Question

1. Give a brief overview of HIPAA including what it is, penalties for noncompliance, and strategies for adhering to HIPAA regulations. Give a real-life example of HIPAA and how a health care professional can protect patient information. Is there technology available to assist the health care professional or organization? 2. In your own words, provide a definition of health care disparity. List two examples of a health care disparity. How does the Healthy People initiative advance population health and reduce health disparities? What are some things you learned from researching healthypeople.gov? 3. Choose one of the National Patient Safety Goals you read about this semester and explain its importance in health care. How you can support that goal as a health care professional? What resources are available to help you learn more about the patient safety goal? 4. Ethical dilemmas exist in health care all the time. Provide an example of a health care dilemma and list ways you might provide monitoring or oversight. Are there organizations or agencies that monitor situations involving ethical dilemmas? Who should be informed of ethical violations? 5. What is benchmarking in health care? Who is typically involved? What are some general challenges in benchmarking? What resources are available to underperforming facilities?

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A." Health disparity refers to a high burden of illness , injury, disablity or mortality euperienced by am one group relative to another, A "Health care disparity" refers to differences between groups in health insurance coverage, accees & use ces care and quality cel care.. la enample - Race lethinicity, socioeconomic status, age , location, gender, disability States and sexual orientation. Initiative to & Research to reduce dis hourity @ The Affordable care cict CACA), Coverage expansions helped neurow longistanding disparity in health coverage for people of color and low income individual (B ACA also included other provision focused on addressing disparity and the 2011 I Department of Health and Human services disparity Action plan set out a series of priority, Strategy, action and goal to achieve a vision of " a nation free of disparity in health & health care" © States, local communities a private organization and provider are also engaged in efforts to reduce health disparity.

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National Patient safety Goals CNPsa) This evaluate the safety and quality of care provided for patient / resident, the point Commission establishes National patient sagety goal. NPsa becomes a standard, the goal number is retired and is not used again. Therefore you will find that several number are missing These goals below have specific requirement for protecting patients / resident and have been revised from previous year to become more specific in response to concern from feild about resources needed to comply with NPSG- In 2012, The Joint Commision has approved one new NPSG for 2012 that focuses on Catheter-associated wrinary tract infection for hospital and colitical access hospital accrediation program. - Indentify patient correctly . Improve staff communication ③. use medication safely Prevent infection Prevent health care associated pressure ulcer resources ator available to leain @ knowledge about patient and care of patient is recreving osientation to facility adducers Sajetyn emergency code loversight of care given by student / Supervision. - who, what, when how often.

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An ethical dilemma involve the need to choose from among two or more morally acceptable option ar & between equally unacceptable Courses of action, when one choice herevent selection of other enambee - Cancer patient near end of lifet common ethical dilemmas include those dealing with artificial nutrition and hydration - truth- telling and disagreement over management plans. Advances in medicine, increasing economic & tress - rise of patient self-detesamination and deef diffed differing values between healthcare worker and patient are among the many factor - Contributing to the frequency and complexity of ethical issue in health care. The international code of World medical association a an organisation representing broad spectram of ethical dilemmas in health care.