Case Study 2: The Remote Health Information
Management Department
Objectives
• Awess the strengths, weakneses, opportunities, and threats aocuted we devagina o
department.
• Report on the best practices for managing HIM functions remotely
• Create a procedure for evaluating the quality and quantity of work performed by remote vocan
• Create a training session to prepare HIM employees to neccessfully work remotely
Instructions
chapter 2, chapter 9, and chapter 10.
Review the case scenario below and complete the required deliverables olning cootent fron the blowing chee
Scenario
The HIM department at University Hospital is running out of space for all of is employes. The douras a
physically located on the same property as the main hospital so many functions within the dequrent in tune
at a remote site. Lindsey, the director of HIM, has been networking with some of her HIM coespun end he
that many have their employees work remotely. Lindsey reports to the chief financial oficer (CHO) who ted
Lindsey should perform a thorough analysis of all the job functions prior to assigning all af her vodim
from home. The CFO also feels that further research should be performed by Lindsey in regued so the her
associated with a remote HIM workforce. The current functions performed by the HIM de
below along with general information about the typical tasks for each function and the
the tasks.