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Pilots do it. Bird watchers do it. Even surgeons are starting to do it. Are you taking advantage of checklists to help your medical coding and billing? Rocket Scientists Use Checklists Coding can be – as the saying goes – more complicated than rocket science. Not only are you translating a provider’s impressions, judgments, actions […]
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Studying for a medical coding certification exam is pretty intimidating, especially when you have to memorize new content. Here are nine easy steps to improve your medical coding examination recall. Sleep – Remember in the movie Inside Out how Riley’s memories were filed away when she fell asleep? That’s exactly what your brain is doing while you’re […]
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Although electronic health records (EHRs) weren’t originally designed with litigation in mind, it’s good to know how you can make them more usable as testimony in your defense. Consider how your EHR information will influence litigation and how it will be produced if sequestered. Differences of EHRs and Paper Charts in Litigation The way EHR […]
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Misunderstandings and communication problems remain one of the most common problems in the professional environment. Communication is essential for effective functioning in every part of an organization, whether it is one-on-one, in a group setting or through e-mail. People in organizations typically spend more than 75 percent of their time in an interpersonal situation. If we want to build bridges between the fitness and medical community, effective communication with medical professionals is an essential component.
Linguists claim up that in terms of communication effectiveness, 93 percent is determined by non-verbal cues, 38 percent by voice quality and 55 percent by non-verbal communication. This means that 7 percent of communication is done by the words we use. The most recent National Adult Literacy Survey found that an estimated 30 million adults, or 14 percent, have below-basic literacy skills. Health care professionals generally rank in the highest category, creating another gap in communication.
As the bridge between the medical community and the fitness industry tightens, it is important that fitness professionals learn how to communicate with consistency and power so that we can implement skills that build rapport and respect, and ensure clarity from medical professionals.
Here are some ways that we can improve our communication skills:
1. Take a course in medical terminology and/or pharmacology. This is important if you plan on working in the medical setting or if you plan on working with clients who are post-op or in post-rehab fitness. Good communication will save you the headache of learning what medications interfere with heart rates or knowing the difference between hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
2. It is about their patient and your client. Unless you like spending time in court, do not exceed your scope of practice, even when it comes to nutritional counseling.
3. If you don’t understand what is going on, ask for clarification. Don’t be embarrassed to ask for further explanation, especially of medical terms. You’ll gain more respect if you ask than if you guess.
4. Listen. Good communication depends on good listening, so be conscious of whether you are really listening to what the medical professional is telling you. Many people in a conversation aren’t really listening. Person B is already preparing responses to person A while person A is still talking. Listening is a requisite for the exchange of ideas. Studies show that doctors listen for an average of 18 seconds before they interrupt, causing them to miss important information patients are trying to tell them.
5. Maintain eye contact. Eye contact is one of the most direct and powerful forms of non-verbal communication. It tells others that you are interested in them, and they can trust you.
6. Increase self-awareness, and practice the skill of self-observation. Learn the strengths and weaknesses in your personality. Be aware of your style, habits and tone. Note how you communicate after people respond positively and negatively to you. By increasing your self-awareness, you will be able to pinpoint the areas of communication you want to improve.
7. Learn to adhere to the rules and policies of HIPAA, the Patient’s Bill of Rights, and be wary of privacy issues with your clients. The medical industry is highly regulated, and we need to respect these rules and policies that may affect the way we train our clients.
8. Be professional and use proper grammar when communicating through e-mail. If you can’t write e-mails effectively, get some training. Use spell check. Don’t leave the subject heading blank, don’t type in all caps or all lower case, and don?t assume your e-mail will remain confidential. Avoid typos, mangled sentences, abbreviations and acronyms. While FYI and ASAP are acceptable, IDK and OMG are not.
9. Don’t hide behind e-mails. Most delicate matters must be discussed in person. Most conflicts must be settled in person or at least by phone.
10. Keep e-mails to a minimum. If you do e-mail and need to carbon copy a few people, and it is not necessary for everyone to reply to all, relay that information in your e-mail. Otherwise, you’ll have some people upset at all the unnecessary e-mails in their inbox.
Communication is vital to successful patient-client outcomes and higher satisfaction rates. Remember, good care should be a partnership between fitness professionals and health care professionals.
Jasmine Jafferali, MPH, is the Program Coordinator and an instructor for Educational Fitness Solutions, Inc., Professional Certificate in Women’s Personal Exercise Training and Wellness. She has a diverse fitness background with over ten years of industry experience in campus recreation, corporate wellness, and the commercial health club setting. To learn more about her program, visit: http://www.efslibrary.net
Getting a rather mammoth amount of patronage from millions and millions of people across the globe, medical tourism is popularity stems from many factors. An extremely convenient way to access quality medical care, it has been known to do magic to various global patients. Elective procedures and urgent ones, no matter what one may be seeking, the hospitals in medical tourism destinations cover an exhaustive list of specialties. That apart, you can even find highly specialized healthcare centers focusing on particular branch of medicine and thereby offering all the more superior service. Seeking the help of a medical tourism facilitator also helps, given the fact that they have the right statistics, comprehensive information and a professional way of doing things. Coming back to the main focus area, medical tourism has many takers from every corner of the world. The West works on an institutionalized way of medical system that just doesn’t go down well with a rather large middle-class society, be it in America, England, Canada or other European nations. And, given the lack of basic medical facilities and infrastructure in African and the Middle Eastern countries, one can clearly see how haute property medical tourism is. But, one asks, why not? Affordable world-class medical services, quality care and excellent post-treatment services, who isn’t entitled to all this? It is a win-win situation for both the parties . To be able to access quality care is every human being’s prerogative and to be able to do so in a financial manner that fits into your pocket comes foremost. The Western medical system is such that many feel it’s of no use to them, especially the middle-class. Meeting up with experts or opting to go for a particular cosmetic surgery may take up to several months to a year, even more, which obviously, isn’t a very agreeable situation. And then, to add to the mounting frustrations, it is the insurance policies that play a spoilt sport. When your policy doesn’t cover you for a particular procedure, you are as good or as bad as the uninsured person. Last, but in no way the least, affordability becomes a big question mark in the face of exorbitant medical treatments and services. Compared to all these, doesn’t it sound simpler to just board a cheap flight to a medical tourism destination and get your preferred treatment under all the privacy and for the fraction of the cost that it commands in your home land? This way you not only get to access the best of doctors, the best of medical practices and the best of hospitals for a figure that suits you, but also enjoy a small vacation on the side. Hospitals in the medical tourism hubs have been giving a stiff competition to those in the West.On the other hand, would you mind getting yourself medically treated in a foreign locale for half the price that the hospitals and procedures in your own country demand? We all know what the answer to that question is. The point is, as mentioned above, you can always do a thorough research about a particular treatment or healthcare center and then go with the chosen one. Welcome a healthy change in your life, banish those frustrating thoughts and sadness caused due to your illness, enjoy a normal life after a stint at a Medical Tourism Destinations, it’ll all be worth it. Equipped with an accreditation from international health governing bodies, the healthcare centers boast of a world-class infrastructure, state-of-the-art medical equipment, excellent accommodation facilities, trained nursing staff, efficient administration to make your stay as comfortable as can be and most importantly, highly qualified and experienced doctors. Don’t you take more time to get that illness treated, make arrangements through a medical tourism facilitator and say hello to a new, improved life again.
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A medical organizer is simply a tool to store all of your medical information. They can be paper-based medical records, internet-based on a secure server, or contained on a portable device such as a USB flash-drive.
Benefits
Taking an active role in your own medical treatment may be one of the most important decisions of your life. The use of a medical organizer will assist you in monitoring your condition as well as enhance your understanding of your treatment. A medical organizer will be your personal tool to effectively enter into a full partnership with your physician and many other health care professionals. This partnership and deliberate use of a medical organizer will allow you to:
1. Become more informed about your treatment options.
2. Learn more about your condition.
3. Learn how to manage your condition more effectively.
4. Learn how to avoid acute episodes.
5. Increase your sense of well being, and
6. Become empowered rather than victim to your condition.
Quicker Recovery from Illness & Better Health Outcomes
Today it is essential for patients and doctors to be partners in health care. A good partnership with your doctor begins with open communication. Studies show that patients who communicate well with their doctors actually recover more quickly from illness. Research also suggests that patients who take a more active role in visits with their physicians may have a greater sense of control and better health outcomes.
The American Society of Internal Medicine estimates that 70% of a correct diagnosis depends on what the patient tells the doctor. It has been shown that the simple act of making a list of questions before an office visit will improve communication by helping you organize your thoughts. Sharing the list with your doctor will further improve communication by making your concerns clear.
Effective Information Gathering
Most of us want as much information as possible from our physician but lack the techniques necessary to obtain this information. The use of a medical organizer will be your guide to more effective information gathering and more conversation with your physician. You will find that you will be able to reduce recall error by using a medical organizer. It will also provide a detailed and continuous record of individual health. Use this valuable information to get the best from your interaction with health care professionals.
Medical organizers are a great tool to promote effective communication with all of your health care providers.
To learn additional key communication techniques that really work, I would like to invite you to read our special report, 5 Critical Communication Strategies. You can get a copy of the report @ http://www.thehealthcaresystem.com/communication to assist you in becoming an empowered health care consumer.
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Intraday trading brings together perspectives from any different time frames into a single arena. Sometimes it is hard to make sense of why buyers and sellers react so strongly at certain price levels and not at others. How can you quickly and easily organize the information from different time frames to shape your trading decisions?
One way to to frame your trading environment is to look at multiple time frames and find patterns and price levels that indicate support and resistance levels in the past. We cannot know with any certainty why a price level became support or resistance. The good news is that we don’t need to know why, only that it DID!.
The reasons why support and resistance occurred fade pretty quickly in time. All that remains, like footsteps in the snow, is the price record maintained on charts for all to see. The places where price turned and reversed will begin to take on a power in the minds of all chart readers and will begin to influence their decisions to buy and sell, to preserve profits or anticipate reversals.
This is why congestion areas begin to form around certain price levels.
In the same way that we should not be supposed to see traffic forming around major cities, we should expect choppy price behavior around previous support and resistance levels, and near the 50 day and 200 day moving averages, the two most popular moving averages.
Once you have identified the obvious support and resistance levels, treat prices greater than the congestion area as “Green zones” where you would not be surprised to see price move swiftly up.
Identify the congestion areas as “Yellow zones” where choppy behavior is the norm and where you do not have a particular edge unless you are a master tape reader.
Red zones are open price areas below congestion, where price can be expected to fall quickly once it breaks out of congestion.
In the Red and Green zones, which are really mirror images of each other, you want to be positioned to go with the path of least resistance. There’s not a lot of time to wonder what to do when price is here. Don’t chase price, but certainly take advantage of limit orders to pull you into good positions.
In the Yellow zone you should never chase, and always require a visible 2:1 reward to risk ratio inside the yellow zone to justify your entry. Don’t expect price to break out either, since congestion zones we expect price to be choppy and for breakouts to be false.
Framing your trading decisions in terms of these 3 color codes can definitely help you make proper decisions in the heat of the moment.
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Prevent the spread of misguided MRSA claims with these tips for precise ICD-10-CM coding. Although the precision of code descriptions makes it harder to miscode an infection in ICD-10-CM, there are three tricks to coding Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to prevent claims denials or questions. 1. Make Notes in ICD-10-CM About Four MRSA Codes The […]
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