legal aspects of health admin
TOPIC 1
Health-Care Law, Risk Management, and Liability
Part I: Healthcare Law
1. Identify and discuss (in about 100 words) one rule, law, or policy that you believe might improve healthcare more than any other.
Part II: Risk Management and Liability
1. Discuss (in about 150 words) a risk management effort that you know about from your work.
2. If you do not know of such a program discuss how you might go about establishing such a program in your organization.
TOPIC 2
Legal Incident Reporting Requirements
1. Explain (in about 200 words) how root cause analysis is related to sentinel events.
2. Provide an example.
TOPIC 3
Managed Care
1. Given the ethical issues around managed care, discuss (in about 100 words) whether MCOs are good arrangements for patients?
2. Provide a concrete example (in about 100 words) for either pro arrangement or against arrangement.
Medical Records, Patient Consent, and Information
TOPIC 4
Research the “The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.”
1. What have we learnt from this case? (in about 100 words)
2. How does the “Helsinki Convention” safeguard us from a repetition of the Tuskegee experiment? (in about 100 words)