Ensuring Data Integrity
Before entering your answers in the worksheet, review the following directions.
1. For the 1st scenario, highlight your answer from the choices you are given. In the textbox below your answer, provide a detailed explanation on why you chose your answer.
2. For the 2nd scenario, provide detailed examples of what the policies and procedures should cover to ensure data integrity in the textbox provided on the worksheet.
3. In the 3rd scenario, provide a detailed explanation regarding the steps you would take to ensure the security of data in the textbox provided on the worksheet
1. You have been hired as a Health Information Manager at a small inpatient psychiatric facility. The facility does not have an efficient or consistent means of collecting data so you decide to spearhead this project. What is the first thing you should do?
Highlight your answer below:
A. Just use the data you have.
B. Call a meeting with key employees to discuss the type of data that would need to be collected.
C. Determine on your own what should be collected.
D. Build a database
In the space provided below, explain why you chose the answer you did. Be sure your explanation is free of spelling and grammar errors.
2. Before you begin building a database that would house primary and secondary data, there should be policies and procedures in place to govern the data to ensure integrity. What specific information should the policies and procedures cover? Explain your answer in the space provided below. Be sure your explanation is free of spelling and grammar errors.
3. One of your policies that helps to ensure data integrity involves the security of the data. What steps would you take to ensure that security is in place to help maintain the integrity of the data? Explain your answer in the space provided below. Be sure your explanation is free of spelling and grammar errors.