National Standards for Transmission of Health Care Transactions

1998 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
National Standards

Strategies for Implementing the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Home Health Care

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Curry Narayan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Home Health Care ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Home Health ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Health Care Consumer ◽  
Equitable Outcomes ◽  
Consumer Assessment ◽  
Linguistically Appropriate

This article is an abridged version of a book chapter, Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services, published in the Handbook of Home Health Care Administration, Sixth Edition (Marilyn Harris, editor). The article describes the importance of culturally and linguistically competent care for the success of home health agencies. It uses the 15 standards of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (CLAS Standards) as an outline for identifying strategies that home health leaders can incorporate into their agencies’ practices to enhance their care to culturally and linguistically diverse patients. Providing services that produce equitable outcomes for diverse patients is likely to enhance agency Home Health Compare and HHCAHPS (Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) scores, Star Ratings, and reimbursement in a value-based reimbursement model.

A Review Process for a Hospital at Home

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Russon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Home Health Care ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Home Health ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Hospital At Home

The field of home health care is the focus of much attention as alternatives to institutionalization are sought. As a result, many types of organizations are now providing home care, health or otherwise, without the guidance of national standards similar to those found in accreditation models for care in an institutional setting. So that stakeholders in New Brunswick can be assured of the quality of the service it provides, the Extra-Mural Hospital has embarked upon the development of a review process which will, to some extent, follow established accreditation models.

scholarly journals Report review: Not for service: experiences of injustice and despair in mental health care in Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Michael Summers ◽  
Peter McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Current State ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Experiences

IT IS ONLY BY EXAMINING the impact of public policies on the lives of people that we can begin to assess the success or failure of those policies. With this as a starting point, Not for service presents an extensive (just over 1000 pages) and balanced picture of the impact of policies on the lives of people with mental illness and their families and friends. The authors take care to state that their research is not a rigorous examination of the extent to which the National Standards for Mental Health Services have been implemented, but do observe that the ?volume and consistency of the information demonstrate the gaps and difficulties governments have had in meeting these standards? (p 14). The report is lengthy, but is well laid out and ?easy? to read, although the content will leave any reader feeling uneasy about the current state of our mental health system. There is also a shorter (96 page) summary report available.

scholarly journals 2017 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joni Beck ◽  
Deborah A. Greenwood ◽  
Lori Blanton ◽  
Sandra T. Bollinger ◽  
Marcene K. Butcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Environment

Purpose The purpose of this study is to review the literature for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) to ensure the National Standards for DSMES (Standards) align with current evidence-based practices and utilization trends. Methods The 10 Standards were divided among 20 interdisciplinary workgroup members. Members searched the current research for diabetes education and support, behavioral health, clinical, health care environment, technical, reimbursement, and business practice for the strongest evidence that guided the Standards revision. Results Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support facilitates the knowledge, skills, and ability necessary for diabetes self-care as well as activities that assist a person in implementing and sustaining the behaviors needed to manage their condition on an ongoing basis. The evidence indicates that health care providers and people affected by diabetes are embracing technology, and this is having a positive impact of DSMES access, utilization, and outcomes. Conclusion Quality DSMES continues to be a critical element of care for all people with diabetes. The DSMES services must be individualized and guided by the concerns, preferences, and needs of the person affected by diabetes. Even with the abundance of evidence supporting the benefits of DSMES, it continues to be underutilized, but as with other health care services, technology is changing the way DSMES is delivered and utilized with positive outcomes.

scholarly journals Parental access to minors' health records in the South African health care context: concerns and recommendations

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
MN Slabbert
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Patient Confidentiality ◽  
African Health ◽  
Health Care Context ◽  
Financial Audit ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality have long been recognized as essential elements of the doctorpatient relationship. Patients should feel free to disclose the most intimate and private medical facts about themselves to their physicians in order to facilitate optimal patient care. Medical records, whether hand-written or electronic, also play an important role in other contexts, such as medical research, health care management and financial audit. In South Africa there is little consistency in approaches to patient confidentiality. There are also no national standards or policies on patient confidentiality, apart from specific ethical rules, some ad hoc statutory provisions and general constitutional provisions not directly related to the intricacies of the doctor-patient relationship. A closer look at the relevant statutory provisions reveal the existence of conflicting standards, most notably in respect of parental access to a minors' health records. The purpose of this paper is to examine the discrepancies and contradictory provisions relating to the access to and disclosure of health information, in particular parental access to health records of minors. In the final instance, some recommendations will be suggested.

scholarly journals Quality Compliance in a Remotely Located PHC in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
M. R. Roopashree
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
National Health ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Health Care Centre ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Patient Department

Background: As the rural Indian health care sector is providing patient care to the community at large, evaluating the quality of services gives an insight into the level of care provided. The primary health care chose the audit evaluation voluntarily. Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the service quality provided in the primary health care Centre. The study was to help understand the skill set requirements in improving the quality of care and to identify the service quality gaps and to provide the best possible solutions for the gap closures by nominating the responsible personnel. Methods: The quality of care was evaluated in three ways: staff interview, record review, and observations conducted. Six departments were chosen for evaluation: the out-patient department, in-patient department, labor room, laboratory, National health programs, and general administration. By a prepared specific checklist comprised of standards and measurable elements, an evaluation was performed. The scoring was provided as 0, 1and 2, which implied noncompliance, partial compliance, and full compliance. Results: As per evaluation, national health program areas scored the least, whereas the inpatient departments scored the highest.  There were multiple gaps in the service provision areas and manpower allocation. The average mean score was 77.48. Conclusion: Keeping the national standards and guidelines, an audit evaluation was performed. Quality has to be imbibed with the optimization of resource allocation and with the mindset to provide the best possible care in the interest of the individual's wellbeing.

2017 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joni Beck ◽  
Deborah A. Greenwood ◽  
Lori Blanton ◽  
Sandra T. Bollinger ◽  
Marcene K. Butcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Environment

Purpose The purpose of this study is to review the literature for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) to ensure the National Standards for DSMES (Standards) align with current evidence-based practices and utilization trends. Methods The 10 Standards were divided among 20 interdisciplinary workgroup members. Members searched the current research for diabetes education and support, behavioral health, clinical, health care environment, technical, reimbursement, and business practice for the strongest evidence that guided the Standards revision. Results Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support facilitates the knowledge, skills, and ability necessary for diabetes self-care as well as activities that assist a person in implementing and sustaining the behaviors needed to manage their condition on an ongoing basis. The evidence indicates that health care providers and people affected by diabetes are embracing technology, and this is having a positive impact of DSMES access, utilization, and outcomes. Conclusion Quality DSMES continues to be a critical element of care for all people with diabetes. The DSMES services must be individualized and guided by the concerns, preferences, and needs of the person affected by diabetes. Even with the abundance of evidence supporting the benefits of DSMES, it continues to be underutilized, but as with other health care services, technology is changing the way DSMES is delivered and utilized with positive outcomes.

Strategy of planning HIV/AIDS fight in Ukraine: a review

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
V.I. Stepanenko ◽  
S.V. Ivanov ◽  
V.I. Kamenev
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
Epidemiological Situation ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV epidemic in Ukraine remains a nationwide problem. The current epidemiological situation does not yet give grounds to talk about a significant decrease in the load associated with HIV/AIDS in Ukraine. Predicting the further spread of the epidemic throughout the country is becoming more and more complicated due to the crisis socio-economic phenomena and the deterioration of the situation in the eastern regions of Ukraine. Objective — to substantiate the ways of optimization of monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection as the basis for a strategy of overcoming the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the public health system in Ukraine; expanding treatment of HIV-infected patients using modern approaches and standards; volumes and algorithms of cooperation of specialists from different branches in the provision of treatment services to patients with skin diseases and sexually transmitted infections. Materials and methods. We analyzed: 1) documents of international policy in the field of public health; 2) the latest changes in the documents of the state policy in the field of health care of Ukraine; 3) international strategies and approaches to overcoming the HIV epidemic; 4) WHO strategies for applying public health approaches to tackling the HIV epidemic; 5) the dynamics of the incidence of skin and venereal diseases in Ukraine and the virtual creation of an epidemiological situation in the absence of integrative relations between individual health care services; 6) modeling and forecasting with account of all available relevant data as an important source of information for monitoring national and global HIV epidemics, as well as managing the prevention and treatment programs. Results and discussion. Based on the review of statistical information, key directions are presented for further strengthening of the system of monitoring and evaluation to strengthen the control over the HIV epidemic in Ukraine, as well as optimize specific treatment. At the present stage of the implementation of medical reforms, final revision and improvement are required of existing strategies and policies for organizing a response to the HIV epidemic in Ukraine, as well as the search for new ways and tools that can be mobilized in the health care system by increasing the efficiency of the use of existing resources, introducing new forms of management and coordination of actions. Conclusions. Bringing national standards in line with the best world practices in the field of HIV counteraction contributes to the effective planning of the need for specific therapy in order to ensure a sustainable response to the HIV epidemic in Ukraine, the use of a «treat all» approach with effective and safe antiretroviral therapy. The optimization is based on the principles of public health as having the highest priority and effectiveness in comparison with individual approaches to the prevention, treatment and support of people with chronic diseases. The principle of maintaining balanced treatment regimens helps to reduce dependence on donor funding in the context of limited resources in Ukraine, as well as ensure the achievement of Fast track goals and adherence to the UNAIDS strategy.

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