HEALTHCARE IMPLICATIONS

Identification of managerial, financial, legal and ethical implications

Identification of managerial, financial, legal and ethical implications

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of our knowledge by exploring some relevant facts and figures relating to the implications of Health care. In this paper, we have examined the financial, legal, managerial, and ethical implications of Health care system.

Discussion & Analysis

Ethical Implications

Privacy of information is one of the major ethical implications that affect the quality of health care around the world. People are strongly encouraged to provide personal information as that health care providers spend a lot of time collecting this information and they rely on the accuracy and completeness of such information (Katharine, 2005). The lack of complete and unhindered communication between patient and provider of health care increases the risk of misdiagnosis and treatment, non-compliance and inadequate care, injury prosecuted judicial and death. It is; therefore, expected to fully inform the patient about health care and to furnish complete and accurate information, without waiting for requests. If the protection of privacy is based on trust and that it facilitates the free flow of information between the patient and the provider of health care, it is logical to conclude that one must integrate the protection of privacy in health care, but the question is how? The answer is not obvious. This lack of clarity affects the decision-making on the protection of privacy, because stakeholders struggle to define the issues in this regard.

Decision makers rely on so the effective delivery of patient care, which lends itself to more assessments, is easy to understand. To make good decisions concerning the protection of privacy, priority should be given a comprehensive approach that can clearly identify the problems in this regard and resolve them effectively. The protection of privacy in the health care industry can be analyzed based on four activities: information collection, processing information disclosure and intrusion in the life private. Treatment information includes various ways of linking data a person, and the consolidation of data, identification and secondary uses, including the combination of various data systems to create associations (Tomes, 1994).

Legal Implications

Number of amendments to Health Managed Care - Laws had been done, keeping in view the impacts of providence of quality medical care given to the patient. Many Issues had been reported in negative as well as a positive aspect towards this issue. Quality health care management organizations were ...