NURS FPX 6616 Assessment 1 Community Resources and Best Practices NURS-FPX 6616 Ethical and Legal Considerations in Care Coordination

 

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Hello healthcare Leaders, I am Student Name, and today I am presenting a very critical topic relating to Community resources and best practices for a carefully coordinated healthcare system and care management. 

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Community Resources and Best Practices

Care coordination and care management are interchangeable terms with slightly different meanings. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has created ease for recording and maintaining healthcare records. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) states care coordination is activities designed deliberately and communication involving all participants so safer and effective care is provided, while care management is an episodic evaluation with a good team that makes the managing medical system effective (Dealtry, 2022).

However, care coordination and management are in crisis despite technological integration such as Electronic Health Records (EHR), wearable devices, Telehealth, and mobile services. Every technology has its drawbacks, and in care coordination management, it creates ethical and legal issues for stakeholders. The data breach is one of the biggest concerns, whether internal, like disclosure and loss/theft, or external, like hacking. Healthcare is most vulnerable to data breaching incidents, and the USA is the biggest victim. The last four years have given more than 90% security breaches in US hospitals. The medical records are sold on black websites for hundreds and thousands of dollars. For the US alone, in 2019, the average cost of a record breach was $15 million (Seh et al., 2020).

Slide 3: Scenario

This is an incident of the healthcare organization under the name ARcare. They had a data breach incident between the last 2 months of 2022. However, they were exposed to the data breach incident in the first month of 2023. The type of attack showed that it was a ransom ware attack, which means the cybercriminal demanded a huge amount of money in exchange for the data of 345,000 patients. The information was extremely crucial because it contained the patient’s IDs, financial accounts, and insurance information. The problem was that despite the payment of ransom money, data restoration still needed to be confirmed. This incident was so critical that ARcare prioritized care coordination management to enhance cyber security. 

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Ethical Issues about Use of Health Care Information Systems for Care Coordination

American Public Health Association (APHA) believes in healthcare services within a community by following ethical principles. Telehealth and Health services have helped to access care services from afar with holistic care coordinating approach. Electronic medical records have a vast range of information, including physical, psychosocial, and personal non-medical information, so it’s well communicated among all healthcare professionals and between patient-provider. The ethical principles related to the use of healthcare information system brings some ethical issues. The general ethical principle for care coordination includes autonomy, the independent decision of the patient, beneficence; providing services that benefit the patient, non-maleficence; protection from harm of all kinds, and justice. Access to care services with all available resources without discrimination (WritersBay, 2021). The ethical issues are security, privacy, and confidentiality, which can harm patients and organizations adversely.