assignment: HIM Data Quality Analyst

assignment: HIM Data Quality Analyst

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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 facility’s 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.

assignment: HIM Data Quality Analyst

assignment: HIM Data Quality Analyst

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.