Assignment task: You are the CEO of a small hospital called "Optimum Health". Your business employs ~1500 employees, revamping the care delivery system to align with the new EMR that was implemented. As you know, healthcare organizations need to align their practices associated with different roles & responsibilities. They also need to define policies and guidelines to follow a process to provide optimal care delivery for the patient.
For this please complete the following:
- Determine roles and create an organizational chart for your healthcare system
- Determine medical staff working in your hospital (governing body & administrative staff, Medical staff categorized within departments)
- Bylaws, policies, rules, regulations of your hospital system
- Employee credentials and privileges
- Agencies that assist in keeping hospital systems up to par
- What EMR software is being implemented (give your own name)
- Roles of governmental & non-governmental agencies
- Intentional & intentional torts policies
- Legal & Ethical standards policies and procedures
- Health information data security protection
- HIPAA policy
- Code of Ethics
- Security breaches, patient confidentiality awareness
- Policies around third-party ethical challenges