Full Description
Today's health information professionals are working within an ever-changing environment of technology and regulatory guidelines. This dynamic workplace requires fundamental skills to appropriately manage and react to ethical dilemmas. Ethics Case Studies for Health Information Management provides real-world examples to prepare you for the inevitable challenges of the modern office and offers a methodology to interpret the various situations and determine courses of action.
Contents
PrefaceIntroduction and Explanation of Case Study MethodologyBut I Consider Myself to be CredentialedScope of PracticeTo Suspend or Not to Suspend?Difficulty with DoctorsIncidental FindingDivided LoyaltyThe Case of the Missing RecordWhich Comes First, the Patient or...Physician Access to Information as a Non-Custodial ParentInternational Release of Information IInternational Release of Information II Compliance MattersWill the Real Expert Please Stand Up?A Minor Confidentiality IssueFinal Lesson Before Graduation...Internal Confidentiality MattersThe Public Needs to Know...Dont They?Protecting A FriendWhat Next?On the FloorProtection of PasswordsEHR SecurityA Free" GiftTwo Halves Don't Always Make A WholeIf it was Documented, was it Done?Who's the coder?New Kid on the BlockLegibility and Timeliness Go Hand-In-HandA Case that Hits Close to HomeBringing it HomeAppendix I: American Health Information Management Association Code of Ethics"
