HA 413: Current Issues In Health Information Management

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Complete Questions-Week One
Mary Carnahan
HA 413: Current Issues in Health Information Management
May 5, 2016

Chapter one: complete questions 3, 4 and 5 found on page 46 of your textbook
3. The major responsibilities of the Office of Inspector General have in relations to coded health care data is fraud and abuse. The Office of Inspector General is also the largest health care program that watches over Medicaid and Medicare; they investigate the pharmaceutical companies and medical supply companies to make sure they are legit.
4. I’m not too clear on this question.
5. I compared three hospitals; our hospital here in high point NC: High Point Regional Health System, a hospital in a neighboring town in Thomasville NC: Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center and one of the top teaching hospitals in NC: Duke University Hospital. From what I see, Thomasville NC: Novant Health Thomasville is the better for us because High Point Regional Health System is over crowed and under staffed. Duke University Hospital is a great hospital for specialist. My mother goes to Duke to see a liver specialist and my dad use to go for cancer treatments. …show more content…

What should an organization do? How does one create an environment that promotes data quality? What are some of the problems associated with very poor quality-data? An organization should retrain their nurses and staff in the importance of quality- data. Patient safety is the most important aspect in a health care facility; if data error is made then the result can be serious, case in point with the second example of this scenario. Some problem with poor quality-data: miss communication, incorrect patient records, causing danger to the patient or even death.

Chapter three: complete questions 2, 3, 4 and 6 found on page 97 of your

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