The HIM director at University Hospital is acquiring several…

The HIM director at University Hospital is acquiring several other areas in the healthcare organization including clinical documentation improvement, physician coding, and clinic coding. The director knows that she will need additional staff to integrate these tasks into the HIM department. To explain the performance gaps that will be experienced in the HIM department, she should first do which of the following?

Olivia is a full-time coding professional paid hourly. Her s…

Olivia is a full-time coding professional paid hourly. Her supervisor asked her to stay for one additional hour, but tells Olivia there is no money in the budget for overtime pay. Olivia’s supervisor gives her a Target gift card instead. This is violation of which federal statute?

Hospital XYZ is implementing an electronic health record and…

Hospital XYZ is implementing an electronic health record and the executive management team realizes that this is a large change initiative that will potentially cause all employees a lot of stress. Hospital XYZ needs to use which of the following to facilitate the change process?

During her interview for the position of assistant director…

During her interview for the position of assistant director of HIM, Jackie spends separate time answering questions with the director of HIM, all the members of the coding section, and the assistant directors of both the patient financial services (PFS) and information technology (IT) departments. This is an example of what type of interview?

Weekly, a group of clinical caregivers have been meeting inf…

Weekly, a group of clinical caregivers have been meeting informally to discuss outcomes for patients in the intensive care unit. This group would like to pursue formal quality improvement initiatives, but the quality management department will not assist the group until it formally becomes which of the following?

Alara was recently hired as the HIM manager for a specialty…

Alara was recently hired as the HIM manager for a specialty healthcare organization after meeting with her new employees, she realizes there are some big gaps between what the HIM employees are doing and what is documented in the organization. Alara needs to assess job descriptions and create job titles that match the current HIM skills available in her department. Which of the following describes what Alara is doing?