[Answered]: Class Exercise on Committees Directions: Identify…

Class Exercise on Committees Directions: Identify the Recorder for Your Group and answer the following cases as a group. The designated recorder will post this assignment into Moodle. Audit Committee You are the chairperson of the allied health audit committee. Essentially, this committee has been a watchdog, ensuring that each allied health service in the hospital has been conducting QI studies and providing technical assistance when asked. Recently, some members of the committee have proposed a change. Members feel that audits should be more interdisciplinary. This is the primary topic for the next meeting of the committee. However, there are other items of business, including the creation of a salaried audit coordinator position. Irrespective of whether audits are to be interdisciplinary or not, such a coordinator would provide the technical assistance of collecting and recording audit data for all services. Other items that need addressing are: – orientation to evaluate a new service in the hospital, – ratification of business conducted by phone during the summer when it was difficult to get people together and – the approval of a questionnaire to be distributed to patients on discharge on how they viewed hospital services Several committees in the hospital have asked to give approval to this questionnaire, which should, among other things, yield topics for audits. ALLIED HEALTH AUDIT COMMITTEE AGENDA 9:00 Minutes Phone business Patient questionnaire Audit Coordinator Position Orientation to new services (R.T.] Interdisciplinary audits 10:00 Adjournment COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Mary Smith, PT, Dona Saunders, RHIA, Gene Kelly, RD, Pat Carson, D.Ph., COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON: Sandra Brown, OT CRITIQUE: 1. Identify elements missing from the agenda. 2. Identify items on the agenda, which are unnecessary. 3. Reorder the agenda items, if appropriate, and state your reason for their place in the sequences. 4. Is there sufficient time to cover all agenda items? What can be done if not? 5. Write appropriate minutes as a result of your discussion. Application of Privacy Laws: Respond as a group to the following cases. 1. Are grand jury subpoenas sufficient to produce PHI? Create an action plan for this request? 2. Do we need authorization or court orders to disclose information for child abuse investigations? Justify your reasoning. 3. Can search warrants be used to produce PHI? Justify your reasoning. 4. Are court ordered medical evaluations regulated under HIPAA? Analyze the conditions which would be appropriate under the HIPAA regulations.