Ethics Case Studies for Health Information Management

First Edition
Author: Leah Grebner
ISBN #: 1418049301
©2009   Publish Date: 10/30/2008
Binding: PB
Pages: 150
Publisher: Cengage Learning

Price: $49.95

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.

Product Benefits:

• Includes 29 case studies!
• Case study methodology clearly explains how to outline ethical problems along with potential solutions.
• Questions following each case study guide you through a critical thinking process.
• Includes a grid correlating each case study to the AHIMA Credential Use and Scope of Practice Guidelines.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction and Explanation of Case Study Methodology
But I Consider Myself to be Credentialed
Scope of Practice
To Suspend or Not to Suspend?
Difficulty with Doctors
Incidental Finding
Divided Loyalty
The Case of the Missing Record
Which Comes First, the Patient or...
Physician Access to Information as a Non-Custodial Parent
International Release of Information I
International Release of Information II
Compliance Matters
Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up?
A Minor Confidentiality Issue
Final Lesson Before Graduation...
Internal Confidentiality Matters
The Public Needs to Know...Dont They?
Protecting A Friend
What Next?
On the Floor
Protection of Passwords
EHR Security
A "Free" Gift
Two Halves Don't Always Make A Whole
If it was Documented, was it Done?
Who's the coder?
New Kid on the Block
Legibility and Timeliness Go Hand-In-Hand
A Case that Hits Close to Home
Bringing it Home
Appendix I: American Health Information Management Association Code of Ethics

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