HIPAA Compliance If you are in the healthcare industry, you have probably heard some rumblings about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, coolly referred to as HIPAA. The word is your medical practice will have to be HIPAA compliant by April 2003, but you're not exactly sure what this act mandates or how to accomplish it. In very basic terms, HIPAA has two primary components to which hospitals, health plans, healthcare "clearinghouses," and healthcare providers must
Running Head: Enhancing Medication Compliance in Elderly Individuals Research Utilization Paper An Intervention Study to Enhance Medication Compliance in Community-Dwelling Elderly Individuals Chris Elmer HSCI 401 Fall 2001 My research study was to determine whether daily videotelephone or regular telephone reminders would increase the quantity of prescribed cardiac medication taken in a sample of elderly individuals who have congestive heart failure (CHF) (Peteva, 2001). Within this
1. How does the organization achieve “compliance” from its members? As our organisation is unionised, it is harder for managers to receive positive compliance from it’s employees as the reward power is minimized. Due to the unionization, decisions about promotions and giving raises are not allowed to be made by supervisors and managers. This restricts the amount of control the managers have over the compliance of its employees. However, I believe that my organization still exploits some power over
controlling the behavior of others. Power is the force one uses to get things done. Power and leadership should not be confused. Leadership achieves goals and power is the means to facilitate their achievement. Power focuses on the tactics for gaining compliance while leadership focuses on style. Power is not without influence. One has influence when one has power. Power and influence are key components when a person is trying to achieve organizational goals. Power is divided into two categories; position
only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions) requires excessive admiration has a sense of entitlement, (example, unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations) is interpersonally exploitative, (example, takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others is often envious of others
Factors Influencing Conformity and Obedience Conformity: Three reasons that influence conformity are the ones I am about to list below: Compliance with parties: Compliance is almost the same as conformity the difference between these is that in compliance there is a request for a person to behave in a certain (an act of compliance) way although this doesn’t have to be stated. We are doing this so that our behaviours don’t stand out or upset the majority. In many occasions these
Like stereotypes, conforming and expecting others to conform maintains cognitive balance. There are several kinds of conformity. Many studies of conformity took place in the 1950’s which led Kelman to distinguish between compliance, internalisation and identification. Compliance is the type of conformity where the subject goes along with the group view, but privately disagrees with it. Internalisation is where the subject comes to accept, and eventually believes in the group view. Identification
is power, there are also consequences that go along with it. It depends on how the power is used and to whom it is inflicted. The consequences range from a number of general effects. There are three specific examples of this. They are commitment, compliance, and resistance. Power is the stronghold for the three fold outcome that is brought on through consequences. The first consequence is commitment. It can be as simple as following through with the task at hand or lack thereof. It is best defined
Compliance with therapies recommended by a physician is a primary element towards a successful treatment. Failure to adhere can lead to serious complications which not only affects the patient but also the physician and most importantly the health care system. Even though compliance and adherence are relatively similar, there is an extensive difference between one from the other. According to World Health Organization (2003), adherence signifies “the extent to which a person's behaviour - taking
team consists of several participants that range from the Director, Janet Detuch of occupational health, RN manager, Infections Control manager, to Environmental Health and Compliance manager. “The purpose of the team is to provide for a work environment as free of hazards and exposure risks as possible and to demonstrate compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations (CHC 2003). “ Frequency of Training and Audits Janet’s responsibility is to be in the know of all the
Corporate Compliance Introduction When companies are facing issues dealing with corporate compliance, implementing a system to deal with the compliance and corporate governance issues is the best opportunity for the companies. The companies should develop a process to analyze alternatives and integrate the appropriate opportunity into the companies system. The process includes defining and implementing compliance steps and process. Next, the companies will recommend a preventative solution
of directors, management and other personnel, designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of objectives in the following categories: • Effectiveness and efficiency of operations. • Reliability of financial reporting. • Compliance with applicable laws and regulations Because internal control serves many important purposes, there are increasing calls for better internal control systems and report cards on them. Internal control is looked upon more and more as a solution to
As a student medical assistant and working with physicians, I have noticed a mixture of practices in medication administration that have deviated from what I have been instructed in grade. On thinking over on these practices and questioning nurses and physicians why such practice has been adopted has illustrated to me both the flawed procedures and environment that medical professionals offer care. Us, as medical assistants will need to get an understanding of how the environment they work in
1. What is medication Compliance? Describes the degree to which a patient correctly follows medical advice. Most commonly, it refers to medication or drug compliance, but it can also apply to other situations such as medical device use, self-care, self-directed exercises, or therapy sessions. Ideally, patients should be taking all of their medications as prescribed. Adherence is often considered to be “good”, or patients are described as “adherent”, if they regularly take their medications thus signifies
1. What is medication Compliance? Medications are important part of patient’s life, in that without compliance or adherence to once prescribed medication, the patient’s disease will linger on and cause more complications in their body. Medication compliance is one of the most important topics discussed with the patients. Medication compliance has been described as the ability of the patient to follow correctly prescribed medication. Compliance of medication does not only point out prescription drugs
practices and prescriptive on their organisation network. Therefore, the topic of organisational compliance and elements in the organisational culture has become really important for both profit and not for profit organisations around the world. Organisational compliance can be related to various type and levels within organisation perspectives and context. Many researcher states that organisation compliance can be “international and domestic laws and regulations, industry-wide standards and best practices
healthcare organizations a standard platform for the compliance of their coding practices. Supervisors pay close emphasis on the provisions and that their organization is following these standards of ethical coding. They provide regulatory requirements proven to maintain order and success in the industry. Their requirements are in accordance with the Affordable Care Act (hereinafter referred to as “ACA”). ACA provides strict regulation with the compliance of their legal and
However, some properties of conformity are still not completely understood. There are as yet few situations of how the influence of different cultural values works on compliance. The purpose of this paper is to identify any relationship to be respectful and self-conscious of own social status and tendency of conformity and compliance. It is hypothesized that countries emphasize the difference in social class and respect to parents at home will show a higher tendency in conforming to orders by authoritative
Maintaining compliance Nurses have an obligation to maintain compliance as they assumed as regulated health professionals. Maintaining compliance means keeping promises, being honest and meeting implicit or definite obligations toward their patients, themselves, each other, the nursing profession, other members of the health care team and quality practice settings (Practice Standard,2009). Nurses as self regulated professionals implicit promise to provide safe, effective and ethical
pharmacovigilance or drug safety compliance. This safety aspect is monitored, implemented, and complied with in two ways. Firstly, the sponsor of the clinical research, usually a pharmaceutical organization, conducts drug safety tests at all the stages of the clinical trials they conduct wherever it is required by law. They also implement drug safety protocols at stages of the clinical research study voluntarily too. The other way in which pharmacovigilance compliance is ensured is by the laws and guidelines