Question

1. imagine that you are a HIM manager with a large hospital. You responsible for facilitating the selection of a new healthcare information system. You are asked to compare the Allscripts MyWay EMR, Waiting Room Solutions, and EHRGo products. Then, make a recommendation.

Explore the product modules and functions, such as the user-friendliness (interface and ease of use), patient search functionality, a release of information and retrieval, record tracking, web-based standards, internet and intranet use, regulatory requirements, etc.
Create a comparison table or matrix for the various functions.
In a 2-page paper, provide an assessment and explanation of how product features would or would not potentially support interoperability and technology standards.
Make a recommendation of which one you would choose, and why.

2. Using the guidelines below, create an organizational chart, mission and vision statement for an HIM department of a 200-bed acute care hospital. The HIM department must have at least 15 employees.

Created an organizational chart to include at least 15 employees

Created a mission statement based on HIM department description
  
Created a vision statement based on HIM department description.

3. The new HIM director recently relocated from another state. Immediately upon her employment, her staff begins to note irregular behavior. It seems that the new director is carrying out activities that are not consistent with the organization’s culture and the AHIMA Code of Ethics, and which possibly may be illegal. The activities include reimbursing herself out of petty cash for questionable expenditures, hiring individuals who are friends or relatives, submitting expense vouchers for attendance at meetings where no one recalls her in attendance, and optimizing codes for improved reimbursement. Is there an ethical violation, dilemma, or concern?

In this scenario, there is an ethical concern. Clearly the activities of the new HIM director do not reflect the values and inherent ethical responsibilities of an HIM professional. The activities relate to actions taken for personal gain and potentially fraudulent activity. As a result, harm to HIM director’s organization and AHIMA by virtue of her membership association may ensue.

Create a PowerPoint training presentation to address the following questions. Your presentation should be 10-12 slides.

What was the intent of the AHIMA member’s actions that resulted in an ethics violation being brought forward?
What is the potential harm to the organization or AHIMA as a result of the act? 3. What is the status of the AHIMA member’s training, education, and awareness of the AHIMA Code of Ethics?
What AHIMA Ethical Code has been violated?
What resolution would you recommend?

Answer 1

1.Health Information Technology or we can say it as Healt IT,or the application of Informational technology in health field,where the specialists in the field handle the patient health information in to the digital version.The specialists in the field or the health IT professionals made the patient clinical information in to a digital version with out using the traditional pen and paper and here the health IT professionals supports the electronic health record (EHRs)and other systems that store patient related data.

$\rightarrow$ Allscripts MyWay EMR is a way of practice of EHR at maximum eficiency by utilizing the latest technology.Allscript MyWays provides a solution that is simple,complete and affordable.

It is easily customisable,and allows to quickly change the screen preferences without having an extensive knowledge of software programming.Because of this features of Allscripts MyWay EMR each person within the practice can personalize MyWay to fit their day to day schedules and job needs.The advantages of Allscripts MyWay EMR are :

*ASP hosting / On-premise Installation

*Offline Synchronization

*Adaptive learning

*Intelligent navigation

*Template free charting

*Easy customization

$\rightarrow$ The EMR offers a varied choice of methods of entering data such as templates,keyboard,voice recognition software,digitalpen,tablets and dictation.Waiting room solution is a technological development of the state of the e-prescription module.The waiting room solution offers many different configurations and packages such as

*Clinical only and revenue cycle management

*Enterprise plus

The prices will according to the type of the pakages that a practice chooses.It offers monthly supscription fees,depending on the type of the package where the practice chooses and how many providers subscriptions that you brought.

Waiting room solutions claims to have a powerful data import and export engine that permits easy and low cost data data transition.They claims practices transitioning from an old EMR to an new EMR.

Waiting room solutions makes that transition relatively easy to manage

$\rightarrow$ EHR go is an educational EHR designed for concept and clinical based learning with customizable,realistic,diverse patient and activities.EHR GO works for all health care disciplines at all levels.IT is very useful and is a user friendly EHR for the health educators.

It makes teaching with educational EHR's easy for health educators.

2.

Mission statement:

We are committed to provide a high quality care by improving the health status of the society,and to develop the health professionals to a high grade,and to provide a chance to develop them and to participate in appropriate clinical research

Vision statement:

A little light dispels much of the darkness / Passion in curing and healing

$\rightarrow$ Here in this scenario the HIM director is not upholdthe values of AHIMaA code of ethics.He/she use its position for his own personal and finacial favour and misuse the great position very badly and results in harm to the organization and misuse the AHIMA membership.

*Here the HIM director who recently joined in the organization violate the ethics by misused the position instead of doing her job responsibilities he do favours and placements for the relatives and friends that are illegal,optimizing code for improved reimbursement,and submitting expense vouchers results in a big violation to the the organization that is financially and culturally not according to the organizational policy.Thus results in potential harm to the organization.

$\rightarrow$ The HIM director participate in improper preparation,alteration or suppression of coded information.He/she acts in an dishonest manner and bring honor to self,peers and profession.

AS an AHIMA member he /she has to uphold the values and code/ethics of AHIMA.Instead of monthly,weekly,annually training program as an AHIMA member he/she has to follow and and agreed to uphold the values and code of ethics prescribed by the AHIMA.

$\rightarrow$ Here the HIM director who recently violated the code of etics of AHIMA are:

*Principle II

*Guideline 2.1

*Principle IV

*Guideline 4.6 of AHIMA code of ethics

$\rightarrow$ If an AHIMA member violated a code take action through an appropriate formal channels such as accreditation or a regulatory body or by the AHIMA professional ethical committee.

Or the Organization and management has to take decision regarding what action has to take for this type of violation.