The Role of the Healthcare Documentation Specialist By: Quala Jones There were times when some of us have always thought of healthcare specialists as typists‚ and some of us have always know healthcare documentation specialists to be more than typists. But they have always done more than one thing. Their coworkers have always thought that they sat a desk all day and type what they heard. What their coworkers didn’t realize was that they were also proofreading‚ analyzing
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Chapter 1 - Health Care Delivery Systems There are many interesting and important points in this chapter. Some of them include: Pennsylvania Hospital founded by Ben Franklin was the 1st US hospital University of PA was the US first medical school The AMA was founded in Philadelphia in 1847. The Flexner Report was published in 1910 and impacted the status of medical school education. Hill-Burton Act of 1948 provided federal monies to update hospitals JCAH which is now JCAHO
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Week 4 Reflection Helen Einer NURS-6015 Information and Healthcare Technologies Applied to Nursing Practice Walden University July 24‚ 2010 Week 4 Reflection The ongoing development of computer technology and telecommunications has provided the healthcare industry with continuous opportunities to enhance communication‚ provide education‚ improve patient safety‚ and create new IT jobs within the industry. By 2014‚ the American health care industry will look toward full adoption of electronic
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mistakes” (Spath‚ 2011‚ p. 108). An example of variation that could possibly happen in the healthcare system is a patients test results are accidently put in the wrong pile. Because this paperwork could not be found‚ that same patient is moved out of the intensive care unit putting the patient at risk. This error may seem minor could end up not only endangering the patient‚ but also putting the healthcare facility at risk due to their
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[pic] A PROJECT REPORT ON “Role of HR in Healthcare” AT Bhailal Amin General Hospital (Corporate Hospital of Alembic Group) [pic] [pic] TOWARDS THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUBMITED BY Mr. Sujit Kumar Jha Registration No.: 520825637 MBA 4rd Semester‚ HRM (2010) PREFACE Summer Internship Program (SIP) is a part of MBA curriculum to help the management student in understanding
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helping people. The healthcare field is not for the weak a heart or the weak at stomach teaching you valuable lessons about yourself and others.
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Effective Communication in Healthcare Communication can be defined as the process of passing a piece of information‚ opinion and feeling between people by writing‚ speaking or body languages. Effective communication ensures the idea‚ the transmitted contents‚ are clear and successfully delivered‚ received and understood by people in the manner it was intended by the sender. In the healthcare parlance‚ effective communication among patients and health caregivers is very essential to offering improved
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standards of behavior‚ developed as a result of ones concept of right and wrong (Judson & Harrison‚ 2010). Code of ethics is a list of principles that is intended to influence the actions of healthcare professionals within an organization. Ethical principles help guide the decision-making process among healthcare workers in complicated situations. This paper will review the assigned case study and provide the reader with the ethical issues and principles. The case study discussed an 8-month old child
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Healthcare reforms are affecting many healthcare jobs. Many of these reforms are designed to provide efficient care and quality standards to patients. One group of medical workers that are especially affected by these new reforms are Physician Assistants. Since Physician Assistants are an important part of a healthcare team‚ they are being affected by these many new reforms‚ which include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ accountable care organizations (ACO’s)‚ and the American Recovery
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It is our job as nurses‚ our piece to the healthcare puzzle‚ to provide the BEST possible care to every patient‚ every time. In doing so‚ we as nurses need to be diligent and compliant with our documentation‚ using the proper standardized healthcare terminology to establish a uniform representation of nursing care; an “unambiguous description of how nursing problems‚ interventions and outcomes are documented” (Hebda & Czar‚ 2013‚ p. 300). Our textbook (Hebda & Czar‚ 2013‚ p. 298) uses the definition
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