Create a professional flyer advertising the workshop on protecting patient privacy

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You are the Director of the HIM (Health Information Management) department at Community Hospital. In this role you have responsibility for providing training on topics related to the functions and responsibilities of Health Information Management for your employees. You are to select a topic relating to the HIM department for which you are planning a training session and create a professional flyer advertising the workshop you will conduct for all hospital staff on protecting patient privacy.

In addition to the flyer, design an agenda of the various topics they will cover in the workshop on the various topics all employees within the facility need to be aware of. Examples might include:

  • Not talking about patients in the elevator
  • Backing down computers when you leave the work station
  • Not having computer screens visible to public/use screen blockers
  • Don’t leave pt information visible to public (paper records)
  • Correct disposal of pt information (Shred-It, shredding etc)
  • Physicians not to leave cell phones unattended
  • Password changes every six months

Assignment:

You are responsible to advertise a workshop for all hospital staff on protecting patient privacy.

  1. Create a professional flyer advertising the workshop on protecting patient privacy. Also include the date, time, and where the meeting will take place.
  2. Design an agenda of the various topics you will cover in the hour long workshop.
  3. You will present your project to your classmates per your instructor’s instruction.

Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below.

What are the two meanings of “corporate ethics” in organizations today?

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Regardless of where a company stands in the process, IT leaders should be ready to contribute, he says.

“These policies are worked out on the ethics and compliance committees below the board level, and they’re having the CIO as a key player,” Distelhorst explains. That’s the case at Intel Corp., says the company’s chief information officer, Diane Bryant.

 

Intel’s Ethics and Compliance Oversight Committee established the following five principles for the company and its workers: Intel should conduct business with honesty and integrity; the company must follow the letter and spirit of the law; employees are expected to treat one another fairly; employees should act in the best interest of Intel and avoid conflicts of interest; and employees mus protect the company’s assets and reputation.

 

“Intel’s IT staff builds and maintains the systems that allow the company to meet its legal and regulatory requirements, such as those laid out for accounting and governance by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,” Bryant says. It also developed applications and a team of workers to handle document retention, which is crucial should there be a legal case with electronic discovery requests.

 

But IT also enables Intel to enforce its own values and not just meet regulatory requirements, Bryant explains. So there are applications to help perform rigorous checks on suppliers to ensure that they have sufficient business continuity plans and environmental sustainability plans, as well as ethical stances that match Intel’s own. IT has also delivered sophisticated systems that monitor the power consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of Intel’s data centers. And it developed systems that monitor for potential malicious behavior, such as violations of access management rights or the public release of Intel’s intellectual property.

 

“We put solutions in place that help protect Intel’s five principles,” Bryant says.

 

Few companies are that advanced in their use of technology to further an ethical agenda. “Companies recognize that they have to be on record as being committed, but they’re not yet as convinced that they have to manage it like other parts of their business,” Hanson explains.

 

But when companies do decide to move in that direction, that’s when chief information officers can shine, offering ideas on what metrics to use and what to measure.

“That’s where IT can be a real leader,” Hanson says, “since they know what can be measured and captured.”

 

 

 

  1. What are the two meanings of “corporate ethics” in organizations today? What does each definition imply for IT practices? How does the economic environment affect this?
  2. How does IT provide more opportunities for difficult ethic issues to arise? How does IT help address those opportunities? Use examples from the case to justify your answer.
  3. Should organizations pursue high ethical standards regardless (or in spite of) their bottom-line impact? Or should they limit themselves to those scenarios where “good ethics make for good business”?

Children Having Children Public Service Announcement

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Children Having Children Public Service Announcement

In this discussion, you will create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) script and visual aid with at least one interactive link which addresses the issue of teen pregnancy in order to share your continued learning in child development with others.  You will write a script that you feel captures the essence of the issues below and the effects on mother-to-be, father-to-be, as well as the developmental effects on the infant, as if you were providing a PSA on TV or radio. Then, you will create a visual aid which directly addresses and includes the information written in your script. Within your visual aid, you will either link to or embed an interesting video, interactive PDF, sound clip, online assessment, or other tool which can benefit the viewer beyond simply looking at your visual aid.

You will need to be sure to incorporate all of the information in a succinct and straightforward manner while remaining encouraging and positive as you share your learning with others (it is a PSA, after all!).  Unlike a typical written discussion, a Public Service Announcement is persuasive in nature and speaks directly to the audience, encouraging them to read this information and empower themselves (or others) who need it.

First, create a written script which addresses the following:

  • At least one current statistic on teen pregnancy (within the last 3 years).
  • Analyze how at least one of the major themes of Health and Well-Being, Family and Parenting, Education, Culture and Gender positively and negatively influence the developmental physical, cognitive and psychosocial outcomes of teen pregnancy.
  • At least one local and one wide-ranging (i.e. internet or phone) resource from which teens, their friends, or their parents can get more information or assistance regarding teen pregnancy.
  • The script document should include citations in APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center for any information and resources included in the PSA.

Secondly, create a visual presentation which aligns with your PSA on Children having Children which directly addresses and includes the information listed above. To create this visual presentation, read the Quick Start Guides for Prezi and/or Thinglink, or use a more familiar tool like PowerPoint to compile and organize your visual imagery.  Remember, regardless of the mode in which you create your presentation of materials, visuals can be very important powerful (think about some popular Public Service Announcements you’ve seen on TV recently for starving children or mistreated animals) – use them wisely!

Finally, within your visual presentation, link to or embed an interactive tool to enable the viewers to find even more information about this topic. Examples of interactive pieces are video or sound clips, online assessments, or interactive PDFs. Avoid simply linking to websites with additional information, as the goal of this portion of the PSA is to be interactive with the viewer.

After completing your script and presentation for the PSA you will submit your initial post in the following format:

Describe how process innovation, risk taking, health policy analysis, and governance “sense-making” provide balance for stakeholders

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Maintaining the Loyalty of Stakeholders

To maintain political, governmental, staff, and patient loyalty, the healthcare organization must provide a sense of organizational stability and view of the legislative landscape. In Chapters 14 and 15 we have researched and investigated the need to align both public opinion with staff trust. The political landscape is the basis for healthcare policy, guidance, state, local, and community support (both fiscal and legal) engaging in political trade-offs to stabilize the healthcare industry (such as in the cost, pharmaceuticals, insurance premiums, and organizational ROI in the healthcare industry). Healthcare organizations must provide the necessary guidance and advocacy for stakeholders in the setting of both state and federal legislature as a voice of reason, authority, and integrity. Provide information on the following:

  • Research a policy associated with the Affordable Care Act in your home state or another state that may affect healthcare reform and/or the way health care is provided in the chosen state.
  • Describe the policy and who wrote and/or promoted the policy legislature (provide statistical data).
  • What are the trade-offs offered to bring balance to the healthcare stakeholders?
  • What role have public perception and disinterestedness played in the valuation of healthcare performance?
  • Describe how process innovation, risk taking, health policy analysis, and governance “sense-making” provide balance for stakeholders.

Your paper

  • Must be 4 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.