Question

Describe the roles, values and educational requirements of various healthcare professionals, including HIMT.

Discuss interdisciplinary teams in which HIMT may be involved.

Identify sources of conflict on interdisciplinary teams.

Select techniques that may be useful in resolving conflict on interdisciplinary teams.

Compare and contrast various hospital structures.

Answer 1

Role of Healthcare Professionals-

a) Health care profesionals handle the technical aspects of managing patients health information.

b) They built, implement, or support electronic health records and other systems that store patient related data.

c) They drive change within the organization.

Values of health professionals in HIMT-

a) They manage and construct health information programmes.

b) They play crucial role in the maintainance, collection and analyzing of data that is received by doctors, nurses,and other healthcare players.

Common educational requirements-

Bacholer's degree from Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA)

Interdiciplinary teams in which HIMT invovles are as fallows-

Pharmacist

Social worker

Doctor

Nurse

Sources of conflict in interdiciplinary teams-

a) Perceived lack of interpersonal or inter-professional respect.

b) Treatment protocol or intervension disputes.

c) Administrative issues.

Techniques involved in resolving conflict between interdiciplinary teams-

a) Good Practice Leadership Toolkit

b) Conflict management

c) Conflict resolution network

d) Helpguide org: Conflict resolution skills.