Assignment Content

1. A project plan is a document created at the beginning of the project lifecycle that gives stakeholders and everyone else involved a clear idea of what the project will entail in terms of effort, time, cost, and anticipated results. 

   The methodology or approach the project manager plans to use to manage the project must be identified before the project plan can be created. Choosing a methodology is important because a methodology provides the framework—that is, an overall process and suggested documents and deliverables—that will guide project development from beginning to end. Some project methodologies are more appropriate for some types of projects than for others. 

   Over the next few weeks you will develop pieces of a project plan. This week you will determine your methodology based on project requirements and the components needed in your plan.

   Read the Manage Your Health Inc. Case Study and complete the assignment below.

   Consider the differences between Agile and waterfall.

   Select 1 methodology to use for a project plan for this initiative.

   Create a simplified project plan such as the examples listed in the “Tips” section below. Include, at least, the following criteria:

   • Name of task
   • Duration
   • Predecessors
   • Notes
   • After completing your simplified project plan, write a 175-word paragraph and complete the following:
   • Define which methodology, Agile or waterfall, is most appropriate for this project. Why? Cite at least 2 sources to support your rationale.
   • Describe the following roles for this project: project manager, project sponsor, business analyst, and scrum master or program manager.
   • You may create your simplified project plan using Microsoft® Excel® or another software application of your choice. 

      

Our opening weeks have focused on exploring general sound track components and narrative. For this report, I would like you to find a short scene (1-2 minutes) that stood out to you in Catch Me If You Can, create a shot list, and describe the sound track elements (speech, sound effects, and music). You can find ways to view the movie through our UNT library in the module introduction page.

You can find all information on your Synopses and Analyses Reports here. (Make sure you use the required worksheet to complete your report!)

Rubric

Synopses & Analyses Report Rubric (5W)Synopses & Analyses Report Rubric (5W)CriteriaRatingsPtsThis criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntroduction of problem, question, or issue20 ptsAdvancedClearly identifies the challenge and subsidiary, embedded, or implicit aspects of the problem, question or issue17 ptsProficientSummarizes the problem, question or issue but some nuances and details are missing or glossed over14.5 ptsDevelopingSummarizes the problem, question or issue, though some aspects are incorrect or confused10 ptsBeginningFails to accurately identify and summarize problem, question, or issue20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePresentation, interpretation and analysis of information, data, or evidence20 ptsAdvancedExamines and addresses evidence and its source. Questions the accuracy, relevance, and completeness of evidence17 ptsProficientProvides evidence of search, selection, and source evaluation skills. Discerns fact from opinion and may recognize bias in evidence14.5 ptsDevelopingDemonstrates adequate skill in searching, selecting, and evaluating sources to meet the information need. Use of evidence is qualified and selective10 ptsBeginningRepeats information provided without question or dismisses evidence without adequate justification. Data/evidence or sources are simplistic or inappropriate20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConsideration of context, assumptions, other perspectives and the credibility and authority of sources20 ptsAdvancedAnalysis acknowledges complexity and bias. Identifies influences of context, and questions assumptions. Clearly integrates multiple perspectives and justifies own view while respecting views of others17 ptsProficientEngages challenging ideas tentatively or in ways that overstate the conflict. Identifies but mostly dismisses alternative views14.5 ptsDevelopingProvides some recognition of context and consideration of assumptions and their implications10 ptsBeginningApproaches the issue in egocentric or socio-centric terms. Analysis is grounded in absolutes, with little acknowledgement of own biases20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDevelopment and presentation of argument, position or hypothesis, with logical progression20 ptsAdvancedPresents and justifies clearly and in detail own argument, position, or hypothesis while qualifying or integrating contrary views or interpretations17 ptsProficientArgument, position, or hypothesis includes original thinking that acknowledges, refutes, synthesizes or extends other assertions, although some aspects have not been fully developed14.5 ptsDevelopingArgument, position, or hypothesis is clearly stated but with little original consideration10 ptsBeginningArgument, position, or hypothesis is unclear, simplistic, or re-stated with little original consideration. Fails to accurately present, justify, or develop argument, position, or hypothesis20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePresentation of conclusions and their implications20 ptsAdvancedIdentifies and discusses well-reasoned conclusions and their implications. Integrates conclusions and implications17 ptsProficientAccurately presents well-reasoned conclusions. Presents implications that are only loosely connected to the conclusions14.5 ptsProficientAccurately presents conclusions. Implications are absent10 ptsBeginningFails to accurately identify conclusions or implications. Conclusions are simplistic, absolute, or attributed to an external authority20 pts
Total Points: 100

Discussion: Share Your Prewriting

In Module 2, you developed a research question for your project. In Modules 3, 4, and 5, you researched to find sources to answer that question. In this discussion, you will begin the process of answering that research question.

Using one of the prewriting strategies covered in this module, you will generate ideas and work with those ideas to identify three to five main points that you can make in support of your answer to your research project. Next week, these main ideas will be used to create your thesis statement and a detailed outline. For now, though, let’s just get some ideas down and share them in discussion so that your peers and instructor can provide you with guidance.

Offer Your Initial Thoughts

Your initial response this week must include the following information, allowing your peers and instructor to provide you with feedback on your ideas. 

• Your research question
• A discussion of the prewriting strategy you chose to help you generate ideas (freewriting, brainstorming, mapping, etc.). Which one did you use and why did you choose that one?
• Include your actual prewriting in the discussion (or a screenshot if you used mapping, clustering, or another visual method).
• List the main ideas you think will be best for supporting your answer to your research question.

Below I have provided guidance notes on the already chosen research topic and possible sources to use. If you need to use better sources, you are free to do so. 

Once again, AHIMA steps up and provides a thorough source to guide the HIM professional on a host of documentation issues. Some of this information leads into next week’s content regarding storage of sensitive PHI.

The guidance for designated records is particularly timely as health technology expands the types of records flowing into the PHI data set. Digital x-rays, scans, and other diagnostics, interoperability that provides for a host of consult dictation becoming part of the record, home monitoring, telemetry monitoring, and a myriad of other documents must be addressed. Should they be included or is a narrative sufficient? If included where are they stored? How long are they stored? What exactly does the EHR include?

Photo Credit: https://www.smartsheet.com/medical-records-management

For years healthcare organizations have struggled to define their legal health records and align them with the designated record set required by the HIPAA privacy rule. Questions often arise about the differences between the two sets because both identify information that must be disclosed upon request.

The expanding scope of health records adds to the challenge of defining and compiling these record sets. An individual’s record can consist of a facility’s record, outpatient diagnostic test results or therapies, pharmacy records, physician records, other care providers’ records, and the patient’s own personal health record. Administrative and financial documents and data may be intermingled with clinical data.

In addition, the type of media on which information is recorded is also expanding. Source records may include diagnostic images, video, voice files, and e-mail. The organization must determine which of these data elements, electronic-structured documents, images, audio files, and video files to include.

The emergence of electronic health records (EHRs) also is complicating organizational efforts to define and disclose information. Information in EHRs is often stored in multiple systems, inhibiting the ability to succinctly pull together the record for either the legal health record or the designated record set.

These input systems may include laboratory information, pharmacy information, picture archiving and communications, cardiology information, results reporting, computerized provider order entry, nurse care planning, transcription, document imaging, and fetal trace monitoring systems, as well as a myriad of home-grown or individual clinical department systems.

However, the same criteria that organizations used to determine what paper records to retain and include in their legal health records and designated record sets can be applied to electronic records. Questions organizations must ask include:

What information can be stored long term?

What is clinically useful long term?

What is the cost of storage?

How can the organization effectively and succinctly assemble the EHR for long-term use?

This practice brief compiles and updates guidance from four previously published practice briefs to provide an overview of the purposes of the designated record set and the legal health record and helps organizations identify what information to include in each. It also provides guidelines for disclosing health records from the sets. The four original practice briefs are listed in the “Sources” section at the end of this practice brief.

Fundamentals of the Legal Health Record and Designated Record Set

Provide a plan for guidance for defining of electronic record health sets based upon AHIMA standards.

Include each of the following aspects in the assignment:

Ø  Access the AHIMA document: Fundamentals of the Legal Health Record and Designated Record Set

Ø  Create a chart with columns to place each of the five criteria to evaluate when defining what is part of the HER

Ø  Locate the five criteria in the middle of the document

1.  Identify Relevant Regulations, Standards, and Laws

2.  Determine Records Created in the Course of Business

3.  Address Retention Requirements

4.  Consider How Data Would Be Produced

5.  Classify External Records

Ø  Place each criterion in a column and list how you will define each

Ø  Submit your Word document chart to the drop-box

Ø  Cite the AHIIMA reference. APA is not required but as always proper grammar, sentence structure and spelling is expected. There is NO copy/pasting. Everything must be in your own words.