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Question: What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?
Answer:
A United States federal law that set new or expanded requirements for all U.S.
public company boards, management, and public accounting firms. It covers
responsibilities of a public corporation's board of directors, adds criminal
penalties, and requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to create
regulations.
,Question: What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
Answer:
A law enacted in 1993 that requires covered employers to provide employees with
job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons.
Question: What is the purpose of any health care organization (HCO)?
Answer:
To provide care to individual patients, and this purpose is usually stated in the
organization's mission statement.
Question: What is population health?
Answer:
Population health involves defining the population (by geography,
sociodemographic factors, disease state, risk, insurance coverage, or other
criteria), measuring the current state of health in that population, setting goals for
improvement, and directing resources to make improvements. The United States
Department of Health and Human Services outlines national goals and objectives
for population health in the Healthy People 2020 program.
Question: What are the types and roles of caregiving, clinical, logistic, and
strategic teams?
Answer:
, • Caregiving Teams: Provide care to patients with similar needs (e.g., primary
care, acute care, rehabilitation).
• Clinical Support Teams: Offer specific clinical services to caregiving teams,
such as clinical laboratory, pharmacy, imaging, and cardiopulmonary
services.
• Logistic Support Teams: Supply trained personnel, information, facilities,
accounting, cash, management, and supplies.
• Strategic Support Teams: Handle marketing, governance, internal
consulting, finance, stakeholder relations management, and strategic
positioning.
Question: What are service lines in health care?
Answer:
Patient care teams coordinated around a set of similar diseases or patient needs.
Question: What is the premise of a healthy community?
Answer:
Costs tend to rise and benefits tend to decline as care moves away from the
healthy state. Therefore, optimum care maximizes the use of prevention, health
maintenance, and health improvement. This includes primary care, acute
inpatient or specialty outpatient care, rehabilitation, continuing care in home or
nursing home settings, palliative care, and end-of-life care.
Question: Who are stakeholders in a health care organization?