Describe how your health care organization or another health care organization acts in a socially responsible way.  Identify the values that promote social responsibility and the impact on the community.

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Week 2 Organizational Ethical values and Principles

This discussion question should be at least 200 words long, in your own words, and substantive in nature.  Be sure to completely answer the specific question you choose.

Do ONE of the following.

-Explain the mission statement of your organization or another health care organization of your choice and what values and principles of the organization support the mission statement.

-Give an example of a way that ethical principles and values can be used to promote ethics in a health care organization.  Explain the values and principles involved and how they were effective

-Review an organizational, corporate, or professional code of ethics  in health care.  Summarize the code of ethics for the class.  Identify the values and principles found in the code.  Indicate how individual and organizations can use the values found in the code of ethics to promote ethical behavior.

-Describe how your health care organization or another health care organization acts in a socially responsible way.  Identify the values that promote social responsibility and the impact on the community.

-Give an example of an organization that has acted unethically in health care.  Describe what was unethical and share your advice to the organization of how to change its practices to act ethically.

 

Need 1reference and citation (Choose any one, please follow direction and answer all parts to the question). Must be a 200 word count and in own words.

Identify a health care law that you must uphold and comply with in your work setting or industry

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Complying with Health Care Law

Identify a health care law that you must uphold and comply with in your work setting or industry, such as HIPAA, for example. Consider your role as a health care leader with respect to accountability from individual, organizational, legal and regulatory perspectives. Research the Capella University Library, your course texts, or the Internet for resources that might be applied to manage the requirements of the law. You might wish to include frameworks for decision-making models and risk management or compliance related tools, such as the Framework for Information Assurance Policy Compliance, found in one of your readings from this unit.

In your post, clearly and succinctly state the law and the problem. Integrate concepts from the course regarding: Applicable legal and regulatory considerations, institutional policies and procedures, and industry or professional guidelines, standards, or concepts which may apply. Exemplary posts will be succinct, state the problem, cite the model utilized, provide bullet point or other summary recommendations, and include references cited using the APA Style and Formatting guidelines.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the posts of at least two of your classmates, providing your observations and analysis of their chosen tool or model. Responses should be 250–500 words in length and include a minimum of four credible references, cited using the APA Style and Formatting guidelines.

Complying With Health Care Law

 

A law passed by the United States Congress in 1996 titled The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Assurance Act (HIPAA) outlined the ability for citizens to continue health coverages when they lose or change their job without health disposition discrimination, put provisions in place to standardize billing processes and reduce fraud as well as required the protection of handling confidential health information by not disclosing any identifying patient information (Hammaker, 2011)

The HIPAA Privacy regulations require us as healthcare providers to ensure the protection of health information (PHI) with staff and business associates by way of education, developing policies and procedures and holding employees and business associates accountable to this. In scope for this expectation is oral, paper and electronic information. The rule outlines that only the minimal amount of information needed is to be shared with the receiving party as to protect the patient privacy (HHS, 2014).

It is the obligation of a health care provider to disclose any HIPAA violations to the victim/patient as well as self report to all applicable state or federal agencies. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, 45 CFR §§ 164.400-414, requires health care providers do disclosure following any breach of PHI.

If a patient suspects a violation of their PHI they can file a complaint with an organizations Compliance Officer and/or the Office of Civil Rights under the Department of Health and Human Services. It is within the scope of responsibility of the Compliance Officer is to lead an organization to HIPAA compliance guiding policy and education within an organization (Carroll, 2012)

Healthcare law and policy alone will not assure this compliance, research demonstrates a person’s propensity to behave in compliance with HIPPA are related to influencing factors such as training and communication,  prior experience with technology, attitudes towards policy compliance, commitment, and the policy enforcement (Cannoy and Salam, 2010). They offer a Framework for Information Assurance Policy Compliance to facilitate an organizational through an assessment and action plan for success highlighting these areas of focus (Cannoy and Salam, 2010)

HealthIT, offers a Risk Assessment Tool, a tool to assist healthcare organizations with the self-assessment of HIPAA security risks. This activity is directed to health care providers and organizations as outlined in the Acts Security Rule. This tool guides a provider through a wheel of Identify, Assess, Manage and Safeguard (HealthIT.gov, 2014). They offer videos as well as printed resources. The source clearly state the tool itself is not meant as a requirement of HIPPA but rather a tool to assist one in doing any risk analysis which is required.

Explain the major components of the U.S. health care system, their functions, and the relationships among these components

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Assignment 3: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Health Professional Services

Due Week 8 and worth 160 points

Imagine you are the head administrator at Well Being Hospital, a hypothetical local health care facility. Your task is to communicate with Get Well Drugs, a major U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer, in order to determine if the drugs supplied by this manufacturer are within benchmark standards set forth by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are thus suitable for use at your hospital. Specifically, you have to report your findings to the health care professionals who use these medications.

 

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

 

Write a  six (6) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Recommend a strategy for communication with Get Well Drugs in order to determine if the drugs supplied by this manufacturer are within benchmark standards set forth by the FDA.
  2. Outline a plan for asking questions directed toward Get Well Drugs about any FDA regulations which may be applicable to your local hospital.
  3. Outline a plan for communicating these findings to a local consortium of nurses and physicians at your hospital. This plan must include, at a minimum, the cost of the drugs, as well as the types of drugs for use in mental, behavioral, and general services.
  4. Conclude your findings, in which you suggest the pros and cons of using Get Well Drugs.
  5. Use at least four (4) recent (i.e., last five [5] years), quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Explain the major components of the U.S. health care system, their functions, and the relationships among these components.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health services organization using proper writing mechanics.

Does the Affordable Care Act offer the same advantages in terms of reduced costs?

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According to the Friedman Real World Micro reading (posted online under

“Course Readings”), how would a single-payer health insurance system reduce health care costs,

relative to other alternative health insurance policies? Does the Affordable Care Act offer the same

 

advantages in terms of reduced costs? Why or why not? Limit your answer to a paragraph.

2

Give three examples of negative externalities and explain, for each example, explain how the

government can reduce each type of negative externality. Limit your entire response to 1 paragraph.

According to the Friedman Real World Micro reading (posted online under

“Course Readings”), how would a single-payer health insurance system reduce health care costs,

relative to other alternative health insurance policies? Does the Affordable Care Act offer the same

 

advantages in terms of reduced costs? Why or why not? Limit your answer to a paragraph.

2

Give three examples of negative externalities and explain, for each example, explain how the

government can reduce each type of negative externality. Limit your entire response to 1 paragraph.