HS STRATEGIC PLANNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR HEALTH CARE

HS450 Unit 9 Assignment Strategic Training of Healthcare Workforce on Policies, Procedures, and Regulation Course Outcomes ● HS450 -6: Construct organizational training strategies that resolve emerging issues in a healthcare environment. ● GEL -1.2: Demonstrate college -level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English. Unit Outcomes ● Differentiate between the concepts of strategy and strategic management. ● Apply analyses of internal and external environm ents to strategic planning. ● Describe a business model and its component parts. ● Understand the purposes of strategic alliances. ● Describe the relationships among alliance motivation, structure, and outcomes. Instructions Yo u are a healthcare executive of a large hospital, serving as director of health information. You have been advised that t here are serious concerns regarding the compet ence of the facility’s billing and coding staff. To address these concerns, you will develop an action plan. Please c omplete your action plan as indicated below in Parts 1 - 3.

Part 1 Competency Assessed Determine policies and procedures to monitor abuse or fraudulent trends Instructions Evaluate at least three (3) types o f abuse or fraud that may occur during the course of medical coding and billing activities. Determine at least three (3) organizational polic ies and procedures that monitor such activities and critique the effect iveness of each policy/procedure . Part 2 Competency Assessed Create and implement staff orie ntation and training programs Instructions Based upon the trends of abuse or fraud that you identified in Part 1 , develop both a new employee orientation program and an ongoing training program for medical billing and coding employees. Design outli nes of each training program and construct the learning activi ties involved. You should also indicate a leadership approach that you would use in the implementation of the program s. Part 3 Competency Assessed Evaluate initial and ongoing training programs Instructions Develop a plan to evaluate the train ing program s at "time of launch" and again at periodic times over the next two (2) years. Describe the methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of each training program. Part 4 Competency Assessed Facilitate the use of enterprise -wide information assets to support organizational strategies and objectives Background An information asset is a body of information that is defined and managed as a standalone, single unit that can be shared and exploited to the organization’s benefit . It is referred to as an asset because it has financial value to the organization . Enterprise - wide i nformation a ssets that are common to large health care organizations include billing systems, EHR/EMR , master patient index, clinical automation systems, patient portals, personal health records , telemedicine , health information exchange (HIE), clinical applications (lab, pharmacy), etc . The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is a repository of high value d ata from different infor mation assets and corporate systems /applications. The data contained in an EDW can be integrated for many strategic use s across the enterprise . Strategic objectives might include activities and initiatives designed to improve quality, safety, cost, productivity , etc. To complete Part 4, conduct research into the topic of data wareho using in health care organizations and then answer the following: 1. List the benefits of a n EDW to a health care organization . 2. Prepare a st rategic objective and explain how it could be facilitated through use of a data warehouse. 3. Select two (2 ) information assets from the list ab ove. Through a data warehouse, analyze and demonstrate how data from those two assets could be used to accomplish the identified strategic objective. Assignment Requirements ● Please complete all parts in a Microsoft Word document. ● The body of your document should be at least 1500 word s in length. A title page and a reference page should also be includ ed but do not apply to the length requirement. ● Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper. Paraphrasing is necessary. ● You must cite and reference at least 4 credible sources from the KU Library. ● Formatting should be double -spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font. ● Be sure to follow the conventions and mechanics of Standard American English (correct grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc.). ● The submission should be presented in an organized, logical, and unified manner and consist of superior content that is original and insightful. ● You must meet APA style requirements throughout the submission, including title pag e, formatting, citations in the body of the text, as well as relate d references. Please be sure to visit the Kaplan Writi ng Center to assist you in conforming to APA style.