Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set

Fifth, improving public health and disease prevention. A fundamental component of ongoing healthcare reform efforts must center on creating a system that improves health and promotes healthy behaviors, beyond just diagnosing and treating disease. Chronic disease affects health and quality of life, but it is also a major driver of health care costs and has a related impact on businesses. It is estimated that nearly half of all American suffer from at least one of the top chronic diseases,…

Background The expansion of the Internet and availability of information online has lead to an equivalent expansion in cyber crime, or cyber terrorism. In fact, in 2013 the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance reported that “93% of large corporations and 87% of small business reported some form of cyber breach in 2012” (Brewer, 2014). Also, President Obama labeled cyberthreats as an incredibly serious economic and national security challenge (Artlisch and Edelman, 2014). Cyber…

people's medical information from prying eyes or ears. Patients will also be asked to authorize that their medical information can be used for purposes other than medical care, such as public health studies. This authorization is for a specific timeframe, and the patient has a right to revoke permission at any time (Jesitus, 2008). We have to be sure that when addressing the public with this health issue, we are making sure that we do not shatter any HIPAA guidelines. HIPAA primarily sets…

HITECH The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical health (HITECH) Act of 2009 was designed to decrease healthcare costs, improve health outcomes, coordinate care, and protect personal health information in an electronic format. Three of the core programs associated with HITECH include: establishing guidelines to address personal health information security breach notifications and develop guidelines to be utilized in an electronic environment, Medicare incentives for meaningful…

Quality measures are well known amongst healthcare organizations across the United States. The Medicaid system is built upon quality measures that tie directly into the payment system. In promoting quality measures amongst organizations the U.S. has developed a reporting system known as Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ to build awareness. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has defined healthcare quality as, “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase…

Quality improvement programs are put into place to ensure all employees are held accountable for their actions, integrating evidence-based practice into healthcare, and to continually improve care to countless populations (Huber, 2014). In this paper I 'm going to explain my organization 's quality program goals and structure. Next, I will describe how quality improvement projects are selected; I will also discuss the quality methodology, tools and techniques, and project management. Following…

departmental staff all of them can make the successful for any organization. The leaders guide the project activities, data collection, and set up policy. Leader guide the staff to achieve the goals. Effective communications between leaders of the Baylor Medical Center and the department staff collects the data and ensuring the new system can communicate with the current system for the data transfers. As the system nears completion the staff will receive…

diagnosis, outcome verification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The initial step during a health assessment is to provide a complete assessment. An assessment is used to gather various forms of information which include both objective and subjective data. Next, the nurse uses the data obtained during the assessment phase to formulate a nursing diagnosis. Diagnose are formulated using clinical judgment regarding in response to both current or potential health problems.…

the United Healthcare with a simple goal to enhance health care services for everybody, continually attempting to bring world-class health care solutions for the patients by investing resources into cutting-edge technology and innovative projects. UnitedHealth Group has a unique and important role in modernizing the health care System (UnitedHealth Group Modernizing Health Care, 2016). The purpose behind this paper is to give an assessment of the readiness of the United Healthcare, especially…

administrator collects pertinent data and information relative to the situation, issue, problem, or trend (ANA, 2016). Mr. Curtis integrates knowledge of global and environmental factors into the data collection and assessment process (ANA, 2016). He also recognizes the impact of personal attitudes, values, and beliefs in the assessment process (ANA, 2016). Standard 2. Identification of Problems, Issues, and Trends The nurse administrator analyzes the assessment data to identify problems,…