Research HIPAA using the Department of Health and Human Services website. Compose a 1-2 page paper of what you have learned. Find more information that is totally new to you, or information that is not common knowledge.

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Research HIPPA

For this assignment, you will thoroughly research HIPAA using the Department of Health and Human Services website.

Begin here: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/index.html Navigate through the website, especially use the menus on the left-hand side, to learn more about HIPAA and patient rights.

Compose a 1-2 page paper of what you have learned. Find more information that is totally new to you, or information that is not common knowledge.

 

Determine the one-time costs for your program, and describe why this calculation is important for estimating the program budget. Which resources would you include under the one-time costs? Provide a rationale for each inclusion.

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Program Budget

Overview
Thus far, you have identified a health or healthcare problem and completed your needs assessment for this program. You decided to use the logic model for your program planning and have already started building the model.

Now, you must plan the budget for your program. Budgeting is the process of creating a plan that shows when the money will be spent, why it will be spent, and whether it will be covered by income from a funding source. No matter what the need for a program is, it requires a well-planned budget. Without a well-estimated, pre-approved budget, no program can move forward.

In this assignment, you will fill in the Proposed Program Budget Template provided for your program with appropriate figures and then give the rationale for your budget estimations. Before your program plan can be implemented, your senior management needs to know the costs associated with the in-house and acquired resources for the first 12 months of your program, the costs incurred once, and the ongoing expenses. They also need you to determine the expected sources of program income, which may include revenue from billing, savings, donations, or grant funding, along with the amount expected from each source. You will provide the estimated program budget to your senior management to help them make financial decisions related to your program.

Prompt
Fill out your proposed first-year program budget, and write a reflection on the items you included in the budget, as well as their estimated costs or revenues.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Purpose of the Budget: Describe the purpose of your program budget, along with your approach toward budgeting.
Resource Costs: Estimate the resource costs for your program, including the in-house and acquired resources for 12 months, and explain why these resources are essential for the program. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
How would you differentiate between in-house and acquired resources?
Which calculations would you use to estimate resource costs for 12 months?
One-Time Costs: Determine the one-time costs for your program, and describe why this calculation is important for estimating the program budget. Consider the following question to guide your response:

Which resources would you include under the one-time costs? Provide a rationale for each inclusion.
Ongoing Costs: Determine the components of ongoing costs you would list under this category. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Which resources would you include under ongoing (continuing) costs? Provide a rationale for each inclusion.
Expected Sources of Income, Savings, and Funding: Determine the expected income, savings, and/or funding sources for your program, and describe how they meet your expense needs. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
Which types of funding would you prefer for your program and why?
Would the program’s income sustain your program into the second year?

Note that all the claims in your deliverable should be evidence based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the scenario, textbook, or module resources) of credible sources and be current within the last five years. You are required to cite a minimum of one source overall. Refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing—Graduate located in the Start Here section of the course for additional support. If you need writing support, access the Online Writing Center through the Academic Support module of your course.

Provide three differential diagnoses based on Janet’s subjective and objective data and discuss your reasoning for each. What additional history questions would be useful in your evaluation of Janet?

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Case study

Janet, a 20 year-old college student, is experiencing a five-week history of itchy eyes and nasal congestion with watery nasal discharge. She also complains of a “tickling” cough, especially at night, and she has had episodes of repetitive sneezing. Janet gets frequent “colds” every spring and fall.

Physical Examination

Vital Signs: Temp, 98.8; BP 110/68; Pulse 72; Respirations 18

Skin: Flaking erythematous rash on the flexor surfaces of both arms

Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat: Tender over maxillary sinuses; sclera red and slightly swollen with frequent tearing; outer nares with red, irritated skin; internal nares with red, boggy, moist mucosa and one medium-sized polyp on each side; pharynx slightly erythematous, with clear postnasal drainage

Lungs: Clear to auscultation and percussion

Discussion Questions:

  1. Provide three differential diagnoses based on Janet’s subjective and objective data and discuss your reasoning for each.
  2. What additional history questions would be useful in your evaluation of Janet?
  3. Discuss the pathophysiological process of your primary diagnosis.
  4. Differentiate the types of hypersensitivity mechanisms.
  5. As per your analysis, what type of hypersensitivity reaction is Janet experiencing?

 

Critique the systems capabilities to meet regulatory requirements by judging the technologies that relate to electronic signatures, data correction, and audit logs.

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Identify current federal initiatives aimed at promoting electronic health information exchange.

Assignment Requirements

Instructions
Imagine that you are the Director of Health Information for a large hospital. As Director, you sit on various institution-wide committees that govern the organization’s policies. In collaboration with interdepartmental committees, you have made recommendations regarding the improvement of policies, procedures, and operations across the institution. The CEO and Board of Directors have approved funding for several initiatives but have asked you to narrow changes to just a few. Therefore, you will develop an action plan for the hospital.

Follow the instructions below in completion of this Assignment.

Instructions

Part 1

Appraise at least two (2) policies that cover data security (i.e., audits, control data recovery, e-security, data recovery planning, and business continuity planning). Make at least two (2) recommendations for improvements to the elements included in the design of audit trails and data quality monitoring programs within the hospital.

Part 2

Critique the systems capabilities to meet regulatory requirements by judging the technologies that relate to electronic signatures, data correction, and audit logs.

Part 3

Critique at least two (2) human factors and user interface design of health information technologies by making at least two (2) recommendations for device selection based on workflow, ergonomics, and human factors.

Part 4

Evaluate a health information system’s architecture in terms of database design and data warehousing. Critique issues with systems implementation related to systems testing, interface management, and data relationships.

Part 5

Participate in the development of information management plans that support the organization’s current and future strategy and goals by comparing and contrasting at least two (2) issues related to a corporate strategic plan, operation improvement planning, information management plans, and/or disaster and recovery planning.

Part 6

Analyze at least two (2) challenges that exist in each phase of the systems development life cycle. Distinguish issues related to EHRs, HIEs, and RECs within your analysis.

Part 7

Analyze at least two (2) challenges that exist in each phase of the systems development life cycle. Distinguish issues related to EHRs, HIEs, and RECs within your analysis.

Search the topics in your textbook and research the biggest challenges faced by Healthcare HR professionals today. Discuss one of the issues in depth and offer solutions on how HR professional can solve the issue.

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Current HR Issues

From small rural clinics to big city hospitals, human resources departments are feeling the pressure. These professionals face issues like staffing shortages, employee burnout, and more. To overcome these hurdles, HR must better understand the how and why behind each one.

Search the topics in your textbook and research the biggest challenges faced by Healthcare HR professionals today. Discuss one of the issues in depth and offer solutions on how HR professional can solve the issue.

APA formatting required. Minimum of two credible academic references necessary. 3-5 pages including a cover page is the recommended length of this assignment.

According to our guest lecturer, Amy Machado, what concepts need to be specifically taught to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to facilitate access to healthy relationships in their lives?

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KCS Intellectual Disabilities Recorded Post Lecture Response

Before answering the questions, make sure to watch the lecture in its entirety. Click here to watch the lecture recording (Links to an external site.) . (Links to an external site.)Content Warning: This lecture will be addressing topics of sexual abuse of people with intellectual disabilities.

For full points, you must respond to each question in at least 3-5 sentences. Use question and answer format, writing the question immediately before your response.

*Note: You will not be able to answer the Top Hat questions presented during the live class. Instead, you are required to answer the questions listed below.

Post-Lecture Responses Questions

  1. According to our guest lecturer, Amy Machado, what concepts need to be specifically taught to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to facilitate access to healthy relationships in their lives?
  2. Based on the lecture, what is the purpose of teaching those concepts? What are the implications of not teaching these concepts to individuals with disabilities. Be specific to what is discussed in the lecture.
  3. Respond to our guest speaker, Amy Machado. What about her presentation resonated with you and your own experiences or perspectives? What did you learn from her? How is this information useful to you in the future?

 

Identify five electronic health records or data components relevant in hospital environments and document them in a data classification table. Discuss whether the information is confidential, for internal company use only, or open to the public. Explain why hackers might want to steal this information.

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Healthcare Security-Stand Alone

Overview: Making recommendations for securing a healthcare entity

You work in a large hospital that’s based in the US. The hospital has supported more than 40 million patients. The healthcare system offers specialized treatment that attracts patients from around the world, including many patients from Europe. Last year, the company experienced a cybersecurity breach that exposed all patient records. A careless employee clicked on a link within an email with the subject line “Your New Patient Diagnosis” that led to an imposter hospital employee website. The employee logged in with a username and password. Over the next few months, unknown to the employee and company, external parties were able to log into the user’s account and carry out various unauthorized activities. A loophole in the access process allows employees to create new administrator accounts that have the highest level of access to all systems in the hospital. The attacker was able to use this loophole to create an administrator account. The breach was discovered six months later when a security researcher found the hospital’s entire database of patient data for sale on the dark web. The entity was required to notify all affected patients; however, news outlets learned of the incidents and published the story before notifications were sent. News outlets around the world picked up the story as it went viral, startling investors and causing the company’s stocks to plummet. Lawsuits also began to accumulate as patients reported that their identities had been stolen. The healthcare system was criticized in the media for taking six months to discover the breach, and even longer to notify patients.

You’ve been tasked with improving the cybersecurity program plan to help a hospital prevent another breach in the future.

Project Tasks:

Part 1: Understanding your environment (Two pages | 30 points)

Discuss the five key participating groups relevant to healthcare delivery and describe the kinds of data they may interact with, collect, and provide to your hospital.

Identify five electronic health records or data components relevant in hospital environments and document them in a data classification table. Discuss whether the information is confidential, for internal company use only, or open to the public. Explain why hackers might want to steal this information.

Identify five examples of technology systems or devices relevant to hospital environments. Discuss security and legal issues associated with each.

Part 2: Outlining regulatory and governance requirements (Five pages | 70 points)

Outline the regulations that are relevant to the hospital. Summarize the purpose and core requirements of each regulation.

Identify the information security policies that should be created and adopted by the company. Discuss why the policies are necessary and who should adhere to them.

Create an official end-user agreement and an incident reporting policy for the hospital. Example templates can be found here, https://www.sans.org/security-resources/policies/general#acceptable-use-policy.

Part 3: Analyzing threats and managing risks (Three pages | 50 points)

The hospital was breached in the past, as summarized in the overview. Discuss the threat, vulnerabilities, and impacts present throughout the case study. Use the information you’ve outlined to create a new risk-based decision tree. Chapter 4 in the textbook provides an example. Based on the ISO 27000 family of standards, recommend an approach to addressing the risks in the decision tree, and provide justification for your response.

Think of five different third-party providers that the hospital may work with. Discuss the risks that third parties can introduce to the business. Summarize security considerations and security control recommendations for granting third parties access to hospital resources. Outline additional tools that can be used to manage third-party risk.

Part 4: Raising security awareness (Two pages | 30 points)

Share five recommendations for ways to increase cybersecurity knowledge and awareness in the company. Explain why it’s necessary to implement this. Create an example awareness poster that educates stakeholders on the risks of ransomware attacks against hospitals.

Part 5: Responding to cyber incidents (Three pages | 50 points)

You’ve been made aware that the hospital was hit with yet another cyber-attack that exposed all of the data types you outlined in Part 1 of the project. You found that the incident started with a phishing email that a contractor from your medical payment system provider clicked on. Discuss the steps necessary to contain, eradicate, and recover from this incident.

Draft an example breach notification letter that will be sent to affected patients about the incident.

Part 6: Implementing fundamental security protection measures (Five pages | 70 points)

Explain the core guiding principles of security.

Using the NIST CSF, make a recommendation for a control that would be valuable for the hospital to implement for each of the five components. For each control you select, explain the ways that failing to implement the control could impact confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability.

 

Detail some traditional methods of HEALTH restoration in the Asian population.

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Detail some traditional methods of HEALTH restoration in the Asian population.

Book for course is Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness
Rachel E.Spector, 2017
Pearson

Describe the key points and/or core arguments made by the presenters and/or explain new pieces of information that you learned from each article.

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Environmental health

Read the article and post at least TWO thoughtful arguments, comments and/or questions regarding the assigned article (approximately a page and a half in length, double-spaced). For example, you may describe the key points and/or core arguments made by the presenters and/or explain new pieces of information that you learned from each article. Moreover, at least 1 outside source (you may NOT include your textbook) cited (in proper APA format) in your posting to support your rationale and thoughts. A reference listing at the end of your posting in proper APA format is also required

Use the external source as a a follow up for the argument.

Cite the article included and the external source.

 

Search the literature to select potential primary research articles for further review. Summarize the search strategy and the selection and screening process. Provide a list of 15 to 20 articles that are most relevant to your team project research question.

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Assignment 3

Purpose/Objective of this assignment:

To summarize the search strategy used in searching for relevant research literature for your team project.
To document the process and outcome of the literature search using the PRISMA diagram
To identify relevant articles based on preliminary literature search for further review

Assignment requirements:

Search the literature to select potential primary research articles (quantitative and qualitative) for further review. Reviews of any kind (systematic reviews, meta-analysis, literature reviews, state of the science, dissertations, or letters to the editor, etc.) will not be accepted for this assignment.
Complete the worksheet Download worksheet to document the following key information: databases utilized, search terms, other main topics and terms you also included, limiters, and the number of articles retrieved.

Use at least 2 databases to search for literature.
The research articles must be peer-reviewed and published within the last 10 years, and be written primarily by nursing researchers.
Fill in the search process and outcome in the PRISMA diagram. See a sample Download sample here.
Summarize the search strategy and the selection and screening process.
Provide a list of 15 to 20 articles that are most relevant to your team project research question. APA style references.
See an example completed worksheet