Assignment
Part A
You are the Associate HIM Director at a healthcare facility. The senior leadership team has asked you to research and state a report on a specific topic. Note: You may select any topic related to healthcare statistical rates, such as readmission rates, infection rates, C-section rates, post-op infection rates, etc.
1. Share the credible sources, including links, you would use to build your report.
2. Describe the purpose of your selected statistical rates.
3. Explain how this information can help to inform organizational decision-making and positively affect stakeholders, such as patients, employees, the community, and the organization.
Part B
1. Select one topic that interests you and research it.
2. Identify your selected topic and explain why the topic intrigues you.
3. Share additional credible resources that helped to enhance your understanding of the topic.
Part C
1. Research the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
2. Describe one ethical research issue you identified related to this experiment.
3. Determine several actions the researchers could have taken to prevent this ethics violation from occurring.
4. Share the two resources that were most helpful to your understanding of the issues related to this experiment.
Part D
1. Research Health Information Exchange and summarize your key findings.
2. Explain specific standards, policies, compliance rules, or agencies governing HIE in Florida.
3. Describe one specific standard, policy, compliance rule, or agency.