Legal Procedures of Healthcare Essay 7
Legal Procedures of Healthcare Essay 7
Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
Discuss the process that legal proceedings follow
Name the steps of a legal proceeding from complaint to verdict
Differentiate between a subpoena, a subpoena duces tecum and a court order
Delineate the steps to follow to secure a health record once a subpoena has been received
Describe how to respond to a court order with the subpoenaed record
Discuss the relationship between the Health Information Department and the Risk Management Department in medicolegal cases
Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment
HI135-2: Explain legal terminology used by health information professionals.
Instruction
There are two options for the Assignment in Unit 3. Choose one of the following case studies and the associated Assignment. Be sure to explain legal terminology used by health professionals in the case you choose. Submit your Assignment to the appropriate Dropbox.
Case 1: You supervise the correspondence unit of the health information services department of a medical center. Today, you received a subpoena duces tecum from an attorney, demanding either the originals or copies of all health records concerning Mary Smith, who allegedly is or was a patient of the medical center. The subpoena lacks sufficient information for you to determine whether Mary Smith is or was a patient in your facility. The subpoena is not accompanied by a valid authorization for Mary Smith, as required in your state. How should you respond to the subpoena? Use Chapter 3 of your McWay textbook as a resource and write a script of the discussion you would have with the attorney presenting the invalid subpoena and authorization. In the script, explain the information that is required to be able to release Ms. Smith’s records. You are an HIM professional, so you will certainly want your dialogue to reflect your professionalism; however he has not provided adequate documentation so help him understand what he needs to provide.
Case 2: You are a health information manager closely involved with risk management at General Hospital, a teaching hospital. Beginning this July, the hospital will incorporate presentations by hospital employees into its grand rounds lectures. You have been asked to present the lecture covering risk management. Compose a presentation addressing the legal aspects of risk management, particularly concentrating on patient record requirements and incident reports. Use Chapter 12 of your McWay textbook as a resource and create a short power point presentation showing how a properly documented health record reduces risk to a healthcare facility. You may also show how health information professionals and risk management professionals work together to improve documentation in the healthcare record.
Book Link
http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781133614234
ORDER NOW FOR CUSTOMIZED, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERS
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.