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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medical Coding, and Patient Privacy Rights

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

Problem at the Re Creation Medical Practice

services (Re Creation, 2009). The centre has the facilities to undertake minor surgical procedures, such as the removal of moles a...

Application of Disability Models in Education

This is a model that does not accept that there is anything wrong with society and the there is no acknowledgement of any need for...

Personal Reflections on Identifying and Dealing with Illness

can bring them a fan. There are, in fact, many small things that we can do to reduce our patients stress levels that have nothing...

UK and Medical Negligence

the case often cited to explain this. The judge in Bolam ruled that there can be two or more schools of thought in respect to prio...

Hinduism and Health Care

the differences noted above, Hindus are often immersed within the same cultural elements as are non-Hindus, from outward appearanc...

Trying to Find an AIDS Vaccine That is Effective

of Health Margaret Johnston reported that an effective vaccine likely will be available within the next decade (Researchers Say Th...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Diagnosing Medical Problems

body" (What causes anemia?, 2009). The symptoms of this condition include pale skin and fatigue, and the causes include "[A]n iron...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Medical Imaging and Neural Networking

convert optical processing systems into processing products (Bains, 1998). Young and Francis (1998, PG) define neural networks as...

A Small Office Accounts Receivable Assessment

transactions of approval, charge and payment. Table 1. Files Used Master Files Transaction Files Debtor file Daily Colle...

Chlamydia form a Sociological Perspective

thought to be viruses rather than bacteria. Suspicion as to their true classification grew out of the fact that, unlike viruses, ...

Medical Practice and Customer Service

patient and the medical practice but for the physicians mental well-being also. INITIATING ACTION In order to give the best in p...

Overview of Cerebral Angiography

developed as a result of the advent of microsurgery onto the medical scene. With the new frontier of microsurgery, which allowed a...

Examination of Huntington's Disease

patient displays. While the propensity for abuse can certainly go either way - from caregiver to patient and vice versa - the ext...

Overview of Medical Sensors

have long limited patients with glaucoma, hydrocephalus, urinary incontinence, valve failure and chronic heart failure. Bound by ...

Overview of OPC3

large role in the stabilization of collagen and elastin, which are two basic proteins in the connective tissues that surround most...

AMA, Ethics, and PAS

of the term does the taking of a life, or the assistance to take ones own life, fall under the definition in anyones dictionary of...

UK and Changing Attitudes Regarding Informed Consent

encouraging unethical withholding of information and a lack of individual respect. In this relativity recent case there is the d...

Career Paths in Health Information Technology

are the people who make sure these records are accurate. In that we see that a health information technician is perhaps just as va...

Medical Research and Qualitative Analysis

and what they are asking or what the participant perceives that they are asking. 2. Identify a clinically-based research topic an...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Modern Organizations and Nursing Leaders

Medical Center, all of which are included in Clinical Operations. All of these nurses are RNs, and all hold the office of Vice Pr...

Medical Experts and the Decline in Trust

to change the class they fit into more so than at any time in the past. In addition to this there has also been an amendment in th...