Data Gathering and Analysis – Practicum Task

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criteria and health care and health informatics content.. PROVIDE EXAMPLES AND BE VERY
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assignment. Sources must be published within the past 5 years and appropriate for the
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Project and Data needed:

Dept work with: Health Information Management

Issue:

Receives cases back from Billing department:
Diagnosis code is wrong or missing
Modifier has not been added or is incorrect
Clinical is not detailed based on service giving in ER or Outpatient clinic

What is needed to gather the data:
– Patient Clinical Notes
– Diagnosis and Clinical from physician
– Clinical from nurse
– Tickler from Billing department with list of patients cases that were sent back from claims
department for not paying out due to errors
– Research patient medical history

Who is involved:
– Physician (w/o clinical from physician then we would not be able to process billing and
send over to claims for a payment to be made to the hospital and/or doctor for services
performed. Patient would not have any medical records)
– Nurse (w/o clinical from nurse there would be no medical records or updats on patient
health or treatment)
– Outpatient Department (w/o clinical then patient would not be able to get physician or
nure professional opinion on their care or treatment.
– Health Information Management (w/o clinical medical record staff would not be able to analyze records for accuracy, review quality of records, Transcription and distribution of histories, discharge summaries, progress reports, consultations, and other medical records, Releasing patient information and protections for drug treatment, closed-adoption, alcohol
treatment, sexual and behavior health issues
– Medical Coder (w/o clinical medical coder can not code for research, reimbursement.)

Things that would be helpful to get the data:
– Query for clarification and specifics (This system goes in detail)
– CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement) – process used by healthcare providers to
review clinical documentation and provide feedback to physicians that improve that
documentation.
Assignment:

For this assignment, you will identify the specific data needed to support your professional
project. You will use this information for the development of your project plan.

To make informed decisions, stakeholders need information based on evidence. To provide
this information, the right data must be collected and analyzed. Determine what data need to be collected and analyzed to complete the project.

1. Evaluate what baseline data and project-specific data are needed for the project to help
outline the issue or gap and support the completion of the project.

2. Develop the steps you will take to gather the data.

3. Identify the subject matter experts needed to gather data.

4. Formulate a plan for how you will use interprofessional collaborative practice concepts and principles of team dynamics when conducting the data-gathering portion of your project.

5. Explain why the subject matter experts are crucial to the project success and the role they would serve. Why is mutual respect critical to project success?

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