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TEXT: Title:Health Information Technology, 3rd Edition
Author:Nadinia A. Davisand Melissa LaCour
ISBN:978-1-4377-2736-4
Publisher:Elsevier
eBook or Physical text:PhysicalNOTE: Please 2 references, and 135 words for each discussion
Discussion: Electronic Health Records
Share your thoughts on HIPAA with the class. Do you feel that HIPAA really protects the patient? How do you think patients feel about HIPAA? Do you think that they believe it is an inconvenience or a worthwhile law?Discussion: Acute Care Records
Health information managers / professionals have a variety of different roles that they are responsible for with regard to record keeping. Which role do you feel is the most important and why? Which one do you think will be the most challenging for you to implement and why? What steps could you take to address this challenge?
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Health Information Technology
Electronic Health Records
The government through the public health section has allocated significant amounts of money to effect the transition from paper record keeping to electronic systems by the healthcare information managers. In so doing, there has been a slight change in health care record keeping at various centres. The facilities large bookshelves are now being transferred to archives; in their place, computers and other electronic recording equipment’s are being installed. However, the response is not as per the government’s expectation (Dixon, 2014). This has prompted the issuance of financial payments to those who successfully transit from the paper to electronic record keeping.
What is surprising is that there is still no substantial change in the trend of adopting the use of the electronic system even with the incentives given as rewards. Probably, the government could adopt new approaches such as offering free training to healthcare information managers regarding the use of electronic systems, providing structural support to hospitals in setting up electronic network topologies, and subsidizing the cost of operating these electronic machines (Kraan, 2015). These factors will directly expose health care workers to electronic devices, thereby, encouraging and contributing to a swift transition.
Acute Care Records
The Health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996 is a law that protects patients with insurance cover when they lose jobs or change from one post to another. HIPAA title requires the establishment of standards at the national level that governs the electronic health care transactions (Li, 2013). HIPAA title one is what affects patients most since it deals directly with their essential health benefits. It is a protective act to the patients, especially in limiting restrictions which group health plan put on benefits about pre-existing conditions. Moreover, the policy protects patients against the lack of benefits for not less than 12 months in the case of late enrolment (Jensen .P, Jensen, and Brunak, 2012).
The majority of patients feel that the HIPAA Act is a beneficial act that has proved to be very beneficial. Notably, they believe that the law takes into consideration their needs and bargains four their rights in their absence.
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Dixon, B. E., Gibson, P. J., Frederickson, C. K., & Rosenman, M. (2014). Measuring Population Health Using Electronic Health Records: Exploring Biases and Representativeness in a Community Health Information Exchange. Studies in health technology and informatics, 216, 1009-1009. Jensen, P. B., Jensen, L. J., & Brunak, S. (2012). Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications and clinical care. Nature Reviews Genetics, 13(6), 395-405. Kraan, C. W., Piggott, J. J. H., van der Vegt, F., & Wisse, L. (2015). Personal Health Records: Solving barriers to enhance adoption. Li, M., Yu, S., Zheng, Y., Ren, K., & Lou, W. (2013). Scalable and secure sharing of personal health records in cloud computing using attribute-based encryption. Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 24(1), 131-143.
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