ABC Health System made an organizational commitment to the EHR well before HITECH and Meaningful Use incentives were put in place. The system grew through consolidation first within a city and then the surrounding catchment areas until today it covers half the state. A unified EHR was part of its organizational design from the outset. Senior clinical and administrative leaders understood that information would be one key to achieving clinical and organizational excellence. At the time, interoperability across EHRs was costly to achieve, if it could be achieved at all. As ABC began consolidating independent physician practices through acquisition or affiliation agreements, it made the difficult decision to require physicians to use the standard EHR and other technology solutions. For affiliated practices, data-sharing agreements are in place.Until 3 years ago, each hospital in ABC system had its own HIM department, and the departments worked at achieving greater uniformity by making uniform service and technology decisions such as those for transcription and release of information. The dual goals of greater uniformity and cost control led to consolidation of HIM across the system in 2017. Today the corporate EIM team consists of a vice president of EIM, three senior directors in charge of HIM operations such as release of information, life-cycle records management, clinical coding and revenue cycle, and EHR functions, including an EHR integrity team. In addition the systems privacy officer also reports to the vice president of EIM.The EHR data integrity team is responsible for correcting, amending, retracting and deleting information in the EHR in accordance with policy and to support the integrity of the record. Although it is the responsibility of the providers to take care to enter only correct information into the EHR, when an error is made or detected, there is a standard procedure for correcting, amending, or retracting. The team provides training and advises on the proper application of the procedure. Correction requests are submitted to the team using a Web request or, for an emergent situation, a phone helpline procedure.The EHR integrity team investigates and resolves issues referred the team. As needed, the EHR integrity team may call in IS if there is a contributory software issue, or it may complete an incident report if it is felt that this is something that IS should track. In addition to referrals, the EHR integrity team deploys audit processes to detect errors or missing data and uses this information to explore ways to improve accurate capture through software modifications or through additional training or coaching. This new procedure has been widely recognized as a valuable service. Recently the integrity team has been assigned responsibility for managing corrections, amendments, retractions and deletions of the patient information made available through ABCs patient portal.Utilizing your decision matrix, answer the following questions supporting your reasoning:Data quality is one of the principles of fair information practice. Identify and assess (3) ways in which data quality is an ethical consideration. In your opinion how would you make the case for establishing and EHR integrity unit for ABC Health Systems?Appraise how utilizing the above structure of assigning the responsibilities of correcting, amending, or retracting information could jeopardize the integrity of the record.

How will you assess the needs of the group? How will you continue to engage in assessment as the group proceeds? How will you be able to apply what you have learned about Human Behavior and the Social Environment to the development and management of this group. What personal feelings / affective reactions do you anticipate might arise during a group such as this one? How might these evolve during the process of engaging with group members, assessing the needs of the group, supporting the intervention, and evaluating the impacts of the group? How will you manage these reactions? What kind of supervision and inter-disciplinary consultation might you seek as you engage with, assess, provide intervention to, and evaluate the outcomes of the group?PTSD IN SEXUALLY ABUSED ADULT VICTIMSLeadership Style: Describe the leadership style you will use; provide your rationale, including: the degree of involvement you as a leader would establish (active / directive vs. inactive / nondirective; structured vs. unstructured; open v. closed) provide your rational.Group Development: Discuss how you would facilitate the group’s development through the various stages. Give specific examples of techniques / strategies for each stage (Toseland and Rivas Ch 3). What norms do you hope to establish in the group?Discuss how you would facilitate the group’s development through the various stages. Give specific examples of techniques / strategies for each stage. In addition, please specifically address the following considerations: How will you engage the diverse clients you will serve in this group setting and ensure that clients engage with one another? How will you work to ensure that positive engagement with you and among group members is sustained throughout the group?How will you promote participants’ confidence in their safety and a sense of mutual respect? How will you assess the needs of the group? How will you continue to engage in assessment as the group proceeds?How will you be able to apply what you have learned about Human Behavior and the Social Environment to the development and management of this group?How will you apply what you have learned from your review of the literature to the development and management of this group? Describe, in greater detail, interventions that you have in mind for this group. Relate your intervention plan to the type of group you have planned (e.g. for a treatment group, what type of treatment model will you rely on? For a psychoeducational group, will you use a formal curriculum, or will you develop one?).How will you evaluate the success of this group? Describe qualitative and/or quantitative methods for evaluating your practice effectiveness in this setting.How does theory about Human Behavior and the Social Environment and/or the literature you studied contribute to your thinking about evaluating the group? Specifically, how do theory and evidence help you decide when the group has met its goals?What personal feelings / affective reactions do you anticipate might arise during a group such as this one? How might these evolve during the process of engaging with group members, assessing the needs of the group, supporting the intervention, and evaluating the impacts of the group? How will you manage these reactions? What kind of supervision and inter-disciplinary consultation might you seek as you engage with, assess, provide intervention to, and evaluate outcomes of the group?

i will provide the info of my household, etc. for this assignment.Project 2: Research for WasteErase CorporationFor Project 2 on waste in your household, you told the Board of Directors of Waste-Erase Corporation that you would use the following procedures as a guide for your study. Please respond to each number listed below.Over a period of 2-3 days, take detailed notes (based on your visual assessment. No need to use gloves. This is just practice.) on all types of waste in your household, the location of the waste, and the amount of waste (You will judge this by the size of the container.). Take notes on which person or groups of people tend to use which waste containers in the household. It is likely that everyone contributes to the waste container in the kitchen, but not in other rooms. As an initial preparation for data analysis, establish general sets of abstract categories for the observed waste. For example, single use plastics, paper products, cardboard, aluminum, etc. As data collection continues, refine your observations and document your assessment of waste into their appropriate categories. Take notes on the amount of waste that you observe within each category. You will determine an indicator for measuring the amount of waste and what time of day makes sense to make your observations. It is important for your findings that you assess waste the same time each day. Explain what indicator you will use to measure waste in each waste basket. (You can draw, weigh, or something else.)After 2-3 days, assess your research notes. “Ask questions” about what you observe in your notes to develop themes and patterns. For example, you may want to note who has garbage containers in their rooms and who doesn’t. How come? What kind of waste do I see in my parents’ or roommate’s room that I don’t see in my room? You can still ask questions about your observations even if you live alone. (Qualitative data analysis is an art and meant to be creative. You are trying to create an idea that no one has thought about before. This is how you advance science. ) Wow, your methodological skills are ready “to take the show on the road” and move on to benefit other sites! You have showed the world the value of social scientists. What can you share with other social science majors about how to sell their research and analytical skills to prospective employers? Turn in your observation notes, themes and patterns and categories me. Make sure you provide the number of people who share a household and your measurement for “amount of waste,” your categories about types of waste, and themes and patterns that you see in your data. Provide a response for all questions that I asked above. Grading: Grades will be based on the thoughtfulness and thoroughness of your response to all of the questions that I posted above. I am looking for your ability to think through a research project, alert yourself to possible problems with your data collection, and think about what approach makes sense given your overall research goals. Once you have collected data, I want to see your ability to look across your data, categorize what you have gathered and note a few themes/patterns. I am more than willing to help you in this process during the research process! Unfortunately, I cannot help you once you have turned in the project as the course ends on Friday. You will not have the ability to redo project 2 after the course has ended.

Problem 1.  Use plot(density()) to examine the smooth estimated density function (PDF) for variable hp (horsepower) in data frame mtcars.
–Use attach(mtcars) so you can refer to hp
How many peaks (0, 1, 2, 3, or more) does the estimated PDF for hp have?
(Answer in the numerical form e.g., 4)
Group of answer choices
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Question 2
Problem 2. Create a stem-and-leaf diagram for variable mpg in data frame mtcars, and use it to answer the following question:
How many stems (rows) are there?  
How many cars belong to the second stem?  
–Example:  for stem(eruptions), there are 18 stems (rows). 
–5 eruptions belong to the 5th stem:  24 | 00228
–The corresponding data values are: 2.400 2.400 2.417 2.417 2.483
Can view these values using sort(eruptions)
Question 3
Problem 3. Fit a normal distribution to the variable hp in mtcars (i.e., estimate the parameters of the normal distribution by MLE).
–Use fitdist() in package fitdistrplus
What is the estimated standard deviation of the best-fitting (MLE) normal distribution?
–For mpg, it was sd* = 5.93203
(Answer up to 5 decimal places)
Question 4
Problem 4. Fit an exponential distribution to mtcars$hp by MLE using fitdist() in package fitdistrplus.
–First, use attach(mtcars) or data(mtcars) 
–Then use library(fitdistrplus)

First install fitdistrplus package with install.packages(“fitdistrplus”)

–Use the fitdist() function, with “exp” (with the quotes) as an argument, to tell fitdistrplus to fit an exponential distribution
–Name the result so you can plot it with denscomp()
Plot fitted distribution using denscomp()
The exponential distribution has a single parameter (“rate”).  What is the MLE estimate of rate for variable hp?
–Use print(fit_name) to see, where fit_name is whatever you named your fitsdist() result
–Ignore the standard error
(Answer up to 4 decimal places)
Question 5
Problem 5. Use kstest() to decide whether the null hypothesis that variable hp in the mtcars data frame has an exponential distribution can be rejected with 95% confidence. 
–Remember to attach(mtcars)
–Remember to use set.seed(1)
–Then use ks.test(hp, rexp(100, rate = )) as a template for your test of whether hp and the best-fitting exponential distributions have significantly different CDFs
–Plug the MLE value for rate (from your previous results from fitdist() for hp) into the above template

What is the p-value for this hypothesis test?
What should we conclude? 

(Please input the p-value in the answer tab up to 5 decimal places)
Question 6
Problem 6. Use shapiro.test() to decide whether we can reject with 95% confidence (a = 5% significance level) the null hypothesis that variable hp in the mtcars data frame has a normal distribution.

What is the p-value for this hypothesis test?

–For mpg, it is 0.1229.  What is it for hp? 
–Remember that we reject a null hypothesis at significance level a (confidence level 1- a) if the p-value (tail area) of the test < a. (Answer up to 4 decimal places) Question 7 Problem 7.  Using plot(density()), do you think the Age variable in the survey data set in package MASS is left-skewed, right-skewed, or neither? (Please input left-skewed, right-skewed, or neither in the answer tab) Question 8 Problem 8. Using boxplot(), how many outliers do you see for variable Pulse in the survey data set in package MASS? –Remember to load MASS using library(MASS) before using attach(survey) or survey$Pulse

Discussion one: Due 09/16 
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 3 (Quality in the Agile Space) and Chapter 4 (Agile in the Waterfall) of your textbook.

You have been assigned the role of a SCRUM master in a new Agile project. You have been asked to make a presentation to the Agile team on the Agile-specific activities and best practices that promote increasing the quality of the final product and decreasing the risks associated with the project.
Using your textbook and at least one source from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library, select at least two Agile activities and two Agile best practices that you will use in your presentation. Explain them, and demonstrate how they would increase quality and reduce risk.
Your initial post should be at least 300 words and your follow-up responses to your classmates’ post should be at least 250 words each.
Discussion Two: Due 09/17
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read through the Final Project instructions if you have not already done so.

Over the last few weeks, you have explored various aspects of Agile project management, and will have an opportunity to share your own evaluation of these methods in your final project this week. For this team discussion, write a draft of the script you plan to use for your recorded final evaluation. The, submit your draft to your team discussion forum for peer review.
Your draft script should be a textual representation of what you plan to say in your final project evaluation, and should:

Describe the main characteristics of Agile methods
Differentiate between Agile methods and traditional waterfall methods
Explain best practices for applying Agile methods to project management
Assess the benefits of agile project management methods to your organization, including examples for support
Analyze how Agile techniques influence the leadership of a project

Final Project Due 09/20
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Module 1 (“Business Leadership Transition”) in Chapter 12 of your textbook.
Your organization is struggling with its projects. Some projects completely fail to provide quality solutions. Others take long to complete, often require constant modifications that were not originally part of the requirements, and cost more money than initially budgeted. The organization is looking for better ways to bring these projects under control and to ensure higher probability of success and quality products.

Using your new knowledge and skills in Agile project management methods, along with any feedback you received from your peers in the Team Discussion this week, create a PowerPoint video presentation to upper management of your organization. The video presentation should exhibit your own evaluation of Agile methods and how they could be used to turn the organization’s projects around. The goal of the video presentation is to influence upper management decision makers to transition to Agile project management in the organization.

Your video presentation should be 5-9 minutes in length and should:

Describe the main characteristics of Agile methods
Differentiate between Agile methods and traditional waterfall methods
Explain best practices for applying Agile methods to project management
Assess the benefits of agile project management methods to your organization, including examples for support
Analyze how Agile techniques influence the leadership of a project