CLCR1
LanguageENG
PublishYear2009
publishCompany
Cengage
EISBN
9781133479604
PISBN
9781418049300
edition
1
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- Contents
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.
- Contents
- Preface
- Correlation of Case Studies to the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Credential List and Scope of Practice
- Introduction and Explanation of Case Study Methodology
- Case 1: But I Consider Myself to Be Credentialed
- Case 2: Scope of Practice
- Case 3: To Suspend or Not to Suspend?
- Case 4: Difficulty with Doctors
- Case 5: Incidental Finding
- Case 6: Divided Loyalty
- Case 7: The Case of the Missing Record
- Case 8: Which Comes First, the Patient or…
- Case 9: Physician Access to Information as a Noncustodial Parent
- Case 10: International Release of Information I
- Case 11: International Release of Information II
- Case 12: Compliance Matters
- Case 13: Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up?
- Case 14: A Minor Confidentiality Issue
- Case 15: Final Lesson Before Graduation
- Case 16: Internal Confidentiality Matters
- Case 17: The Public Needs to Know…Don’t They?
- Case 18: Protecting a Friend
- Case 19: What Next?
- Case 20: On the Floor
- Case 21: Protection of Passwords
- Case 22: Electronic Health Record Security
- Case 23: A “Free” Gift
- Case 24: Two Halves Do Not Always Make a Whole
- Case 25: If It Was Documented, Was It Done?
- Case 26: Who’s the Coder?
- Case 27: New Kid on the Block
- Case 28: Legibility and Timeliness Go Hand-in-Hand
- Case 29: A Case That Hits Close to Home
- Appendix: American Health Information Management Association Code of Ethics
- Index