Description
For this discussion, imagine that you have been tasked with being the hiring manager for a HIM professional to help lead and improve the workflow and quality of the HIT within the organization. Your first task is to examine the current state of the workflow related to HIT within the organization, or a specific unit or team. Your second task is to curate a brief description or list of characteristics and qualifications that a new HIM professional would have, and to comment on the relevance and importance of them with regards to the position and organization.
In your main post:
- Describe briefly an organization that will be the basis of your post.
- This could be your current place of practice, a former place of practice, or any health care organization you are interested in and can research effectively.
- Summarize the current state of the HIT workflow for the organization, unit, or team.
- Identify the challenges that individuals or role groups are facing within the current workflow.
- How could trainings or additional supports help to improve their work experience and efficacy?
- What leadership strategies or best practices could be leveraged to overcome these challenges and improve outcomes related to HIT?
- Describe briefly the type of person who would be a good fit for the HIM professional position, based on the workflow, challenges facing those working with HIT, and the potential leadership needs.
- Identify required and desirable qualifications (educations, certifications, and experience) for the position.
- Which of these qualifications are most relevant and desirable? Why?
- Comment briefly on how the personal and professional qualifications you identified compare to those in similar job postings.
- Please use actual job postings either from the Internet or elsewhere as the basis of your comparison. Remember to cite the job postings used for comparison.
Support your post with at least one peer-reviewed source, using course readings or other scholarly literature. Include APA-formatted in-text citations and accompanying, congruent APA-formatted references.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: HIRING THE RIGHT PERSON
Hiring the Right Person
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Institutional Affiliation
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HIRING THE RIGHT PERSON
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Description of the Organization
The organization that the description will be based on is the BridgeHealth Organization,
which offers various healthcare services, including surgery and other essential healthcare services.
The organization is doing well, and it provides quality healthcare services that are affordable to all
the patients. As a result f the quality and cheap services that are rendered, most people who are
sick are seeking their health services at the facility. This, in turn, has enabled the organization to
increase its revenue since with more patients visiting the facility; it leads to an increase in the
revenue collected, thus increasing the profit made by the organization (Lacobelli et al., 2018).
The current state of the HIT workflow for the organization
The current state of the HIT workflow in the organization is not good since the organization
should be doing better than its current performance if the workflow was good. The individual
employees and the organizational units do not have clear communication regarding how various
tasks within the organization should be carried out. As a result, the performance of the organization
is negatively affected since employees are trying to deliver their duties without considering the
needs of the organizational units. To address the issue therefore, it is important to have a good HIT
workflow within the organization, thus ensuring that all have information regarding th...
