events are a critical part of patient safety issues a critical patient safety ("The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare |Newsroom," 2011). The healthcare facilities joined the Joint commission center for Transforming Healthcare to address the problem. There are currently 25 states and the District of Columbia have mandatory reporting, only a few of them publicly report never events
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makers. This is useful because it indicates the future revenue and expenditure trends that can have an immediate or long-term impact on government policies, goals, and services provided. Projections are usually made for salaries, maintenance, food, supplies, medical services, and many more items. Before preparing estimates, the budget manager will log into PeopleSoft enterprise, which is a management system that provides financial documents and employee data. The employee data and financial documents
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rising and are not meeting desired quality outcomes at MJ Kidney. The Joint Commission (2018) states that catheter-related bloodstream infections affect hundreds of millions of people around the world. It also stated that these infections are not only costly to individuals and health care systems, but can significantly increase the morbidity and mortality of patients in developed countries and in developing countries (Joint Commission,
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"According to The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event database, hospitals voluntarily reported 80 deaths and 13 severe injuries that occurred between January 2009 and June 2012" ("The Joint Commission:," 2013). An article in the journal, Nursing 2013, states "the FDA received 566 reports of alarm-related patient deaths between January 2005 and June 2010" ("Don't give in," 2013). Current Impact of Topic On April 8, 2013, The Joint Commission (TJC) issued sentinel
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INTRODUCTION Partnerships are defined by the Audit Commission (1998) as “joint working arrangements where parties are otherwise independent bodies who agree to co-operate to achieve common goals, create a new organisational structure or process to achieve these goals, plan and implement a joint programme and share relevant information, tasks and rewards”. Stern and Green (2005) clarify the definition of partnerships further as programmes that have “a high level of commitment, mutual trust, equal
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Healthcare Law and Informatics Stephanie Masella Southern New Hampshire University “Technology to compute information has roughly doubled every 14 months between 1986 and 2007” (Rundio & Wilson, 2010 ). Health IT has changed the ways of communication and documentation. Informatics in healthcare has helped to increase the efficiency of our healthcare system. By moving away from hand written medical records, information has become more organized, more manageable, and much more easily accessible
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the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:38 EST (16:38 UTC). Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand SRB's aft attachment and the structural
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