Patient Account Analysis

1.         What is the potential impact of the copy/paste functionality on the integrity of the data and information contained in an EHR?

The five most important characteristics for a healthcare provider is honesty, patience, empathy, responsibility, and a team player. I picked honesty because for me honesty is important because if I was the patient I would like for the nurses and doctors be completely honest with me. To be honest you have trustful. Patients should be able to always have faith in you. You always have to be honest with the patients no matter what. Honesty has a lot to do with the healthcare industry.

The pt Poteat, Edward L is supposed to tx today at unit 1087. The unit 1087 is requesting the referral source to send a shortened and missed treatment report in order for the pt to be accepted. This report is not one of the requirements that is needed in order for a pt to transfer to a FKC unit. Also the referral source stated the she sent the report several times and received several conformations and clinic 1087 is stating that they never received it. The referral source and the unit 1087 have been in contact and I am just now finding out about this. Please let me know if the pt is accepted and to see what we can do regarding this patients

In the year 2009, President Obama began the electronic medical record stimulus in hopes that is integration will improve streamlining patient care along with long term savings within the health care systems. In accordance, the stimulus has offered financial incentives for physician to convert from the paper chart to an electronic chart. Many benefits related to the electronic health record. The most important benefit is having the orders legible and clear, avoiding nurses from interpreting terrible hand writing style. This will reduce errors with nurses misinterpreting the written order. Electronic health record provides the nurses with the past medical history of the patient in just one area and at one time. This

A tiny measure of patients deny care from the earliest starting point, having been conveyed to the healing center without wanting to by law implementation faculty or prehospital care suppliers (West Publishing Company , 2008). Despite the conditions under which the patient arrives, a choice to leave the crisis office against therapeutic counsel places work force in an unbalanced bind, constraining attendants and doctors to pick one of two choices which incorporate permitting the patient to leave, or they can control him and compel him to acknowledge treatment. Like most choices made in the crisis situation region, this one must be made in a flash.

The best way to handle a claim is to keep your cool and be patient. Staying patient sends a positive message that has a direct tone and clear explanation. Also, patience resoles any confusion about the claim. Keep in mind ones’ natural defense of confusion is anger. However, having patience and updating new information or explaining the problem clearly can help settle the

I review the patient SFL forms and the reason that the forms never was'nt FWD to SFL is b/c the patient SFL insurance was not active or enter on PM system and the paper claim and forms for this patient was pending. I double check today and I foud now that the SFL insurance information is added it now on PM. This is one of the million reasons the I need to deal with when I need to complete all the SFL forms for all the sites. I will FWD the forms now to SFL for this patient. Also about Kelleane questions about who need to response all this questions I think that Robin should be contact me or you by email message as she always do with me when she missing any SFL forms or labs she knows that I'm the only one on our Billing dept. who is working

Part 1: First day of clinical was a great experience! It was not my first time going into a healthcare facility but it was my first time actually going inside to a patient’s room to provide care. Today, it was kind of an exploring, easy day. I was very scared to first get into a patient’s room but I had a very cooperative, sweet, easy going patient and it really helped me to overcome my nervousness. Today, I tried to do head to toe assessment on my patient and it went fine. I had difficulty to hear her apical heart rate but after trying it few times, I was able to get it. I also saw a CNA giving shower to a patient and it was my first time actually seeing one. Practicing in a mannequin and actually seeing it doing on a human being was different.

I completely agree with your statements in this week’s discussion post. Personally, I do believe the nurse completed an assessment on the patient. After realizing the patient was in distress the nurse did what she thought was right and called the emergency physician for more help. I still believe the nurse should’ve written down the patient’s vitals and assessment information on a piece of paper for example and charted the information once the patient was stable. “The basic purposes of standard of care are to protect and safeguard the public as a whole” (Guido, 2014, p. 55). I have confidence that the nurse was doing what she believed was right, but was caught in a messy situation. As all of us know health care is a hectic profession and everything

The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 created Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), as a tool to help control health care costs. HSAs are tax free accounts that are designed to aid individuals in saving for future medical expenses (NCSL, 2016). It was widely believed that individuals would spend their health care dollars more wisely if they were spending their own money (Mayoclinic, 2016). These savings accounts are often paired with a high deductible health plans and now have become the most common type of Consumer Driven Health Plans (CDHP) (LoSasso, Shah & Frogner, 2010).

The provider advised that the patient has not returned to therapy since 7/23 and has attended a total of 54 out of 77 authorized visits. The last update we have received on the patient is that her therapy has been placed on hold by the doctor. I have tried reaching the doctor and the patient to see if the patient should be returning to therapy but I was unable to reach

Getting the most out of what family spends on our health is top issue for many of us these years.

Dr. Reddy specializes in Family Medicine in downtown Nashville. With a population of 601, 222 people Nashville is one of the biggest cities in Tennessee. The female population is slightly higher and the median age is 33 years old. (suburbanstats.org) It is a city with opportunity for individuals to grow has a very substantial university community and is very accepting to many cultures. Nashville is Tennessee state capital and is known for being the Music Capital of the world. It is located on the Cumberland River on the north side of the state and is surrounded by farmland. (population2016).com Nashville population is diverse in age, race, and culture. Dr. Reddy’s patient population reflects that. The pie graphs included in this paper will show the clinics demographics including: gender, payer source, body mass index, marital status, and age of patient population.

Understanding a patient’s social history is vitally important in treating a patient holistically. The social context that the patient is exposed to in most cases causes the illness or aliment to arises. For instances understanding that a patient lives in a high stress environment with a high density of fast food restaurant can predispose the patient to hypertension. With this in mind the doctor can suggest various treatments and proceed to suggest diet advice that is tailor to the patient’s circumstances. HEADDSSS provides an excellent framework to understand the social context and history in which a patient lives in. In addition, by suddenly asking these questions and displaying a genuine interest it can allow the patient to open up to the

One way to ensure effective communication and exchange of patient information is occurring among the IP team is by allowing the patient’s healthcare team have access to all documents and notes. This will reduce redundancies and delays in acquiring patient information. The technological advances allows the entire team to be up to date. Moreover, the patient’s healthcare team should be present with the patient in order to help the patient choose the best course of treatment. Each member of the patient’s team can offer different insights and opinions. The team can also unanimously agree to move forward or rethink a patient’s course of treatment depending on the patients’ status or progress.