Summary: Future Health Information Management
As a future Health Information Management Professional, I feel the hospital made several mistakes and discriminated against their medical staff. First, the Board of Directors should have checked National Practitioner Data Bank to review Dr. Arafiles medical performance. In chapter 16, on page 469, National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is defined as “information clearing house”,which provides information on “the professional competence, final adverse action taken, and conduct of physicians, dentist, and other healthcare practitioners (Brodnik, Rinehart-Thompson, & Reynolds, 2013).” Second, they should not have hired Dr. Arafiles when they discovered he had a restriction on his license. Although the hospital was fully aware of the fact that