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Health Information Management

Roles of health information managers

The functions of health information managers have shifted over time as the managing bodies vary. Currently, health information managers have a role to ensure that patient information is kept safely. Moreover, they are tasked with improving the quality of health care at the moment; this is aimed at reducing health care disparities that characterise various health care system and also eradicate costs that occur in health care as a result of inefficiency in operations (Berg, 2003). The primary objectives of health information mange’s remains ensuring that appropriate public information are disseminated.

Among these duties, reducing healthcare costs as a result of practise inefficiency is the most challenging aspect. This is because there are many individuals involved in the health care sector, therefore, making them adapt a new course is challenging. However, success in this goal can be achieved by taking step by step approach where one health station is tackled then another one until all the centres become more efficient (Nadina).

Code sets

It is vital for me as a healthcare professional to adhere to the code of ethics. This is because they shape my values as well as those of other health care professionals. Moreover, they offer guidelines upon which my reputation is judged wrong evaluated. As a result, I would make sure that I demonstrate professional values through my actions to other different categories of individuals and by adherence to the code of ethics of the health care system (Berg, 2003).

First, it will be surprising to receive a request requiring me as a healthcare professional to do something that goes against the set code of ethics. However, it will be extremely unprofessional of me to agree to such an act. I will stand firm and refuse to carry out any activities that go against the set codes. I will not do this as a way of showing obedience to the codes, but it will be a way of showing professionalism and my commitment to ethical values in healthcare (Nadina, 2012).

Reimbursement

Health care reimbursement plans are advantageous to both the employer and the employee regarding cost savings. Currently, there exist different types of heal care covers; each of them has a different reimbursement plan. The standard plans in use today include; health savings account, health care reimbursement schemes, health flexible spending accounts, and the health reimbursement arrangement.

Among these techniques, the health reimbursement arrangement is slightly complicated when it comes to reimbursing. This is because of the difficulty faced in calculating the amount sound from the pocket of employees. Moreover, it is difficult in assessing how to distribute reimbursement in accordance to contribution employer behaviour. An employer can contribute interchangeably between integrated HRA offers and stand-alone HRA offers. It becomes more complicated when the individuals to be re-imbused, for instance, in the case of integrated HRA offer do not have a health insurance plan ((Berg, 2003).However, the method remains appealing to some employees especially due to its ability to transform into Healthcare reimbursable plan easily.

Health information management issues in other care settings

There are issues in almost all health care facilities; animal care is not excluded from this. In this field, a centenary specialist is supposed to provide care to animals that are ailing.  He is expected to understand animal’s behaviour and from them, be able to identify the problem that the animal might be suffering from. There exist diagnostic tools and kits just as in human health care. However, much of the practice relies on the vet’s perception.

The challenges in this section are not ethic related; they are practise oriented. For instance, there is a permanent communication barrier between the patient (animal) and the doctor. This has in the past brought issues about the trust and legitimacy of the practice. There is also the issue of human behaviour towards animals, instead of care; there is some hostility which mostly results in harm to the animal. However, the sector does not suffer from extreme cases of inefficiency as is the case with the public health care.

Managing health records and statistics

Disaster plans for health care facilities are aimed at improving the facility’s preparedness towards an occurrence of a predicted catastrophe. Being a resident of Brooklyn New York, I am familiar with the interfaith medical centre. The facility has emergency plans but they hardly practise the ideas. This is not good and beneficial, no one knows when the disaster will strike, therefore, to be prepared, it will be good if the hospital carried out drills so that they may just be in a state of readdressing. Moreover, it will be substantial I f the hospital staff could begin planning for debriefing and counselling of workers and patients in case a disaster happens. This is because exposure to a disaster may cause post-traumatic stress in some individuals and may bring the order of activities to a halt. Therefore, debriefing could be vital.

Regarding Interfaith medical centre, health information managers should focus on preparing for alternative communication, making for volunteers, and should enact a plan to enable easy identification during of staffs and patients during a disaster. This is because the facility has exposed communication lines and they could be affected first.

Health record provision

Each individual is supposed to have a unique medical history. The contents of the record comprise of the holders personal information, medical data, and regulations regarding completion of the medical record.  According to New York, an individual is expected to complete a record after five years. The states have the public health act among its law that governs factors related to medical records. According to the law, one is supposed to complete the record in timely durations and avoid record retention issues (Berg, 2003). However, individuals requiring new records have to pay a slightly high amount of money to obtain the. This has aroused questions as to whether it is legally right or some sort of extortion.

On my own account, I feel that the state is very strict on matters relating to health, there are fewer considerations of actions that might lead to in compliance issues. Moreover, paying for renewals is just not right; the same people who pay are the same ones who have medical covers

Training and Development

My selected topic is obesity. I am going to carry out a talk aimed at educating people about disabilities. Majorly, I will be speaking to school going kids between the age of seven and fifteen. I will tell them the effect of obesity on people, its courses, and possible ways of eradicating obesity in society. Obesity refers to a condition where an individual has accumulated a lot of body fat to the extent that it has an adverse effect on his or her health. A person is said to be obese when his body mass index is over 30kg/m². Body mass index is obtained by dividing a person’s weight by the square of the individual’s height. The condition is primarily caused by poor eating habits, genetic susceptibility, and lack of physical exercise.

As young individuals, I would encourage my audience to engage in obesity inhibiting activities such as positive social changes, consumption of a good and balanced diet and increased physical activities.