Disaster Preparedness for the HIM Professional
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Identify a health care facility in your area. What type of disaster plan should this organization have in place? What are three specific events that an HIM professional should prepare to prevent? Think of the geographic location of your organization along with other geographic statistics that would impact the disaster plan's design.
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As custodians of patient health information, HIM professionals are responsible for ensuring the security of that information, and taking all steps necessary to protect it.
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A large acute-care hospital in a busy metropolitan area needs to have a comprehensive disaster plan, and carry out periodic practice drills on a continual basis, so that all hospital staff have knowledge of the plan, know who would be in charge, and understand their own role within the overall plan. In spite of the best laid disaster plan, and in spite of well-planned and organized drills, staff should expect that a true disaster will bring its own set of unexpected issues. Hospitals should plan for more victims than they expect, and that collecting patient information and ...
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