Patient Portals HCS/490 January 28‚ 2013 Russell Wettstein Patient Portals Every day more and more people use the internet to communicate with friends‚ family‚ and coworkers. The internet is used for banking‚ making reservations‚ reading books‚ and now they can manage their health care online. Many providers now offer health care portals to their patients. They can email their physician‚ check lab results‚ and even make appointments right from the comfort of their home. Portals have
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and even more to generate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) by Congress in remedy to its torts‚ patient dumping still appear to be an issue in our society today. In fact‚ patient dumping occurs when hospitals deny treatment to emergency patients -- often because those patients can’t pay. As Patient dumping is the practice of refusing to treat patients who cannot pay for healthcare services. Federal anti-dumping law‚ initiated by Congress as part of the Consolidated Omnibus
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Lethal Sex: Conditions of Disclosure in Counseling Sexually Active Clients with HIV Elliot D. Cohen‚ Ph.D. The present HIV pandemic presents challenges for mental health practitioners who‚ in the course of therapy‚ sometimes become privy to confidential information about potentially lethal sexual relationships ongoing between the client and one or more uninformed partner(s). In this lecture I will discuss the current professional/legal status of making disclosure in such cases‚ and
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errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced by its caring attitude toward the patient‚ safety should be our number one priority. This research article is very important to the nursing profession‚ in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession‚ which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article‚ Flynn‚ Liang‚ Dickson‚ Xie‚ & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety
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public confidence in the process. There are three common rules are referred to natural justice‚ which are hearing rule‚ bias rule and evidence rule (Richard‚ and Johnson‚ 2004). 2. Practice of HR policies & procedures‚ Employees should know There is a requirement for HR policies and procedures in an employment relationship to make sure that both employees and managers are aware of the expectation of the company. In this sense organization needs a framework in which to guide and direct employees‚
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[pic] PROCEDURE FOR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE |Doc No: |Issue |Issue Date |Pages | |GEL-HSE-SOP-21 |1 |12-Feb-2011 |25 | |
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Confidentiality and making patients feel confident in giving us their information. Confidentiality is taken advantage of every day by healthcare professionals. HIPAA states that healthcare professionals should not give information such as date of birth‚ patient name‚ or social security number. What about talking to your significant other or best friend about a patient you examined today with an ominous skin malady? You apprehend it every day in the healthcare field. Nurses talking to one another
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In Robert Redford’s article‚ “Protect our WIld Horses”‚ Redford uses ethos and statistics to construct and argument regarding the protection of wild horses and why congress should do a better job at protecting them. Redford appeals to the reader’s sense of ethics by stating that “ any infringement on [a horse’s] legally protected right to live is an assault on American principals.” Redford uses states this to make the reader feel as if the mistreatment of wild horses was breaking the constitution
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a. Who is the macro client or system in this vignette and why? The macro client system in this vignette will include impoverished elderly individuals‚ elderly individuals that are in need of a structured setting‚ and their family members. “The macro client system includes those people who will ultimately benefit from the change process‚ typically a particular client population having similar characteristics and receiving similar agency services” (Kirst-Ashman & Hall‚ Jr.‚ 2015‚ p. 205). The elderly
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Protecting Company Reputation‚ Image‚ and Identity Protecting Company Reputation‚ Image‚ and Identity Prepared for Dr. Robert B. Rogow College of Business and Technology Eastern Kentucky University Prepared by June 20‚ 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Students at Eastern Kentucky University students would benefit from learning how to start‚ maintain‚ and improve a company’s reputation‚ image‚ and identity. Based on findings from interviews with executives
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