HIM 500 Module Eight Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric
This short paper will explore the benefits of having technologies/systems in place to provide more in-depth information that will help drive decision making.
The information that is gathered every day in healthcare drives patient care and the improvement of the quality of care. Each staff member within a healthcare institution has a role in improving patient care. In this short paper, complete the following:
- Choose one of the following managers:
- Director of Admissions
- Manager of Billing
- Director of Nursing
- Manager of Purchasing
- Chief of Medicine
- Considering what you have learned about these types of managers thus far and doing additional researching as necessary, answer the following:
- How might the manager for whichever department you chose above use technology/systems to improve patient care? To minimize costs andmaximize efficiency? If you are having trouble, think generally here about how technology improves record keeping, and then consider the type of data these managers and directors have to manage.
- How does the system that the manager uses drive the decision makingwithin the institution?
Support your answer with relevant sources.
Guidelines for Submission: The short paper should be submitted as a Word document and should be a minimum of 2 pages in length. All sources should be cited using APA style.
| Critical Elements | Proficient (100%) | Needs Improvement (70%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
| Managers | Identifies a manager to discuss | Does not identify a manager to | 5 | |
| in paper | discuss in paper | |||
| Patient Care | Explains how the manager uses | Explains how the manager uses | Does not explain how the | 20 |
| technology/systems to improve | technology/systems to improve | manager uses | ||
| patient care | patient care, but lacks detail or | technology/systems to improve | ||
| clarity | patient care | |||
| Costs and Efficiency | Discusses how the manager | Discusses how the manager | Does not discuss how the | 30 |
| uses technology/systems to | uses technology/systems to | manager uses | ||
| minimize costs and maximize | minimize costs and maximize | technology/systems to | ||
| efficiency | efficiency, but lacks detail or | minimize costs and maximize | ||
| clarity | efficiency |
| Decision Making | Explains how the system that | Explains how the system that | Does not explain how the | 35 |
| the manager uses drives the | the manager uses drives the | system that the manager uses | ||
| decision making within the | decision making within the | drives the decision making | ||
| institution | institution, but lacks detail or | within the institution | ||
| clarity | ||||
| Articulation of Response | Paper is free of errors of | Paper contains errors of | Paper contains errors of | 10 |
| organization and grammar | organization and grammar, but | organization and grammar | ||
| errors are limited enough so | making the paper difficult to | |||
| that the paper can be | understand | |||
| understood | ||||
| Total | 100% |
