Reference no: EM133670931
Assignment:
Assume a five -day work week and 7.5-hour workday for the following.
1. Community Hospital wants to make the transition to an electronic data management system. The process will involve scanning 8,500 inpatient records, 3,000 outpatient records, and 2,500 emergency department (ED) records into the new system. The hospital estimates that there are 30 pages per inpatient records, 4 pages per outpatient record, and 4 pages per ED record. Assuming one scanning clerk can scan 7,500 pages per day, how many days will it take to complete the transition?
2. Use the scenario in the question above to answer this question. The HIM department would like to finish this project in 10 days. How many FTEs will the HIM department manager need to hire to finish this in the desired time frame? Round to one decimal place.
3. Use the information in the table that follows to answer the following questions. Each employee worked 7.5 hours per day during the 21 workdays in September. Round all answers to two decimal places.
a. What percentage of the total number of records did each employee code during the month?
b. How many records is each coding professional coding each workday?
c. How many records is each coding professional coding per hour? (Use a 7.5-hour workday).
d. How many minutes does it take each coding professional to code one record?
e. What percentage of records is not passing the quality screens for each coding professional?
Reference: Calculating and Reporting Healthcare Statistics 7th edition by Susan White
Community Hospital
Health Information Management Department
Coding Section-Productive and Quality Audit Reports
September 20XX
Coding professional
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No. of records coded
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No. of records not passing quality screens
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A
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450
|
4
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B
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510
|
4
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C
|
385
|
11
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