Assignment: Financial Impact and Creating Stakeholder Buy-In
Introduction
In this unit, you will be tasked with researching health information management professionals, their job functions and abilities to help the organization maintain or improve their HIM systems. You will apply your research of health information management professionals and their job functions to the scenario by creating and developing a job description that matches the organization's needs. As discussed previously, it is important for organizations to hire the right professionals to manage their health information systems ensuring that those professionals and their skills are in line with organizational goals.
However, there is also a financial impact to the organization and it is important to be able to support the need and return on investment (ROI) in order to achieve stakeholder buy-in.
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Assignment 1: Information System Job Description and Summary
Scenario
For this assessment refer to your work on the Analysis of Electronic Health Records System assignment. You may also wish to refer back to the Vila Health: Analysis of an EHR System simulation.
Now that you have made recommendations on an EHR system and meaningful use compliance, the leadership has decided to hire a health information manager to oversee the EHR and other relevant HIM systems. This person will be responsible for ensuring long-term meaningful use compliance and working with the staff, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure continued success and seamless use of the EHR system.
Since you spent so much time analyzing the organization's systems, this new hire will report directly to you and you will take the lead in the hiring process.
Instructions
For this assignment, you will create two deliverables. The first is a 2-3-page executive summary that summarizes the need for the position. This will be presented to the leadership prior to posting the job description and advertising it to potential candidates. The second is a 1-2-page job description detailing the position of the health information management professional that you want to hire.
The purpose of the executive summary is to present a clear case for the need of the health information management professional position to be hired. You should support this need with evidence from your analysis that you completed in the first assessment of this course. The executive summary will be assessed with the following scoring guide criteria:
• Explain an organization's need for a health information management professional to ensure long-term meaningful use and current incentive program compliance.
• Analyze the potential financial impacts of hiring a new health information management professional.
o In other words, what will it cost to hire and employ the new health information management professional versus the potential costs incurred by failing meaningful use compliance or failing to achieve incentives from current programs.
• Support hiring need and recommendations with specific evidence to encourage buy-in from the leadership.
The job description will allow you to lay out the desired skills and responsibilities for the health information management professional. It should include a minimum and a preferred education, experience, and training requirement. The job description will be assessed with the following scoring guide criteria:
• Describe specific job functions of a new health information management professional.
• Explain the skills and training needed by a new health information management professional to be successful in a position.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.