Health care managers in today's modern environment need to understand the importance and role of health information management (HIM).

Information System Job Description and Summary Scoring Guide

CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED

Explain an organization's need for a health information professional to ensure long-term meaningful use and current incentive program compliance.

Does not explain an organization's need for a health information professional.

Explains an organization's need for a health information professional, but the relationship to compliance with meaningful use or current incentive programs is unclear or missing.

Explains an organization's need for a health information professional to ensure long-term meaningful use and current incentive program compliance.

Explains an organization's need for a health information professional to ensure long- term meaningful use and current incentive program compliance; also, identifies potential challenges in ensuring that the right professional is hired for an organization.

Analyze the potential financial impacts of hiring a new health information professional.

Does not explain the cost of hiring a new health information professional.

Explains the cost of hiring a new health information professional, but does not fully analyze the long-term costs or the potential financial gains of the new hire.

Analyzes the potential financial impacts of hiring a new health information professional.

Analyzes the potential financial impacts of hiring a new health information professional and identifies knowledge gaps, unknown, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the analysis).

Support hiring need and recommendations with specific evidence to encourage buy-in from leadership.

Does not identify evidence that supports hiring need or recommendations.

Identifies evidence that supports hiring need and recommendations, but evidence is not especially compelling, or not relevant to leadership.

Supports hiring need and recommendations with specific evidence to encourage buy-in from leadership.

Supports hiring need and recommendations with specific evidence to encourage buy-in from leadership; impartially considers conflicting evidence or other perspectives.

Describe specific job functions of a new health information professional.

Does not describe job functions of a new health information professional.

Describes job functions of a new health information professional, but description is not specific or unclear.

Describes specific job functions of a new health information professional.

Describes specific job functions of a new health information professional; also, identifies how job functions align with organizational goals and needs.

Explain the skills and training needed by a new health information professional to be successful in a position.

Does not describe the skills and training of a health information professional.

Describes the skills and training of a health information professional, but does not fully explain how they will help the health information professional be successful.

Explains the skills and training needed by a new health information professional to be successful in a position.

Explains the skills and training needed by a new health information professional to be successful in a position and identifies specific qualifications or certifications that desirable candidates will possess.

CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED

Communicate the need for and job requirements of a health information professional in a manner that is clear and concise.

Does not communicate the need for or the job requirements of a health information professional.

Communicates the need for and job requirements of a health information professional, but the approach is somewhat unclear, or there are mechanical writing errors that reduce the effectiveness of communication.

Communicates the need for and job requirements of a health information professional in a manner that is clear and concise.

Communicates analysis and recommendations of an electronic health records system in a manner that is clear and concise; the written content is mechanically accurate with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Does not integrate relevant sources to support assertions; does not correctly format citations and references using current APA style.

Sources lack relevance or are poorly integrated, or citations or references are incorrectly formatted.

Integrates relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Integrates relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style, which are free from all errors.