Instructions
You do not need to write your proposal in APA format. You do need to complete a cohesive, coherent, organized, and well-written proposal. Much of the information you include in your proposal will come from your previous assessments. Be sure your proposal includes all of the following headings and your narrative addresses each of the bullet points.
Introduction
Explain what information you propose to collect.
Provide the reasons for collecting this information.
Describe how this information could be used to validate or improve the quality of care at your facility.
Data Collection Plan
Propose an implementation plan and detail the information you plan to collect at your facility, including where and how it will be collected.
Specify the following:
The time period you propose to review.
The system applications you will use to collect the health information.
Write a narrative, create a timeline, build a flowchart, or use any other method of your choosing to demonstrate the flow of health record information through the information life cycle from creation to destruction. Identify those sections within the life cycle from which you will retrieve information.
Explain the use of information from an HIE and describe how it may affect patient care, clinical knowledge, and population health data.
Detail the personnel required to complete the health information review, including their needed skills and required training and job aids.
Describe strategies that will be employed to help personnel implement the review study.
Data Security Plan
Plan measures to protect PHI.
Apply laws governing health information confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Plan for the impact of HIPAA on health care personnel, policies, and procedures.
Benchmarking Plan
Identify the sources of national data and quality measures.
Describe how you will use the national data and quality measures as benchmarks to compare with data from your facility.
Explain how you will ensure data standardization, along with any other factors you need to take into account, so the data from these sources is compatible with the data you plan to collect.
Explain how the collected data will be compared to the benchmarking and quality standards.
Quality and Change Management Strategies
Explain how data outcomes could be used to perform quality improvement reviews and recommend evidence-based best practices for policies and procedures based on outcomes.
Recommend best practices for departmental workflow that will support the information review you are proposing.
Describe relevant evidence-based best practices and procedures from peer-reviewed articles or Internet resources that could facilitate needed changes.
Implementation
Detail the steps for implementing the information review study along with the expected time frames.
Conclusion
Summarize how the proposed study will improve the quality of patient care for your physician group.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Your paper needs to be clear and well organized, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, to support orderly exposition of content.
Title page: Develop a descriptive title of 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet maintain professional decorum.
References: Include a minimum of two citations of peer-reviewed sources in APA format.
Length: 5–7 typed and double-spaced content pages, not including the title page and references page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
