Healthcare and Life Sciences

Respond to three of the scenarios below. Please label your mini-cases.  Your response is to be in a word document format( doc. or docx. only).  Cover all of the issues in each case you choose and use good writing and presentation techniques and address the issue(s) in detail.  Answer in bullet format where possible.

You are a new administrator at Jonestown Medical Center. You receive a telephone call from the nurse manager of the emergency room. Dr. Smith, an emergency room physician who is an employee of your hospital, has just reported for duty. The nurse manager suspects that Dr. Smith is intoxicated. What do you do?
You are the practice manager of Docs R Us, Ltd., a large multi-specialty medical practice employing over 100 physicians. You are conducting a random review of billing for doctors in the practice and you discover that one of the internists in your group who treats mostly Medicare recipients has been checking off the wrong code for her procedures on the billing form. The procedures on the patient record do not match the billing form codes. You pull up her files for the past 3 months and find a pattern of up-coding. When you meet with her to review this miscoding, she becomes very defensive and angry. What do you do?
You are the assistant director of the hospital medical staff office at The Rural Outreach Community Hospital in a tiny town in Arkansas. It is your job to verify physician credentials for staff privileges. Your hospital receives an application from a physician for staff privileges. On his application it states that he graduated from medical school in El Salvador. When you call to verify this, you are told that the medical school burned down 2 years ago and all the records were destroyed. What do you do?
You are the CEO of Sleepy Hollow Retirement Community and Nursing Center. A resident’s family has come to you to complain that their loved one, who is on pain medication, is in intolerable pain. Her medications appear not to be working anymore. One of the family members states, “My 90-year-old mother saw the nurse put the pain medicine in her pocket.” What do you do?

You are a new administrator at a hospital, well know for pulmonary medicine. The physicians in the ICU, the ER, and the Department of Pulmonary Medicine have demanded to meet with you about the shortage of Respiratory Therapists. You stall them for 48 hours so you can gather data. What types of information will you need to collect to have an intelligent conversation with this powerful group of physicians?
An African American woman enters a healthcare facility where she is to receive an MRI of her spine.  She has long hair in the style known as “locks”.  She is taken to white male MRI Technician for a pre-procedure interview.  He briefly describes the procedure and tells her she will have to remove all metal objects such as hair pins and jewelry.  He also stays she should remove her hair for the process.  The woman tells him that her hair is her own and cannot be removed.  He responds stating that he has served many black women who have weaves and other false hair held in with pins and he is just being cautious.  The woman is highly insulted and asks to speak to the administrator on duty.  That is you, what do you do?
This is an exercise in your management abilities and knowledge.  It should come from your own thoughts.  References are not required.  Cover each situation thoroughly.

2 Pages

Answer each bullet question with only 3-4 sentences singled spaced 

(Each bullet needs 1-2 references)

HSACW2

• Analyze the causes of poor quality health care data and determine the single most significant cause, as well as an innovative solution that is addressed in the text.

• From the “Perspective: Documentation” (see attachment), discuss ways that information systems could assist in preventing the problems described. Provide specific examples to support your response.

• Analyze the AHIMA characteristics of data quality and discuss what additional factors could be brought into the model to improve the quality of health care data even further.

• Discuss the challenges associated with measuring the quality of health care data and ways that those challenges may be addressed. Provide specific examples to support your response.

POLCW2

• Explain whether or not the government should extend the same civil rights to terrorism suspects that American citizens enjoy. Provide support for your argument with specific examples of civil rights and liberties.

• Identify at least two strategies that your current or past employer uses in order to protect the civil rights and liberties of its workers. Provide a rationale for your response.

HSACW3

• Analyze the history and evolution of health care information systems and predict major development during the next 20 years. Provide specific examples to support your response.

• Discuss why the health care industry lags behind other industries in the adoption of IT and possible steps that could be taken to make health care an “early adopter.”

• Research five health care information system vendors that offer EMR products. Determine which of the five products you researched bests meets the IOM’s definition of EHR and how that product could improve the overall quality of health care in your community. Provide specific examples to support your response.

• Analyze the barriers to health information technology addressed (see barrier attachment) and discuss additional barriers as well as what could be done to overcome them.

POLCW3

• Discuss at least two effects on U.S. citizens that stem from the division of power between the federal and state governments.

• Identify at least three effects on political ideologies that arise from the existence of only two major political parties in the U.S.

Download additional files

barriers_attachment.pdf

documentation_attachement.pdf

5 pages

Answer each bullet question with only 3-4 sentences singled spaced (not paragraphs).

(Each bullet needs 1-2 references)

HSACW1

• Analyze the points at which information is collected during an in-patient encounter, determine the most likely point (or points) at which mistakes in that collect could occur, and recommend steps to avoid the mistake you identified.

• Predict ways that the collection of patient information will become more efficient, expansive, and accurate during the next 20 years. Provide specific examples to support your response.

• Create a very brief scenario (1-2 sentences) in which specific information should be collected. Determine which two of the eight types of health care information would be most useful, and discuss how those types of information would be used

• From your own Internet research, find a report card for one or more local hospitals in Georgia. Discuss how you would use the information you found on the report card if you or a family member needed health care. Describe the effect these types of Websites have on the health care providers. Provide specific examples to support your response.

POLCW2

• Explain two to three roles that modern government plays in the lives of American citizens. Then, determine at least two benefits and two limitations of the power of the U.S. government in affecting the day-to-day lives of its citizens.

• Indicate two or three of your personal rights that are protected by the Constitution. Support your arguments with sound logic and specific examples.

3 Pages