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1. Medical Law

This journal measures your mastery of ULO 1.5.

In this unit, we learned about how the management of medical records intersects with health information technology. The partnership between these two entities has greatly impacted the efficiency of providing medical care to patients, specifically the prescribing of medications. For this unit's journal assignment, address the following components:

How has electronic prescription writing improved communication between the hospital and the pharmacy?

What kind of drugs can be electronically prescribed? Are there any limitations on what medications need more authorization?

What are some challenges that e-prescribing faces and how can these barriers be overcome?

Are you personally favorable to the idea of e-prescribing?

What are some of the ethical considerations revolving around e-prescribing? Do you think this system could be taken advantage of?

Submit your response as an attached Word document. Your response must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

1. Health Information Technology and Systems

Clinical documentation is a critical part of the revenue cycle process. The documentation provides needed information for billing and coding purposes. Discuss AHIMA's clinical documentation improvement (CDI) initiative and how it strives to improve the relationship between medical coding and reimbursement. What do you think is the most important part of a clinical documentation improvement program? Why?

Your essay must be at least one page with at least one outside reference other than the course textbooks; at least one outside resource must come from the CSU Online Library. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment.