Part One Introduction and Background of Human Resources 1. Human Resource Management: A Strategic Function 2. Equal Employment Opportunity: The Legal Environment 3. Implementing Equal Employment Opportunity 4. Job Analysis and Job Design Image Source/PunchStock Chapter One Human Resource Management: A Strategic Function Chapter Learning Objectives After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Define human resource management. 2. Describe the functions of human resource management
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The Legal System Imagine you are the director of health information services for a medium-sized health care facility. Like many of your peers‚ you have contracted with an outside copying service to handle all requests for release of patient health information at your facility. You have learned that a lobbying organization for trial attorneys in your state is promoting legislation to place a cap on photocopying costs‚ which is significantly below the actual costs incurred as part of the contract
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RUNNING HEAD: ORGANIZATIONAL EMR CHANGE Organizational EMR Change HCS 587 Organizational EMR Change A small medical office is expanding organizationally but not in the space department. Some changes need to be made to employ space more efficiently in the most cost-effective route. Switching medical records electronically from paper is a route that improves the function of the facility and also resolves the space issue. Paper records are common in most health care facilities‚ but because
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Frederick Taylor’s legacy of scientific management incorporates the principles of organized efficiency‚ improved quality‚ elimination of waste and decreased financial expenditure. Taylorism inspired the reconfiguration of workflow processes to assimilate control through calculations and measurement. The landscape of health care delivery today reflects these principles. There are multiple examples of how healthcare has introduced standardization to decrease variability in clinical performance and
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as well as help in the implementation of meaningfully useful Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the view to facilitate significant improvements in healthcare quality and efficiency. Although HIEs provide benefits specific for individual patients when transitioning through different care providers it also has a broader potential to transform population health‚ by analyzing secondary data captured through EHRs‚ clinical systems and laboratory systems. In the midst of the large volume of data transfer
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decrease the number of uninsured Americans and lowering the overall health care costs. The new reform will cause many new changes and medical technology will increase. The Affordable Care Act is promoting the development of electronic health records (EHRs). They believe that having electronic health records it will decrease cost‚ help the duplication and claim processing which allows multiple providers to rely upon one laboratory findings and detect fraudulent billing practices. There are many people
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Section 2.1 Utilize – Implement Go-Live Checklist Use this tool is to ensure that you are truly ready to go live with a system after all other elements of implementation have been performed. Instructions for Use 1. The project manager‚ administrator‚ and/or members of the health information technology (HIT) steering committee should use this checklist to validate that everything on the list has been performed. 2. Accompany the go-live checklist with a rehearsal of the go-live day. Your
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systems. A provision of HITECH requires that providers utilize the system of their choice in a comprehensive and beneficial manner; this has been termed “meaningful use.” The purpose of this report is to provide information regarding the benefits of implementing such a management system for our 100-bed facility. Although full implementation can benefit all aspects of hospital operations such as employee scheduling‚ inventory and ordering‚ compilation of statistical data‚ employee and physician credentialing
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It allows for better preventative health where a physician can easily look up if a patient is due for a cancer screening and set up the appointment for the patient. Amongst other positive things‚ EHR has also improved data accessibility. EHRs eliminate physical transporting of patient files and allow for remote access to charts by numerous physicians. With any technological device‚ it is easy for the information to be compromised. When security breaches occur‚ many
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how to maintain a competitive edge in the health care market while leading an organization through constant change. Rapid change is occurring as health care organizations (HCOs) strive to adopt new technology such as the electronic health record (EHR)‚ implement quality improvement initiatives‚ and institute pay-for-performance plans. To deal with this change and help employees transition to new ways of doing things‚ managers need an edge. Providing this edge are the
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