Discussion: Standards and regulations for healthcare documentation.
Identify significant standards for healthcare documentation.
Understand important factors involved in regulations pertaining to paper and electronic health records.
Instructions:
Your boss is the Director of Medical Records at a large academic medical center. He is finding it difficult to monitor the ongoing legislative and policy changes related to Health Information Management. He has asked that you do the following:
Visit the website http://www.ahima.org/about/advocacy/efforts
Prepare a one-to-two page report/ memo highlighting the two most important items your boss should be aware of.
Recommend a course of action for each.
———
Standards and rules for healthcare documentation are discussed.
Standards and rules for healthcare documentation are discussed.
Determine the most important requirements for healthcare documentation.
Understand the key elements of regulations governing paper and electronic health records.
Instructions:
Your employer works for a large academic medical center as the Director of Medical Records. He’s having trouble keeping up with the ongoing legislation and policy developments in the field of health information management. He has requested that you do the following tasks:
Visit http://www.ahima.org/about/advocacy/efforts for more information.
Prepare a one- to two-page report/memo summarizing the two most critical topics your manager needs to know about.
Recommend a strategy for each of them.
