Releasing Protected Health Information HCR 210 Sunday‚ October 3‚ 2010 Lisa Israel‚ MBA‚ CMT Releasing Protected Health Information The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that defines the reasons protected health information (PHI) can be released. HIPAA created important rules and regulations safeguarding the confidentiality of protected health information (PHI) and published updated guidelines in 2003 to include electronically collected
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Sutter Health Case Analysis California Sutter Health is a not-for-profit health system that serves many patients and the families of over 100 Northern California cities and towns. They have grown from a small independent health care facility in Sacramento to one of the largest health care providers today. Due to the increase in costs and the inability to collect payments‚ there have been many financial rollercoaster rides with the budgeting and patient collections. As a result‚ they have been working
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Organizational Responsibility & Current Health Care Issues HCS - 545 11/19/2012 Organizational Responsibility & Current Health Care Issues In today’s modern world with plenty of technology‚ it is hard to believe that we cannot figure out how to reduce Medical errors. The issue of medical error is not new in health care organizations. It has been in spot light since 1990’s‚ when government did research on sudden increase in number of death in the hospitals. According to Lester‚ H
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anymore’’. Despite the treatment‚ the patient passed away. This was the first case that struck me and was an eye opener that mental health is an integral part of overall well-being for an individual. During my three years of service as a primary care physician in the Rural Government Hospital in Nepal‚ I treated many patients with different physical and mental health problems. During my exposure with mentally ill patients‚ I have realized that mental illness is very common in the general population;
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of Nursing in Health Promotion Jena Rosa Grand Canyon University August 25‚ 2013 According to the World Health Organization health promotion is defined as "The process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve‚ their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions." (WHO‚ 2013) This applies to the nursing profession in that nurses are educating patient on the steps needed for their health such as diet
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Medical Billing and Coding Linda Purdy Everest 2 Smarthinking’s E-structor Response Form (Your marked-up essay is below this form.) HOW THIS WORKS: Your e-structor has written overview comments about your essay in the form below. Your e-structor has also embedded comments [in bold and in brackets] throughout
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Spiritual care is an important part in the health care settings because it increases the coping ability to the patients against diseases and improves the speed of the recovery. “The spiritual dimension of humans has a multidimensional and complex nature with cognitive‚ emotional‚ and behavioral aspects” (Ebrahimi‚ Areshtanab‚ Khanmiri‚ & Jafarabadi‚ 2017). It is important to the health care providers to understand the patient’s spiritual care by performing spiritual assessment‚ so patient can receive
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Professional Boundaries serves as a parameter that gives a shield to the patient and as well to the caregiver. This boundaries are a little bit tricky in all phases of health care profession; they tolerate nonviolent peculiar link amongst the client and the caregiver. However‚ these margins be able to be despoiled in some occurrences like spoken‚ bodily‚ and mental exploitation which needs instantaneous attention or else
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of patients is a key component in the nursing process. A compassionate and thoughtful nurse can make a patient feel more secure‚ making it easier for him to express his spirituality. The participation of both patient and health care provider is vital in promoting spiritual health. The main focus of a spiritual assessment is to gather information regarding the patient’s spiritual needs in order incorporate them into the plan of care‚ so as to treat the patients as a whole. In this essay‚ I shall summarize
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Nursing Health History Nursing health history is the first part and one of the mostsignificant aspects in case studies. It is a systematic collection ofsubjective and objective data‚ ordering and a step-by-step processinculcating detailed information in determining client’s history‚ healthstatus‚ functional status and coping pattern. These vital informationsprovide a conceptual baseline data utilized in developing nursingdiagnosis‚ subsequent plans for individualized care and for the nursingprocess
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