write in total minimum 900 words based on the instructionsNO PLAGIARISM ACCEPTED!Can you help me understand this Nursing question?6 Student posts to respond 150 words per post no refs needed HLT308 please see attached for details. Thanks.DQ1
Adrienne Brock
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 1
Many things in the world are becoming computerized instead of controlled by a person. I think this is sad because
it is taking jobs away from people. There are pros and cons to these self-help machines. Some pros are there is
more patient privacy, decreased data errors at check in, and decreased wait time at check in. Some cons found
that the kiosk was not equipped with foreign language, not good for the visually impaired, and wheelchair patients
had a hard time reaching it. The biggest issue with these kiosks is the cyber threat (Shuman, 2014). No matter how
good the hospitals cyber security is cyber thieves are out there trying to steal information. The hospitals found
that they still had to have staff available to assist patients that needed help with the kiosk. Employees I am sure
are scared for their jobs but hopefully this will just take some of the pressure off their workload. I am not sure this
will really reduce staffing because patients will still need help with it but maybe in the future it will reduce the
number of staff needed.
Shuman, E. (2014, June 04). Medical kiosks raise security flags.
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/medical-kiosks-raise-security-flags
DQ2
Grace Philips
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 1
Technology has had a huge impact on recent changes in the last decade of healthcare. We rely on technology for
many things such as charting, retrieving vitals, and easy communication between staff memebers. Self help kiosks
and new apps are being developed to create a quick and easy way for the general public to get medical
consultation without the worry of a bill for visit by their primary care physician. Although for small things such as
sore throat and chornic nausea, this may be beneficial. Physicians are quickly able to assess their patients and
determine the acuity of their illness. There are many benefits to having technology such as time saving measures,
easier communcation and so on. There are also red flags that develop. Not only does technology completely
erradicate human interaction, and that feel of comfort and safety, there are things that human beings can do that
robots just aren’t capable of. On top of that, human to human interaction decreases mistakes, as sometimes robot
technology may have a hard time determining information being given. This can potentially delay care and cause
greater risks for the patient if it is an urgent matter. As written in an article recently about healthcare and the
advantage and disadvantage of technology, machines are still far from replacing many kinds of tasks that people
are good at or tasks that require creativity, innovation, or empathy (Hyacinth, 2018). A threat to employment also
is hieghtened because the production of more innovative technology will eventually lead to decreased need for
people, and eventual job loss.
References
Hyacinth, B. (2018). Will Robots Take Your Job In Healthcare? Retrieved
from: https://healthmanagement.org/c/healthmanagement/issuearticle/will-robots-take-your-job-in-healthcare
DQ3
Kecia Edwards
2 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 1 – Interesting Perspective
Hello Class,
As I read this question I thought about a conversation I had with a colleague who informed me that United
Healthcare is sending a great deal of jobs overseas. Please share your thoughts on this blog.
Worries grow as healthcare firms send
jobs overseas
Some healthcare companies are starting to shift clinical services and decision-making on medical care overseas,
primarily to India and the Philippines.
By Don Lee for the Los Angeles Times –
WASHINGTON — After years of shipping data-processing, accounting and other back-office work abroad, some
healthcare companies are starting to shift clinical services and decision-making on medical care overseas,
primarily to India and the Philippines.
Some of the jobs being sent abroad include so-called pre-service nursing, where nurses at insurance firms, for
example, help assess patient needs and determine treatment methods.
Outsourcing such tasks goes beyond earlier steps by healthcare firms to farm out reading of X-rays and other
diagnostic tests to health professionals overseas. Those previous efforts were often done out of necessity, to meet
overnight demands, for instance.
But the latest outsourcing, which have contributed to the loss of hundreds of domestic health jobs, is done for
financial reasons. And the outsourcing of nursing functions, in particular, may be the most novel — and possibly
the most risky — of the jobs being shifted.
At the forefront of the trend is WellPoint Inc., one of the nation’s largest health insurers and owner of Anthem
Blue Cross, California’s biggest for-profit medical insurer.
In 2010, WellPoint formed a separate business unit, Radiant Services, aimed at advancing outsourcing and other
cost-saving strategies. WellPoint has eliminated hundreds of jobs in the U.S. over the last 18 months as it has
moved jobs overseas, a company spokeswoman acknowledged.
The spokeswoman, Kristin Binns, said WellPoint’s shifting of clinical jobs overseas was a small part of the
outsourcing and being done through Radiant because it has the technical expertise and can ensure compliance with
laws.
Nursing organizations, however, were cautious.
“It’s obviously a very disturbing trend,” said Chuck Idelson, a spokesman for the California Nurses Assn. “There are
serious questions if you’re talking about utilization reviews … and making recommendations on procedures.”
Nursing experts said there also may be licensing issues as states generally require certification for those practicing
and dispensing health information.
Current and former Radiant executives declined to comment or weren’t available.
It’s not clear how many other U.S. healthcare firms have contracted with Radiant or other outsourcing specialists,
but industry experts said companies were increasingly looking at more healthcare tasks that could be outsourced
globally as they face greater cost pressures and sweeping changes in how they do business.
Aetna Inc.has an arrangement with EXL Service, a U.S.-based company with operations in Manila, to provide
“targeted care-management support,” spokeswoman Cynthia Michener said.
Health Net Inc., which is laying off dozens of information technology and accounting workers whose jobs are being
sent to India, said its outsourcing has generally been confined to administrative and IT functions. UnitedHealth
Group, the nation’s largest health insurer, didn’t respond to inquiries.
Outsourcing jobs out of the country has become a hot issue in the presidential campaign: President Obama is
pounding Republican challenger Mitt Romney for his private equity firm’s involvement with companies that sent
jobs abroad.
Although such outsourcing has been going on for years, American manufacturers in recent years have brought some
jobs back to the U.S. as labor costs have risen in China and elsewhere.
Some experts argued that sending jobs abroad could help U.S. companies by enabling them to tap global talent
and efficiencies, making them more profitable. When U.S. companies are stronger, the thinking goes, it creates
more opportunities for American workers. Also, shifting operations to lower-wage countries can help consumers by
holding down prices.
Outsourcing jobs to places such as the Philippines can save U.S. healthcare firms 30% in labor costs, according to
experts. But the practice remains controversial, especially with the U.S. unemployment rate hovering above 8%.
Patient advocates worry about crucial decisions involving a patient’s care being in the hands of foreign insurance
adjusters. Analysts said there was another concern as well: patient privacy.
Even something as straightforward as medical transcription can raise questions, said Uwe Reinhardt, a healthcare
economist at Princeton University. Over the last year, Iowa Health System and hospitals in Utah and Washington
state have joined other medical centers that have outsourced the transcribing of doctors’ notes and other records.
“Suppose I’m an AIDS patient,” Reinhardt said. “That person in India would know — and [the information] could be
valuable to someone…. For the U.S., there’s nothing more personal than healthcare.”
Dr. Kaveh Safavi, head of the North American health practice for Accenture, a major consulting and outsourcing
firm that has partnered with WellPoint’s Radiant, said nearly all countries have laws for protecting patient
privacy.
And to safeguard patients’ records, he said, healthcare companies store and maintain their records locally.
As for outsourcing services that are more clinical in nature, he said, “People are looking at all the tasks that can
safely and responsibly be moved. It’s still an emerging market. We’re still trying to understand the market’s
tolerance for it.”
In general, hospitals are moving more slowly than health insurers to send jobs overseas. But with financial
pressures intensifying and the uptake of electronic record-keeping accelerating, analysts and industry people see
more consolidation and outsourcing ahead.
“When you have people’s medical, billing and other records kept electronically, then it opens it up to establishing
a call center virtually anywhere,” said Steve Trossman, a Los Angeles spokesman for the Service Employees
International Union, which represents hospital workers. “There is no longer a reason for it to be physically in the
same place as the paper records.”
Moreover, the healthcare reform law could prod insurers to move more jobs to cheaper-wage countries. The new
law requires companies to spend 80% to 85% of premiums on medical care, limiting the amount available for
administrative expenses.
Few have been as aggressive as WellPoint, which made a profit of $2.65 billion last year on revenue of $60.7
billion. WellPoint’s total employment at the end of last year was 37,700, down from 40,500 two years earlier.
In one of its recent efforts, WellPoint laid off pre-service nurses in Colorado and Nevada so the work could be done
in Manila, according to a Labor Department filing by a WellPoint human resource manager in Denver. WellPoint
spokeswoman Binns said none of the decisions that involve denial of procedures or treatment for patients are
made overseas.
Overall, Binns said, fewer than 2.5% of the 37,000 employees, or at most 925 workers, had lost jobs in the last 18
months as a result of work sent overseas. Only about 50 of those positions involved clinical management of care,
she said.
WellPoint’s “sourcing strategies have enabled us to make our services more effective, accessible and affordable to
our customers, while allowing us to expand our programs and maintain our service levels,” she said.
WellPoint’s offshoring covers a wide range of departments and tasks involving claims, enrollment, billing, postservice clinical claims review, utilization management and pre-service nursing, according to filings made by
company managers and state government officials. Both were helping secure federal trade-assistance benefits for
WellPoint workers who have lost jobs because of outsourcing or import competition.
Shannon Cunningham of Columbus, Ohio, who processed medical claims for WellPoint, was laid off last month after
a colleague went to the Philippines to train people to do her job.
Cunningham, 43, said she received eight weeks of severance pay. She and others working in medical claims earned
$30,000 to $40,000 a year with health benefits, she said.
“I know other countries need work,” said Cunningham, a company employee for three years. But “I just felt like it
wasn’t fair. We’re having a rough time too.”
Reference
Retrieved from https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/worries-grow-as-healthcare-firms-send-jobs-overseas/
DQ4
Jenna Raila
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 1
Technology plays a huge role in health care and is constantly improving and changing our practice. We use
technology for charting, surgeries, lab work and more. Recently there has been a rise in the use of technology for
the purpose of telemedicine. Telemedicine allows patients to see and speak with providers through video chat on a
phone, computer or tablet. There are both advantages and disadvantages to telemedicine. Some advantages
include improved access to information; provision of care not previously deliverable; improved access to services
and increasing care delivery; and reduced health-care costs. (Hjelm, 2005). Additionally, with COVID-19 this
provides patient with a safe way to receive care without possibly exposing themselves to the disease. Some
disadvantages include a breakdown in the relationship between health professional and patient; issues concerning
the quality of health information; and organizational and bureaucratic difficulties. (Hjelm, 2005). The introduction
of telemedicine allows for less staff required for facilities which poses a benefit to them but can be seen
negatively from a patient perspective as they do not receive one on one, in person care, creating a more distant
and distrusting relationship between providers and patients. Telemedicine cannot be a full replacement for
traditional medicine, as we sometimes need to see the patient, in person, in order to give them the best quality
care however, telemedicine is a great resource and option for many situations.
Reference:
Hjelm, NM. (2005). Benefits and drawbacks of telemedicine. Retrieved from
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15829049/
DQ5
Grace Philips
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 2
Health care administrators than run an HR department face many challenges when dealing with a large group of
people in a healthcare setting. One of those issues is compensation for employees and determining fair wages. One
challenge HR departments face is staying in communcation with the employee whena in incident arises. There are
multiple departments and people that have to go through an employees pay history and compensation paperwork
for issues. Mistakes can be made with too many people in the line of communcation. Administrators also need to
communicate in a way that employees are able to understand, as they often don’t deal with the grammatics on a
financial level. As far as someone who is nonmanagement, I think there is greater risk of being able to reach
certain departments and take care of the problem quickly and effectively. Administrators have a line of command
and are able to report the issue, whereas a nonmanagement staff member may face more challenges in connecting
with the right person. By creating an incentive system, or something that would benefit the staff of a heatlhcare
organization could potentially help to earn additional compensation for physicians, staff, and the hospital, and
also can create cost effective care that improves patient outcomes (Hanchack, 1996).
References
Hanchak, N. (1996). US Healthcare Quality Based Compensation Model. Retreived
from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193601/
DQ6
Read Chapters 21-23 in Legal and Ethical Essentials of Health Care Administration.
URL:
https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/jones-and-bartlett/2013/legal-and-ethical-essentials-of-healthcare-administration_2e.php
Read “Considering Potential Benefits and Consequences of Hospital Report Cards: What Are the Next Steps?” by
Schold and Nicholas, from Health Services Research (2015).
URL:
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=10376910
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Read “Taking the Pulse of Health Care Risks,” by Mahoney and Harrison, from Business Insurance (2015).
URL:
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=11090456
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Read “Cultural Events Provided by Employer and Occupational Wellbeing of Employees: A Cross-Sectional Study
Among Hospital Nurses,” by Tuisku, Pulkki-Raback, and Virtanen, from Work (2016).
URL:
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=11842021
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Read “Good Background Screening Crucial to Avoiding Liability,” from Healthcare Risk Management (2017).
URL:
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=12654091
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Read “Four Main Components for Effective Outlines,” located on the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) website.
URL:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_process/developing_an_outline/index.html
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