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L A Schraffenberger

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PubMed1992

Tools for advance directives. American Health Information Management Association.

This issue of the Journal of AHIMA contains a Position Statement on advance directives. Here we have included several "tools" or helpful documents to support your organization's ongoing education regarding advance directives. First, we offer a "Sample Policy and Procedure" addressing the administrative process of advance directives. This sample policy was adapted from a policy shared by Jean Clark, RRA, operations director with Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC, and a director on the AHIMA Board of Directors. Do not automatically accept this policy and procedure for your organization. Instead, the health information management professional could use this sample to write your organization's own, specific policy and procedures that are consistent with your state's law and legal counsel's advice. The second article, "Advance Directives and the New Joint Commission Requirements," compares 1992 Joint Commission standards for Patient Rights and The Patient Self-Determination Act requirements. Selected sections from the Joint Commission chapter on Patient Rights are highlighted and comments added that contrast it with the act. "Common Questions and Answers Related to Advance Directives" is the third tool we offer. These questions and answers may be used for a patient education brochure or staff inservice education program outline. Again, information specific to your own state needs to be added. The fourth tool we offer is miniature "Sample Slides" or overhead transparency copy that can be enlarged and used for a presentation on the basics of advance directives for a community group for staff education. We thank Dee McLane, RRA, director, Medical Information Services at Self Memorial Hospital in Greenwood, SC, who developed these slides for presentations conducted at her hospital. We also thank Jeri Whitworth, RRA, who produced the graphics on these slides. Whitworth is a first year director on the AHIMA Board of Directors this year. Again you can use as is or consider these a model as you develop your own presentation geared for your specific audience. Last, but not least, we include samples of a "Living Will Declaration" and a "Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care" forms reprinted with permission from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). We include them here so you can examine the language of each type of advance directive. Copies for your organization should be requested from AARP at 1909 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20049, (202) 662-4895. Forms specific to each state are available from The Society for the Right to Die/Concern for Dying at 250 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10107, (212) 246-6973. The requirement under The Patient Self-Determination Act became effective December 1, 1991, but the educational requirements of the act are meant to be ongoing. These "tools" are to help you continue to be a regular contributor to the educational process in your organization.

Advance Directives↗
PubMed1988

Practice bulletin, data security.

This practice bulletin discusses data security considerations necessary when information systems process and store confidential patient data. While it does not cover the broader moral issue of privacy, it recognizes that the protection of individual privacy places special responsibilities on those who manage health information systems.

Confidentiality↗
PubMed1987

Software reference guide.

This is the eighth article in a multi-part software reference guide series which began in the September 1986 issue of JAMRA. The focus of this month's article is software for utilization review. Like all articles in the series, this one is intended to assist medical record professionals as they seek ways to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the medical record services they provide.

Catalogs, Commercial as Topic↗
PubMed1987

Manpower survey. Part II: Other management positions.

This is the second in a series of three articles reporting the results of the AMRA 1986 Manpower--Salary Survey. The focus of this article is to report manpower and salary information for medical record department management positions other than that of the department director.

Data Collection↗
PubMed1987

Practice bulletin. Private review entities.

Practice Bulletin is the first in a series to be presented at the behest of the Council on Professional Practice, in response to issues arising in medical record practice today. Clear, useful points listing areas of responsibility as well as policies and procedures are given for both the private review organization, a new protagonist seeking access to patient records, and the facility, traditional guardian of health care records.

Contract Services↗
PubMed1987

Special briefing for health care consultants.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations sponsored its first "Special Briefing for Health Care Consultants" to ensure that surveying standards and their interpretation are consistent, clear and credible.

Accreditation↗
PubMed1986

Health record core data set.

Information is a key resource for health care institutions. Clinical and financial information about health care is vital to operational and strategic planning, financial management, marketing, review of patient care quality, physician credentialing and epidemiology. In the past, financial data systems commanded the greater commitment of dollars, but today's focus is on the development of systems which merge clinical and financial data. Health care executives are committing resources for information to assist them in managing their institutions.

Dictionaries as Topic↗