Question

Think about contact with any type of healthcare service. The healthcare service can be a physician office visits, ER visits, an outpatient surgery visit, inpatient visit, or any other contact with a healthcare service.

1. Write a scenario about the healthcare service. Be sure that your scenario is complete and detailed. (See Figure 1.1 in Johns' textbook as an example)
2. Create a chart of the data that is needed for the healthcare services (See Table 1.1 in Johns' textbook as an example). Be sure to include all forms of data needed.
3. Create a diagram of the data flow. (See Johns' figure 1.3 in textbook as an example)
4. Write a short summary (500 words. APA format) about this process. Include at least the following items:
   • Summary of the data flow process.
   • Thoughts on what to do if data is missing.
   • Data retention policies (how long should data be kept)
   • Data destruction policies (how and when should data be destroyed)

Answer 1

Physician office visit:

It is a busy process in which patients are waits for their physician visit..

Data flow process:

Value flow mapping process like appointment schedule, patient arrival, visit with the doctors, treatment process, followup, payment, and patient leaves the office..

There will be data for all the patients who visit the office in which their health data will be stored and follow up under the physician..It is unique to each office when the patient come for follow up..

Electronic health data improving patient - centered outcomes, it addressing the missing data problem..It identify the nursing data and negative value..EHR increasing structured data documentation, reducing data errors..when there is missing data it linked to disease severity, utilization for unhealthy patients with their documentation..improper handling of missing data issues widespread and EHR reduce bias..increase training for medical staffs with data missing issues..this issues can address with best practices and helps future methodological research..

Data retention policy determine data management..This policy is important because data can missed dramatically..the organization should retain data as long as they can .. Retaining data takes away unnecessary storage space and costs more than needed..

Proper databackup helps recover when the data loss..This policy helps organization has missing data and backed up...In data retention policy IT team work with the legal team..old file also important for the organization needs to retain with other valuable information.. software sometime saves olddata to archive, it is useful with large data volumes..

Data destruction policy is the process of destroying data..Software must be used to block with random data until it is considered irretrievable.. outsourcing data destruction is safe and as reliable..The company and organization should be educated on the data destruction policy..each state and federal regulations specify about data storage and destruction..in data destruction policy organization must ensure all legal and ethical obligation that prevent future lawsuits..