Health IMS
Health Information Management Systems (IMS) and its Impact on Organizational Decision-Making
In the journal article entitled, "The Benefits of Health Information Technology: A eview of the ecent Literature," authors Buntin et. al. (2011) examined extant, current literature -- a total of 154 peer-reviewed studies between 2007 and 2010 -- to evaluate the reported benefits of the integration of information management systems (IMS) in medical and healthcare institutions. This evaluation of health IMS-related studies was an attempt to verify if indeed, the new technology integrated within the healthcare operations and systems of institutions globally would result to the desired goal, which is to provide a more efficient, effective, and quality healthcare to the general public.
The integration of IMS in healthcare systems and operations is prompted with the approval and passing of the law called HITECH, or Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health. Passed in 2007, HITECH provided support to…...
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Reference
Buntin, M., M. Burke, M. Hoaglin, and D. Blumenthal. (2011). "The Benefits of Health Information Technology: A Review of the Recent Literature." Health Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 3.
Healthcare: Heath Information Management
Population health management (PHM) has gained prominence in mainstream healthcare organizations in recent years for the simple reason that healthcare is changing, and physician groups and healthcare systems are being forced to adapt to the new system, where they are rewarded based on how well they are able to meet the quality objectives of the entire patient group and not just individual patients. The 21st century healthcare platform places more emphasis on value as opposed to volume, and organizations that can devise proper mechanisms of delivering quality, patient -- centered healthcare across entire populations are deemed have an edge over their competitors. It is for this reason that public health professionals and physician groups have continually engaged information science and technology in their public health activities - all in an attempt to make full use of their potential and consequently increase their level of effectiveness. Technology has…...
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References
Hodach, R. (2014). Provider-Led Population Health Management: Key Strategies for Healthcare in the Next Transformation. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
Implementation of Patient-centric health information management system 4AbstractPatient-centered care is a philosophy and a level of care that explains how to organize the well-being program around the individual to increase healthcare outcomes. The approach has become increasingly popular in many health care systems. Our company intends to utilize the process while still looking at the patients' health care costs and safety. Patient-centric software can help or hinder personalized treatment. However, the complexity of the concept contributes to difficulties in implementing the practice. The Patient-centered concept, its importance, the challenges, and the benefits it brings to the organization, and how the HIMS improves the patients' experience are reviewed in the report.Implementation of Patient-centric health information management systemThe recent trends in technology have been viewed to provide strategic advantages and significant economic impacts for many organizations. Many organizations recognize that including the consumer in every stage of the process using many information…...
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References
Blishen, S., & Brown, M. (2017). What everyone should know about person-centered care. Person-Centred Care Made Simple, (978-1-906461-56-0), 1-44.
Catalyst, N. E. J. M. (2017). What is patient-centered care?. NEJM Catalyst, 3(1).
Ngafeeson, M. N. (2015). Healthcare information systems opportunities and challenges. In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition (pp. 3387-3395). IGI Global.
Snyder, C. F., Wu, A. W., Miller, R. S., Jensen, R. E., Bantug, E. T., & Wolff, A. C. (2011). The role of informatics in promoting patient-centered care. Cancer Journal (Sudbury, Mass.), 17(4), 211.
Medical Information System Upgrade Proposal
The information system currently relied upon by this practice is extremely outdated; it is incapable of assuring information security, and highly inefficient. Current information management practices in this office are significantly outdated and will eventually have to be upgraded to maintain any capacity to coordinate with other offices and to process ordinary transaction because digital systems are already the standard throughout modern American healthcare and business more generally (Boyce, 2008).
The potential benefits to the practice of upgrading the medical information system include increasing staff efficiency, reducing cost, increasing information security, and a significant improvement in emergency management planning, the capacity of this practice to recover from unanticipated emergencies, and reduced liability in connection with information security and regulatory compliance (Halbert & Ingulli, 2008; Personick & Patterson, 2007). The potential benefits to staff include increased efficiency and the ability to process and store crucial information in the…...
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References
Boyce, J. (2008). Information Assurance: Managing Organizational IT Risks. St. Louis,
MO: Elsevier.
Haddow, G.D., Bullock, J.A., and Coppola, D.P. (2010). Introduction to Emergency
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of Health Information Management (HIM) Operations Managers in Ensuring Data Integrity:
This essay will explore the critical function of HIM Operations Managers in maintaining the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of patient health data. It will discuss strategies used to ensure data integrity, including the implementation of data governance policies, regular audits, and staff training programs.
2. Health Information Management Operations Manager: Navigating the Challenges of Healthcare Regulations and Compliance:
This topic will delve into how HIM Operations Managers stay ahead of the curve in a landscape continuously shaped by healthcare regulations. The essay will detail how managers ensure compliance with HIAA, HITECH Act, and other relevant regulations, all while adapting to ongoing legislative changes.
3. The Evolving Role of Technology in HIM Operations Management:
The focus of this essay will be the impact of emerging technologies on the job of HIM Operations Managers. It will address how…...
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Primary Sources
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). \"Health Information Management Job Descriptions.\" AHIMA, 2023.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). \"Job Description: Health Information Management Systems Manager.\" HIMSS, 2023.United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. \"Medical and Health Services Managers.\" Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Department of Labor, 2022.Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management (CCHIIM). \"Certified Health Information Manager.\" CCHIIM, 2023.National Association for Health Professionals (NAHP). \"Job Analysis of Health Information Management (HIM) Operations Managers.\" NAHP Journal, 2023.
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of Technology in HIMS Operations Management:
Explore how technological advancements have transformed the responsibilities and daily tasks of a HIMS Operations Manager.
2. Leadership and Team Management in HIMS:
Discuss the leadership qualities and team management strategies essential for a HIMS Operations Manager to effectively oversee health information systems.
3. Compliance and Regulatory Challenges:
Analyze the challenges faced by HIMS Operations Managers in ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations like HIAA.
4. Data Security and rivacy in HIMS:
Examine the critical role of a HIMS Operations Manager in safeguarding patient data against breaches and ensuring privacy.
5. Future Trends in Health Information Management:
redict how emerging trends like AI, blockchain, and telemedicine will influence the job description of a HIMS Operations Manager.
Essay Title Examples
1. Navigating the Digital Frontier: The HIMS Operations Manager\'s Role
2. The Backbone of Healthcare: Understanding the HIMS Operations Manager
3. Compliance and Beyond: The Evolving Role of HIMS Managers
4. Securing Health Data: The…...
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Primary Sources
Primary SourcesHealth Information Management: Concepts, Principles, and PracticeSkurka, Margaret. Health Information Management: Concepts, Principles, and Practice. 5th ed., AHIMA Press, 2017.
Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices
Green, Michelle A., and Mary Jo Bowie. Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices. 4th ed., Cengage Learning, 2016.Health Information Management Technology: An Applied ApproachNanette B. Sayles, and Leslie Gordon. Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach. 5th ed., AHIMA Press, 2016.
Mary have the right to reveal this information to others? Please justify your answer based on what you know about public health and ethics.
Health information management ethics do not allow Mary to reveal the information. Medical records are used to aid decision making in clinical health circles. They are used for a range of other processes including service coordination, efficacy of health care, evaluation, legal security, research, accreditation supplications, policy making, regulation, education and a range of others. It is important to maintain the confidentiality of the information shared by patients with health officers; trust is to be maintained with the patients (Harman, Flite, & ond, 2012). If such practice is not observed, patients will be wary of sharing information. Consequently, the quality of health care would be compromised (ord, urke, & Dudzinski, 2013). Privacy has a range of other benefits apart from the direct health service provision advantages.…...
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Bibliography
Blightman, K., Griffiths, S., & Danbury, C. (2014). Patient confidentiality: when can a breach be justified? Oxford Journals.
Bord, J. D., Burke, W., & Dudzinski, D. (2013). Confidentiality. Ethics in Medicine.
Harman, L., Flite, C., & Bond, K. (2012). Electronic Health Records: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. AMA Journal of Ethics, 712-719.
Nass, S., Levit, L., & Gostin, L. (2009). Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research. Washington: National Academies Press.
Protection of Digital Health Information
With increase health information technology store access patient information, likelihood security breaches risen. In fact, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ): In United States, a whopping 97% increase number health records breached 2010-2011
Ensuring that patient information is protected at all times is vital for any health care institution. Patient information records contain sensitive information that can be used for malicious purposes like identity theft, credit card fraud, and leaking of information for malicious intent. The advancement and use of technology has made it easier for patient information to be accessed within the health care facility Shoniregun, Dube, & Mtenzi, 2010.
This increases the speed of service delivery to the patient and improves the care given to the patient. Technology has allowed for the use of portable electronic devices by the healthcare practitioners in entering and accessing patient records and information. Portable electronic devices are small electronic gadgets that…...
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References
Green, M.A., & Bowie, M.J. (2005). ESSENTIALS OF HEALTH INFORMATION Management: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES: Principles and Practices. Independence, KY: Thomson/Delmar Learning.
Harman, L.B., & Association, A.H.I.M. (2006). Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Laurinda B. Harman, C.A.F., and Kesa Bond. (2012). Electronic Health Records: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, 14(9), 712-719.
Shoniregun, C.A., Dube, K., & Mtenzi, F. (2010). Electronic Healthcare Information Security. New York / Heidelberg: Springer.
Healthcare Financial Management
To quote Jonathan Clark at the beginning of his article, "Improving the revenue cycle can be a daunting task due to the scope and complexity of the interdepartmental process." Of the suggestions offered by the authors, which concept(s) give you the greatest insight into creating an improved evenue Cycle process in the organization where you work (or one in which you are familiar)? Be sure to identify which article or author you are referencing.
In his comprehensive advisory article to improve the medical industry's revenue capturing capabilities, entitled Strengthening the evenue Cycle: A 4-Step Method for Optimizing Payment, Jonathan Clark provides a series of sensible solutions to the ongoing dilemma of payment optimization. David Hammer also provides guidance to healthcare finance professional in his article The Next Generation of evenue Cycle Management, by reminding them that the key performance indicators (KPIs) which dictated policy in previous years have been…...
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Clark, J. (2008). Strengthening the revenue cycle: a 4-step method for optimizing payment. Healthcare Financial Management, 62(10), 44.
Hammer, D.C. (2007). The next generation of revenue cycle management. Healthcare Financial Management, 61(7), 49.
Seddon, J. (2008). Think system. Management Services, 52(2), 10.
Wilson, D.B. et al. (2004). 3 steps to profitable managed care contracts. Healthcare Financial Management, 58(5), 34.
Planned change in the eldercare advocacy organization
In the coming years, many countries will experience a dramatic shift in healthcare infrastructure due to an expanding elderly population size. However, the changes may vary across countries depending on many factors such as the kind of social welfare available in each country, the political environment which determine policies, the level of healthcare available and individual expectations in each country. Due to this wide variance, the innovations within this space will also vary greatly. What this means to the healthcare manager is that managing innovations becomes very hard (Shlutz, Andre & Sjovold, 2015 p 42). This also impacts on performance management which is fast gaining popularity in the public sector as a means to improve on accountability. Unfortunately, it has been cumbered by a series of challenges in its implementation; this is in spite of the frameworks developed over the last couple of years…...
Health Organization
The United Health Group is the largest provider of healthcare services to Americans. According to Forbes (Lorenzetti, 2014), the group had revenue of $130.5 billion in 2014. United is the largest health insurer, and has a health services arm as well, Optum, which provides around one-third of the group's total revenue. United has net income of $5.62 billion in 2014 and served an estimated 85 million people. While the company's revenues have been growing quickly, the net income has been more stable, highlighting in particular that the tax burden has increased on the company, as gains in operating income have been slow to translate into gains in net income (MSN Moneycentral, 2015).
Competitive Strategy
Part of United's competitive strategy is that is has diversification of services. The company has two divisions: UnitedHealthcare and Optum. UnitedHealthcare is the company's health care services and insurance provider. This group has a diverse client base…...
Health Information esources/Services
Libraries have traditionally been safeguarded the fulfillment of goals of continuing education in their respective fields. It is felt to accord enhanced priority to the health science librarians while the continuing education experts enhance their knowledge of the learning process and the various elements that make the scope of the continuing education effective. eally, the role of health sciences libraries is enormous particularly in the sphere of the lifelong learning and Continuing Education. The concept of Continuing Education has been conveniently been divided by Gruppen as formal CE that concentrates on conventional programs concerning specific topics and aimed at particular audiences; and the informal CE that emphasizes on the learning that involves the anxiety of practitioners anxious of resolving the problems in their routine practice. (Messerle, 1990)
The role of health science libraries has been realized to be significant in both the categories of continuing education and alternatives…...
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REFERENCES
Block, Karla J. (Summer, 1997) "Problem-based learning in medical education: Issues for health sciences libraries and librarians" Katharine Sharp Review. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University/College of St. Catherine. No. 5. pp: 25-28
Braude, Robert. M; Wood, Samuel. J. (January, 1997) "On the origin of a species: evolution of health sciences librarianship" Bull Medical Library Association. Vol: 85; No: 1; pp: 116-121
Kronenfeld, Michael R. (January, 2005) "Trends in academic health sciences libraries and their emergence as the "knowledge nexus" for their academic health centers" Journal of Medical Library Association. Vol: 93; No: 1; pp: 32 -- 39.
Messerle, J. (April, 1990) "The changing continuing education role of health sciences libraries" Bull Medical Library Association. Vol: 78; No: 2; pp: 180 -- 187.
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The PCIP was formed from the recognition that high costs and low quality inherent in the Healthcare system of the U.S. is largely due to a system that is antiquated and fragmented (DOHMH, 2006a). The inability to properly collect and use health information is one of the primary problems associated with proper health care maintenance. The PCIP. was formed in response to this need. The primary care physician acts as the conduit between the patient and the healthcare system. However, the physician often has no means to effectively transmit the information that they collect to other entities within the system. The PCIP grew out of a need for the primary health care Physician to be able to transmit the needed information to others in the Healthcare system.
There are three essential parts to the PCIP. The first is the Primary Care Health Information Consortium (PCHIC). This entity…...
National Institute of Health Care Management Foundation
Founded in 1993 and based in Washington, D.C., the National Institute of Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization the works towards "improving the health of Americans by spurring workable and creating solutions to pressing health care problems" (NIHCM, 2017). The Foundation exists between the ideological space occupied by think tanks on the one side and associations on the other side. By providing evidence-based research and reports, the Foundation "sparks insights and collaboration" among health care groups, who then implement solutions to overcome obstacles in the health care industry. The Directors of the Foundation include some of the top CEOs of health insurance companies, while NIHCM's advisory board consists of academics, doctors, and former government workers.
Specific actions taken by NIHCM in the past include the sponsoring of grants for research to the amount of $2 million over the past 5 years.…...
Evidence of improved access and cost effectiveness should soon follow. Over the next two decades, e-health could deliver patient, provider, and planner/manager interactions for all aspects of health care (Detmer, 2000, p. 181). Detmer continued on to state that this could be a positive move from seeking out errors and problems to information systems whose processes prevent many adverse outcomes. When the problem becomes one of error and miscommunication, one needs to do all that is necessary in order to correct the problem. McKnight et al. continued to report how physicians and nurses both report how there were problems with having updated information both web based as well as written copy (McKnight et al., 2002).
A question that also comes to mind is the concern of training or lack there of. Not only should all current systems of information and resources be overhauled, there is also a need to train…...
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References
Detmer, D.E. (2000, July 6). Information technology for quality health care: a summary of United Kingdom and United States experiences. Quality in Health Care, 9, pp. 181-189.
McKnight, L.K., Stetson, P.D., Bakken, S., Curran, C., & Cimino, J.J. (2002, 2002). Perceived Information Needs and Communication Difficulties of Inpatient Physicians and Nurses. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9, pp. 64-69.
Challenges in Transitioning from Admin Support to Medical Billing Transitioning from administrative support to medical billing poses several challenges due to the specialized knowledge and skills required in the medical field. Key challenges include: 1. Medical Terminology and Knowledge: Admin support typically involves general office tasks, while medical billing requires a comprehensive understanding of medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology. Coders must accurately translate medical diagnoses and procedures into medical codes for reimbursement purposes. 2. Compliance Regulations: The healthcare industry is heavily regulated, and medical billers must adhere to a complex set of rules and regulations. Non-compliance can result in penalties, fines, or even....
1. Startling Statistic: According to a recent study by the American Health Information Management Association, nearly 80% of healthcare organizations use at least one administrative information system (IS).
2. Anecdotal Experience: As a healthcare professional, I have firsthand experience with the challenges and opportunities of data sharing among administrative ISs.
3. Thought-provoking Question: How can healthcare organizations effectively share data among administrative ISs to ensure seamless patient care?
4. Historical Perspective: The evolution of administrative ISs has significantly impacted data sharing and interoperability in healthcare.
5. Comparative Analysis: By comparing different administrative ISs, we can identify the strengths and limitations of data sharing and....
1. Medical records contain sensitive and personal information about patients, including their medical history, diagnoses, treatments, and more. Protecting these records is crucial to ensuring patient privacy and security. Unauthorized access to medical records can lead to breaches of confidentiality, identity theft, fraud, and other potential harms for patients. Therefore, implementing strict security measures and protocols to safeguard medical records is essential in maintaining patient trust and upholding ethical standards in healthcare.
2. One way to protect medical records and ensure patient privacy is through the use of electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs provide a secure and centralized system for....
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