Unit 6 Assignment Instructions 

Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

➢ Discuss the role of coding with the key features of an electronic health record (EHR) system and clinical document standards.

Course outcome addressed in this Assignment:

GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.

HI253-4: Summarize the features of health information systems used for quality coding practices.

AHIMA’s Professional Coding Approved Program (PCAP) Mapping:

Domain I. Data Content, Structure & Standards (Information Governance)

● Subdomain I.A Classification Systems

● 1. Apply diagnosis/procedure codes according to current guidelines (Bloom’s Level 3)

o Classification Systems

▪ ICD (ICD-9-CM, ICD-10, ICD-10-CM/PCS)

o Taxonomies

▪ Clinical Care Classification (CCC)

o Nomenclatures

▪ CPT, DSM, RxNorm

o Terminologies

▪ LOINC, SNOMED 

EHR and Coding Resources Comparison: 

Situation: 

You are the coding supervisor at a major acute care hospital. The hospital administration has been studying payment and outcome metrics for the institution, and realizes that the current electronic health records system may be outdated. You have been asked to create a report that answers the following question: “What EHR and coding resources would you recommend to the hospital administration to ensure that the most current ICD-10-CM/PCS codes are in use in your healthcare facility?” Your report should compare at least 3 EHR systems that you have been exposed to in this course (for example Nuance Clintegrity, 3M Encoder, VistA) or worked with in the past. Your comparison should include features such as coding resources, advantages/disadvantages, and computer system requirements for each system. Your report should include your final recommendation out of the three systems you review and the rationale for your decision. Your comparison report should be well-ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your report should include a comparison table that summarizes your findings. It is not necessary to follow paragraph style in the comparison table. 

Establishing a collaborative unit with teachers, families, and students builds a strong bond to support the growth of the students. Building a rapport and sharing information with families is a critical step in creating relationships that support the learning environment and the connection between home and school.

For this assignment, create a 1–2-page digital welcome letter to send to families at the start of a school year. Describe the family’s responsibilities in supporting a self-regulated learner.

The letter should address the following:

The family’s role in developing a self-regulated learner in the home environment. 

Two strategies families can use to promote independent learning at home. Explain how this home-extension supports student development and academic achievement. 

Emphasize the importance of regularly communicating goals and learning progress between school and home. 

Recommend two technological resources and one non-technological resource that you and the families can use throughout the school year to communicate students’ progress. 

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Using the project management case study, develop a project charter (use headings) of three to four pages (no more than four pages). In addition to the course textbook, research two additional resources. In your charter,

• Summarize the project’s scope and limitations.
• Propose a business case for the project.
  • Address how the project will enable the corporate strategy.
  • Address how the project will apply corporate social responsibility (CSR) values.
  • Calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) for the project business case. (Use Microsoft Excel to derive the NPV assuming the data below—submit an Excel spreadsheet as an appendix:
    • Purchase price of $400,000.
    • One-time project costs total of $100,000 spent in Year 0.
    • Net benefits after taxes of $150,000 per year for five years.
    • Salvage value for Year 6 and beyond of $400,000.)
  • Summarize your results of NPV in the paper and refer to the Appendix.
• Develop a milestone schedule that includes five to seven elements
  • Use the case study to derive the milestones. If the case is lacking, feel free to include a solution or milestone that you think Walmart would value.
• Predict the risks, threats, and opportunities of the project.
• Outline resources needed for the project.
• Develop your plan to form a high-performing project team.
• Identify five important groups of stakeholders.

The Project Charter Development paper

• Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.).

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Behavioral Health 

Overview

Epidemiologic data on the prevalence of psychiatric and substance disorders compared with the nation’s behavioral health care needs highlights gaps in service adequacy. Continuing changes in organization and fiscal structures resulting from the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), specifically how Medicaid expansion impacts behavioral health services, is an important area of concern. In addition, there are special challenges of the homeless and incarcerated mentally ill populations. Behavioral health also has a workforce shortage. This is another area for improvement in health care organizations throughout the nation.

Review and analyze the graphs in Figure 10-1, Prevalence of any Mental Illness Among U. S. Adults; Figure 10-2, Prevalence of Serious Mental Illness Among U.S. Adults; Figure 10-3, Top Leading Disease or Disorder Categories Contributing to U.S. Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) (2010), and Figure 10-4, U.S. DALYs for Mental and Behavioral Disorders as a Percent of Total U.S. DALYs.

Some of the barriers to care are provider geographic distribution, financial limitations, lack of or inadequate health insurance, stigma, misunderstandings about the treatability of conditions, personal and provider attitudes, cultural issues, and a poorly organized care delivery system (see page 285 of the textbook). Consider also the mental health services of children and adolescents. Consider the current events with mass shootings at schools, movie theaters, concerts, et cetera and have tough conversations about mental health.

Instructions

Write a three to four-page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the graphs and figures noted and describe your findings in behavioral health. 
2. Explain the Mental Health Parity and Addition Equity Act of 2008.
3. Explain the role of the National Institute of Mental Health and its influence on access to and utilization of health care services within the current health care system.
4. Use at least three recent (that is, last five years) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.