External Trends, Misconceptions, And Essentials In Healthcare Organizations
EXTERNAL STANDARDS, REGULATIONS, & INITIATIVES
Kay Vining
Rasmussen College
Author’s Note:
This essay is being prepared on December 1, 2014 for Essentials of Health Information Management course.
EXTERNAL STANDARDS, REGULATIONS, & INITIATIVES
The present environments for healthcare organizations contain many forces demanding unprecedented levels of change. These forces include changing demographics, increased customer outlook, increased competition, and strengthen governmental pressure. Meeting these challenges will require healthcare organizations to go through fundamental changes and to continuously inquire about new behavior to produce future value. Healthcare is an information-intensive process. Pressures for management in information technology are increasing as healthcare organizations feature to lower costs, improve quality, and increase access to care. Healthcare organizations have developed better and more complex. …show more content…
Information technology must keep up with the dual effects of organizational complication and continuous progress in medical technology.
Healthcare and wellness are important to every American, business and to our federal government’s bottom line.
Sharon (2010) stated, “Staying healthy reduces the demand for health care. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, medical care for persons with chronic disease accounts for 75% of the dollars spent as a nation on medical care. Today’s most serious and expensive health problems are caused, in large part, by poor lifestyle choices: tobacco use, diets high in fat and sugar, inadequate physical activity, and drug and alcohol use.”
Regulatory and accreditation agencies have participated in the nursing community for several years. Regulation in healthcare started as a registry process to protect patients and healthcare givers. Currently, regulation serves the purpose of protecting patients. It also helps in defining healthcare practices and nursing education. In order to understand the function of regulatory and accrediting agencies and practices one must understand their definitions (McWay,
2003).
A regulatory agency has the responsibility of creating and enforcing rules or regulations of the law. Accreditation is a voluntary and self-regulatory process that non-governmental associations recognize programs put in place to meet or extend standards of quality healthcare. Accreditation also helps in the improvements of institutions or programs related to the use of resources, application of processes and achievement of results (Lundy &ump; Janes, 2009). regulatory and accreditation agencies should work closely with hospitals and other healthcare agencies, to close those gaps and develop a cost effective and appropriate way of meeting regulatory and accreditation standards. This will help healthcare agencies to provide adequate safety and care, for patients (Folland, Goodman, &ump; Stano, 2007).
References
Munsch, C. (2001). Managing the measurement: A model of data support in an integrated delivery system. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 15(2), 9-11. Retrieved October 27, 2006 from Ebscohost Databse.
Starkweather, D. & Shropshire, D. (1994). Management Effectiveness. In R.J. Taylor & S.
B. Taylor (Eds.), The AUPHA Manual of Health Services Management. Gaithersburg,
MD: Aspen Publishers.
Altman, D. (2011, September 7). Pulling it Together: Rising Health Costs are Not Just a Federal
Budget Problem. Kaiser Family Foundation
Folland, S. , Goodman, A. C. & Stano, M. (2007). The Economics of Health and Health Care. (5 th ed.) United States of America : Pearson Educational International.
Mcway, D. (2003). Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Information Management (3rd ed.)
Lundy, K. S. & Janes, S. (2009). Community health nursing: caring for the public 's health: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Kay Vining
Rasmussen College
Author’s Note:
This essay is being prepared on December 1, 2014 for Essentials of Health Information Management course.
EXTERNAL STANDARDS, REGULATIONS, & INITIATIVES
The present environments for healthcare organizations contain many forces demanding unprecedented levels of change. These forces include changing demographics, increased customer outlook, increased competition, and strengthen governmental pressure. Meeting these challenges will require healthcare organizations to go through fundamental changes and to continuously inquire about new behavior to produce future value. Healthcare is an information-intensive process. Pressures for management in information technology are increasing as healthcare organizations feature to lower costs, improve quality, and increase access to care. Healthcare organizations have developed better and more complex. …show more content…
Information technology must keep up with the dual effects of organizational complication and continuous progress in medical technology.
Healthcare and wellness are important to every American, business and to our federal government’s bottom line.
Sharon (2010) stated, “Staying healthy reduces the demand for health care. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, medical care for persons with chronic disease accounts for 75% of the dollars spent as a nation on medical care. Today’s most serious and expensive health problems are caused, in large part, by poor lifestyle choices: tobacco use, diets high in fat and sugar, inadequate physical activity, and drug and alcohol use.”
Regulatory and accreditation agencies have participated in the nursing community for several years. Regulation in healthcare started as a registry process to protect patients and healthcare givers. Currently, regulation serves the purpose of protecting patients. It also helps in defining healthcare practices and nursing education. In order to understand the function of regulatory and accrediting agencies and practices one must understand their definitions (McWay,
2003).
A regulatory agency has the responsibility of creating and enforcing rules or regulations of the law. Accreditation is a voluntary and self-regulatory process that non-governmental associations recognize programs put in place to meet or extend standards of quality healthcare. Accreditation also helps in the improvements of institutions or programs related to the use of resources, application of processes and achievement of results (Lundy &ump; Janes, 2009). regulatory and accreditation agencies should work closely with hospitals and other healthcare agencies, to close those gaps and develop a cost effective and appropriate way of meeting regulatory and accreditation standards. This will help healthcare agencies to provide adequate safety and care, for patients (Folland, Goodman, &ump; Stano, 2007).
References
Munsch, C. (2001). Managing the measurement: A model of data support in an integrated delivery system. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 15(2), 9-11. Retrieved October 27, 2006 from Ebscohost Databse.
Starkweather, D. & Shropshire, D. (1994). Management Effectiveness. In R.J. Taylor & S.
B. Taylor (Eds.), The AUPHA Manual of Health Services Management. Gaithersburg,
MD: Aspen Publishers.
Altman, D. (2011, September 7). Pulling it Together: Rising Health Costs are Not Just a Federal
Budget Problem. Kaiser Family Foundation
Folland, S. , Goodman, A. C. & Stano, M. (2007). The Economics of Health and Health Care. (5 th ed.) United States of America : Pearson Educational International.
Mcway, D. (2003). Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Information Management (3rd ed.)
Lundy, K. S. & Janes, S. (2009). Community health nursing: caring for the public 's health: Jones & Bartlett Learning