Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, also known as the HITECH Act was signed into law on February 17, 2009. It was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as ARRA. This Act was passed to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (HHS, par 1) and to add changes to HIPAAs original provisions. The HITECH Act significantly modifies the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA. HIPAA was…
The use of informatics in the healthcare setting has rapidly grown since 2009 when president Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Informatics is in almost every health care setting in one form or another. Informatics is utilized in many different forms in healthcare settings today. One major way informatics is utilized in healthcare settings today is by Electronic healthcare records. The…
Policy-Making Custer Hospital does not out right explain that they have some type of policy process they want to purse in order to achieve the planning process that is being advised. The one area that policy will have to be taken into account is the implementation of the electronic medical records (EMR). As Ms. Wilson has already pointed out, if the hospital does not meet the EMR standards a by 2015 her hospital will start to lose Medicare reimbursements each year they fail to comply to the…
Consequences. Unfortunately, the use of health care branding may result in unexpected negative outcomes if not properly administered. One such negative consequence transpires from changes in health care reform, as shown with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Part of this law demands the mandatory implementation of electronic health records, forcing health care organizations to heavily invest in IT system upgrades (Congressional Budget Office, 2012). As a result, health care…
The poverty numbers across the United States vary widely depending on state and region. For example, the state of Mississippi has the highest poverty level of any state, at 22.0 percent (“SAIPE Mississippi”). In the northeast, there is New Hampshire with the lowest level of poverty by state at 8.2 percent (“SAIPE New Hampshire”). In Missouri, the poverty level is 14.8 percent, which is about even with the national level of 13.5 percent as of 2015 (“SAIPE Missouri”). In analyzing the Kansas…
This act was passed in 1946 and created the National School Lunch Program, which gave low-cost or free school lunches to qualified students. The purpose of this bill was to “safeguard the health and well-being of the nations children…through grants-in-aid…[and…
with the loss of time and money to go to training along with ONC’s push towards the collection of data outside the healthcare system like nursing homes and assisted-living facilities (Rao, 2011). Federally mandated programs of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, required all public and private healthcare providers to "adopt and demonstrate meaningful use of EMR" (Sultz & Young, p 33). The EMR is almost “universally used in health-care systems throughout the United States” (Sultz & Young,…
The aim of the Act is a healthcare law aimed at improving the health care system of the United States by widening health coverage to more Americans. When I asked Ramirez how he felt about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act he stayed quiet for a few seconds and answered “ Well I find that is a good step towards delivering health care to all individuals. Many people…
of thermal energy is increased, raising the temperature. The opposite occurs, also. The molecules lose their vibrational energy, decreasing the number of molecular collisions. This decreases the amount of thermal energy, lowering the temperature (American, 2016; The University, 2012). Combustion, on the other hand, is more indirect. It involves chemical reactions with oxygen through a burning process, usually that of fossil fuels (mostly made of hydrocarbons (HCs) – hydrogen and carbon). The…
many researchers, American performance management of Health Care system was instantly lacked which is why America was in the last place compared to the other countries, however, The Affordable Act…