Healthcare Data & Setting Data Sources & Healthcare Organizations Discussion

Can you help me understand this Health & Medical question?

 

You are working with other health information management professionals to build data tables for a healthcare organization. Your team has been assigned the job of taking the data elements found in various uniform data sets and building a data dictionary for each uniform data set. You must understand the different types of healthcare data so that you can apply the correct ones to your data tables.

A. Describe the characteristics of each of the following categories of data that are used in a healthcare setting and include a comparison of how they are similar and different from each other:

• primary data

• secondary data

1. Provide a unique example of how each of the categories of healthcare data described in part A may appear in a healthcare setting.

2. Describe a relevant potential source of data and how the data could be collected for each application of healthcare data you described in part A1.

3. Justify why each type of data is appropriate for the healthcare setting application that you described in part A1.

B. Discuss a specific example of how healthcare record data from uniform data sets can be used in healthcare organizations.

C. Describe a specific application of data dictionaries within a health information (HI) system.

1. Justify how the use of data dictionaries could improve an organization’s communication across the continuum of care.

D. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.