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Based on your past experiences and the knowledge gained during your coursework, consider the following question, and post a substantive initial post:




  • Choose a health care organization or provider with which you are familiar, and describe its patient information capture process. Does this process support operational effectiveness, satisfy compliance requirements, and promote quality patient care? Explain.



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You work for a health care organization that frequently needs to share information with other providers. Your organization has a very important relationship with a diagnostics center in particular where you frequently need to share patient information such as lab results, X-rays, and other diagnostic information.




  • You have been asked to review your company's protocols on sharing and receiving patient information for outside providers to ensure that your organization is in compliance with the latest standards and regulations.



    • Write an executive summary that examines the compliance procedures and practice guidelines that these organizations would need to establish to achieve optimum operational effectiveness while complying with federal, state, and local laws governing patient information security and records retention.


    • Analyze the current trends in patient data capture and information sharing among health care providers, assessing their impact on your organization's operations.


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Answer To: DISCUSSION BOARD XXXXXXXXXXWORDS) Based on your past experiences and the knowledge gained during...

Sunabh answered on Jun 10 2021
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Table of Contents
Discussion Post    3
Executive Summary of Compliance Procedures and Practice Guidelines    4
Protocols on Sharing and Receiving Patient Information for Outside Providers    5
Current Trends in Patient Data Capture and Information Sharing A
mong Health Care Providers    6
References    8
Discussion Post
The chosen healthcare organization for this assignment is Rush University Medical Centre, located in Illinois, USA. Rush University System for Health (RUSH) is an academic as well as health service providing company whose mission is to improve the health of individuals as well as other diverse communities through the integration of education, outpatient care, community partnerships as well as research. There are different entities of RUSH including Rush University Medical Center, Rush Copley Medical Center, Rush Oak Park Hospital, Rush University and much more. It would be essential to consider that currently there are more than 2500 students studying at Rush Medical College along with providing services to the community (RUSH, (2020).
According to the report presented by Healthcare IT News (2017) RUSH Health Connect was the information strategy launched by RUSH and HIE was the first interstate platform launched in order to expand data sharing. Ready computing was the firm that developed RUSH’s HIE in order to customize InterSystems Health Share, which is the technology platform required to support HIE. RUSH uses electronic health record (EHR) in order to collet patient’s data. MyChart is the online tool used by the healthcare professionals as well as patients to document and monitor the data respectively. Likewise, this network has also been reported to receive information from outside providers, which are bonded with RUSH health network. This network complies with HIPAA Security Rule (SR), which deals with the maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of patient’s data even while sharing with outside providers.
    
Executive Summary of Compliance Procedures and Practice Guidelines
    Confidentiality of patient’s information is considered as one of the most essential aspects in healthcare industry. This is majorly because it is in compliance with the professional work ethics and healthcare organizations as well as professional cannot share any confidential information with any third party. However, under certain circumstances patient information has to be shared as well as received from other providers such as X-ray providers, MRI scan providers and much more (AHRQ, 2020).
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the regulatory policies implicated by the U.S government in 1996 by 104th United States Congress. HIPAA privacy rules with the Protected Health Information (PHI) while HIPAA Security Rule (SR) deals with the protection of Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI). There have been three types of safeguards advocated by HIPAA and they are administrative, physical and technical.
Further, HIPAA also consider that it is...
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