As the HIM Director at UC Health, you have been charged with leading a team in developing a functional needs assessment for obtaining a computer- assisted coding (CAC) software application. The team will need to make the following documents to assist with vendor selection of a CAC software application that will integrate with the healthcare organization's EHR (EPIC).

a. Make brief RFI from CAC vendors to obtain initial market information . Perform your own research on two CAC vendors and provide the following information in a table format. Include a title for the table and column headings. No source is necessary. Do not copy and paste from the vendor website, use your own words. Provide a working link to each vendor website. Company background for each vendor Product information for each vendor Market information for each vendor Installed base and/or clients

Special criteria: choose one unique feature for each vendor

b. develop a selection criteria list of 5 questions to use when developing the RFP for evaluating CAC products.