Electronic Health Information
Electronic Health Information
Electronic Health Information
Question 1 SHOULD BE ANSWERED IN 200 WORDS
As an HIM Data Quality Analyst, you know that information interoperability enables the movement of electronic health information to where and when it is needed to support individual healthcare needs and population-oriented uses. Select and describe one population-oriented use such as disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, and community healthcare tracking that would be useful for a large, county hospital system.
Assignment 1
Instructions
As an HIM Data Quality Analyst, you know that information interoperability enables the
movement of electronic health information to where and when it is needed to support
individual healthcare needs and population-oriented uses. Select a population-oriented
use such as disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, and community healthcare
tracking that would be useful for a large, county hospital system and create a data
project plan that justifies data integrity as a key strategic resource and mission tool.
Requirements
Create a data project plan for a large, county hospital system. In your data project plan,
justify data integrity as a key strategic resource and mission tool in a 4 to 5 page
document. You can accomplish this by: (1) Selecting a population-oriented use for
electronic data (examples: disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, community
healthcare tracking); (2) Advocating how information interoperability and information
exchange can be efficiently achieved; and (3) Demonstrating how data stewardship can
be accomplished using secondary databases and population databases
Question 2 SHOULD BE ANSWERED IN 200 WORDS
As the Chief Compliance Officer of the Blue Horizon Hospital Group, you are tasked with aligning the organizations data policies and procedures with the objectives of the HITECH Act. Discuss one of the HITECH objects and how it can be applied to your facilitys data integrity policies and procedures.
Assignment 2
Instructions
As the Chief Compliance Officer of the Southwest Regional Hospital Group, you are
tasked with aligning the organizations data policies and procedures with the objectives
of the HITECH Act. To achieve this alignment, your first objective is to establish policies
and procedures to ensure data integrity internal and external to the enterprise. And your
second objective is to create, evaluate, maintain, and recommend data architectural
models for the enterprise such as clinical data, financial data, and administrative data.
Requirements
? Write a three-page proposal that illustrates how you would meet the above objectives
and incorporate at least 5 of the HITECH Act focus areas:
? Improving healthcare quality, reducing medical errors, reducing health disparities,
and advancing delivery of patient-centered medical care;
? Reducing healthcare costs resulting from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate
care, duplicative care, and incomplete information;
? Providing appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at the time and
place of care;
? Ensuring that meaningful public input is included in development of such
infrastructure;
? Improving the coordination of care and information among hospitals, laboratories,
physician offices, and other entities for the secure and authorized exchange of
healthcare information;
? Improving public health activities and facilitating the early identification and rapid
response to public health threats;
? Facilitating health and clinical research and healthcare quality;
? Promoting early detection, prevention, and management of chronic diseases;
? Promoting a more effective marketplace, increased consumer choice, and improved
outcomes in healthcare services; and
? Improving efforts to reduce health disparities.
