In Higgins-Williams v. Sutter Med. Found. the question of whether or not an employee’s inability to work with a specific supervisor qualified as a “disability” was put to the test in court. Michaelin Higgins-Wiggins was a clinical assistant in Sutter’s Shared Services Department. She reported to her physician that she was experiencing stress as a result of her involvement with both her direct supervisor and the human resources department on the job.
Regulations, Standards, and Ordinances The Vet Center is a rental property that is being use by their employees to conduct their daily operations. The facility falls under Charleston VA Medical Center and must adhere to their Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) and local ordinances. The VA Medical Center security inspects the property on an annually basis. If requested, security personnel will visit the site for any issues or problems. RECOMMENDATION: The facility does not have any written regulation posted or available on site other than their SOP.
Background statement: Heritage Valley Medical Center has had a wonderful reputation for providing excellent health care services to their community. Initially, their community was 80% Caucasian, 40% African American, and 5% Hispanic. However, in the last 5 years, the population has changed to more minorities and the whites have moved out to the suburbs. This caused the Center’s occupancy rate to go down 40% because many of their traditional, more affluent, private-pay patients had left the neighborhood. To bring in revenue, they campaigned to bring in more Medicaid patients.
Healthcare Office Manager Horizon Medical Center – Horizon City, 79928 HORIZON MEDICAL CENTER Basic employment information Horizon Medical Center is a clinic located in the center of horizon where many people can reach it faster, this clinic also provides flexible hours and night hours, therefore Horizon Medical Center is a very occupied place that sees over 90-100 patients on a daily basis. Our clinic consists with a total of 4-5 providers and 15 staff members, both administrative and clinical at any given time. Daily responsibilities The office manager should be able to manage the office personal and duties in a positive and motivated manner. The main responsibilities and duties an office manager will include the following: • Hire and
Electronic Medical Records has several positive effects on the billing and coding process. For example, Electronic Medical Records helps to reduce cost for physicians and improve care for patients. Electronic Medical Records helps reduce medical errors for the physicians and unneeded diagnostic tests. The EMR can also help coordinate patient's information better such as diagnosis, medications, family history, and the test results of each patient on file. Electronic Medical Records helps to improve storing health information and EMR makes it easier to track results of each patient.
Since its startup in 2005 its mission to disrupt the slow moving world of health care by providing a free service of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to doctors and their facilities. This system will benefit doctors by cutting down cost, decrease medical errors, decrease mishandled or forgotten messages. It will help the overall goal of medical errors. It improves accuracy through record legibility and record
Mount Sinai Doctors - Jackson Heights (MSDJH) serves the Queens community providing outpatient specialty services for over 20 years. Jackson Heights is a demographically challenging community to deliver care in where 64.2% (110,108) of the population is of Hispanic Origin and nearly half of the population (46.8%) are receiving income support (Medicaid) from the government. After the relocation of MSDJH it created a need to examine and adjust logistically to the new location. The lobby layout is related with over half (62.5%) of the patient complaints since relocating. Upon analysis of MSDJH’s utilization of the assets comparing the clinic’s actual patient census with an adjusted utilization low volume target census of 2 patients per hour
In her assessment of the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA), Murphy (2009) discusses how its enactment provided unprecedented funding for the advancement of health information technology (HIT) which served to promote health care reform. Electronic health records (EHRs) by extension received a boost via incentivization for appropriate use in hospitals and ambulatory settings (Murphy, 2009). The benefits of EHRs include the ability to improve the delivery and quality of nursing care, the ability to make more timely and efficient nursing care decisions for nursing, the ability to avoid errors that might harm patients and the ability to promote health and wellness for the patients (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). An appropriate use of EHR
"It's much cheaper to keep people well than it is to treat them when they're sick," he says. "Part of wellness will be monitoring what's specifically important about each patient, like bathroom scales for congestive heart failure patients or glucometers for diabetics that transmit data directly to their EHRs." -John D. Halamka, MD, MS(McBride). That being said the Electronic Health Record or EHR has made monitoring health even easier with the ability for patients to access their records from home, email their doctors among other
At the Medical Department of the College, students were able to receive their bachelor's degree or a doctor's degree. In order to obtain a bachelor’s degree students had to prove that they were proficient in the subjects of medical science. Students had to complete one course of lectures in anatomy, Materia Medica chemistry, and the theory and practice of medicine. They had to observe at the Pennsylvania Hospital for one year. Finally, they had to be examined by the school’s trustees, professors and then the public.
Electronic Health Records and Patient Confidentiality Technology has become an essential part of our everyday life therefore, it makes sense that doctors and hospitals get rid of the old fashioned paper charting and use technology to access patient records. Electronic health records (EHR) provide quick access to information, as doctors no longer have to wait for other providers to fax previous records to them. The accessibility of Electronic Health Records assist medical providers to make quick medical care decisions, by accessing previous care provided to patients including treatment and diagnosis. Quick access to information through EHR enables health care providers to treat patients faster as there is no need for records to be mailed or
I do believe that nurses have some ethical concerns related to nursing informatics. Even though electronic health record had made our lives easier in many ways, there are still some risks involved, such as issues with patient’s confidentiality or HIPPA. A patient’s confidentiality can be leaked in many ways, for example, a nurse who is charting on her computer and suddenly gets interrupted and leaves her screen on, which can give anyone passing by an opportunity to look into the patient’s health records. This given situation occurs a lot in the hospitals as I have witnessed it quite often myself. “The patient confidentiality issue could jeopardize a patient’s well-being and also the fundamental trust between the patient and the nurse” (Trossman,
The ROI of EHRs article breaks down the importance of Electronic health records. Healthcare leaders need to have an open-mind about electronic health records to gain a better organized system. Health organizations spend billions trying to find a working system instead of changing to the electronic health records system. Most organizations are making their IT department play bigger role working along with physicians to make electronic health records a key component of healthcare facilities making EHRs an effective program. Electronic Health Records are important to improving the quality of care provided, being able to find a patients history of care at a click of a button.
When going into the service learning project I did not know what to expect. I knew I would have to find the perfect way to communicate with other to get the best information possible. Asking questions about the process of choosing an EMR and problems that they had in the transition process was one of the topics I decided to further pursue. I was eager to learn how the clinic dealt with change and how it affected the environment of the clinic. I needed to ask different people in the clinic because though they used the same system, they each use a different part of the EMR, each for different reasons and for their particular job.
Introduction Massachusetts General Hospital is ranked as second in the United States in 2013 by U.S. News & World Report (2013). This hospital is a 999-bed facility in the center of Boston and is known for providing sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic maintenance in almost every speciality of medicine and surgery. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) provides healthcare at local, national and global levels (About MGH, nd, World-class patient care). Impact of a social event on the growth of MGH Prior to the MGH inception, there were marine hospital and Boston dispensary to attend to the healthcare needs of the local people. The chaplain of Almshouse in Boston, Rev. John Bartlett planned for providing state-of-the-art health care to the
