Create a data project plan for a large, county hospital system.

As an HIM Data Quality Analyst, you know that information interoperability enables the movement of electronic health information to where and when it is needed to support individual healthcare needs and population-oriented uses. Select and describe one population-oriented use such as disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, and community healthcare tracking that would be useful for a large, county hospital system. Create a data project plan for a large, county hospital system.

Requirements

Create a data project plan for a large, county hospital system. In your data project plan, justify data integrity as a key strategic resource and mission tool in a 4 to 5-page document. You can accomplish this by: (1) Selecting a population-oriented use for electronic data (examples: disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, community healthcare tracking); (2) Advocating how information interoperability and information exchange can be efficiently achieved; and (3) Demonstrating how data stewardship can be accomplished using secondary databases and population databases. 

Solution

A data project plan for hospitals is very essential to manage it’s functioning smoothly in all situations like disaster, bioterrorism and managing community-oriented services. Data integrity is the key aspect of the data project plan. A data project plan should include its objectives of it clearly.

To illustrate, disaster management. The data management in disaster should begin with the needs assessment. Clearly defining the objectives will help to achieve them. Extend of use of the current data management plan should be revised.

The data collected from the patients such as patient ID, medication history, allergic history, and other health records should be changed to the electronic form. Back up the collected data to prevent loss during the disaster.

The event of disaster either man-made of natural can result in patient data.

Information interoperability allows the effective usage of health information during any disaster. Even a disaster can be managed effectively by using health information.

Mutual agreements between different agencies should be obtained in advance to ensure information interoperability. There must be a contact system and accessibility of records during any disaster in order to make sure that the data stored is used effectively.

The population and health care databases are equally important in case of a disaster. Organizations should prepare well in advance to share their information with each other to manage any unforeseen events. That will minimize the suffering of society.

The ideas such as common information space come handy when any disaster occurs.

Maintain the accuracy and consistency of the data by means of HIM tools to improve acceptability. Concepts of:

• Data encryption: which locks data
• Data backup: copy of data to an alternate location
• Access controls: read/write privileges
• Input validation: prevent incorrect data entry
• Data validation: certify uncorrupted transmission can be utilized to improve data management and integrity.

Question 2 SHOULD BE ANSWERED IN 200 WORDS

As the Chief Compliance Officer of the Blue Horizon Hospital Group, you are tasked with aligning the organizations’ data policies and procedures with the objectives of the HITECH Act. Discuss one of the HITECH objects and how it can be applied to your facility’s data integrity policies and procedures.