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Question regarding liability for Administrators
Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:07:43 Z In the business section, there was discussion regarding, "Respondeat Superior" in which the superior is responsible for the actions of the subordinate. How often is this principle applied to administrators? Do administrators ever carry liability insurance? Does liability insurance for healthcare administrators exist?
What caused the OIG to create the guidelines for industry? Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:04:24 Z The guidelines stemmed from growing government concerns regarding conduct to induce purchase of products and inappropriate provider incentives.
Business Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:21:20 Z Business is the process whereby an organisation provides goods or services to its customers.
In heallthcare business is to provide preventive promotive and theraputic aspects of health.
Human Resources; "Six Sigma" Methodology Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:22:48 Z In the text, "The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization," it is noted that the human resources department frequently teach Supervisors performance improvement tools such as the "Six Sigma" methodology (Griffin, pp. 484-485). SIx sigma is noted to be the most common process improvement program in healthcare (Griffin, p. 561), and is based upon statistical analysis and standard devi...
Hill-Burton Act Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:17:10 Z In the slide presentation segment on Healthcare Law (Sandler and DiVarco), there is a brief dicussion of the Hill-Burton Act. Originally enacted in 1946 providing for construction funds to public and non-profit hospital, and in 1972, specific requirements for the provision of uncompensated care. For additional information on Hill-Burton, see the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv...
Clinical Support Services and Process Quality Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:29:13 Z Process measures for compliance benchmarked against support area-specific criteria include the five areas noted in "The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization," Griifin, p. 330. These areas are protocols that include aspects of service contriubting to outcomes, an appropriate survey instrument, determinaiton of frequency and detail of the insturment, implementation, and scoring at the shortest...
Types of Budget Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:50:29 Z Name and descibe 5 types of budgets.
Answer:
Incremental versus Zero Based Budgeting- only increases vs. rejustifying everything
Comprehensive versus Limited in-Scope budgeting - Comprehensive budgeting integrates all the budgets into one document (rev, exp, and capital) verses only parts of the budget
Fixed versus Flexible Budg...
difference Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:43:09 Z What is the differnce between a prospector and a defender?
Answer:
Prospectors- frequent diversification;
challenge: managing diversification successfully, guard against expanding too rapidly or into area where they have little knowledge
Defenders- challenge: protecting and increasing current service or market share through...
Benefits of Strategic Planning Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:42:22 Z Some of the benefits of strategic planning are:
1. Secures the future of the organization.
2. Provides a road map, direction, and purpose for the organization.
3. Sets priorities.
4. Allocates resources available for growth.
5. Establishes measures of success.
6. Gets input and ideas from all parts of the organization.
7. ...
Control Charts Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:25:29 Z Control charts illustrate two different types of variation. Those types are random variation andd assignable variation. The random variation is the natural variation in the process, and is also referred to as noise. Assignable variation indicates a change in the process. It can be identified in the control chart when a value is above the upper control limit or below the low...
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