HA565 Health Information Management: Challenges for New HIM Manager

This assignment addresses the challenges faced by Fred, a newly appointed Health Information Manager (HIM) in an acute care facility. The solution emphasizes the importance of organizing patient records, ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies, and maintaining data security and integrity. Key Responsibility Areas (KRAs) for Fred include implementing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, conducting audits to assess professional compliance with electronic care environments, and addressing potential breaches of patient data. The discussion highlights the need for Fred to understand the significance of EHRs, promote awareness among care professionals, and mitigate challenges related to the lack of compliance within the healthcare facility. The student references several research papers to support the arguments presented, focusing on the socio-technical aspects of health information technology and the importance of data privacy.

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There are multiple Key Responsibility Areas (KRAs) of a Health Information
Manager which would be the priority of Fred, if he accepts the position I his organisation.
These KRAs include determination of availability, maintaining security and integrity of
patient data and developing collaboration among the professionals to spread the awareness
about the importance of integrity of these aspects (Sittig & Singh, 2015).
As mentioned in the case situation that the healthcare facility was unable to maintain
the healthcare information security and all the patient’s records were not properly organized
due to which, it would be his responsibility as Health Information Manager. Hence, in this
condition, Fred need to understand the implementation of Electronic Health Record system
for the management and storage of patient data and spread awareness and education about the
usage of it in the care professionals of the acute care center (Sittig & Singh, 2015). As per
Hopia et al. (2015), as a Health Information Manager, one of the major challenges Fred
would be suffering from the lack of compliance of the care professional to the electronic care
environment. Hence he should arrange Electronic Health Record audits in the healthcare
facility to understand the compliance level of professionals in the process (Green et al.,
2015). Further, it would help him as a Health Information Manager to control the unnecessary
access to patient data so that the privacy and security related changes of the process could be
prevented (Sittig & Singh, 2015). Further, it would be his responsibilities to determine the
aspects depending upon which the breaching would be addressed or managed.

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References
Green, L. A., Potworowski, G., Day, A., May-Gentile, R., Vibbert, D., Maki, B., & Kiesel, L.
(2015). Sustaining “meaningful use” of health information technology in low-resource
practices. The Annals of Family Medicine, 13(1), 17-22.
Hopia, H., Punna, M., Laitinen, T., & Latvala, E. (2015). A patient as a self-manager of their
personal data on health and disease with new technology–challenges for nursing
education.
Sittig, D. F., & Singh, H. (2015). A new socio-technical model for studying health
information technology in complex adaptive healthcare systems. In Cognitive
Informatics for Biomedicine(pp. 59-80). Springer, Cham.