Assignment: Policy on authentication

As a healthcare facility it is critical that the organization's policies be reviewed and or rewritten to reflect changes occurring in the industry. Authentication policies can address the paper record, the electronic health record or both in the very common hybrid system. Detailed policies are required due to the variety of sources of patient record information and the large number of entries made by different healthcare providers in the patient's record on a daily basis. There are several methods to ensure that the author of the entry in the medical record and entry itself has been validated which are: medical staff bylaws, rules, and regulation and state/federal laws.

For this assignment you are required to compare and contrast the two polices provided in the Benchmarking Resources- (County Health Department-Medical Record Policy: Kansas and Banner Health Policy) and evaluate them against sample set of standards from the Illinois Licensing Requirements document. Remember you are to only focus on authentication. Review the required selected policies and standards and select the information after comparing those resources that you will include in your policy and write your policy on organization wide guidelines on authentication in the health record.

The completed typed policy should be 2 pages. If you use a source for the policy, state the source at the end of the policy under a heading titled references.

Attachment:- Kansas-County-Health-Department-Medical-Records-Policy.rar