Unit 209 Understand how to handle information in social care settings. Outcome 1 Understand the need for secure handling of information in social care settings. 1.1 Identify the legislation that relates to the recording‚ storage and sharing of information in social care. The Data Protection Act 1998 controls how your personal information is used by organisations‚ businesses and the government. Everyone responsible for using data or storing data has to follow strict rules called
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have the funds to support‚ health care is some what considered a basic human right. Unfortunately‚ in America’s society today the idea of the health care system is not only negatively affecting the underprivileged and uninsured‚ but is also affecting families of the middle class suburbia. This proposal will focus on the controlling of medical health care costs. The idea of universal health care is what America needs. The thought of providing health services such as; health insurance‚ medical insurance
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efficient health care is‚ and remains‚ one of the most pressing challenges facing our nation. Health care has a long way to catch up with other industries in terms of exploiting the new technologies. From just documenting expenses to tracking consumer behavior from just about anywhere in the U.S.‚ smartphone applications (apps) have changed the way many businesses operate. Now‚ more industries are turning to these apps to enhance the way customers interact with their products and services. This paper
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EHRs in Health Care x x x Abstract In 2009‚ the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was passed into law mandating interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption throughout the United States health care system for all providers who serve Medicare or Medicaid patients. The HITECH Act sets “meaningful use” requirements‚ goals‚ and objectives‚ and gives specific timelines for which to achieve them. As an incentive
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Connected for Health The Potential of Health Information and Communications Technologies to Reduce Health Care Disparities In today’s technology-filled world‚ we have become dependent on the Internet for everything from doing any research (“Google it”)‚ making travel and restaurant reservations‚ paying our bills‚ managing our investments‚ finding recipes for dinner‚ making charitable and political contributions‚ all types of shopping‚ and on and on. And we communicate primarily by e-mail
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Health Information Exchange The Health information exchange or also known as HIE is the sending of healthcare-related data electronically to facilities‚ health information organizations and government agencies according to national standards. The goal is to be able to access and retrieve data more efficient‚ safer‚ and to improve the quality of care and patient safety and reduce healthcare costs. The Health Information Exchange has existed for over two decades. In the 1990s there were
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childcare professionals ‚ it is a love of children that leads them to and keeps them in child care . Some people choose it so they can stay home with their own children. Others do it to help out their community. Still other try it because to them they think it might be an easy way to earn money. It was the hardest job I ever loved. I had 3 children of my own ‚ and if I got a job in a different field ‚ I would need child care for my daughters. When I looked around at the child-care option
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Information Use Paper Information in organization can be used in many different ways depending on the specific job you may have. Some information is used for the public and some is more private than others. Information is used for databases‚ business analytic s‚ business records‚ health records‚ fax‚ scanned and many more different ways information is used in an organization. Information is mostly used by sharing it though different levels of a business or sharing it because it is involved with
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managed care on physician’s practices. Do you see these effects as positive or negative? Why? Some effects are negatively affecting the care that physicians are able to provide their patients. In some patients are being denied health care coverage for health services by health plan providers because the provider does not believe that a severity of an illness is noticeable. For example: A teen tells his/her physician that they feel suicidal‚ but the mental health patient is denied health coverage
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The Role of the Professional Nurse in Relation to Sexually Transmitted Infections Introduction Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have been described as “a major public health problem in Europe” (Fenton & Lowndes‚ 2004‚ p. 255). There is evidence that there is an increasing number of persons infected with STIs in the UK (Fenton & Lowndes‚ 2004; Cassell et al.‚ 2006)‚ and primary health care and specialist clinics play a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of these infections (Cassell
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