Question

CASE 6-29 Filing System Conversions As an HIM assistant director, you have been asked by administration to help with the filing system con versions at 2 of the outpatient service faciliies of your healthcare system. They have asked you to help them in calculating the number of employees needed to complete their projects Project1 Orthopedics of Central Omaha is converting the filing system from alphabetic to terminal digit. The front office staff consists of 8 FTEs. The practice manager has given instructions that the work can begin on Friday afternoon as soon as the last patient leaves, which is typically 5:00 p.m. The project must be completed by 8:00 a.m. Monday morning. The HIM coordinator has been collecting information for you to use in the planning process. There are 8,950 medical records. It takes 2 minutes per chart to convert from alphabetic to terminal digit 1. Determine the number of hours that you expect the project to take. 2. Can everything be done by working the day shift, or wll you need an evening and/or night shift to get the job completed on time? 3. How many people will be needed to complete the project in the time frame given?

Number of medical records is 2250 instead. Thanks for the help!