American Military University Americans with Disabilities Act HIMA 200 & 310 Analysis

HIMA 200                                                                                                                                                                                           

Research the requirements for “reasonable accommodations” under The American with Disabilities Act and evaluate how they might apply to this employee.

Research the requirements for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and its role in enforcing federal laws.

1. Research your state laws and requirements that may apply to this employee.
2. In a 2-3 page written summary (not including title and reference pages) APA-formatted
3. Analyze your findings for each law.   

Compare how each law applies to your employee

Would you be able to make reasonable accommodations? If so what might they be? If not how would your facility, as the employer, be protected from a claim of discrimination under the law? Justify your reasoning.

1. Include at least 3-4 references in your paper.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                HIMA 310                                                                                                                                                                               
2. In your own words, define Meaningful Use.
3. What does the following acronyms stand for:
4. CEHRT
5. CHPL
6. HITECH

ARRA

1. HIT
2. CMS
3. MU
4. HIMSS
5. ONC
6. NIST
7. Imagine you are the manager of a health clinic. A representative from an EHR vendor is there to sell you on switching to their EHR – a new EHR based on VistA’s open source EHR – which meets the changes issued in 2015 for meeting meaningful use. The representative tells you that the EHR is equipped with CPOE. What does this mean?
8. As the manager, you have been asked to research some of the more affordable EHRs that could be implemented in the health clinic. You know that implementing an open source based EHR would be more cost effective. What other advantages would there be?
9. Describe the systems development lifecycle and how this will apply to the EHR implementation in your clinic.
10. The EHRGo EHR is an educational version of a Meaningful Use certified EHR system currently in use in hospitals and clinics worldwide, commonly known as VistA.
11. What is your opinion of the advantages of practicing in an educational EHR that meets the same requirements of a commercial EHR used in practice? Support your opinion.
12. How do you think your experience with EHRGo will help you, or hinder you, when going to healthcare facilities that do not use the VistA EHR?