Assignment task: Utilize health information to support enterprise-wide decision support for strategic planning
1. At a recent department head meeting, your organization's CEO indicated that there is a discussion about purchasing a lithotripsy machine. What can you assume will be HIM's role in these discussions?
2. You asked your assistant director to run a report for the CEO on the number of patients transferred out for open heart surgery. This is a preliminary investigation to determine if the organization should pursue the expansion of the heart center to include performing open heart surgery. Analyze the following section of the report to identify any errors before you send it on to the CEO.
3. What overall conclusion can you reach about the report?
4. The chief of staff requests a report from HIM on all the patients who have sepsis that died in 2018. Below is a sample of the criteria used to run the report? Evaluate it for accuracy and recommend changes if necessary, justifying your change(s).