Health Information Services: Case Study

Health information management, also known as HIM, has been acknowledged as an allied health profession since 1928. HIM is a profession dedicated to the effective management of patient information and healthcare data needed to deliver quality treatment and care to the public. The original objective was to elevate the standards of clinical recordkeeping in hospitals, dispensaries, and other healthcare facilities (Sayles, 2014). Today HIM is known as the American Health Information Management Association or AHIMA. It still holds similar underlying purposes: to ensure the quality, confidentiality, and availability of health information across diverse organizations, settings, and disciplines (Sayles, 2014). HIM plays a critical role in the successful implementation of electronic health records and ensures that providers, healthcare organizations, and patients have access to the right health information when and where it is needed while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity, confidentiality, and security. It ensures compliance with legal mandates, but it has proven to be a challenge with the constant change in legislation and regulatory environment. Past surveys suggest that HIM plays some type of importance in accordance to HIPAA privacy and security compliance. In a 2006 AHIMA survey, members were asked about the progress of their organizations’ privacy and security compliance efforts. Margret Amatayakul & Mitch Work discuss those results in a 2007 journal article

goals represent the long term strategic objectives to be used in transforming the medical center into an

Goals must be stated in measurable terms, i.e., how can you tell you have accomplished that goal? Identify dates for accomplishing each goal.

As a student of Walden University, goals established in week one were a starting point to get the ball rolling on potential goals that are achievable. The purpose of reevaluating goals is to ensure they are reasonable with the current situation and on track with future dreams. However, understanding the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) in an attempt to accomplish a goal.

On Monday, September 14, 2015 at approximately 12:45pm Kathleen A. Kane provided me with information pertaining to Mr. Sutherland whereabouts. According to the hospital records Mr. Sutherland return on 9/11/15 to the hospital and was admitted to 5-Central room 236B located in the Greenberg Pavilion.

In this paper I will be discussing how as a new office manager what factor pertaining to health care information need to be considered. Some of these factors are legislation, organization structure and flow of information, billing, accrediting bodies, standards, monitoring and assessing practice to HIPAA.

The entire article calls for a process of goal setting by management. Management is called upon to periodically identify and monitor indicators that show a need for realignment of work processes (Layman, E., 2016). Goal setting, as have seen in Principles of Management, usually has an outcome of increased performance (Carpenter et al, 2010). While the smart acronym is not used outright, the article from AHIMA continually points to indicators for needed changes, and references a need for perodizing measurements to make them timely. It also explores achievability through a set of formulas for what changes to make when specific identifiers are noted (Layman, E., 2016). Essentially, it gives a list of tools such as satisfaction surveys, performance reports, and a host of others to make measurements specific and, one assumes, timely (Layman, E., 2016). Finally, it

The goal post-reorganization will be to mend relationships with the staff and provide continued support and reassurance. In addition, ongoing presentation of the data to exhibit the effectiveness of the restructure on outcome goals will be essential.

The other potential source of a grant to a CHC is the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) that administers grant competitions for service expansion to community health center and supporting the purchase and installation of dental equipment.

Many healthcare organizations remain focused on continually improving their operations to better align with industry and government best practices. Specifically, the “improvement in quality of healthcare has gained interest among policy makers in recent years” (Carlfjord, Lindberg, Bendtsen, Nilsen & Andersson, 2010, p. 1). This is likely because healthcare policy makers strive to overcome some of the larger scale issues affecting the industry and patient care. One of the issues that hospitals and other healthcare organizations want to correct is how many mistakes are made by healthcare providers, as these errors negatively impact patient outcomes and open up healthcare organizations for possible liability.

8. In reengineering, what is the primary purpose of working backward from desired outcomes to establish new processes?

Additionally, Juliet added the Healthcare Informatics was a Ford Family Foundation Grant, Asante, and Providence spent a lot of hours to develop these programs. Also, there was a movement to build state-wide Healthcare Informatics programs for a two year degree that has not been successful. However, Genna added that there have been two schools that have eliminated their programs completely last year and LCC is looking at suspending their program.

All new health insurance plans are required to cover recommended preventive services and immunization without cost sharing. The preventive services fall into four categories.

The data was collected by the health IT supplements to the American Hospital Association’s annual survey which was self-reported and hard to verify the accuracy of the responses. Also the authors could not make sure if the result of the survey was biased depend on the respondents with their different attitude when they were taking this survey.

“The Goal” is a book written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in 1984. The book is very famous in the management field. In 2004, the author published the third revision of it and celebrated selling over than three million copied of it around the world. Also, the goal book is taught in over than 120 collages. The book was recommended by my professor to be read and summarize as an extra credit.