DeVry HIM460 Week 1 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017
November
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WEEK 1: PRACTICUM DISCUSSION FORM
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The practicum requires a minimum of 60 hours at the DeVry-approved
site. Please tell the class about your approved practicum site, the dates to
meet these required hours, and how you plan to adjust your professional and
personal calendars to meet the 60-hour requirement. Finally, how do you plan to
prepare for this experience?
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WEEK
1: HIM PROGRAM AND CO REVIEW
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Writing an annotated bibliography is useful to summarize, analyze,
and assess a professional or academic source more carefully for applicability
and relevance. For this discussion, conduct professional research at either the
AHIMA or HIMSS website for a journal article that pertains to this week’s TCOs
that you find relevant to your particular practicum site.
You will present your journal article in an annotated bibliography
format:
- APA
citation to the source - 2
paragraphs (minimum 6 sentences/paragraph): The first paragraph will
summarize the article with the main points and detailed substance. The
second paragraph will analyze and reflect how it applies it to your
practicum site and HIM profession.
DeVry HIM406 Week 2 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017
November
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WEEK 2: PRACTICUM DISCUSSION FORUM
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Tell us about your practicum experiences this week. What specific
management experiences have you had to address TCOs 1-4? As you look forward to
the remaining TCOs, what major activities do you want to incorporate into your
hours and why?
If you have not started your practicum yet, evaluate TCOs 1-4 and
discuss how you plan to meet each of them with activity requirements.
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WEEK 2: HIM PROGRAM AND CO REVIEW
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Management of coding personnel is a likely responsibility you will
have at one point or another in your HIM career. With the evolution of the
electronic medical record (EMR), computer assisted coding (CAC), and
implementation of ICD-10-CM, these changes will shape your future roles
directly, specifically with managing and integrating them into the healthcare
delivery system, regardless of the type of facility you are in. There are two
parts of this question for you to compile a response.
First, present a comprehensive overview of how you would
specifically assess your coding department, personnel, and workflow to meet
these requirements as the HIM Director of a hospital. At minimum, the following
areas should be include in your response: examination of personnel, processes,
technology, and training.
Secondly, what types of data and reports should be used to support
your analysis and ongoing monitoring of the HIM Department (be specific)?
Please use at least one HIMSS or AHIMA journal article to support
your departmental assessment and provide your source (in APA) at the end of the
content.
DeVry HIM406 Week 3 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017
November
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WEEK
3: PRACTICUM DISCUSSION FORUM
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Tell us about your practicum experiences this week. What specific
management experiences have you had to address COs 1-4? As you look forward to
the remaining COs, what major activities do you want to incorporate into your
hours and why?
If you have not started your practicum yet, evaluate COs 1-4 and
discuss how you plan to meet the each of them with activity requirements.
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WEEK
3: HIM PROGRAM AND CO REVIEW
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HIM professionals will be required to assess data for known
relationships, describe facts, detect patterns, develop explanations, and/or
test a hypothesis in an attempt to answer a question with data.
Using the Internet, locate your own state’s hospital association
website. Specifically, search for hospital data and/or statistics that may be
used to monitor utilization and/or quality of care at either the state or local
level.
In your response, identify your state and include an APA citation
to the site you used. Secondly, select 2 specific statistics that are used by
your home state and answer the following on each statistic selected: Who
generates the data and how they are calculated; what do the results/outcomes
show; who are the users; primary or secondary data; and speculate how this
statistic might important to measure for a healthcare organization?
Finally, present your initial thoughts on the website you
selected, the state data and statistics available, and might this be a website
you would utilize in the future as an HIM manager?
DeVry HIM460 Week 4 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017
November
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WEEK 4: PRACTICUM DISCUSSION FORUM
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Tell us about your practicum experiences this week. What specific
management experiences have you had to address TCOs 1-8? As you look forward to
the remaining TCOs, what major activities do you want to incorporate into your
hours and why?
If you have not started your practicum yet, evaluate TCOs 1-4 and
discuss how you plan to meet the each of them with activity requirements.
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WEEK
4: HIM PROGRAM AND TCO REVIEW
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This week’s COs pertain to quality, process improvement,
accreditation, and regulations. Let’s have some fun researching!
There are three parts to this discussion question that must be
answered in your initial post: First, conduct an Internet search to find out
how a “real world” healthcare organization addresses accreditation,
clinical quality and process improvement utilizing data posted on their
website, outcomes measurements ors, benchmarking, patient safety information,
and so forthetc. on their website. You can check one of the hospitals in your
local area, or state or go to one of the renowned organizations such as The
Mayo Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic, or Johns Hopkins Hospital, and so forth.
Second, go to the Joint Commission’s
website ( http://www.jointcommission.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to
an external site. ) and research that same hospital for their Quality Check and
certifications for specific diseases and staffing. Any specific data and/or
statistics used? and Oryx components. Present an overview of your findings.
Finally, present an overview of the organization, your
findings from each of the sites, and your professional assessment of what you
discovered. Specifically, how might you, as the HIM Director of that
organization, utilize this information?discuss, specifically, how you would
utilize this information in the HIM department to support accreditation and
quality of care.
DeVry HIM460 Week 5 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017
November
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WEEK 5: PRACTICUM DISCUSSION FORUM
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Tell us about your practicum experiences this week. What specific
management experiences have you had to address COs 9-10? As you look forward to
the remaining COs, what major activities do you want to incorporate into your
hours and why?
If you have not started your practicum yet, evaluate COs 1-10 and
discuss how you plan to meet the each of them with activity requirements.
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WEEK
5: HIM PROGRAM AND CO REVIEW
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Select a specific setting (hospital, ambulatory surgery center,
LTC facility, etc.) and prepare an brief presentation for an in-service program
for the health information management staff to address the organization’s
technical policies and procedures on data security, data storage and data
retrieval.
The presentation should include the following, at minimum. You are
welcome to add other topics you feel are necessary:
- Terms
used as you would explain to your staff - Methods
of storage, encryption, and retrieval - Security
and security threats - Key
elements of a security policy
If any outside resources are used, please provide APA citation at
the end of your outline
DeVry HIM460 Week 6 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017
November
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WEEK 6: PRACTICUM DISCUSSION FORUM
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Tell us about your practicum experiences this week. What specific
management experiences have you had to address COs 11-12? As you look forward
to the remaining COs, what major activities do you want to incorporate into
your hours and why?
If you have not started your practicum yet, evaluate COs 1-12 and
discuss how you plan to meet the each of them with activity requirements.
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WEEK
6: HIM PROGRAM AND CO REVIEW
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You are the HIM Director of a large trauma center and were
assigned by the Chief of the Medical Staff to evaluate the preventative
services of the Internal Medicine department to examine if they are complying
with Medicare’s Preventative Visit under the recent Affordable Care Act.
You conduct a retrospective analysis of the medical records for
the past six months using the hospital’s electronic medical record (EMR). Your
findings, although startling, were indicative of what the Chief of the Medical
Staff speculated–a large percentage of the patients were not receiving current
screening preventative recommendation. The following data stood out: two
physicians, who saw about 45 percent of all the patients, had 60% of their
patients lacking in bone density measurements; colonoscopies were only done 34%
of the time; and 13% of the patient population received the pneumococcal
vaccine.
You are asked to present your findings at the monthly Internal
Medicine departmental meeting. In the middle of your data presentation, two
physicians begin to argue the results integrity and reliability of the data.
Furthermore, they alluded to your being inept in your data analysis.
Specifically, how would you handle this situation? What
preparation might you have done in advance to help prevent a situation like
this? What conflict management or leadership expertise would you need to
successfully defend your findings?
DeVry HIM460 Week 7 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017
November
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WEEK 7: MANAGERIAL PROJECT: PEER REVIEW
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Using VoiceThread, submit a 5 minute summary of your managerial
project. You are then required to view 2 summaries, other than your own, and
provide positive and constructive feedback. Remember, they must still be
quality posts.? Simply stating, “Nice job, I agree” is not
sufficient.? Examples of quality posts include: ??
- providing
additional information to the discussion;?? - elaborating
on previous comments from others;?? - presenting
explanations of concepts or methods to help fellow students,?? - presenting
reasons for or against a topic in a persuasive fashion,?? - sharing
your own personal experiences that relate to the topic, and?? - providing
a URL and explanation for an area you researched on the Internet.
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WEEK
7: HIM PROGRAM AND CO REVIEW
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Conduct an Internet search for a “real world” hospital
or healthcare delivery system’s strategic plan. Assess it, including the HIM
component, and at a minimum, include the following 5 required content elements
in your analysis to your classmates for discussion.
- Organizational
name and type of organization (hospital, acute care facility, ambulatory
surgery center, hospital system, etc.)? - Organizational
mission, vision, goals, and/or objectives. When was it developed and how
long was it? Do they have any updates if it was developed over one year
ago? Anything outstanding to you? - What
key elements are included in their strategic plan? Do they use any type of
balanced scorecard or mechanism to track and monitor these elements? Are
the elements measurable and systematic? - Is
there an HIM component of the strategic plan? If so, explain and if not,
what are your thoughts? How it is connected or aligned with the
organizational mission, vision, goals and/or objectives? - What
specific HIM initiatives are included? Given your practicum and program
learning, would you feel comfortable carrying them out as an HIM Director?
Don’t forget to put the APA citation at the end of your post for
the organizational site since we may all want to visit it.





