Health Care Management Questions

We’ve been studying quality aspects and touched on regulation through the Joint Commission and other agencies in my class. This week we go deeper into the role of the government, agencies, and the law in our health care facility management.

Assignment:

Educate the class on the topic of HIPPA Breach Notification Rule:

Critically evaluate the topic in relation to managing a facility. Be specific, general statements such as “an administrator should be aware” is not critical thinking or illustrating a command of the content.
Evaluate and analyze current changes, critiques, or recent events surrounding the topic and why they are of significance and how they impact a health facility. Think through financial impacts, staffing, information systems etc. What does this touch and how?
Your postings should reference scholarly literature and critically evaluate both sides (i.e. if you state the mission of the organization then state why another organization might have an issue or take them to task for it) of the conversation. Try to stay within one-two pages but still giving what is asked for.

Look forward to your dive into the risk management, legal, and regulatory areas of health facilities this week.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.