project plan assignment #4

Project Management Assignment #1

1. Provide a short description of each job title's tasks (you may have to do research). There are a total of eight different titles shown above.

a. Physicians

They responsibly diagnose and treat conditions in patients.

b. Office manager

Conducting different roles that make sure the operations of an office are smooth, effective and efficient.

c. Medical assistants

Plays a supporting role to the physician and medical professionals in care settings.

d. Receptionists/ Intake coordinators

Handling the process of registering patients and clients as they come to seek services.

e. Billers

Doing calculations as well as the collection of payments for medical services offered to patients and done so accurately.

f. Coders

The main role is documentation of the medical details of patients in code form.

g. Check out Schedulers

They make appointments for inpatients to leave the medical facility and help them through the process,

h. Customer Service/Phone Callers

Their main role is responding to callers, answering their questions, listening to their concerns and needs and also addressing them.

2. In a paragraph of at least 10 - 20 sentences, discuss what the objective for the new EMR is.

The main and overall objective of the new EMR is to facilitate better storage of medical information (Huang, Shea, Qian, Masurkar, Deng & Liu, 2019). The EMR will help store information in a manner which is a lot easier to access and one which is a lot less cumbersome. As noted, medical records are currently stored on paper and one can only imagine how hard it can be to retrieve any record as one has to browse through many papers and access to since one can only access the information in the physical location where has been stored. By integrating the EMR, the hope is to have one central location of storing data which is easy to access as one only needs to have a computer to access it. Further access will be easier as a physician as well as the patient will be able to remotely access the information (Gosnell, Minnie, Yu, Liao & Cain, 2019). By computerizing the medical record, the medical practitioners will also not have to search for records as much since retrieving information from a computer database becomes a lot easier.

The second objective is to make medical data at the centre a lot more organized. Handling paper records can be very cumbersome since they even taking up a lot more physical space. The EMR will make the management of records easier by removing this inconvenience. Having data stored virtually will take up less space and less effort to manipulate. In this way, records can be a lot more organized for easier retrieval.

References

Gronsbell, J., Minnier, J., Yu, S., Liao, K., & Cai, T. (2019). Automated feature selection of predictors in electronic medical records data. Biometrics, 75(1), 268-277.

Huang, L., Shea, A. L., Qian, H., Masurkar, A., Deng, H., & Liu, D. (2019). Patient clustering improves efficiency of federated machine learning to predict mortality and hospital stay time using distributed electronic medical records. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 99, 103291.