THE PAPER MUST BE THE COMPETENT LEVEL ON THE RUBRIC OR THE PAPER WILL NOT PASS.

THE PAPER MUST BE THE COMPETENT LEVEL ON THE RUBRIC OR THE PAPER WILL NOT PASS.
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this first professional practice is to give you experience in health information management and for you to become familiar with how to adhere to government regulatory standards, accreditation guidelines, and quality improvement initiatives. Your participation in this professional practice experience enables you to apply many of the concepts of health informatics and information management that you have been studying.
In this task, you will complete EHR Go activity questions where you will have the opportunity to apply theory to practice. In addition, you will use your knowledge of health informatics and information management to explain how hospitals can ensure regulatory compliance and to describe the importance of basic skills, such as selecting the correct principal diagnosis and ensuring appropriate coder productivity. You will explain the importance of confidentiality and ethical behaviors as an independent health information professional.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
PLEASE FORMAT THE PARAGRAPHS ACCORDING TO THE BULLETS BELOW
A. Explain how different departments within a hospital could work both independently and collaboratively to ensure all elements of the “Record of Care, Treatment, and Services (RC)” standard from the Joint Commission quality improvement and accreditation standards are met.
B. Explain why a patient’s medical record is considered an integral part of the Joint Commission’s tracer methodology for quality improvement and accreditation standards.
C. Discuss why the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) utilizes the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS).
D. Explain why the selection of the correct principal diagnosis is so critical based on your knowledge of billing and reimbursement.
E. Describe what a user would discover if searching for an ICD-10 code for “gastroesophageal” or “GERD” instead of for “gastro-esophageal”, including what this indicates about search protocol for ICD codes.
F. Discuss three strategies that could be used to maintain the average coding productivity in a department when a new coder is hired.
G. Discuss three potential challenges and three potential benefits to facilities managing record-completion policies by hiring physician liaisons or scribes to assist providers with documentation.
H. Explain the importance of professionalism, confidentiality, and ethical behavior as they relate to an implementation or change process that you have been involved in or are aware of.
Note: The implementation or change process does not have to be technical in nature and could include any significant change that occurred at work, at school, at a local business, or even nationally, such as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act exchange.
I. Evaluate a healthcare organization’s communication strategy by doing the following:
1. Describe best practices for how a healthcare organization should communicate patient information with internal staff and healthcare providers.
2. Describe best practices for how a healthcare organization should communicate patient information with clinicians external to the organization.
J. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
K. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.