You are the revenue cycle supervisor at Happy Creeks Memorial Hospital. The hospital administration has been studying payment and data integrity outcome metrics over the past year. Happy Creeks’ data analysis team has realized that the current data integrity policies and procedures are currently outdated. You have been asked to write an excerpt that will be sent to employees to update them on current practices and policies.

In an essay of a minimum of 550 words, include the following:

• Explain data integrity and why it is needed

• Describe how data integrity is different from data security?

• Explain what a Uniform Hospital Discharge Data set is and justify your answer.

• Discuss the differences in the roles of the data capture, standards, and validation in a healthcare setting.

• Use information from at least two scholarly resources and provide details supporting your responses.