Southeastern HCAD5643 Full Course Latest 2019 November

HCAD5643 Main Healthcare Info & Tech Management

Module 1 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

How does health systems informatics differ conceptually from bioinformatics and medical informatics? What is the scientific base for each?

Describe the US health system as a complex adaptive system.

What is transformational change, and why is health systems informatics considered to be transformational?

In what ways was the development of the EMR disruptive to, yet an adaptation of, traditional clinical practice in hospitals?

 

HCAD5643 Main Healthcare Info & Tech Management

Module 2 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

How has the role of health professionals changed but not been diminished in an information-driven health system?

Make a case for and against public advertising of prescription drugs as a patient information strategy.

What is transformational change, and why is health systems informatics considered to be transformational?

 

HCAD5643 Main Healthcare Info & Tech Management

Module 3 Discussion

Please respond to the following topic for your discussion this week:

What role has the federal government played in the expansion of CDSS technology and how do you see CDSSs evolving in the future?

 

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Module 4 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

What are the different platforms that support e-health? Give examples of each.

What are some of the challenges in nursing education related to clinical practice and informatics, both in prelicensure and in clinical practice?

 

 

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Module 5 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

Do some research on the costs of sequencing a genome and sequencing an exome? As a hospital administrator, what policy or policies would you propose for choosing between the two approaches? Why?

Given enough genetic information, a precise identification of a person can be made. How do you think data warehouses that integrate clinical information with genomic information can be used to accomplish meaningful research while protecting patient privacy? 

Identify three core metrics, and define how they are measured (including their numerators and denominators). How would you track progress on those metrics?

 

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Module 6 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

Debate the issue of giving patients the right to exclude sensitive information from their patient record; include health and risk factors and for different age groups.

How can an integrated regional health information system serve to support clinics and hospitals in rural and isolated communities?  

 

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Module 7 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

What are the basic components of an information management strategy? Is there one component that is more important than the others? If so, which one and why?

If given a choice to implement an information management strategy or an analytics strategy, which would you perform first? Why?

If you were the CEO of a hospital, what immediate steps you would take to improve the delivery of health services in your organization?

 

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Module 8 Discussion

Each student will create a PowerPoint slide presentation. The PowerPoint presentation should be less than 15 slides and contain brief bullet points to support your presentation (no narrative on slides). If you do not follow the PowerPoint slide presentation instructions you will not receive full credit for this assignment.

HCAD5643 Main Healthcare Info & Tech Management

Case 1 Electronic Health Record

Refer to Case #1: Electronic Health Record on pages 15-18 of the textbook, and answer the questions.

How will you integrate, in the EHR,  the nonmedical information of personalized care that promotes personal interaction and accounts for the personal needs and preferences of individual residents? Who on the staff would be included in learning the digital stories?

How will the EHR support personalized, community-connected care for individual residents? How does the concept of health information exchange relate to that of the hospital EHR?

How will the EHR support non-institutionalized care, including fluid, continuous staff response to real-time choices by residents?

How will the EHR use linked communication technologies for staff, residents, and family to actively facilitate the resident choice and staff response to question 3? What linked communication technologies will be used?

 

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Case 2 Analytics for Disease Management and Wellness

Refer to Case #2: Analytics for Disease Management and Wellness on pages 115-120 of the textbook, and answer the questions.

Is the decision to provide intensive therapy for this high-risk population evidence based? How does it relate to clinical judgment?

What are the advantages of the Health First database? What are some concerns about the reliability and predictive validity of the Health First data set?

Are insurance claims data valid measures of clinical diagnosis and treatment?

How many variables used in the data-mining analysis of Health First data are available in the EHR?

Is their sufficient data in Central Medical’s EHR, and in a format to be mined, to identify these high-risk patients? Are there enough data to apply the results of the analysis to manage the high-risk patients?

What are the implications of, and potential for, aligning the strategies and corporate interests of Central Medical and Health First for better serving patients?

 

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Case 3 A Problem of Display Codes

Refer to Case #3: A Problem of Display Codes on page 265-267 of the textbook, and answer the questions.

What is the problem that needs to be addressed?

What solution is being considered as viable?

How would you define (or not define) the problem differently, or define a viable solution differently?

What do you think is the correct solution?

 

HCAD5643 Main Healthcare Info & Tech Management

Final Project

Option #1: Project Plan for Choosing and Implementing a Departmental-Level Information System                         

Identify a problem in a healthcare setting that could be solved by the implementation of a new information management system. (The problem could be from your current workplace or a problem that was identified through course readings and research.)

Identify the stakeholders—who is impacted by the problem? How?

Propose a solution to the problem and the system that would support this solution. Be sure to identify the scope and goals of the project.

Evaluate the costs, set-up, and operational issues that would be part of the technology-based system.

Explain in detail the project management process that will be utilized by your project and the stakeholders involved in each step of its implementation.

Analyze which steps in your plan are the most critical and which are the most time-consuming. What strategies will be employed to manage these aspects of the project?

Determine the criteria that will be used to measure whether or not the project is successful.

Conclude with a summary of the ongoing maintenance, training, and support that will be needed in order to make your project a continued success.

Your paper should include the following:

Eight to ten pages in length, including the title and reference pages.

Support your paper and points with a minimum of five sources in addition to the course text. Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references; all facts must be supported, and in-text citations used throughout the assignment must be included in an APA-formatted reference list. The SEU library is a good place to find these references.

Format your paper, citations, and references according to the SEU Guide to Writing and APA.

Review the rubric for specific grading criteria and reach out to your instructor if you have questions about the assignment.

Option #2: Healthcare Reform and 21st Century Healthcare Information Systems

Prepare a paper that addresses the following requirements:

Analyze and evaluate the implications of three to five major initiatives associated with healthcare reform on the designing and planning of 21st century healthcare information systems (healthcare reform, mobile health, and telemedicine, for example).

Evaluate the challenges associated with each trend and ways to overcome them.

Assess the impact each initiative may have on the following:

Leadership, governance, and the role of a healthcare CIO

Strategic HMIS planning and organizational culture

Characteristics and capabilities of an enterprise resource planning system.

Examine legislation and regulations that could influence the implementation of health information management systems.

Explain how CIOs might assess the merits of each initiative on vision, mission, and strategy.

Predict the global trends in the adoption of major standards and use of HMIS over the next five years.

Your paper should include the following:

Eight to ten pages in length, including the title and reference pages.

Support your paper and points with a minimum of five sources in addition to the course text. Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references; all facts must be supported, and in-text citations used throughout the assignment must be included in an APA-formatted reference list. The SEU library is a good place to find these references.

Format your paper, citations, and references according to the SEU Guide to Writing and APA.

Review the rubric for specific grading criteria and reach out to your instructor if you have questions about the assignment.

 

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Personal Interview

Option #1: Personal Interview – Hospital Employee Personal Interview – Hospital Employee

Identify a person who works in any department of a hospital of any size—it could also be someone from this class who works in a hospital, so review the introductions from the beginning of class as a starting point.

Develop five to six interview questions focused on the challenges that they face with the use of technology in their department, how they get work done, what has improved, and what needs improving, for example. For instance, in an interview with a nurse you might ask how he or she annotates on a patient’s chart and communicates with other nurses or other departments in the hospital; in an interview with an administrator you may ask how he or she measures performance of the department and what information is maintained within the department versus shared. Prepare a summary of your discussion highlighting how this person uses technology today, what works well or not, and what the interviewee would like to see regarding technology for the future of their role/job function. Then create a recommendation for the implementation of a new technology that would resolve one of the issues identified by the interviewee. The recommendation should assess the setup and costs that would be required for the new system.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Three to four pages in length, not including the title page.

Include the list of your questions asked during the interview.

Summarize your findings: What did you learn from the discussion? Were you surprised by the information?

Include your recommendation for the implementation of a new technology that would resolve one the issues discussed during the interview.

Format your paper according to the SEU Guide to Writing and APA.

Option #2: Personal Interview – General Practitioner Employee

Identify a person who works in a general practitioner’s office, surgery center, or urgent care.

Develop five to six interview questions focused on the challenges that they face with developing strategies for their systems: What is working well? What is not working well? How do they see their products developing over the next two years? Prepare a summary of your discussion highlighting how this person makes product decisions based upon customer feedback or the voice of the customer today. Identify what kinds of applications or functions customers are asking for now and predicted in the future. Then create a recommendation for the implementation of a new technology that would resolve one of the issues identified by the interviewee. The recommendation should assess the setup and costs that would be required for the new system.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Two to three pages in length, not including the title page.

Include the list of your questions asked during the interview.

Summarize your findings: What did you learn from the discussion? Were you surprised by the information?

Include your recommendation for the implementation of a new technology that would resolve one the issues discussed during the interview.

Format your paper according to the SEU Guide to Writing and APA.