Health Management

Regulation of the health care industry exists principally in the form of self regulation

In recent decades, government and insures have exerted control over much of health care's money supply

Corporate mergers and the formation of health care systems have invariably resulted in widespread reduction in health care costs

The pace of technological change in health care has slowed considerably over the recent decade

Manage care organizations have brought pressure to bear on hospitals and physicians to reduce the length of hosital stays

Resistance to change is an unnatural state within the indvidual

The health insurance portability and accountability act was passed principally to ensure that workers could change jobs without being deinied health insurance based on pre-exisitng conditions

Involvedment often the strongest force in overcoming employee resistance to change, is sometimes not an available option

Conformance with the requirements of hippa has cost many organization considerably more then the governement estamates

There is presently a reasonable change that hippa, because of it upopulatiry among health care providers will be repealed

Providing employees with direct orders is probably the most effective means of ensuring acceptance of change

The implenmentation of the electonic health record is an example of proactive change

Implementation of changes within an organization, in response to the electronic health record initiatives, is the primary responsibility of the american health information association

Stakeholders in the implementation processes associated with the electronic health record include the national libarary of medcine

Directing and controlling together comprise the first line managers role; other functions, specifically planning, lie completely with top manaagement