“legal” health record is becoming very important. The primary role of a health record is to keep a record of tests‚ treatments‚ and medications of a patient. A legal health record serves to identify what information constitutes the official business record of an organization for evidentiary purposes. (AHIMA‚ 2011) There are many issues that should be considered by a healthcare organization when defining the legal health record. One of the issues is how to store the health record. It used to be
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TERTIARY HOSPITALS FOR MEDICAL TOURISM PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 120 DATED JANUARY 30‚ 1987‚ THE FOLLOWING RULES AND REGULATIONS ARE HEREBY PROMULGATED TO GOVERN THE ACCREDITATION OF TERTIARY HOSPITALS FOR MEDICAL TOURISM. CHAPTER I DEFINITION OF TERMS SECTION 1. DEFINITION OF TERMS - When used in these Rules‚ unless the context otherwise indicates‚ the following terms shall mean as follows: a. “Tertiary Hospital for Medical Tourism”
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Kelly Floridia Medical Records Documentation January 18‚ 2013 HCR / 220 Page 1 Compliance plans are in place to insure the medical facilities are following any official requirements. Some areas which are included in a compliance plan are staff education and training‚ early detection of problems in the facility‚ and avoidance of negative legal actions. The steps in the medical billing process that are covered in a compliance plan are steps five reviewing
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Unit 7 Project Parts I & II Medical Office Management HS210-03 Kaplan University Unit 7 Project Parts I & II Part I: Filing Medical Records Why do medical records exist? Medical records are used as a reference material in medical facility. Doctors use as much information as possible in a medical record when prescribing medicine to a patient‚ avoiding any complications by checking the patients’ medical record. Medical records also provide allergies‚ in case you ’re allergic to certain
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RESEARCH PROJECT Background As a medical transcriptionist‚ you’ll work with many different medical specialties. It’s important to have a basic knowledge of medical specialties so you can better understand the medical transcription submitted. Procedure Go to http://lessons.pennfoster.com/pdf/sp0754.pdf to read the instructions for research projects. Then follow these steps: 1. Identify eight medical specialties. List the specialties and write two paragraphs about seven specialities. 2
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1. As an administrator of Blue Ridge Community Hospital‚ I would expect to see an overall increase in the various types of community outreach programs being offered by the hospital. With the primary focus being on diet and exercise; this project would be developed and overseen by various staff members within the hospital. One example of a new outreach program that could be offered is healthy cooking and or making healthy eating choices. These types of programs could be developed for various demographics
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Readmissions to the hospital has been projected to cost the U.S. approximately 17 billion dollars annually‚ of which 90% of those readmitted were unplanned (Weiss‚ Yakusheva‚ and Bobay‚ 2011). For those patients who have a primary care provider and actually follow up as instructed within 1-2 weeks‚ 2/3 of those primary care providers will have not received a written discharge summary of the patient’s stay. On the other hand‚ a large percentage of patients either do not have access to primary care
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Cooper Green hospital and the Community Care Plan Nicole Warren California College San Diego HCA474 [ December 13‚ 2012 ] Jason Kart Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan When it comes to health care‚ it’s very hard to afford. People get sick on a daily basis and they start to treat the emergency room as walk-in clinics. The delivering of health care to an indigent population‚ the lack of communication‚ education‚ changes with the US health care system and funding started to
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anti-trust law proper purpose. The purposes of the laws are not to punish big companies solely on account of their size‚ or to serve as an alternative set of “consumer protection” laws. The case of Oltz v. St. Peter’s Community Hospital is a different type of anti-trust case in which the hospital allowed a group of anesthesiologists from inside the facility to create an organization that directly eliminated outside competition from Mr. Oltz. The law was broken when the group of anesthesiologists banded together
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