Create a report that includes the following items:
Question 1. Review the IoM’s 1999 and 2001 reports (ATTACHED).
- Compare and contrast the recommendations in these reports.
- Evaluate the outcomes of their implementation and assess their impact on healthcare quality improvement (familiarize yourself with Quality Improvement points – https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/MMS/Quality-Measure-and-Quality-Improvement-).
- Ascertain the consequences of not using HIT and frame your recommendations for improvement of healthcare quality using HIT?
Question 2. HIPAA (1996) and HITECH (2009) Acts contain provisions for the protection of health information both by Covered Entities (CEs) and Business Associates (BAs).
- Compare Security Rule provisions for CEs and BAs in both Acts?
- Identify the organization responsible for monitoring its compliance by providers and explain its mode of operation. Ascertain the value of the Security Rule provisions for electronic health records.
- Finally, assess implications for noncompliance of the Security Rule provisions by healthcare organizations?
Question 3. Develop an example case that can be used in the presentations where a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at a local healthcare facility has not adopted any Password use policy yet.
- Delineate the role of CISO in the implementation of the password use policy.
- Offer approaches to developing a Password use policy for this organization.
Tips: Identify and discuss at least three (3) essential components of the password use policy that must be followed to securely log into the facility’s healthcare information systems. Explain which of these components is most critical and why. Ascertain implications for the organization if the policy is not followed strictly.
Question 1 & 2 should be in tabular/narrative format. Question 3 should be presented in narrative format. Please include introduction and conclusion. Title and Reference Page. All supportive evidence should be formatted in APA 7th Edition.
Question 4. You have been asked to address the following items:
Narrative Brief: To propose training methods that can work for three categories of employees: clinicians, administrators, and staff at a local healthcare facility that has just transitioned from paper-based medical record to Electronic Health Record (EHR).
- Evaluate the appropriateness of three training methods (one-to-one, workshops, computerized or web-based self-paced) for these three categories of staff (clinicians, administrators, staff).
- Assess the need for contents to be covered for training of each category of employee (keep in mind their duties and functionalities of EHR to be used).
- Also propose a suitable training time of the day (morning before duty, mid-day during break, after duty hours) for training of each category of the staff.
Question 5.
PowerPoint Presentation (with presenter notes): Develop a framework for training materials development.
- Discuss your philosophy of training comprising areas of the training to be addressed for the general staff and describe a method to assess the training effectiveness (whether the learners have learned what was intended)
- Include a 5-point question-based assessment tool (e.g., Likert scale Likert Scale: What Is It and How to Use It? (thoughtco.com) for assessing the training effectiveness; and the satisfaction level (%) based on responses to be considered satisfactory.
