HS410-STANDARDS, REGULATION, AND LEGAL IMPLICATION IN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Your boss is the Director of Medical Records at a large medical center. He is finding it difficult to monitor the ongoing legislative and policy changes related to Health Information Management. He has asked that you do the following:

Review the following websites:

https://www.ahima.org/about/advocacy/efforts

HealthIT.gov (n.d.). https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy

Prepare a one- to two-page report highlighting two important changes occurring now or are anticipated to occur and describe how they could impact the medical center, and more importantly the department. Recommend a course of action for each. Be sure to fully support your recommendations.

Requirements:

1. This assignment should be no more than two pages, completed in a Microsoft Word document.

2. Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions.

3. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused.

4. Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.

5. Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint
and purpose.

6. Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.

7. A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use the assigned reading, the Library, and the internet for research.

8. Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style.

9. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.