Health care organizations
Professional Context
Health care organizations are integrating HIM systems into every aspect of their daily operations. Consequently, understanding and managing workflows from a strategic perspective is a crucial skill set for nurse leaders and managers.
This assignment provides an opportunity for you to apply your understanding of best practices in HIM system workflow design and implementation.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze workflow best practices related to health care technology.
Describe an organization’s current HIM technology infrastructure and common best practices for maintaining workflow.
Describe HIM workflow and how those processes are identified in a typical health care setting.
Analyze the duties and responsibilities of the key personnel responsible for HIM workflow.
Analyze state and federal guidelines that influence workflow.
Explain how an organization’s leadership will evaluate the effectiveness of workflow strategies.
Competency 3: Develop privacy and security requirements and components of policies and procedures for health information system use to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational and patient information.
Analyze common workflow standards supported by published best practices.
Competency 6: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Develop presentation slides that communicate key elements of the plan to executive leaders.
Instructions
If you have not already done so, complete both the Vila Health: Strategic Workflow Plan and Vila Health: Policy and Procedure simulations. You will use the information you gather from both simulations, as well as the readings and your own research to complete this assignment. In addition, note the requirements below for presentation format and length and for citing supporting evidence.
Develop a presentation deck that describes a strategic workflow plan for updating workflow as the hospital changes and implements new technology and processes. Your presentation audience is the executive leadership team. Note: You are not required to record or deliver this presentation.
The requirements for your presentation, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that you address each criterion at minimum. Read the Strategic Workflow Plan Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.
Describe Valley City Regional Hospital’s current HIM technology infrastructure and common best practices for maintaining workflow. (1–2 slides.)
Describe HIM workflow and how those processes are identified in a typical health care setting. (4–7 slides.)
Consider common end-user functions, data entry, and privacy and security best practices.
Analyze the duties and responsibilities of the key personnel responsible for HIM workflow. (2–3 slides.)
What credible sources support your analysis?
Analyze common workflow standards supported by published best practices. (2–3 slides.)
What credible sources support your analysis?
Analyze state and federal guidelines that influence workflow. (3–4 slides.)
Be sure to include meaningful use guidelines.
Explain how Valley City Regional Hospital’s leaders will evaluate the effectiveness of the workflow strategies. (1–2 slides.)
What are the applicable evaluation criteria?
Develop presentation slides that communicate key elements of the plan to executive leaders.
Apply the principles of effective slide design.
Express your key points clearly and coherently, and support your assertions and conclusions with credible evidence.
Apply APA formatting to citations and references.
Proofread your slides to minimize errors that could distract the audience and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your presentation.
Presentation Format and Length
Remember, you may use Microsoft PowerPoint or other suitable presentation software to create your slides. If you decide to use an application other than PowerPoint, check with your instructor to avoid potential file compatibility issues.
Organize your slide deck as follows:
Title slide.
Content slides.
References slide (at the end of your presentation).
Ensure that your slide deck consists of 15–20 slides of content plus title and references slides.
Present content on your slides in 1–2 short bullet points.
Highlight key concepts.
You do not need to add presenter’s notes.
Provide explanations and citations for all graphics.
Avoid using only pictures and graphics to communicate your plan.
Supporting Evidence
Cite at least four current (with in the past five years), scholarly sources to support your presentation.
