Health Care Laws, Policies, and Regulations Timeline
HCS 545 WEEK 2: Health Care Laws, Policies, and Regulations Timeline Directions:
Health Care Laws, Policies, and Regulations Timeline – Create a timeline in which you discuss 3-4 important health care laws, regulations, or policies throughout the years that have impacted health care today.
Include the following in your timeline discussion:
- Identify the law, policy, or regulation selected.
- Explain what influenced the law policy or regulation selected.
- Describe the impact the law policy or regulation had on health care today.
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HCS 545 WEEK 2 Health Care Laws, Policies, and Regulations Presentation
Resources: Week Two Individual Assignment: Health Care Laws, Policies, and Regulations Timeline
Brainstormwith your team a list of laws, policies, and regulations selected for your Week Two Individual Assignment.
Select 2-3 laws, policies, or regulations as a team based on your discussion.
Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes discussing your selections.
Include the following in your presentation:
- Identify each of the laws, policies, or regulations selected.
- Discuss the influence of politics on health care regulations, laws, and policies.
- Describe the role and impact of governmental and non-governmental regulatory agencies on health care policy.
- Explain the relationship between law and policy in health care.
Format your presentation according to APA guidelines.
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HCS 545 WEEK 3 Health Care Resources Matrix
Imagine you are an administrator for a health care organization and have been asked by your stakeholders to determine how the organizations allocation of resources will be impacted by new health care laws.
Research 4-5 health care laws related to health care resource allocation.
Complete the Health Care Resources Matrix.
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HCS 545 WEEK 4 Health Policy Letter
Imagine you are a stakeholder for a non-profit health care organization. As a leader you are responsible for modeling ethical behavior and have the ability to encourage patient safety initiatives.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word letter to your legislator promoting a health policy which supports patient safety. Your policy could include safety issues such as and hand hygiene or Medication Administration.
Include the following in your letter:
- Explain the health policy you are proposing and its purpose.
- Explain why action is needed.
- Explain what course of action is recommended.
- Explain why this health policy change is important.
- Explain essential points that explain how this issue has evolved or become a concern. (Include references to support your points and explanation.)
- Explain who will be affected by this policy.
- Analyze the responsibilities of the organization’s leadership.
- Analyze the impact this policy will have on resources.
- Describe if individuals meet licensing board requirements (if any).
- Analyze the impact of not following ethical standards.
- Analyze the responsibility of professional licensing boards as it applies to patient safety.
Format your references page according to APA guidelines.
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HCS 545 WEEK 5 Malpractice Manual
Imagine you work for a large health care organization and have been placed on a team who is responsible for developing a manual on the impact of health care malpractice.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word manual on the impact of health care malpractice and strategies and how it can be avoided.
Include the following in your paper:
- Analyze the stages and impact of malpractice in health care (provide examples of malpractice cases and their impact on health care).
- Analyze the process available after adverse medical events in health care.
- Analyze legal requirements of health care reform and their impact on patient care.
- Analyze strategies that could be put in place to help avoid malpractice.
Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.
Format your references according to APA guidelines.
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HCS 545 WEEK 5 Signature Assignment: Health Law, Regulation, and Policy Paper
Select a law that has an impact on the health care industry. Examples of such laws may include access to care, discrimination, health care privacy and security, employment, etc.
Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper in which you discuss the impact of the selected law on health care organizational policies.
Include the following in your paper:
- Analyze the relationship between law and policy in health care.
- Differentiate legislative versus institutional policies in health care.
- Analyze the influence of politics on health care regulations, laws, and policies.
- Analyze the role and impact of governmental and non-governmental regulatory agencies on health care policy.
- Evaluate the impact of legislative policy on resource allocation in the health care industry.
- Analyze the roles of organizational stakeholders and interest groups involved in health care laws and regulations.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
Cite at least 4 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.
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HCS 545 WEEK 6 Executive Committee Presentation
Click on the Virtual Organization link located on the student website. Click the Healthcare tab, then click the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital link and locate the following information:
- The Chief Compliance Officer –Compliance Issues files
- Under the Chief Compliance Officer link – Director of QA/Risk Management – Review all Incident Reports
Prepare a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes for the executive committee of the hospital that includes the following information:
- HIPAA (1996) compliance
- Explain how you will respond to the situation in a way that meets HIPAA (1996) privacy, security, and HITECH (2009) breach notice requirements.
- Explain the ethical issues that relate to this situation.
- Explain how you will follow-up with employees involved in the breach.
- Recommend changes to ensure data security and privacy compliance under HIPAA (1996).
- Medical error (Incident Reports)
- Explain how you would respond to the medical error to reduce liability.
- Explain the ethical issues that arise in this situation.
- Explain how you would respond to Joint Commission concerns.
- Recommend a quality improvement strategy to reduce medical error.
Include at least four references
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HCS 545 WEEK 5 Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues Paper
Resource: University Library
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper on a current health care situation. For example, common issues might include one of the following: physician or employee with a conflict of interest, health care fraud and abuse, medical error, quality of care issues, aging in America, privacy issues—selling names, losing patient information, or health care coverage for indigent or noncitizens.
Evaluate the effect of organizational structure and governance, culture, and social responsibility focus on what happened in your chosen situation. Recommend how you would change the organization to prevent this situation in the future. Include the following components:
- Identify and describe a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital clinic or insurance company.
- Examine and evaluate how organizational structure and governance culture and focus (or lack of focus) on social responsibility affected or influenced what happened.
- Recommend what resources will be allocated to prevent this situation in the future and what ethical issues may be tied to this decision.
- Recommend how you would change the structure governance culture or focus on social responsibility to prevent this situation in the future.
Include at least three references.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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HCS 545 WEEK 4 Employment and Labor Relations Presentation
Review the assigned employment and labor relations scenario located on the student website.
Prepare a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® proposal presentation with detailed speaker notes for the hospital executive committee in which you address the items listed below.
- Background information
- Describe the employment and labor relations situation. This requires a brief summary of the situation you have been assigned to address.
- Identify and explain the law or laws that apply to your situation.
- Part I – Problem resolution
- Explain how you would apply the law to handle this situation.
- Part II – Prospective Risk Management
- Identify and describe strategies you could adopt to limit legal risk in this area in the future.
- Be prepared to address any questions the committee may have.
Prepare a 1-page abstract of your proposal to hand out to the committee for review during your presentation.
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HCS 545 WEEK 3 Health Law and Regulations Paper
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you explain the role of governmental regulatory agencies and its effect on the health care industry. Provide at least two examples of laws and regulations currently faced by the health care industry. Examples of such laws may include access to care, discrimination, health care privacy and security, employment, and so on. Include your analysis of the effect of these laws on the provider, hospital or clinic, or insurer that you select. Provide examples and specific cases in your examination. Include ways that you have seen this effect in your own life or community.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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