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A 75-year-old man was found unconscious in his bathroom after falling and hitting his head. He survived for several hours but died later in the hospital. An autopsy was performed to determine the exact cause of death. Evidence indicated that the man had suffered two strokes, both due to blocked blood vessels. One had occurred a few weeks earlier; the other had occurred very recently and may have led to the fall. Autopsy findings also indicated that, when the man hit his head, some damage to his brain occurred as well.

Based on what you know about inflammation and the cellular structure of the brain, describe what the pathologist found in each of the damaged areas of the brain.

Note: Be specific. This answer should be at least a paragraph long and contain information pertaining to the inflammation and the cellular structure of the brain. A few key words needed: microglia, necrosis, white blood cells.

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Week 4 – Discussion 2

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Specialized Health Records

This discussion has two options. Please choose either Option A or Option B to respond to and indicate which option you chose.

Option A: Imagine you are the director of health information services in a major medical center that maintains both a psychiatric unit and a substance abuse unit in addition to general medical and surgical units. Your facility plans to join a computer network with fifteen hospitals throughout the state, which will allow online access to laboratory data, regardless of which facility performed the lab work. None of the other fifteen facilities offer psychiatric or substance abuse treatment. (Case Study, p. 249)

Identity and discuss the confidentiality issues present with such a network in the light of the statutory, regulatory, and accrediting requirements governing patients treated in these units. What are the additional requirements for record content and privacy requirements for mental health and addiction medicine patients?

Option B: Pretend you have recently been promoted to the manager of specialized health records position for your organization. Your department in primarily responsible for maintaining patient records related to HIV/AIDS diagnoses and other highly sensitive health information. Upon taking the lead of the department, you have noticed several incidences of employees improperly storing sensitive data and/or releasing information to the wrong patients. Many of your employees transferred from the general records department, so they aren’t familiar with the requirements for specialized records. Given the consequences of their actions, you realize that an in-service is imminent. Discuss the components of your presentation and be sure to include the following:

a. What are the primary distinctions between specialized patient records and general health records?

b. Why is HIV/AIDS testing information, results, and diagnoses particularly sensitive?

c. What are the legal ramifications of HIV/AIDS information being released to the wrong patient, or to employees without a “need to know”?
Guided Response (for Option A and Option B): Review several of your classmates’ posts, and provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. What are your classmates’ thoughts regarding the importance of securing sensitive health information? Do you agree or disagree with your peer’s perspective? Why? After reading their perspective, would you change or alter any aspect your reasoning or suggest a change in their perspective regarding securing health information?

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Week 5 Assignment

Write 2 to 3 pages

Given a sample RFP template, you will play the role of an outside consultant for the Medical Center of DeVry to evaluate the RFP to determine whether all essential parts of the RFP are present, then identify the strengths and weaknesses found in the document, and how the document can be improved. Next, you will prepare a professional report that outlines the steps to be taken in the RFP process with a summary of your findings in the sample report. The sample RFP template is located in Files. The RFP may include several items not requested in your assignment. The details for this assignment are provided in the Course Project for Week 5 in Introduction & Resources.

Written Assignment: Request for Proposal (RFP)

Given a sample RFP template, you will play the role of an outside consultant for the Medical Center of DeVry to evaluate the RFP to determine whether all essential parts of the RFP are present, then identify the strengths and weaknesses found in the document and how the document can be improved. Next, you will prepare a professional report that outlines the steps to be taken in the RFP process with a summary of your findings in the sample report. The sample RFP template is located in Files. The RFP may include several items not requested in your assignment.

Part A: Evaluation of RFP to determine whether all essential parts of present (20 points)
Part B: Identification of strengths and weaknesses (20 points)
Part C: Professional report and summary of findings (20 points)

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Read the Practice Side Case Study: Metadata can be “big brother” then answer the questions below.

Complete your work on a Word document then copy and paste your responses into the correct area in the assignment submission link.

Case Study:

As EHRs become commonplace, metadata can play a role in measuring the quantity and quality of provider clinical practices. This case examines how EHR metadata was used to profile the work habits of physicians in training, in particular, examining if the physicians in surgical training looked at patient radiographic images prior to presenting the patient to the attending surgeon or if they relied on radiologist reports of the images. All physicians in training were expected to review the actual images which were stored in the EHR system. To determine if the physicians in training looked at the images, the metadata in the electronic health information system was examined.

To access the EHR images, a physician must input her or his unique identifier and passcode. When the physician accesses or disconnects from the system, the times are automatically and permanently recorded as time metadata under the physician’s unique identifier. Likewise when a physician reviews a specific patient’s radiology image, the system automatically records the patient’s unique identifier and which images were reviewed by the physician in the physician’s unique identifier file. Essentially, a complete audit trail of the physician’s activities are recorded by the metadata.

To determine whether or not physicians looked at radiographic images and not just radiographic reports, a 5-month period of metadata was reviewed for each physician. Provider-specific reports were generated by submitting a query to the EHR system. The reports provided information about what images were reviewed, when they were reviewed, how often they were reviewed, how many images were reviewed per session, and which physician reviewed them. With this information, the viewing habits of the physicians could be determined.

This case demonstrates that using metadata can replace time-and-motion studies and other methods of evaluating physician and employee behavior..

Questions:

1. Given the above case study, how else might metadata be used to evaluate physician, nurse, or other clinician behavior?
2. How might metadata be used to investigate fraud?
3. How might metadata be used in malpractice litigation?