Establish policies and procedures to ensure data integrity internal and external to Southwest Regional Hospital Group

As the Chief Compliance Officer of the Southwest Regional Hospital Group, you are tasked with aligning the organizations data policies and procedures with the objectives of the HITECH Act. To achieve this alignment, your first objective is to establish policies and procedures to ensure data integrity internal and external to the enterprise. And your second objective is to create, evaluate, maintain, and recommend data architectural models for the enterprise such as clinical data, financial data, and administrative data. Write a 3 page proposal that illustrates how you would meet the above objectives and incorporate at least 5 of the HITECH Act focus areas:  Improving healthcare quality, reducing medical errors, reducing health disparities, and advancing delivery of patient-centered medical care;  Reducing healthcare costs resulting from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care, duplicative care, and incomplete information;  Providing appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care;  Ensuring that meaningful public input is included in development of such infrastructure;  Improving the coordination of care and information among hospitals, laboratories, physician offices, and other entities for the secure and authorized exchange of healthcare information;  Improving public health activities and facilitating the early identification and rapid response to public health threats;  Facilitating health and clinical research and healthcare quality;  Promoting early detection, prevention, and management of chronic diseases;  Promoting a more effective marketplace, increased consumer choice, and improved outcomes in healthcare services; and  Improving efforts to reduce health disparities. Include at least five references