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Three Policy Statements for Mercy Vale
Write three clear, comprehensive policy statements, explaining the reasons for the policies, the procedures (exactly what should and should not be done), and the policies’ intended goals.
- Ensuring patient safety from falls
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- Ensuring patient safety from infections
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- Coding services correctly to ensure prompt claim processing and reimbursement
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Improving Revenue Management
Evaluate how your data analysis procedures for the health information management team improves revenue management.
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Security of Patient Health Information
Evaluate how your policies guide staff in keeping patient health information secure.
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Improving Patient Safety
Evaluate how your procedures for conducting and reporting data analyses improve patient safety.
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Improving Regulatory Violations
Evaluate how your procedures for conducting and reporting data analyses reduce regulatory violations.
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Keeping Patient Health Information Secure
Evaluate how your policies guide employees in keeping patient health information secure.
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Procedures for Management to Track Access
Evaluate how your policies provide procedures for management to track access to patient health information.
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Alignment With Appropriate Health Laws
Evaluate how your policies align with appropriate health laws to further improve the organization’s compliance with standard-setting agencies.
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Ethical Practices
Evaluate how your policies and training plan incorporate leadership strategies that foster improved ethical practices of employees when working with health information.
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Effective Collaboration
Evaluate how your training plan recommends leadership strategies that encourage effective collaboration between members of the health information management team and other staff members in the organization.
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Cultural Competence
Evaluate how your training plan recommends leadership strategies that promote the cultural competence of the health information management team both in working with each other and when working with health information.
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Steps of New Procedures
Evaluate how your training plan clearly demonstrates to employees the steps of new procedures that employees must now perform and follow, supporting materials with examples of how employees will act out procedures.
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Improving Compliance
Evaluate how your training plan clearly demonstrates that the new procedures will improve compliance with regulations and standard-setting agencies.
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Importance of New Procedures
Evaluate how your training plan clearly demonstrates the importance of these new procedures in terms of patient safety and security of patient information.
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Disseminating and Enforcing New Procedures
Evaluate how your training plan recommends leadership strategies that could be used by management in disseminating and enforcing these new procedures.
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Training Plan Outline
Outline a training plan to gain buy-in from staff on complying with the new policies. What agenda will you follow? What methods will you use? Which presentation tool? What, if any, ancillary materials will you create?
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