Week 3 assignment 3/18/2014 The 5W’s behind recent healthcare reform initiatives and how they have, are or can impact the delivery of healthcare and HIM professionals. There have been many controversies over healthcare reform ideas and all the issues that may or may not arise affecting everything from the delivery and costs to the patients, HIM and surrounding professionals roles, and the politicians and the different ideas they stand behind. Examples of some of the most influential and recent
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While pursuing a career in allied health (PTA), we should be aware of many things such as confidentiality, privacy and security pertaining to patient information. Not only is it against the law to link information of a patient outside the workplace, but there is a slang term called “HIPPA” (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). HIPPA was put into play in 1996 for healthcare fields and facilities. This act allows patients personal healthcare information to be protected from being used
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Information Access using Electronic Medical Record (EMR): Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a computerized system of keeping patient information. Similar to paper charting, EMR can be used to chart important patient data to treat patients and document the related nursing care. EMR can be used to store important patient information like patient’s diagnoses, allergies, medication, patient’s demographics, lab and diagnostic test. EMR also includes patient’s medical record number and account number
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Communication and Information Technology - Electronic Medical Records HCS 320 July 31, 2011 Communication and Information Technology - Electronic Medical Records Technology plays an important role in health communication, in every health care facility we encounter some type of technology that allows health care personnel to communicate more efficiently. As technology evolves new developments make communication and organization in health care facilities much easier. One communication technology
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The electronic medical records are medical records that are computerized for the use of hospital or office of physicians. The system allows storage, modification and retrieval of patients’ records. This is efficient because it eliminates the records being paper based and doctors can record data at the moment they are talking to the patient. The effectiveness of electronic medical record errors is less likely to happen because everything will be electronic. By law health care providers
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Jessica Turner Administrative Ethics Paper Katherine Rossiter HCS/335 9/21/2013 One of the current administrative issue that is arising in the newspaper regarding patient privacy is the ability to email your physician. While technology is constantly growing every day to ability to email your physician is more convenient and getting direct results is more convenient then awaiting his phone call but is this always the most ethical decision to make? Hackers breaks into computer systems each
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Confidentiality in medicine in one definition is the ethical principle or legal right that a physician or other health professional will keep all information relating to a patient private, unless the patient gives consent for disclosure. Patients routinely share personal information with health care providers. If the confidentiality of this information were not protected, trust in the physician-patient relationship would be lessened. Patients would be less likely to share sensitive information, which
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legal health record is or contains. This can be a problem for an organization, as they try to determine what part of a patient’s medical record could be used in court. Each organization has to come up with their own legal health record as well as policies and procedures surrounding them. As an organization starts to define what their legal heath record is, there are some issues that need to be addressed and focused on. The first issue is whether the legal health record will be electronic, paper or
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that allowed patients to obtain their medical records to be treated at another facility and to help with the identification process of those who lost their lives. These measures will be discussed in detail in this paper. Management Plan Plans should be in place to make sure that patient records are secure in case of catastrophic events. A way to address this is to institute using an electronic medical record (EMR) and scan all paper-based medical records into an online system that will be maintained
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Journal of Issues in Nursing has a current article named “Caring for Patients While Respecting Their Privacy: Renewing Our Commitment”. The basis of the article concerns the ethical and legal issues concerning the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act” otherwise known as (HIPPA). This law has impacted the healthcare industry and the way in which healthcare workers conduct themselves with patients, their families, and with one another. In nursing the importance of confidentiality has always
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