Question

You have recently been hired by the State of Maryland as a Health Information Management Consultant. Your first assignment is to prepare a presentation educating your audience on the health care regulatory standards applicable to correctional facilities and mental health care services facilities. prepare an outline of your presentation which you will Discuss regulatory standards that a cancer registrar must be aware of while working in a regional acute care facility in at least 4 substantive paragraphs (a paragraph is at least 5 sentences)

Answer 1

Health Information Management Consultant plays a key role in maintaining, protecting,completing data,keeping accuracy in patient records.

The health care regulatory standards should be applicable to all human being in the society irrespective of any reason to get correctional facilities and mental health care. They see that the basic human rights are met,screening for mental illness done in community also in prison because prisoners are subjected to bipolar mood disorder,everyone gets the treatment,informed consent is taken,accepring the right to refuse treatment on the basis of good psychological status.

The cancer registrar are the one who guides and directs the cancer patients for right treatment at right time.They should be aware of promoting and educating all,follow current activities, treatment and trends.They should be aware of the patients are eligible or hhave an insurance facility to mee4 the expenses inncurred. They should keep a track of the outcome of the patient to know about the effectiveness of treatment. They should be aware of the rules and regulations,maintain confidentiality and privacy.Improve quality of care by building trust. The data should be transferred to central cancer registries where every patients didentified data are sent.It is usually governed by the state or federal law.