...Secondary Sources and Measurement Scale for Healthcare Ratings Edwin Romero Ashford University BUS642: Business Research Dr. David Bouvin September 29, 2014 Abstract As information technology makes it easy for us to do our daily jobs and manage our personal lives, we have put out too much personal information out. In the healthcare field as medical institutions either have both a hard copy and electronic medical record (EMR) of their patients, or just an EMR, which at times give patient data for studies excluding demographic information. That was not the case before July 2003 as medical facilities and providers were using all patient information and giving it to third-party agencies like pharmaceutical companies for profit, but now is unethical and illegal in accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Act. I’ll be presenting to the reder, what types of secondary sources exist, as well as the type of measurement scale will be used in order to prove if healthcare institutions’ ratings are partly based on how well the institutions themselves manage their information systems regulate ethical and legal management and use of patient data. Secondary Sources and Measurement Scale for Healthcare Ratings As Information Technology (IT) is widely used in almost every field, and making everyone’s jobs easier, and helping in maintaining records and history in compact form versus a few decades ago where it was mostly paper tracking and hard copies of documents, it has...
Words: 1619 - Pages: 7
...Identifying and Evaluating a Website for Credibility Lori M. Rankin Chamberlain College of Nursing NR500 MSN Foundational Concepts and Application Summer 2015 Introduction Identifying and Evaluating a Website for Credibility The Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov is a website that provides a plethora of information. I was able to locate this website using the Google search engine. The purpose of this website is to enhance and provide guidelines for clinicians, impacts on health care, and knowledge of where products and tools are used. This site also lists tools of improving patient care. A credible website also provides quality of journals, peer-reviewed articles and systematic reviews. I chose this data base for best practice information on current issues. Analysis The ARHQ is a website with a search engine database that is owned and published by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. It provides information on evidenced-based practice, provides continuing education opportunities, explores treatment options and gives up to date information on latest news and events. ARHQ is not limited to healthcare providers but is also available to consumers and patients and is labeled for simple navigation. Additionally the website provides a link in Spanish. The website in Spanish is identical for the website in English. The category link for patients and consumers provides information such as “Questions To Ask Your Doctor...
Words: 1002 - Pages: 5
...Introduction In Health care, quality and utilization management have been forced into the spotlight by an insatiable demand for technologically advancing services, a legal system that compels physician to order unnecessary services, and the costs that are soaring higher than ever. The inconsistent use, overuse, misuse or even under used healthcare services has created inefficiencies and value concerns that demand oversight to ensure the best care is received while utilizing resources in the most efficient manner. "The knowledgeable health reporter for the Boston Globe, Betsy Lehman, died from an overdose during chemotherapy. Willie King had the wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up."[i] The Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America identified strategies for quality improvement through two historic reports: To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century[ii]. The IOM published the "To Err is Human" study which showed that these horrible examples (commonly referred to as "Never Events") were only the tip of the iceberg. The study found that adverse events occurred in 2.9 to 3.7 percent of every hospitalization and that over half of all adverse events had resulted from medical errors that could have been prevented. To apply these numbers across American's nearly 34 million hospital admissions in 1997...
Words: 3804 - Pages: 16
...Introduction This paper explain the Accountability of a nursing professional based on an evidence report from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Assessment(AHRQ) , the report is " Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 6: Prevention of Healthcare–Associated Infections)" under the head Quality Improvement and Patient Safety What is Accountability? In Fundamentals of Nursing it says “The ability and willingness to assume responsibility for ones’ actions and accepting the consequences of one's behavior.” Accountability of nursing professional is a legal obligation; for a professional nurse it is relating to ethics and moral responsibility. Within the kingdom of professional accountability, there are many factors. The American Nursing Association (ANA) states in its code that the nurse will assume accountability for nursing judgment and actions. A professional nurse has the responsibility to take decisions and practice within the scope of care, calling upon his/her information and skills to make judgments in favor of the patient. A professional nurse is accountable to their profession, their patients, employer, and other health care team members and to themselves. Nurses are accountable to provide safest care for their patient based on evidence based practice and safe nursing interventions. Nursing profession as a whole is build up on accountability, unselfishness, integrity and social justice. A professional...
Words: 915 - Pages: 4
...Assignment 04 HE310 Survey of Healthcare Management Directions: Be sure to make an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be three (3) to six (6) pages in length; refer to the "Assignment Format" page for specific format requirements. This written assignment has two parts and involves combining the case studies from lessons 1-4. For each of the case studies, you are responsible for selecting the appropriate case at the end of the applicable chapter and response to the question. In each of the cases you will respond as if you are the hospital administrator. For part 1 of this written assignment, please see case studies relating to lessons 1-4 below. Please combine your response to these case study questions into part I of your written assignment. Part I Lesson 1 Case Study 1. Better Service to Current Patient Population You are the administrator of a 250-bed hospital. A recent report from the county tells you that the population within a 25-radius of your facility is getting younger - the median age in the area has decreased from 35 years of age to 29 years of age. This was an expected impact of the new state university campus that has opened about five miles away. What do you need to review and analyze to ensure that you can provide the services required...
Words: 770 - Pages: 4
...Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (www.natho.org) April 24, 2012 Introducing Mark Stagen • Founder/CEO of Emerald Health Services • Founded Emerald Health Services in 2002 • Emerald Health Services ranked number 185 in Inc. Magazine's 2007 'Inc. 500 list' in the category of fastest growing companies in the United • Mr. Stagen was awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year award in the Greater Los Angeles region in 2007 • Founded the National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (NATHO) in 2008 2 Today’s Agenda • A Look at Today’s Healthcare Workforce • Reviewing the KPMG U.S. Hospital Nursing Labor Costs Study Results • Strategies for Optimizing the Nursing Workforce 3 Learning Objectives • Understand how to successfully blend full-time and contingent labor to achieve financial and patient care goals. • Develop proactive contingent staffing strategy to attract highest quality nurses. • Leverage new research to understand the impact of contingent staffing on quality and patient outcomes. 4 State of the Healthcare Workforce • Healthcare employment up 360,000 in last 12 months1 • The average age of a Registered Nurse is 472 • Nurses looking at job changes3 – 42% are not satisfied with their current job – 24% plan to seek new employment if economic recovery continues – 32% plan to take steps to leave nursing in the next 1-3 years 1 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2 & 3 AMN Healthcare 2011 Survey of Registered...
Words: 1426 - Pages: 6
...surgery include the board of trustees, medical executive committee, directors, senior management, nurses, physicians, other healthcare staff and ancillary staff. The senior management members are the role models for the hospital staff. Similarly, all leadership roles within the healthcare organization, formal and informal, must possess and exhibit the identical vision of zero patient harm (Chassin and Loeb, 2013). Additionally, the Risk Manager and Quality Department staff performs an important role in implementing, maintaining, assessing, and auditing quality and patient safety initiatives. In this case analysis, the key roles that influenced the outcome of a wrong-site surgery event include the emergency department triage staff, emergency department staff (physician, nurse, medical assistant or technician, and/or emergency medical technician), holding area nurse, anesthesiologist, surgeons, and operating room staff. There were plenty of opportunities to stop the sentinel event from occurring. The patient went from one caregiver to the next without a proper verification process. The senior management team with the support of the board of trustees and medical executive committee must hold all healthcare staff employees responsible for their part in risk reduction (Health Research & Educational Trust and Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, 2014)....
Words: 905 - Pages: 4
...Evidence-based practice centers are the outcome of an initiative of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in 1997 to promote practice based on evidence. The EPCs develop evidence reports as well as assessments on the topics, which are relevant to clinical and other health care organizations. There is a special emphasis on the common as well as expensive problems that the medical fraternity faces. A very good example of a successful EPC would be the one at John Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center. It has provided some pioneering research work on Type 2 diabetes in adults. Their research on this includes an in-depth analysis and study of an oral medication for adults having type 2 diabetes. It has also come up with a study...
Words: 252 - Pages: 2
...Department Treatment of Acute Migraines Grand Canyon University: NRS-433V January 12, 2014 In 2011 a research to practice article was published in the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal by Patricia Kunz Howard and Susan E. Shapiro on effective acute migraine treatment in the emergency department. Kunz Howard and Shapiro reviewed and critiqued a research study by Kostic, Gutierrez, Rieg, Moore, & Gendron (2010), titled “A prospective, randomized trial of intravenous prochlorperazine versus subcutaneous sumatriptan in acute migraine therapy in the emergency department,” that was originally published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The clinical/ research problem that led to this particular study was to find out whether there was a clinically significant difference in two different treatments for acute migraines in the emergency department. Currently pain management for headaches is considered controversial. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is currently evaluating migraine management. This is part of an effective health care program that is focused on providing evidence for clinical providers caring for a specific patient population; an example would be migraine headaches in the ED. (Kunz Howard & Shapiro, 2011) For this study there were 187 patients that presented to the ED with a headache in the study period, 66 of which completed the study. The groups of patients in the prochlorperazine group (35 patients) reported a greater overall improvement...
Words: 654 - Pages: 3
...that are being addressed. The government whether it is local federal or state are where these laws and regulation are made and implemented. There are also private sectors and organizations who help to develop regulations. To try and understand what the laws or regulations are about or who or what they might be meant for, there needs to be an understanding of what the agencies are that regulate them. When we look at the federal jurisdiction there are some that once said many people are familiar with such as Center for Medicare and Medicaid, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the FDA(Food and Drug Administration). The state level agencies would consist of the following, welfare department, insurance, and the health department. The private sector brings organizations in which play important roles when it comes to health care laws and regulations. The following are part of the private sector organizations 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...
Words: 1540 - Pages: 7
...Unavailable Healthcare Student’s Name: University Affiliation Unavailable Healthcare Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2002). Health care costs: Fact sheet. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Retrieved on March 12, 2013, from http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/costs/health-care/index.html The United States department of health and human services has an agency that is dedicated to conducting studies on the cost of healthcare to inform lawmakers and citizens alike. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has done extensive studies on particular ways to target the increasing cost of medical care. This is in recognition of the cost as a barrier to the availability of healthcare to the poor. Ayanian, J.Z. & Van der Wees, P.J. (2012). Tackling rising health care costs in Massachusetts. The New England Journal of Medicine, 367, 790-793. Retrieved March 21, 2013, from http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1208710. Massachusetts is an example of a state on how to enact healthcare reform. Ayanian and Van der Wees (2012) investigate how Massachusetts has handled the rising cost of healthcare. In 2010, the state attorney general found that there was a great variation in the price of medical care throughout the state (Ayanian & Van der Wees, 2012). The state passed a law whose aim was to control medical care costs; Brill, S. (2013, February 20). Bitter pill: Why medical bills are killing us. Time. Retrieved Sept 5...
Words: 1627 - Pages: 7
...INTRODUCTION TO ADVERTISING TOPIC- AD AGENCIES STRUCTURE GROUP MEMBERS: RUSHABH BHEDA 302 KANCHI DAVE 306 JINAL INAMDAR 311 HEENA KHAN 318 DEVKUMAR MISTRY 327 JINALI SHAH 337 HISTORY Founded in the year 1980, by Mr Abhinav mistry, White‘n’Black is one of India’s most prestigious ad agencies. The founder Mr Abhinav started his career as a cartoonist in the newspaper “Dainik Bhaskar”. On the birth of their son, Dev Kumar, on December 1980, the Mistry family inaugurated their main headquarters in Delhi. As newspapers and pencils were a main part of his life, Mr Mistry decided to name his company White ‘n’ Black. Today the company boasts of a clientele of names such as Coca Cola, Fritolay and many more with the son now holding the reins. CLIENTELE Johnson & Johnson Airtel Axe deodorant Coca cola Fritolay Maruti SX4 Amul Imperial blue soda Jockey Snap deal.com Saffola oil Tropicana Cadbury Airwick L’oreal Parle-G Britannia Parker Raymond SUCCESS We believe that excellence in an organisation stems from its people. It is the talent combined with passion and integrity that makes a place successful. At White ‘n’ Black, the thing we care most about is ‘dedication’. After all, dedication is what...
Words: 1699 - Pages: 7
...Sandra M. Sielinski Chamberlain College of Nursing Abstract Tele-health is defined as “The use of health informatics, disease management, and home telehealth technologies to enhance and extend care and case management to facilitate access to care and improve the health of designated individuals and populations with the specific intent of providing the right care in the right place at the right time.” (Barr, McElnay, & Hughes, 2010) Telehealth services can offer timely and cost effective alternative means to healthcare for a patient, but nurses need to be aware of the less visible potential effects of providing nursing care, thus needing to more specific and more focused in their patient assessment. While telehealth has the potential to offer patients and nurses easier access to each other, privacy and ethical concerns are now more prevalent when it comes to the use of telehealth. (Hebda & Czar, 2013) Properly secured communications are a must-have in the telehealth industry. Advantages and Disadvantages While most people think that telehealth is a more recent venture based on current technology, it actually originated in 1980 when the United States Government ”played a major role in development and promotion of teleheath through various agencies” (Hebda & Czar, 2013)When government funding decreased, interest in telehealth subsided until the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Act of 1991 renewed interest with the help of the internet by bringing...
Words: 1507 - Pages: 7
...particular state. Laws begin as act acts which define the meaning of “practice of medicine” and set the requirements and procedures for licensure. Medical practice acts also establish what can be considered as unprofessional conduct in particular states. Examples of unprofessional conduct include practicing medicine without a license, practicing healthcare or the inability to practice health care while under addiction or mental illness, felony convictions, insufficient record keeping, employing unlicensed persons to practice medicine, and prescribing drugs in excessive amounts. We currently live in a litigious society. Medical providers must balance providing quality and keeping abreast with current health care regulations to protect themselves from health care law suits (Fremgen, 2009). Laws are enforceable rules set by a government authority. An article related to a regulatory issue in health care will be analyzed to reflect how laws affect the regulatory process in health care. The Four Categories of Law Laws fall into different categories which include constitutional law, statutory land and regulatory law and common or case law. Constitutional law consists of U.S. Constitution and individual state constitutions that act as the country’s highest judicial authority. U.S. Constitutional laws take precedence over all state laws and state constitutions. Constitutional law is limited to addressing the relationship between individual and their...
Words: 1950 - Pages: 8
...Wesley D. Pointjour Final Research Paper: Telehealth In Nursing Homes Health Quality Management April 02, 2015 Introduction In many nursing home facilities, patient safety is little to non-existent and if they are, there displayed on a need be and not obliged basis. They are displayed case by case rather than nursing home protocol. Even with changes in regulations, reporting systems, and documentation over the past couple of years, the nursing home industry still has its share of problems. Patient safety is meant to provide patients freedom from healthcare associated preventable harm, meaning when things go right, nothing bad happens. Nursing home organizations have been constantly trying to improve their reputation and the way people view them, but how? Don’t patients make up a nursing home? What about their safety? Shouldn’t we start there? How do we make improvements? Telehealth, a new approach to improving patient safety in nursing homes, will use telecommunication technologies to deliver health related services and information that support patient care, administrative activities, and health education (Dixon, Hook, McGowan, 2008). In this paper I will explore the major benefits of Telehealth and how its implications can improve patient safety in nursing home care. What is Telehealth and why is it important? Telehealth is the means and methods to improving access to care and reducing healthcare associated costs. It is also a system that can be used for education...
Words: 2886 - Pages: 12
