Ethics in Healthcare

Project Overview

For the course project, you will write a research paper on an issue that has a legal and ethical impact on the HIM profession. The issue may be selected from topics such as privacy and security, bioethics, EHR, or fraud and abuse. You will want to:

1. Identify and explore legal and ethical challenges of the issue.

2.Describe laws in place that impact the issue.

3.Explain how the HIM profession is impacted by the issue.

4.Determine contributions HIM professionals make in response to these challenges.

Due Date

Your final project is due in Module 11. For those students who wish to turn the final paper in early, the final paper drop box is located in Module 10. There are individual assignments along the way. The module they are due is noted in the time line below.

Time Line

Module

Assignment

02 Topic Selection

04 Thesis and Outline

05 Annotated Bibliography

08 Rough Draft with References

11 Final Paper Due

Requirements

Your final paper must include a cover page, 2 - 4 pages of writing in the body of the paper, and a reference page. The paper should demonstrate a strong thesis statement about your topic followed by at least three main points that develop the thesis. Your research should include at least three sources, and at least one of them should be a professional journal article. The paper must use in-text citations and references in APA format. You can find more information on APA format in the Online Library, which is accessible through the Resources tab.

* Note HIM stands for Health Information Management http://www.ahima.org/

* I was thinking about basing it on ethical issues in Health Information Management.