ipl-logo

Joint Commision: National Patient Safety Goals

129 Words1 Page

Thank you for your all information. Your answer is very organized and well addressed the question. I agreed with you the Joint Commission's mission and goal now is to focus on continuously improving health care for the public by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing the safest and effective care of the highest quality and value. According to the Joint Commision (JC), there are no new National Patient Safety Goals in 2015, but JC continuously determines the highest priority patient safety issues and how best to address them. For exxample, for hospital setting, the goals focus on following problems: identify patients correctly, improve staff communication, use alarms safely, prevent infection, identify

Show More
Related

  • Joint Commission Research Paper

    945 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit group in the United States that administers voluntary accreditation programs for hospitals and other healthcare organizations (for example, long term care, mental health, and ambulatory care). The commission develops performance standards that address crucial elements of operation, such as patient care, medication safety, and infection control and consumer rights. Patient safety is one of the main focus of the Joint Commission. They make sure their standards provide the best service by helping health care organizations to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide.

    Read More

  • HIPAA Compliance Report

    320 Words  | 2 Pages

    The purpose of the HIPAA transactions and code set standards is to simplify the processes and decrease the costs associated with payment for health care services. The transactions and code set standards apply to patient-identifiable health information transmitted electronically. Physician practices will continue to be able to submit paper claims. When the regulations take effect in October 2002, standard formats and code sets will take the place of any payer-specific or location-specific formats or requirements. ICD-9-CM Volume 1 and 2: Diagnosis Coding - ICD-9-CM is used to code and classify morbidity data from the inpatient and outpatient records, physician offices, and most National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) surveys.

    Read More

  • HIPAA: Mandatory In Healthcare Organizations

    50 Words  | 1 Pages

    Since HIPAA become mandatory on most of the health care organization, patient information is more secure compared to previous. Health care organization are investing huge amount of fund for safety measures to protect the patient information and i think this is the main concern in today's advanced health care

    Read More

  • HIPAA Summary And Analysis

    417 Words  | 2 Pages

    HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996. the portion of HIPAA addressing the ability to retain health coverage is actually overseen by the California Department of Insurance and the California Department of Managed Health Care. The initial two titles of HIPPA are: Title I secures medical coverage scope for laborers and their families when they change or lose their employments. Second Title II known as the Administrative Simplification arrangements, requires the foundation of national measures for electronic human services exchanges and national identifiers for suppliers, medical coverage arrangements, and managers. HIPAA 's underlying object was to guarantee and enhance the coherence of medical coverage scope for laborers evolving employments.

    Read More

  • Summary: HIPAA

    368 Words  | 2 Pages

    HIPAA Summary In 2009, the Congress created an act called Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It is designed when people became concern about his or her personal information being stolen. With the media growing every day, it has become easier for people to hack into computer take identities and putting others at risk. The federal government made HIPAA way to reduce company’s downfalls and financial crisis due to theft.

    Read More

  • HIPAA Compliance Summary

    511 Words  | 3 Pages

    The first article was a summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. In the article, there was an introduction on what HIPAA meant and its importance. First off, HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and it is a disclosure of patient information so that it is protected from unknown individuals and to assure that health providers abide by the privacy rule. Some key facts about HIPAA were, who was covered, what information is protected, and administrative requirements. Noncompliance and criminal penalties were some of the critical issues found in the article.

    Read More

  • HIPAA Regulations: Breaking The Barriers

    238 Words  | 1 Pages

    When it comes to a patient that does not speak English the first thing we have to do is find someone capable and a professional to translate, complying with all the HIPAA regulations are being taken care of and not violated. Whether it is a live person, over the phone service or if available online. We cannot ask a family member to serve as a translator because we might break the patient confidentiality if the patient does not want anybody knowing his diagnosis and the procedures being done to them. With a deaf patient first we have to find out what is the best way to communicate with the patient if by reading lips always face them forward so they can read our lips, speaking clearly so they can understand a little better what we are trying

    Read More

  • HIPAA Compliance Risk Analysis

    1369 Words  | 6 Pages

    The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a vital part of the health care industry’s day to day business. HIPAAs procedures define how healthcare companies receive and handle their clients’ health care information. HIPAA helps to protect the patient’s personal information through confidentiality and security procedures while being transferred, handled or shared with other healthcare providers (Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules, 2013). When a patient’s privacy is not regulated, third parties could buy and sell the information without the patients’ authorization. With HIPAA being in place, it prevents healthcare employees from divulging any patient information they

    Read More

  • Health & Safety Committees And Bwell Ambassadors Across Canada

    542 Words  | 3 Pages

    Employee Experience Company is continuously lowering down the number of work-related injuries; increase the number of Workplace Health & Safety Committees and bWell Ambassadors across Canada (Rogers Communications Inc., 2016, p. 37). The company is furthermore active in rebuilding its facilities and transforming them into more collaborative environment and invested $56.6 million into training of its employees (Rogers Communications Inc., 2016, p. 31- 32). Rogers focuses as well on increasing the equal representation of its employees, especially in terms of women, visible minorities, aboriginal people and workers with disabilities (Rogers Communications Inc., 2016, p. 35-36). In 2015, 33% of members of the board of directors were women, which is an increase by 5% from the previous year. Company won awards such as 2015 Canada’s Best Diversity Employer, Canadas top 100 Employers of 2016, Canada´s Top Employers for Young People in 2016, top 50 the Most engaged Workplaces of

    Read More

  • The Joint Commission Survey

    1017 Words  | 5 Pages

    The Joint Commission is involved in making sure the health care facilities are providing the patient and family members of patients the effective and safe care that the patient needs and deserves. There is a close relationship between the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) and the results of the Joint Commission survey. If the facility were following the NPSG’s then the facility would have more of likelihood that the organization will receive a good survey results from the Joint Commission. There are serious consequences for the health care organization if the organization does not meet the benchmarks set by the Joint Commission. Multiple tools out there will aid this author in determining if the organization that this author works in is

    Read More

  • HIPAA Regulations

    575 Words  | 3 Pages

    (September 30, 2013) - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published amended rules applicable to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 in January 2013. As explained by the Secretary of HHS, healthcare has experienced significant changes since HIPAA was enacted in 1996. The implementation of electronic medical records is just one of those changes. The new HIPAA regulations are designed to provide patients with better privacy protection, and additional rights not included in the original HIPAA rules.

    Read More

  • 2016 Health Care Compliance Report

    622 Words  | 3 Pages

    Health Care Compliance in 2016 It's difficult to imagine that we've nearly closed the books on 2015. However, before we can really say goodbye to this year and begin focusing on what is to come in the future, we must first prepare for the changes that will take place in 2016 due to the Health Care Reform Act. While much of the ACA is already in place, there are still several portions that have yet to take effect.

    Read More

  • NMC Code Of Care: A Case Study

    112 Words  | 1 Pages

    Covert use of medication can be seen as dishonest as the NMC code (2015) states respect the level to which people receiving care want to be involved in decisions about their own health, wellbeing and care; the code of practice also states act with honesty and integrity at all times, treating people fairly. In contrast however, Beauchamp and Childress (2009) highlights non disclosure, limited discolour, deception or lying may be considered when veracity and the principle of autonomy is thought to conflict with other ethical obligation. Jean was given the opportunity to understand and evaluate what was being asked and was provided with all relevant information to support their decision making process.

    Read More

  • Hrm 531 Week 4 Team Analysis

    519 Words  | 3 Pages

    The concern for safety has become a bigger and more important issue, and these two departments are forming a relationship. Although it has been the tradition for these two departments to work separately, they both have a common goal, to oversee the safety and excellence in healthcare organizations. Some smaller organizations have always had the same person control quality and risk and remained successful. These days, we are seeing a lot more collaborations, goal sharing, ad idea exchanging among these two groups (Perry, 2007). Risk management is critical to every organization.

    Read More

  • Pros And Cons Of The Care Quality Commission

    1154 Words  | 5 Pages

    Their role is to register care providers, monitor, inspect and rate healthcare services. The CQC has a role in publishing views of the major quality issues and performance ratings to enable consumers to choose care in health and social care. The Commission ensures the quality and safety of care in hospitals, dentists, ambulances etc. The CQC is sponsored by the Department of Health. Governance, Accountability and Staff

    Read More

More about Joint Commision: National Patient Safety Goals

Open Document