1. a. Research security practice and recovery implementation during U.S. disasters between 1970 to the present comparing risk assessment and risk management mistakes. Based on the literature, discuss how a business continuity plan can support secure data, communication flow, and confidentiality during a disaster.
b. Discuss a public education plan that includes privacy, security, access to personal health record information, and data access expectations before, during, and after a disaster. Explain if any plan can assure no data loss to the public.
2. Complete a literature review to determine the ethical dilemmas and moral distress caused by the lack of confidentiality and billing compliance during the chaos of a disaster. Then, explain how to minimize the distress.
a. Evaluate the role of the Informatics leader in overseeing clinical documentation and information systems during a disaster. Explain which is more important: risk assessment, risk management, or a business continuity plan to ensure data security and confidentiality.
3. Explain the role of the ethics committee in healthcare issues including disaster planning and why it is important to serve as a member of the committee.
a. Evaluate the role of a Health Information administrator in clinical-informatics and ethical decision-making before, during, and after a disaster. Choose one clinical, informatics decision that is expected that would cause moral distress before, during, or after a disaster and explain how you would respond to mitigate the distress.
4. Explain how to use facts instead of emotions in ethical-decision making during the chaos of an unexpected disaster.
a. Research the literature to evaluate the merits of several different ethical-legal decision-making models and discuss one that supports implementation of a public education plan about the most common ethical dilemma priorities that occur in informatics during disasters.
5. Complete a literature on the history of incivility in times of stress, fear, and chaos and discuss ethical and legal concepts that a leader can use to control negative public behaviors during a disaster.
a. Explain how stress affects incivility and include principles of mitigation.
Instructions
Scenario: Imagine that you are managing the EHR project that you have been working on in your last few Assignments. You have the responsibility of managing the collaboration of people from multiple disciplines and managing the change that will come with this new technology. This is a big task!
• Write a 5-7 page research paper on committee leadership and managing projects and change
• Relate the research to your Unit 2 Project Plan and Unit 3 RFP and how you will need to be an effective leader to manage your EHR project and guide the organization through the change in technology
Requirements
• 5-7 pages of content plus a cover page and reference page.
• Discuss and analyze:
1. Leading committees and the value of collaborating with multiple disciplines.
2. Managing projects.
3. The need to manage change.
4. How you will use what you have learned in your research to manage your EHR project.
This should be the last part of your paper and identified with a heading.
• Writing is in the students own voice and includes in-text citations to support the writing.
• You should use your textbook as one reference plus a minimum of three references from scholarly journals.