Assignment

Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate application and evaluation of compliance with state and local regulations of MacIntosh Hospital , as well as a variety of modern data capture and data storage techniques.

Examples include:

Administrative Functions
Human resources functions-hiring, termination, employee benefits
Billing office-coding and billing, accounts receivable
Admissions, discharge and transfer-ADT system
Patient Care Functions
Radiology
Laboratory
Pharmacy
Nursing

For each department and function that you identify, prepare a table examining types of data kept by that department, the urgency for having availability of information, and potential methods for storage. For example:

Department/function
Types of data Urgency Storage Needs
Admissions, Discharge, Transfers

Patient identification and demographics: Address, phone, insurance types Immediate availability for current inpatients

Retrievable within one hour after discharge Database ADT tables on an active server

Stored on reserve disk drives
Dietary
Prescribed patient diet Immediate for inpatients
Archived EHR post discharge Contained in EHR on active server
Once completed, your data retention plan should include the following:

A summary of the data needs for the organization, the management of the needed use and access and the storage requirements to maintain sufficient data to support the patient's care.

A breakdown of the requirements (both business and user) related to gathering, capturing, structuring, storing, protecting, and retrieving data. This plan should be 3-5 pages in length.