Part 1:

Instructions

Scenario: You are the EHR Committee chairperson and you are charged with organizing a meeting to discuss strategy.

• Create an agenda for an EHR Committee. You are the chairperson and you are organizing the first meeting of the committee that has been established to discuss EHR strategy for a large healthcare organization. You should also plan to discuss policies that are sensitive to various ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

• You should plan to address policy development and analysis of electronic health information.

Be sure that you emphasize:

• Promoting health information as a resource and mission tool.

• Advocating for the protection and use of electronic health information.

• How policy will meet the needs of individuals with different cultural backgrounds.

• Imagine that your committee has met and create the meeting minutes that summarizes everything that was discussed. As this was a mock meeting, you will need to be creative and just imagine the discussions that took place at the meeting.

Requirements

• Agenda and meeting minutes are in a professional format and appropriate for use if it were in a real situation.

• Addresses policies and the need for analysis of electronic health information.

• Promotes health information as a resource and mission tool.

• Advocates for the protection and use of electronic health information.

• Meeting minutes reflect knowledge of the topics and incorporates realistic information that would be discussed in this type of committee meeting.

Instructions

Scenario: You are a Director of Health Information at a medium sized hospital and you have been charged with establishing a performance management plan for your medical coders.

• Put yourself in the role of Director of Health Information at a medium sized hospital.

• Complete the assigned reading and explore other information and articles as well.

• Create a performance management plan for your medical coders

• Address questions such as:

• How will expectations be communicated? What is the training plan and professional development plan? How will you conduct performance appraisals? How often? How will poor performance be addressed? How will excellent performance be rewarded?

• Establish productivity standards for your medical coders.

• Include both qualitative and quantitative standards.

Requirements

• The final plan should be a minimum of 4 pages (not including cover page and reference page)

• The performance management plan should be presented in a professional format that could be used in a real HIM department. It should not be written as a paper, but as a business plan (i.e. with title, headings, subheadings, tables, etc.)

• Performance management plan must be comprehensive, organized, and appropriate

• Plan should include productivity standards that address both quality and quantity expectations