American Military University Using Benchmarking for Performance Improvement Paper

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CAHIIM Competencies Assessed: 

Subdomain VI.F Strategic and Organizational Management

Implement a departmental strategic plan i.e. benchmarking  (Blooms 3)

Instructions: 

  1. Read the article provided: 

Hughes, Gwen. “Using Benchmarking for Performance Improvement (AHIMA Practice Brief).” Journal of AHIMA 74, no.2 (2003): 64A-D.

Assume you are a hospital HIM Manager and you need to work toward part of the new strategic plan that indicates that your department will use benchmarking to improve coding production.

  1. Based on the concepts of successful benchmarking described in the article, describe how you will embrace, adopt, and implement benchmarking for your coding production.