Healthcare Compliance Report: Information Management and Privacy

This report delves into the critical aspects of healthcare compliance, emphasizing the management of health information. It outlines key areas such as planning for information management, ensuring normal organizational operations, and minimizing downtime and data loss. The report stresses the importance of protecting private health information, covering both paper and electronic data, and highlights the need for a written plan for interruption management, including employee training and backup procedures. It further discusses the effective management of health information collection, including the use of standardized formats and terminology to ensure data accuracy. Finally, it covers the retrieval, dissemination, and transmission of health information in a useful and accessible format to enhance patient care, emphasizing the importance of timely and standardized data handling. The report references key publications in the field, providing a comprehensive overview of healthcare compliance best practices.

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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

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Health information privacy is a critical management concern. It applies to the paper, verbal
and electronic information. Privacy protection is the responsibility of the entire organization.
Health information is kept confidential when the information security is enhanced through the
below steps
Writing a policy focusing on the confidentiality of the health data
Implementation of the rule on the confidentiality of medical information
Use of the health data for purposes within the law and regulations.
Disclosure of health information inconsistency with the law.
Monitoring of compliance with the organizational policy on the confidentiality of health data.
Effective management of the collection of health information.
Health information is derived from multiple sources. Used of standardized formats and
terminology is essential in the classification of information. Consistency in the caption of
accurate data is key for the reliance of the data for the provision of healthcare services to
patients. This is achieved through,
Used of a uniform standard of data collection throughout the organization
Used of standardized terminology for the information
The organization to follow its list of abbreviations.

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Retrieval, dissemination, and transmission of health information in a useful format
Ease of information usage contributes to its usefulness, therefore, health care providers should
have a consistent and standardized format of data collection and dissemination (Lowrey 2015).
This enhances healthcare provision to the patients. It requires the below steps.
The organizations' storage and retrieval should enable the accessibility of health information
for patients’ care.
Timely dissemination of information in a useful format.

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References
Liebler, G., & McConnell, C. R. (2016). Management principles for health professionals. Jones
& Bartlett Publishers.
Lowrey, K. M. (2015). State laws addressing youth sports-related traumatic brain injury and the
future of concussion law and policy. J. Bus. & Tech. L., 10, 61.
Nelson, R., & Staggers, N. (2016). Health Informatics-E-Book: An Interprofessional Approach.
Elsevier Health Sciences.
Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2017). Health care information systems: a practical
approach for health care management. John Wiley & Sons.

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