Health Care Compliance

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Health Care Compliance
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HEALTH CARE COMPLIANCE
Management of information concerns a circle of activities in an organization. It involves the
gaining of the data from the sources, the storage and the dissemination of the data, the ultimate
disposition through deletion or archiving is also involved. Healthcare providers should ensure
that they comply with the existing laws which dictate the handling of patients’ information
(Nelson & Staggers 2016). This can be achieved by compliance with the below information
management standards.
Planning for the information management
Planning is a vital part of the data management procedure since it needs a cooperative
participation of all organizational levels. It takes into consideration the resources from human
data, financial data, resource inventories, and medical data. Understanding of the movement of
data can help in achieving effective assortment and dissemination of data together with proper
safekeeping of health data (Wager, Lee & Glaser 2017). This involves the below steps.
Identification of the internal and external informational need for quality healthcare provision
Identification of how data enter, flow and leave the company
Used of identified information in guarding development of information management
processes

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Organization’s employees partake in valuation, assortment, integration, and usage of data
management in healthcare provision.
Information management
Information management should ensure normal operations of the organization with minimized
downtime and data loss (Liebler & McConnell 2016). Proper preparations should be made for
occurrences which could affect the accessibility of data, this is achieved by teaching the
workforce on substitute procedures and back up plans and acquisition of the proper technological
equipment and security system. This is achieved through
A written plan for interruption management.
Addressing scheduled and unscheduled interruptions.
Training of employees of alternative procedures in case the electronic information system
fails.
Backing up electronic information.
Testing the processes of managing interruptions.
Implementation of the management plan for maintenance of the provision of healthcare.
Protection of private health information