...Health Management IT Author’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: Date: Health Management IT The Willow Bend Policy protects the information on health for the storage and destruction of both paper and the electronic health records based on the Florida state regulations, the Medicare participation conditions and the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act). Among the common criteria required in the in the Medicare participation conditions is the provision of a medical record service that caters for the patient’s medical record. In this policy, the health information is put in electronic documents in the Apex Patient folder. The Willow Bend Policy is in line with the HIPAA. It maintains the converted paper health records into electronic health records maintained in an area that is safe and secure. This is because the HIPAA requires that the patient information is stored with confidentiality. The privacy provisions that include the security provision are also stated in the HIPAA Administrative Simplification provisions. This is so that the patient health information (PHI) is safely stored and its transmission and usage is done properly. The HIPAA privacy rule sets conditions that aim at protecting the health information which to be used and disclosed for the purpose of research. It also protects the rights for discharged patients to acquire their own information held by the covered entities. This Policy thus helps in maintaining the privacy...
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...Public Health Management Abstract Many low-income countries need to significantly scale up coverage of priority health services. This will generally require additional national and international resources, but better leadership and management are key to using these resources effectively to achieve measurable results. Good leadership and management are about providing direction to, and gaining commitment from, partners and staff, facilitating change and achieving better health services through efficient, creative and responsible deployment of people and other resources. While leaders set the strategic vision and mobilize the efforts towards its realization, good managers ensure effective organization and utilization of resources to achieve results and meet the aims. Public health management is really needed in Africa. For active and resourceful nursing management in Africa, competencies are vital. It is important to know the expertise of the managers on these competencies. It is also important to know if there is a gap between what managers think they know and what they really know in regards to skills. The role of public health for case management is to upkeep early identification of possible circumstances and persons under investigation (PUI) via investigation, mapping communication, awareness activities to healthcare workers and the public. Public health experts can also partake in updating the channeling of PUIs’ likely plus confirmed cases to health care facilities...
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...KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND MEDICAL EDUCATION Name: Esbon Mwangi Gakuo Registration Number: HSM-3-3870-3/2014 COURSE TITLE: HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT COURSE CODE: HSMG 517 Trimester III 2014 1. CONTINOUS ASSESSMENT TESTS ASSIGNMENT # 1 1. Identify a tier 2 health facility of your choice. 2. Based on the above facility, answer questions 1 to 6 of reading assignment 1 in the reader. Instructor: Susan Njuguna Date of Submission: 12th October 2014 1. Identify a tier 2 health facility of your choice. Name of Facility | Sub-County | County | Catchment Population | Gatugura Dispensary | Gichugu | Kirinyaga | 13,768 | 2. Based on the above facility, answer questions 1 to 6 of reading assignment 1 in the reader. Question 1 Why do we want an essential health package? What is it going to be used for? Who are expected to benefit? If we want currently under-served populations to benefit, are we being realistic that they will be able to access the new EHP? Question 2 How will we define it? Cost it? What work needs to be done? Who should be involved in its development? Question 3 What timeframe are we talking about in terms of achieving implementation? Question 4 Which providers are expected to implement the EHP? How will they be supported? What changes need to be made to budget allocations; training and distribution of health workers; medicines lists, reporting forms etc? Queston 5...
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...The Community and Financial Role of the Healthcare Manager What is a Community Health Centers? Community health centers are public or non-profit clinic sites located in medically underserved, rural, and urban areas throughout the nation. They receive grants under the Community and Migrant Health Centers Program of the US Department of Health and Human Services to provide primary and preventive care to community residents. Community health centers remove common barriers to care by serving communities that otherwise confront financial, geographic, language/cultural and other barriers, making them different from most private, office-based practices. CHCs are: • Located in high-need areas identified by the federal and state government as having elevated poverty, higher than average infant mortality, and where fewer providers agree to practice; • Open to all residents, regardless of insurance status, and provide reduced cost care based on ability to pay; • Tailor services to fit the special needs and priorities of local communities, and provide services based on the advice of local residents, businesses, churches, and other organizations; and • Offer services that help patients access health care, such as transportation, translation, case management, health education, and chronic disease management. Health centers are required by law to provide: • Basic health services related to family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, or gynecology; ...
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...November 30, 2012 Community Nursing in the 53218 Zip code Each community has its own positive and negative features. The zip code community of 53218 is no exception. Some of those positive features of the 53218 community has prospective features such as its existing available clinics, multipurpose community centers, such as the Silver Spring Community Center, and numerous outreach programs through organizations including Growing Power and the Milwaukee Outreach Center. Unfortunately, it is still considered one of ten zip codes in the Milwaukee County designated in the “lower socioeconomic status” group as reported in the Milwaukee Health Report (Chen, et al., 2011). The lower SES group, including 53218, as a whole is at risk for (1) a growing rate of obesity related to a poor nutritional lifestyle, (2) a continually decreasing gynecological health among the female population between ages 12 and 19 related to a lack of enforced education and rising teen pregnancy-related issues, and (3) a consistently low level of neighborhood safety related to motor vehicle accidents and rising crime rates. Community Strengths The community of 53218 has three main areas of strength: (1) several available clinics, (2) an abundance of multipurpose community centers, and (3) numerous outreach programs. First, there are many medical and dental clinics within the 53218 community capable of providing different services. Hampton Dental Associates is one of the more prominent dental clinics in...
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...Health Care Management Angel Falcione Health Care Management Dr. Lisa Jones Health Care Management This paper will discuss the roles of management functions used by today’s health care management. I will also discuss the four major functions of management along with how to apply these functions to managing others in my current job. Next, I will discuss the most important role for a manager and leader in the diverse health care. Lastly, I will discuss the most significant aspect related to health care management that I want to gain by taking this class. As a health care manager there are certain duties and responsibilities that come along with making your facility run smoothly. “Health care managers recognize the importance of always maintaining a service-oriented image and realize the patient always drives the organization, not vice versa.” (Lombardi, 2007) In other words, the manager must display an action plan with other employees to ensure that everyone knows, the patients and their needs are to be top priority. Managers must be able to identify any problems with employees and their daily performances as well as finding solutions to the problems at hand. Making good decisions and taking appropriate action is key for a manager to succeed. Managers can achieve this by using the process of management which includes four major functions. These four functions include organizing, leading, controlling, and planning...
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...Bhagyashree Sood Management of Health services Professor Frank 11/15/2015 Evaluation #2 Managers have a big role to play in the success of a health services organizations. Since managers are the primary people one could reach out for assistance, they have to plan strategically and follow the key concepts and theories which enhances the performances of the organization. Planning and organizing is also a very important aspect in the process of maintaining sustainable relationship between the organizations and the systems external environments (Longest, 422). Strategizing is the basic concept which initializes the different theories that motivates and communicates in the field of health care systems. There are different types of concepts, theories, and leadership motivation that help the organization to stay intact within a working environment. “Planning, in general, is defined as anticipating the future, assessing present information about the organizational direction, programs, and resource deployment” (Longest 424). It is important to focus on planning in any system because it will help with the establishment of important concepts in the future. One such system that follows this pattern is the HSO system, these concepts follow through the other functions in HSO. For example functions such as organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and decision making only comes after the planning process moves ahead. Planning is a very important part of management because it saves...
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...Quality Management Assessment Summary Mark Borland HCS/451 Julie Carson February 25th, 2013 Quality management assessment summary Purpose of Quality Management When an organization or corporation invests its time and resources to qualitymanagement, it permits to enhance quality of business procedures and thiseventually leads to a reduction in the possibility of unforeseen obscurity and troubles. This enables patients to get products and services of superior quality. High quality of production development diminishes the prime cost of th4e final product or service, sothe hospital gets an opportunity to avail customers with better prices. Concepts of Quality Management • Ensure your health care fits your needs and preferences (What is Qualityin Health Care, n.d). • Ensure that your health care does not cause harm (What is Quality inHealth Care, n.d). • Ensure that your health care is right for your illness (What is Quality inHealth Care, n.d). • Make sure that your health care is given without unnecessary delays(What is Quality in Health Care, n.d). • Ensure that your health care includes only the medical tests andprocedures that you need (What is Quality in Health Care, n.d). • Make sure that your health care is fair and not affected by such thingsas your gender, language, color, age or income (What is Quality inHealth Care, n.d). The Cleveland Clinics method of approach to quality management are toprovide lower healthcare cost, revenue generated , overall...
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...KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF DEVRY UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT 542: HEALTH RIGHTS/RESPONSIBILITIES BY DR NELVA LEE HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT 542: HEALTH RIGHTS/RESPONSIBILITIES BY DR NELVA LEE WEEK 5 - YOU DECIDE ASSIGNEMENT FEBRUARY 2015 The following facts have been brought to my attention as the new director of risk management at Little Falls Hospital: Lydia 45-year-old woman is a patient currently paralyzed and who only communicates through head nods since her car accident over six months ago. She is on life support with a ventilator for respiratory assistance and receives tube feedings. The hospital professionals are unsure if Lydia would be able to understand information regarding her health and making her own decisions. It is also reported that she has an advance directive, but no one has been able to secure a copy of the document. According to the Uniform Healthcare Decision Act, in absence of advance directive the family member who would be in priority to act as a surrogate is the patient spouse unless legally separated, and in this case Lydia’s four (4) years husband, Mr. Bevins would become her legal guardian. (National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform States Laws. 1994) The legal right to make the decisions about her health care on her behalf would be given to him. Mr. Bevins states that based on his different conversations with his wife about these type of issues, he knows that she would not...
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...HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT 1 HEA 220/ DR CHRISTINE CONNOLLY Tricia Cigobin Welcome to our staff meeting everyone, it seems there are some major issues and concerns that have arrived in the office that we need to address and discuss today. This staff meeting will take some time so please everyone be patient. I know a lot of you have been coming to me with concerns about a voice translation system for the office, as I feel this would be a great asset to the practice, but I just don’t that it is one of our major issues that we should spend a lot of our finances on. The voice translation software with cost us approximately over 10,000 dollars. If everyone can continue to type in the system as we have been doing, you will find that I have a lot more improvements for the office that you will love. I understand that it is a lot of typing but if we install the voice translation software what will be the purpose of all the employees, no one would be needed in the office and all of you will be out of a job and we definitely don’t want that. Here goes my proposal for the office that will be a great improvement and less work for everyone. I was given a budget of 42,000 dollar’s to make sure all of the major issues are taken addressed. I did a lot of research and the total I came up with was 100,000 thousand dollars which of course is way over the budget I was given, so I had to prioritize the most important, the most affordable, and of course the most effective for the office...
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...Health Management Information Systems in Improving Primary Health Care Delivery Abstract Introduction Health management information systems (HMIS) are implemented in different countries with the expectation that they will contribute to improving primary health care (PHC) delivery. Information generated through these systems is conceived as an imperative for better decision making processes and strengthening accountability arrangements that underpin the delivery of PHC. Methods Electronic databases such as MEDLINE, EMBASE data bases were reviewed for articles published between 1985 to December 2014. MeSH terms used initially for the systematic review were “Health care system” and the search was limited to English-language publications in...
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...quality in healthcare; examine the theories of quality in healthcare and approaches taken toward evaluating and improving quality of health services in Uganda’s public health sector with the main focus on the implementation of Millennium Development Goals. The discussion will focus on patient satisfaction as an aspect of quality and how it influences quality of care provided from a District healthcare manager’s perspective, analyse factors that influence patient satisfaction, how the MDGs aim to improve the quality of care provided to patients by exposing the gaps between healthcare management perceptions of service quality and how the service is actually being delivered to the consumers. Social constructionism in healthcare In social constructionism it is important to look at social settings and human way of life when focusing on healthcare in different cultures and societies. Class and social stratification can have profound implications for the way we experience health and illness and other life opportunities and expectations. Social structures (like class, religion, gender or law) didn’t suddenly appear fully formed as we know them now, they developed over time, through discourses and continue to move on, formed by economic, political, moral, environmental, social and technological changes. Such changes profoundly affect expectations in health...
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...Health and Social Care Management Question 1 1.1 Factors to be considered when planning the recruitment of individuals to work in health and social care According to Foot & Hook (1999), for the recruitment of the two vacant posts there are some factors to be considered such as planning recruitment policy, overall aim of recruitment, organizational objectives, personnel policies of the organization, government policies, need for the organization and confirm the vacancy, legislation for the post selection, recruitment cost and financial implications etc. Now the factors are described below: Defining requirements is the most important factor for recruiting a candidate. Sometimes there are some opportunities to replace an employee for fulfilling the company needs. So it should be justified and checked first. Requirement for the particular post should be set out in role profile form and person specification. A role profile where competence, skills, educational and experience requirements need to be provided to assess a candidate in a easier way in interview. Moreover, technical competencies, behavioural and attitudinal requirements, qualifications, training, experience, specific demands, manual handling competency, special requirements etc are need to be considered while recruiting the vacant posts in health and social care sector. Armstrong (2006) states that internal recruitment may be considered firstly but if the organization becomes failure in this method they have to...
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...In the health care system, one of the essential dilemma a nurse managers face is to deal with the management of change. Therefore, the nurse manager as well her team members need knowledge, competence, and leadership skills to maintain the expertise needed to carry out the complexity of the change management process. Change is an ongoing process where people can be passive, divergent, or supportive toward it. Regardless of these feelings, change is required to achieve advancement in the profession. Thus, this paper will explore the management of the change process by identifying a problem that a nurse manager need to resolve, driving forces for the need to change, application of management and leadership theory as well motivational theory,...
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...monitoring. The performance measure process recognizes an important element of Total Quality Management programs. When identifying your performance measures you first need to look at how much you do? The number of customers you serve? Then you should ask yourself what types of activities are being performed, and try to convert these activities into measure. Such as training employees, becomes to the number of people being trained. Identifying performance measures will help to provide an indication of an organizations performance in relation to a specified process or outcome. Monitoring selected performance measures lets you know how well you are doing, if you are meeting your goals, if your customers are satisfied with their care, if your processes are in statistical control. Performance measures will provide an indication of an organizations performance in relation to a specified process or outcome. Monitoring selected performance measures will also help an organization determine process stability or identify improvement opportunities. A third step in performance improvement is to Analyze and Compare internal/external data. Internal data is information that is procured and consolidated from different branches within an organization. Some examples of internal data are purchases from the sales team, transactions from accounting, reorders from inventory management, and many other internal sources who collect information about our customers. External...
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