Capella BUS4123 2021 January Unit 10 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest

BUS4123 Quality Assurance and Risk Management

Unit 10 Discussion  

DQ1 Risk Management in Information Technology

Information technology is a specific area of concern for risk managers in health care. Health care organizations are beginning to create risk management information systems (RMIS) to automate and provide comprehensive databases for information tracking. In addition, the mandates toward electronic health records (EHRs) also require unique consideration in risk management programs.

You are the risk manager working with an organization getting ready to implement a new electronic medical record (EMR) system. After reading the textbook chapters and the additional resources, create a security checklist that will be important for you to complete prior to the EMR system "going live." This checklist should have at least six steps highlighted and discussed. Consider any potential barriers.

Response Guidelines

Respond as the chief medical officer (the physician lead for the organization) to at least two other learners and their checklists. Provide two additional checklist items that could be considered for each of the other learner's security checklist. What are important issues that the risk manager should consider when dealing with the physician group? What role might the chief medical officer play in this "go live" project?

DQ2 Risk Management Analysis

For the Unit 7 assignment, you identified one specific risk management issue that you would use to create an Organizational Risk Management Plan for your Unit 9 assignment. For this discussion, explain how you would implement the Plan, Do, Check, and Act (PDCA) method for your chosen risk management issue. PDCA is considered a quality improvement method based on Deming's 1950 work: "PDCA is based on the scientific method of proposing a change in process, implementing the change, measuring the results, and taking appropriate action" (Carroll, 2009, p. 459). Be sure to reflect on the use of the PDCA analysis we also completed in the quality management portion in Unit 2 of this class.

Plan: Determine goals for a process and changes needed to achieve them.

Do: Implement the changes.

Check: Evaluate the results in terms of performance.

Act: Standardize and stabilize the change or begin the cycle again, depending on the results (p. 459).

Describe how you would apply the PDCA cycle to your risk management issue choice. In a 250–300 word analysis, discuss each step. Be sure to provide at least a sentence on recommendations that you would make to senior management, the board of directors, or the facility administrator or CEO.

Response Guidelines

Respond to at least two other learners. Assume the role of the CEO for each organization. Provide input to the learner, suggesting ways that this PDCA analysis data would be collected and reported within the organization. Point out any potential flaws or gaps in the analysis provided. Discuss how you would see the value in continuing to analyze this particular risk management issue.

Reference

Carroll, R. (2009). Risk management handbook for health care organizations (5th student ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN: 9780470300176.