Week 1 – Assignment: Articulate the Importance of Proper Handling of Healthcare Data

Week 1 – Assignment: Articulate the Importance of Proper Handling of Healthcare Data

Instructions

Scenario:

You have just been hired as an administrator for a relatively new research-based healthcare delivery organization. This healthcare organization has three facilities in your city and serves at least a million patients each year. Before you came on board, there have been some challenges that have led to significant waste and increasing patient safety concerns. One such challenge cost the organization $5 million as a result of the data breach. In your very first executive meeting, the hospital board members iterated their concerns around the increasing waste and patient safety issues. Apparently, the issue has the potential to significantly hurt an organization’s bottom-line if it continues. Some of the board members believe that the organization will do better if the organization can build a culture of quality that is data-driven.

As a result, you have been charged with creating a strategic improvement plan that includes data collection, data governance, and evidence-based decision-making components.

To ensure that you develop a reliable data governance plan, you have decided to conduct an assessment of your organization’s current practices and to determine if there were any previous concerns about a data breach. During your assessment, you learned that there have been repeated issues around data breaches within your organization. In one such incident, over one thousand Personally Identifiable Information (PII) was lost in one of the three facilities that you manage. In another incident, a consultant employed by the organization was able to access patients’ data that they were not supposed to see.

To ensure that you get the buy-in of your board, you decided to put together a PowerPoint presentation that you will deliver to them in your next executive meeting.

In this presentation, be sure to address the following:

1. A demonstration of the implication of data breach (financial, reputation) to healthcare organizations in the United States.

2. Legislation aimed at promoting data privacy and security (directly or indirectly)

a. HIPPA Privacy and Security Rules

b. Research regulations

3. At least three things that need to be in place to ensure improved data privacy and security within the organization

4. At least three best practices that your employers should adopt to ensure patient privacy is maintained at all times

5. Note how any policy recommendations are ethical and promote accountability and professionalism

6. An appropriate data governance model (chart) that you create. It should not be the chart previously presented in the course.

Length: 8-12 slides, excluding title and reference slides, with a Kaltura recording/voice-over. Speaker notes must be included for all slides.

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

The completed assignment should address all of the assignment requirements, exhibit evidence of concept knowledge, and demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the content presented in the course. The writing should integrate scholarly resources, reflect academic expectations and current APA standards,

B. Downstream Effects of Health Policy and Governmental Regulations:

Healthcare lobbyists spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year in an attempt to influence politicians to support their perspectives and initiatives. Powerful special interest groups lobby legislators to propose, support, and enact healthcare policies to benefit their constituents.

Develop an original response addressing these prompts:

1. Identify and explain a public health policy or governmental regulation impacting your organization (ResCare) which is an ICF/IID. That is, “The Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions program provides residential and habilitation services to people with intellectual disabilities or a related condition in Texas, USA. (Please, pay more attention to the state of TEXAS, very important).

2. Describe the impact the selected legislation has on patient care.

3. Identify at least one organization or group lobbying for actions to support, amend, or repeal state policy or regulation.

Length: 3, excluding title and reference for this Question B. 7 edition of APA citations

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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.