Healthcare information management is a broad term to reach the scope of hospital and physician practice management needs. It encompasses a wide variety of products and services for the healthcare provider. Every phase of operation is affected by the other. Clinical, financial, and administrative departments must work together in an integrated and automatic fashion.
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On July 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The objective of the regulations was to ensure that all employees were covered by healthcare insurance, reduce healthcare fraud and abuse, simplify and standardize healthcare administrative tasks and protect the privacy of the patient’s healthcare information. Contained …
Issues surrounding death and dying seem larger in the hospital setting. Healthcare professionals who work in departments such as Oncology where the loss of life is inevitable must learn to cope with these issues. In spite of the success rate in treatment of cancer patients, some people can not be helped. I remember when I …
Those suffering with chronic fatigue syndrome have frequently experienced a painful stigma from society. Because the syndrome had no known cause, despite study from the medical community, and revolved around complaints of unceasing tiredness, many criticized those complaining of the syndrome of being more like hypochondriacs than a victim of a physical disease. Now that …
