Patient Privacy Destiny Hill HCS 335 October 2‚ 2011 Patient Privacy The law protecting patients’ rights and privacy known as Health Insurance Probability and Accountability (HIPPA) was enacted and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. HIPPA is created to help protect patients’ medical records and personal health records nationwide in addition to keeping all medical information confidential. Documents are filed and stored‚ but with technology evolving documents
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Dealing with Difficult Patients in the Medical Field Unit 6 Project Danielle Robinson CM 107 Outline Introduction A. Dealing with the difficult patients can be very stressful to your health if dealt with in the wrong way. B. All medical workers should have the availability to be able to take seminars that a. are offered to them throughout their career to keep them informed and update with b. any changes or new ideas or policies that
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a number of studies have demonstrated that patients do want their physicians to tell them the truth about diagnosis‚ prognosis‚ and therapy. For instance‚ 90% of patients surveyed said they would want to be told of a diagnosis of cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. Similarly‚ a number of studies of physician attitudes reveal support for truthful disclosure. For example‚ whereas in 1961 only 10% of physicians surveyed believed it was correct to tell a patient of a fatal cancer diagnosis‚ by 1979 97% felt
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Teneisha Grant’s essay “When the Simulated Patient is for Real”‚ the author explains that‚ through her experience with a difficult patient‚ she learns that the professional application of medicine goes beyond practical techniques and simulations taught in medical school. This patient (named Mr. G) represented one possible worst-case scenario for medical professionals‚ for this patient was too irate for doctors to dress his wound safely. Although Grant could have sedated the patient‚ she instead verbally
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Overview of the Patient Centered Medical Home project piloted by Geisinger Health System in Danville‚ Pennsylvania Date: October of 2010 Goal: Create value (defined as outcomes relative to input costs)‚ measure innovation returns‚ and receive market rewards. Requirements: a multidimensional transformation of primary care practice with intensive case management and a payer partnership. Coordinating Primary Care/Team Effort: “patient Centered Medical Home” Geisinger calls it “Personal
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Measuring and Assessing Patient Safety Neribel Claudio HCA 375 John Gomillion July 25‚ 2010 Measuring and Assessing Patient Safety Patient safety is such an essential part of our health care system and it helps describe quality health care. Keeping the patients safe is a challenging issue because errors and mistakes can and do happen every day. Error occurs “when a process does not proceed the way that it was intended by its designers and managers” (McLaughlin & Kaluzny 2006)
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"Patient Confidentiality" (ID: 11116011 Krishna Rana) Description: For the past two weeks I have been working in a large surgical ward that has mass thoroughfare of people in and out of the ward - namely doctors‚ visitors and other allied health care staff. One method of Patient Confidentiality which I have encountered is the use of cavity lockers for each individual patient - which lock patients files and confidential information safely in the wall. In addition‚ these lockers are secured with
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Patient Confidentiality 1 Article background: “Some 13 per cent of US medical schools have reported that their students have leaked confidential information about patients via blogs or social networking websites. The students didn ’t name names‚ but did provide enough personal information‚ such as the medical condition involved and hospital‚ for patients or their families to recognize who is being described…The information was provided by medical school administrators as part
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Patient scenario The patient Mr. Smith was diagnosed with prostate cancer 5 years ago. It seemed as if his condition was worsening so he visited his physician who performed a physical examination on him. A physical examination has many components they include observing the signs of a disease by checking for signals like change in skin pigment or alertness. Then there is checking vital signs such as blood pressure‚ heart rate and temperature by comparing your results to a standard. Next step the
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staff would appropriately deny patient information to an unknown caller? Too often‚ unauthorized people succeed in extracting protected information from health care providers. Invasion of privacy also affects noncelebrities‚ when anyone seeks health information the patient has not chosen to share. More often‚ though‚ scam artists seek patients’ billing information for financial gain. The patient’s insurance identifier is then used by an uninsured person to obtain medical services or by a fraudulent
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