This document outlines the course project for an HIM 410 class, which involves researching and analyzing the demographic profile and healthcare needs of a specific geographic area, proposing a healthcare service to address identified needs, and developing a basic budgeting plan. The project consists of three parts submitted over weeks 3, 4, and 6, with a final compiled paper due in week 7. Part 1 involves a demographic analysis and identification of healthcare needs. Part 2 requires selecting a healthcare department and preparing a sample budget. Part 3 involves developing a budgeting plan with goals, objectives, and strategies. Guidance is provided on writing, formatting, citing sources, and submission requirements for the course project.

1. HIM 410 Course Project
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General Information
Throughoutthe session, you will create the components of a research
paper, which will be submitted in its entirety during Week 7. The paper
will involve researching the demographic profile of a specific healthcare
entity in your area (for example, where you live), identifying healthcare
needs based on that profile, proposing a specific health service to be
analyzed based on those needs, and developing a basic budgeting plan
for that healthcare entity. You want to concentrate specifically on an
essential healthcare department to do your budget planning.
There will be three separate components, which will be submitted in
Weeks 3, 4, and 6. In addition, you will compile all three components,
make any needed changes, and submit the entire paper in Week 7. The
components are described in more detail below.
Part 1: Demographic Site Analysis (Due in Week 3)
The demographic site analysis provides a summary of a specific market
area. For this paper component, you should choose a specific
geographic area (locality, zip code, or census tract) and prepare a
demographic profile of the people who live there from data available at
www.census.gov or from other demographic resources you may find
(maybe from the local Chamber or government sources). This profile
should provide specific information, including relevant facts and figures.
You are encouraged to include graphs or charts that help describe the
demographics of your geographic area (at least one is required). Be

2. sure to cite all of your sources within the text and at the end of the paper
in the Reference listing.
Based on this demographic profile, you will analyze what sort of
healthcare needs one might anticipate in the geographic area. In other
words, what does this demographic profile tell you about the needed
healthcare services or products? Are all these needs currently being
met? If not, which needs might provide a market opportunity? During
this section, you will get a better idea of what healthcare entity to chose
in your budget planning and analysis.
The length of the demographic site analysis should be 300 to 600 words.
You should cite all sources in APA style, both in-text and at the end of
the document. You are required to have at least three sources to support
your paper. One of these sources may be one of your course textbooks.
This portion of the Course Project is due in Week 3. The Course Project
components build upon each other and are added to the complete
project due in Week 7.
Part 2: Budget Analysis (Due in Week 4)
In this section, you will identify a specific healthcare market sector to
analyze. For example, you may identify a hospital, a home for older
adults, an urgent care center, a mental health facility, or any other
health-related organization to analyze.
In the demographic site analysis, you should have previously identified
unmet healthcare needs and opportunities for your geographic area. In
this section of the paper, you will go into greater detail by choosing a
specific healthcare department from the healthcare entity chosen to plan
for your budgeting analysis.
In the budget analysis component, you should identify a specific
department in a healthcare organization. You must prepare a budget for
this particular department. You should reach out to your healthcare
community and meet with a healthcare representative who can help
identify some pertinent budgeting items for the departments. You may
find it difficult to speak with healthcare representatives, but it is not
required to complete this project. However, it is a good idea to make
contact with these designated healthcare entities. The knowledge gained
can be quite useful in preparation for your budget. You can use the

3. textbook as a guide in creating your sample budget. In addition,
scholarly sources such as journals, articles, business magazines, and the
World Wide Web can be tools used in this process.
The key of this section is to get a glance of the role that a Health
Information Manager plays in the healthcare organization. For
example, a budget may include salaries, supplies, utility, and so forth.
The Health Information Manager prepares a budget in order to
maximize the organization’s resources.
You should use Excel to prepare a sample budget. In addition, you must
write a short text component that explains the healthcare sector chosen,
which department was used for budgeting, and an explanation or
analysis of the budgeted items.
The length of the budget analysis component should be 500 to 1,000
words. You should cite all sources in APA style, both in-text and at the
end of the document. You are required to have at least four sources to
support your paper. One of the sources may be one of your course
textbooks.
Part 3: Budgeting Plan (Due in Week 6)
In this final piece of your Course Project, you will develop a brief
budgeting plan for your healthcare organization or department. In this
section, you should:
1. identify the overall budgeting goals;
2. identify 3–5 specific budgeting objectives (these should be specific,
measurable, achievable, realistic, and have a time element); and
3. identify specific budgeting strategies for achieving the objectives
and goals. This includes:
1. department strategies (what will your department gain?);
2. employee strategies (how will you maximize employee work
output?); and
3. promotion strategies (how will you promote your budgeting
tactics?).
4. You may also identify an action plan used for implementing your
strategies (this typically identifies who will do what by when).
Remember, the Health Information Manager is the key player.

4. The length of the budgeting plan component should be 800–1,600 words.
You should cite all sources in APA style, both in-text and at the end of
the document. You are required to have at least five sources to support
your paper. One of these sources may be one of your course textbooks.
Final Submission (Due in Week 7)
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Your completed research paper will simply bring together all three
previous components and should incorporate any needed changes, based
on suggestions from the instructor. You should also include an
introduction to the paper, which previews the components, a conclusion
to the paper, and a complete Reference Listing or Bibliography at the
end. The total research paper should be 1,600–3,200 words in length
with 12 or more references.
Grading Rubric
Assignment Portion Points %
Part 1: Demographic Site Analysis 30 12.5%
Part 2: Budget Analysis 30 12.5%
Part 3: Budgeting Plan 30 12.5%
Final Submission 150 62.5%
Total 240
Best Practices
Writing Style
The paper should represent your best professional writing and work.
Pay careful attention to paragraphing, sentence structure, quotation
conventions, spelling, punctuation, citation protocol, and other aspects
of grammar. Remember to proofread, correcting any typing or printing
errors. A direct quotation will be indicated by quotation marks (followed
by the page number where the quote was taken from). Direct quotes
longer than three lines are indicated by indenting the entire quote and
typing it double-spaced (followed by the page number). Unless the style
or manner of presentation of the information in the quote is important to
the paper, the material should be substantially paraphrased, rather than

5. quoted. You are reminded that the use of a direct quote or paraphrase
without proper citation of the source of the material amounts to
plagiarism.
All papers written for this course should follow the standards applicable
in the business environment. This includes a business-appropriate
writing style and no misspelled words or grammatical errors.
Presentation and organization, although not as important as content,
will impact your grade. Always write as if the reader is unfamiliar with
the material you present.
Physical Preparation of the Paper
The paper should be typed, double-spaced, and have one inch margins
all around. The font should be of legible size, no larger than 12 and no
smaller than 10, and be in, preferably, Times New Roman style. Papers
should include a separate title page that contains the student’s name,
class, date, and paper title, as well as a separate works cited page
(references) at the end to include the scholarly references used.
Submission Deadlines
All submission deadlines will be noted in the class Syllabus.
Citing Work in the Body of the Paper
This paper will be written using the latest publication manual of the
American Psychological Association (APA). There are two steps in the
APA style of documentation: (1) works are cited, in an abbreviated form,
in the body of the paper, and (2) full information about all the works
cited is in the text provided at the end of the paper in a section entitled
“Reference Page.”
A Check List and a Few Reminders
Did you remember to do the following?
· Proofread your paper.
· Use quotation marks (I hope you did not use many, if any, quotes)
for any direct quote (complete with the page number where the quote
was taken).
· Check to make sure that all sources used in the text match the
reference page (including correct spelling of authors and dates).
· Review the reference page to insure that all sources are complete
and in proper order (e.g. alphabetical by author’s last name).

6. · Number all pages.
· Write the cover page to include the following information:
· title of paper, your name, e-mail address, course title and due
date.
· Keep your paper gender neutral. Do not assume a masculine voice
when writing; use “police officer” rather than “police man,” and use he
or she rather than he.
· Keep the tense the same throughoutthe paper. It should be in the
past tense, such as “research revealed.”
· Ensure that you have at least two complete sentences per
paragraph. One sentence paragraphs are not accepted in formal
writing.
· Never use a personal pronoun such as “I,” “my,” and so forth in
your paper. You are not experts in the field. Although your opinion is
encouraged during classroom discussion, it does not belong in a
research paper.
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HIM 410 Week 1 Homework
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Homework
Complete Assignment Exercises 1-1, 1-2, and 2-2 on pages 355 and 356
in your course text.
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top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these
step-by-step instructions or watch this Tutorial Dropbox Tutorial.

7. See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due
date information.X
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HIM 410 Week 2 Homework
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Homework
Complete Assignment Exercise 5-1 on pp. 360–361 and Assignment
Exercise 11-1 on p. 376 (refer to p. 117) in your course text.
Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the
top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these
step-by-step instructions or watch this TutorialDropbox Tutorial.
See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due
date information.X
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HIM 410 Week 3 Course Project Demographic
Site Analysis
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8. Part 1: Demographic Site Analysis (Due in Week 3)
The demographic site analysis provides a summary of a specific market
area. For this paper component, you should choose a specific
geographic area (locality, zip code, or census tract) and prepare a
demographic profile of the people who live there from data available at
www.census.gov or from other demographic resources you may find
(maybe from the local Chamber or government sources). This profile
should provide specific information, including relevant facts and figures.
You are encouraged to include graphs or charts that help describe the
demographics of your geographic area (at least one is required). Be
sure to cite all of your sources within the text and at the end of the paper
in the Reference listing.
Based on this demographic profile, you will analyze what sort of
healthcare needs one might anticipate in the geographic area. In other
words, what does this demographic profile tell you about the needed
healthcare services or products? Are all these needs currently being
met? If not, which needs might provide a market opportunity? During
this section, you will get a better idea of what healthcare entity to chose
in your budget planning and analysis.
The length of the demographic site analysis should be 300 to 600 words.
You should cite all sources in APA style, both in-text and at the end of
the document. You are required to have at least three sources to support
your paper. One of these sources may be one of your course textbooks.
This portion of the Course Project is due in Week 3. The Course Project
components build upon each other and are added to the complete
project due in Week 7.
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HIM 410 Week 3 Quiz

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1. (TCOs 1, 2) Match each term with the appropriate definition
2. (TCOs 1, 2) Match the term with the appropriate definition
3. (TCO 4) Match the term with the appropriate definition
4. (TCO 2) Identify a specific role that a Health Information Manager
(HIM) has in healthcare planning of servicesX
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HIM 410 Week 4 Course Project Budget
Analysis
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Part 2: Budget Analysis (Due in Week 4)
In this section, you will identify a specific healthcare market sector to
analyze. For example, you may identify a hospital, a home for older
adults, an urgent care center, a mental health facility, or any other
health-related organization to analyze.
In the demographic site analysis, you should have previously identified
unmet healthcare needs and opportunities for your geographic area. In
this section of the paper, you will go into greater detail by choosing a

10. specific healthcare department from the healthcare entity chosen to plan
for your budgeting analysis.
In the budget analysis component, you should identify a specific
department in a healthcare organization. You must prepare a budget for
this particular department. You should reach out to your healthcare
community and meet with a healthcare representative who can help
identify some pertinent budgeting items for the departments. You may
find it difficult to speak with healthcare representatives, but it is not
required to complete this project. However, it is a good idea to make
contact with these designated healthcare entities. The knowledge gained
can be quite useful in preparation for your budget. You can use the
textbook as a guide in creating your sample budget. In addition,
scholarly sources such as journals, articles, business magazines, and the
World Wide Web can be tools used in this process.
The key of this section is to get a glance of the role that a Health
Information Manager plays in the healthcare organization. For
example, a budget may include salaries, supplies, utility, and so forth.
The Health Information Manager prepares a budget in order to
maximize the organization’s resources.
You should use Excel to prepare a sample budget. In addition, you must
write a short text component that explains the healthcare sector chosen,
which department was used for budgeting, and an explanation or
analysis of the budgeted items.
The length of the budget analysis component should be 500 to 1,000
words. You should cite all sources in APA style, both in-text and at the
end of the document. You are required to have at least four sources to
support your paper. One of the sources may be one of your course
textbooks.X
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HIM 410 Week 4 Midterm
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1. (TCO 1) What are the main sources of healthcare revenue? Please
give examples
2. (TCO 2) Identify a specific role that a Health Information Manager
(HIM) has in healthcare planning of services
3. (TCO 5) Identify the different types of financial reports used in
healthcare organizations. Please give an explanation of each
4. (TCO 7) What are the various types of flexible budget variances used
in healthcare organizations? Please explain each
5. (TCO 8) A hospital’s sensitivity analysis can be used for projecting
what?
6. (TCO 4) What is the purpose of a cost center as it relates to reporting
in a healthcare organization?
7. (TCO 6) The planning process for managers is a difficult task. How
can understanding mixed costs benefit a manager?
8. (TCO 7) Please explain why managers must understand the difference
between productive and nonproductive time. How does knowing this
information benefit a healthcare organization’s financial objectives?X
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HIM 410 Week 5 Homework Exercises
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12. Week 5– Assignment Exercise 14 – 2 pg. 385
Assignment Exercise 14–2: Cumulative Inflation Factor for Comparable
Data
Review Table 14-3 and the accompanying text.
Assumptions:
Two hospitals report their annual projected revenue for five years to the
local newspaper for a story on the area’s future economic outlook.
However, Hospital 1 has applied a cumulative inflation factor of five
percent per year while Hospital 2 has not applied any inflation factor.
Thus the information is not properly comparable.
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HIM 410 Week 6 Course Project Budgeting
Plan
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In this final piece of your Course Project, you will develop a brief
budgeting plan for your healthcare organization or department. In this
section, you should:
1. identify the overall budgeting goals;
2. identify 3–5 specific budgeting objectives (these should be specific,
measurable, achievable, realistic, and have a time element); and
3. identify specific budgeting strategies for achieving the objectives
and goals. This includes:
1. department strategies (what will your department gain?);

13. 2. employee strategies (how will you maximize employee work
output?); and
3. promotion strategies (how will you promote your budgeting
tactics?).
4. You may also identify an action plan used for implementing your
strategies (this typically identifies who will do what by when).
Remember, the Health Information Manager is the key player.
The length of the budgeting plan component should be 800–1,600 words.
You should cite all sources in APA style, both in-text and at the end of
the document. You are required to have at least five sources to support
your paper. One of these sources may be one of your course textbooks.X
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HIM 410 Week 6 Homework
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Homework
Complete Practice Exercise 11-II on pages 376-377 in your course text.
You will have to refer to Chapter 10 for help.
Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the
top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these
step-by-step instructions or watch this TutorialDropbox Tutorial.
See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due
date information.X
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14. HIM 410 Week 7 Homework
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Homework
Complete Practice Exercise 23-I on page 400 and Assignment Exercise
23-1 on pages 400–401 in your course text.
Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the
top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these
step-by-step instructions or watch this TutorialDropbox Tutorial.
See the Syllabus section “Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due
date information.
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HIM 410 Week 7 Reaserch Paper
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HIM 410 Week 7 Reaserch Paper
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