Hospital Sentinel Event Report Program & Start Date: M.B.A. Health Care Management WGU A1: Sentinel Event Report Minor child, Tina, had a minor operation and as told to child’s mother per Nightingale Memorial Hospital (NMH) pre-op nurse, the operation duration would be 45 minutes plus an additional hour in recovery. Under the instruction of the patient’s mother, the pre-op nurse was to contact her by cell phone if times for release had changed. Mother
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trained in the general healthcare office procedure which includes: * Medical billing, coding and reimbursement * Medical terminology * Anatomy and physiology etc. Also, you need to know how to interact with patients where it is in a hospital or a doctor’s office. The responsibilities for being a CMAA starts at the front desk when you see the patients and the duties for this is as follows: * Greeting patients * Ordering supplies for the office * Coordinating patients care
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Technological Development in Hospitals 1. Patient identity confirmation When patients admit to the hospital, they are required to register. During the traditional registration process, nurse will fix a 2D barcode on patients’ forearm in order to identify patients. Today, nurse will take a photo of patient as well and this photo will store in the database of patient. No matter what treatments, surgeries or even food patients are going to take, staff in the hospital would use their own PDA to reassure
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improve quality substantially professionals must create systems and care processes that anticipate inevitable human errors and either prevent them or compensate for them before they cause harm. National surveys of registered nurses, physicians, and hospital executives document considerable concern about the U.S. nurse shortage. There were also many areas of divergent opinion within and among these groups, including the impact of the shortage on safety and early detection of patient complications. Healthcare
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HIPAA and Information Technology Gina M Urso HCR/240 July 3, 2013 Reynell Turner HIPAA and Information Technology There can be several advantages of having a standardized database for health care records. One of those advantages is that the medical records of the patients can be transportable for patients. If a patient sees the doctor for a specific issue, then a couple of days later they end up in the emergency room, their records can be accessed by the emergency room doctor, and they
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important factors including medical technology, hospitals and physicians, and government policy culminating in the development of Medicare and Medicaid. 1900-1920: Sickness Insurance versus Health Insurance Prior to 1920, the state of medical technology generally meant that very little could be done for many patients, and that most patients were treated in their homes. Table 1 provides a list of pioneering early advances in medicine. Hospitals did not assume their modern form until after the
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the doctor comes to see me and diagnoses me with a weird sounding virus. He recommends bed rest, fluids and antiviral meds. I glance at my watch before heading out; it’s only 6:45 P.M. You never experienced how rapidly things happen around you in a hospital, until you walk into a hectic emergency
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Problem statement Pate Memorial Hospital is a 600-bed, independent, not-for-profit, self-supporting hospitals. PHC, an ambulatory health care facility, was opened by PMH. Sherri Worth, a new assistant administrator of Pate Memorial Hospital in charge of the PHC, was told that a firm plan establishes a clinic five blocks north of PHC. It is a big competitor for PHC. On the other hand, financial problems, Short service hours, long waiting time and lacking of gynecological services are all be the
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had small pressure wounds on her tailbone as well as her left foot. During the following two weeks, the sores got a lot worse, but no medical treatment was given. The lady began to have a high temperature and was taken by ambulance to the local hospital; doctors were shocked. The sore on her tailbone was so infected that the bone was exposed. Surgery was done to clean out the wound, and a piece of the tailbone had to be taken out. Once the patient returned to the assisted-living facility, her
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System planning involves strategic analyzing of how company will fit to the system that will proposed by the analyst. There are several factors that should be considered in doing a system: The problem, scope, gathering information, the feasibility, the development and recommendation. These factors serve as a guide to build a system proposed. By focusing in the needs of company and its clients; we must say we develop a system not only for our clients and to the business but for the contribution
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