HIM500 guides students through a consultant example for Featherfall. The focus for each third of the project is structured as a ‘real world’ healthcare I.T. systems project. The final repor
Please follow rubric verbatim
Attached below is milestone 1-3 and rubric
Note from teacher about Final Milestone: HIM500 guides students through a consultant example for Featherfall. The focus for each third of the project is structured as a 'real world' healthcare I.T. systems project. The final report to Featherfall executives will summarize all the components into a polished summary report. As each student blends the components into the final report, be certain to check the report against the critical elements of the rubric. Points must be assigned to the rubric sections.
Guidelines for Submission: Your health information technology recommendations should be 6–8 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. All references cited in APA format.
1
Milestone 1
Deanna Buchanan
Southern New Hampshire University
HIM-500-Q1513
Milestone 1
In the field of health informatics, particular historical events help inform the management of health information:
1. The 1950s saw the early development of health informatics through cybernetics and information processing. This entailed professionals from various fields, such as clinical documentation and epidemiology.
2. The 1960 to 2000 period saw the evolution of data analysis and computing. Health information management was facilitated through the development of electronic medical records systems. Such systems are vital for health information management since they provide real-time patient-centered records to authorized users (Collen & Ball, 2018).
3. There is the period from 2000 to the present where stakeholders have moved to digitize healthcare processes such as information sharing, record keeping, and care coordination.
Guidelines
There are several guidelines for technology use that Feather fall could implement in health information management. For starters, the medical staff should get the relevant training required to utilize the technology to facilitate the effective acquisition, analysis, and protection of patient information. Training ensures they can tackle any challenges they may encounter to collect accurate data and analyze it in a way that benefits patients. Additionally, the medical staff needs to ensure that the devices they use are beyond the reach of unauthorized individuals. This is crucial in promoting patient confidentiality/privacy and securing pertinent data does not get into the wrong hands (Ozair et al., 2018). Finally, medical practitioners should provide feedback about their experiences to ensure that the technology they use can be improved in the future.
Standard Technologies
There are various standard technologies used in health information management. For starters, concerning record keeping, some of the traditional EHR technologies include Epic Systems and Meditech. Many institutions use these two systems due to their departmental functionality and extensive usability. RingCentral Video is a standard technology for videoconferencing that facilitates open communication and interactive communications among healthcare providers. Different practitioners can share information and work together in real-time to facilitate effective patient care. Finally, there is the use of Vendor-Neutral Archives (VNAs) and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) when it comes to processing and storing the medical images of patients (Sirota-Cohen et al., 2019).
How Roles at Feather fall Interact with Technology
The pertinent roles at Feather fall would interact with technology through a simple but effective communication system that ensures all users can get the most out of the health management technologies on offer. Currently, the staff members have poor training and no means of effectively communicating with each other regarding technology use. Also, the staff utilizes the technologies inappropriately, leading to several regulations violations. Through effective communication, the staff members can get training and real-time technical support to ensure that the technological systems available are used effectively.
Process for Evaluating New Health Information Technology Systems
To evaluate new health information technology systems, the systems will be checked to see the specific problems they have been designed to tackle. These should be problems that are relevant to the organization and its stakeholders. Second, the usability of the system will be evaluated. All stakeholders should have a general consensus on how easy and effective it is to use the systems. Training materials and support services should be in real-time (Sittig & Singh, 2019). Third, the system will be evaluated to see if it meets the relevant government regulations and laws and the institution's policy. This is vital in ensuring the institution is not breaking any laws and is not susceptible to lawsuits. Finally, the system will be evaluated for its cost-effectiveness. The cost of purchasing the systems and maintaining them will be considered. Ideally, the system should be easy to upgrade and maintain to facilitate sustainability.
References
Collen, M. F., & Ball, M. J. (Eds.). (2018). The history of medical informatics in the United States. Springer.
Ozair, F. F., Jamshed, N., Sharma, A., & Aggarwal, P. (2018). Ethical issues in electronic health records: A general overview. Perspectives in Clinical Research, 6(2), 73.
Sirota-Cohen, C., Rosipko, B., Forsberg, D., & Sunshine, J. L. (2019). Implementation and benefits of a vendor-neutral archive and enterprise-imaging management system in an integrated delivery network. Journal of Digital Imaging, 32(2), 211-220.
Sittig, D. F., & Singh, H. (2019). A new socio-technical model for studying health information technology in complex adaptive healthcare systems. In Cognitive informatics for biomedicine (pp. 59-80). Springer, Cham.
,
1
2
Compliance Policies
Deanna Buchanan
SNHU
The company must take the necessary steps to ensure that it complies with the set rules and regulations. Compliance while using different forms of information systems in an organization is crucial because it prevents an organization from facing certain issues, including legal issues or inefficiency in its operations (De-Vaujany et al., 2018). Some of the strategies and best practices that Featherfall should implement to enhance compliance include holding compliance audits, implementing compliance tools, knowing the regulatory environment, determining compliance goals, training employees, and reviewing compliance regulations. One of the most effective ways to help the company comply with the rules and regulations is to train employees on how to use new software and information systems. Some of the ways that the relevant experts can use to train those employees include using the right format for training, using training incentives for workers to use the technology, and making training a priority to improve buy-in.
Whenever employees do not follow compliance policies and regulations, an organization fails to adhere to the set guidelines and regulations. Training and educating the staff about the relevant policies is necessary and ensuring that everyone is held accountable when they do not follow the policies (Ceric et al., 2022). It is also important for the management to ensure that it focuses on certain areas of compliance the company needs to improve most, including a particular law, regulation, or violation that is costing the company a lot of money. Regular review of compliance regulations can help the company identify its weaknesses, which will allow it to improve and keep its compliance efforts updated.
References
Ceric, A., Small, F., & Morrison, M. (2020). What indigenous employees’ value in a business training programme: implications for training design and government policies. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2020.1754886
De-Vaujany, F. X., Fomin, V. V., Haefliger, S., & Lyytinen, K. (2018). Rules, practices, and information technology: A trifecta of organizational regulation. Information Systems Research, 29(3), 755-773. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2017.0771
,
1
2
Admission, Discharge, Transfer System
Deanna Buchanan
SNHU
Based on the two recommended technology systems, the organization should choose the Admission Discharge and Transfer (ADT) system based on its numerous features and advantages. The ADT system is a crucial component in health care information systems and is commonly used to track patients starting from when they get into a health care facility to the time they are discharged or taken to another health care facility. This information stores different forms of data; including patients' contact information, names, age, and medical record numbers. Implementing the ADT system in the organization will help keep crucial information and make it more accessible for health care professionals, besides making it easily transferable to other health care facilities, thus improving the quality and speed of providing health care services to patients.
Choosing the ADT system would be the best option because it has been attributed to various benefits, including improving patient care, collecting more reliable information, and interoperability. These systems usually create a workflow that enhances the collection of crucial information upon admission of the patient and then stores the data in a well-organized manner. The ADT system is designed to assist in improving the quality of patient information by ensuring that it is always updated while increasing reliability by providing context, for instance, historical records and notes where possible (Bartley & Daiker, 2022). This system can play a crucial role in improving patient care because it collects and organizes data in one easy-to-use database. This helps health care professionals to improve the use of patient history, which generally improves the quality and timeliness of patient care. For instance, if a patient has a history of a specific health condition or illness, the medical practitioners will receive notifications immediately after the patient is admitted to the health care facility. Due to this, medical professionals can easily determine whether the disease is relevant to the current concerns and take necessary action. Additionally, the ADT system has a high level of interoperability. The medical center can set up an ADT interface between various hospitals and huge medical systems in order to notify a patient's care team of admission, discharge, or transfer to a hospital. This will allow the health care providers outside the medical center to be well-informed on what took place during the patient’s visit.
During the implementation of the ADT system in the medical center, there are various ethical considerations that must be observed. Every health care facility has to uphold various technological principles, including accountability, data protection, and privacy (Shahid et al., 2022). The health care facility must ensure that patient-sensitive data is safeguarded to prevent malicious attacks. Most patients also prefer privacy; hence, the management must ensure that patient information is not shared with unauthorized persons. Moreover, the organization could invest its financial resources more effectively into the ADT system centered on certain factors. Based on the provided information, the medical center can effectively invest in the technology system because the cost of the interface, software, implementation, training, and yearly maintenance costs is relatively lower than that of the other recommended system.
There are different ways the organization could effectively monitor the use of the ADT system. One of the ways would be by deploying monitoring devices. These monitoring devices can be placed strategically in the technology system to collect essential information and place them at ad hoc locations to track different types of transactions of interest to the organization. Some of the monitoring devices that can be used include intrusion prevention systems, audit record monitoring, malicious code protection software, scanning tools, and network monitoring software. Moreover, the organization could effectively invest its time into the implementation of the ADT system by training and educating the staff members on how to use this technology system. Training the staff will provide significant insights on how the system is used and minimize mistakes which will, in turn, improve the organization's operations and improve patient care.
References
Bartley, J., & Daiker, M. L. (2022). Technology Environment. In The CAHIMS Review Guide (pp. 23-42). Productivity Press.
Shahid, J., Ahmad, R., Kiani, A. K., Ahmad, T., Saeed, S., & Almuhaideb, A. M. (2022). Data protection and privacy of the internet of healthcare things (IoHTs). Applied Sciences, 12(4), 1927.
,
HIM 500 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
Overview Practitioners in health information management and healthcare informatics are expected to be keenly aware of new and upcoming technologies that might benefit their organization. This becomes more complex as these individuals must also consider the impact that those technologies might have on the practice of medicine at their institution. When faced with new technologies, leaders in health information management must evaluate the state of the organization and make an informed decision that will affect the organization as a whole. This means addressing not just the needs of the health information management team, but the needs of all roles within the institution, while also addressing any issues of compliance the organization might be facing. For your final project in this course, you will imagine you have been hired as a contractor for a small medical facility to consult on the selection of a new technology. Their organization has been struggling, so you must first speak to the state of the organization and then offer an informed recommendation as to which of the technologies would suit the organization best. The project is divided into three milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three, Five and Seven. The final product will be submitted in Module Nine. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
• Determine standard technology systems and their uses in modern healthcare institutions through analysis of current and historical technology use in health information management and healthcare informatics
• Analyze the interrelationship between various professional roles within healthcare institutions and their use of technology systems for informing recommendations regarding health information technology systems
• Determine the potential impact of violating health regulations and laws regarding health information technology systems on healthcare organizations • Develop health information technology recommendations for healthcare institutions that are compliant with health regulations and laws and ensure
ethical management of health information • Determine effective investment of resources in health information technology for healthcare institutions based on the needs of the healthcare
institution
Prompt Imagine you have been contracted to consult on the recent developments at the Featherfall Medical Center. Featherfall has been struggling of late; it has had a series of problems that have prompted your hiring. It has faced the following issues:
1. Featherfall has recently violated several government regulations regarding the current state of its technology and how it is being used. The technology system is vastly out of date, and staff are not always using the technology that is in place or they are using the technology inappropriately. These problems have lost the institution lots of money for not meeting government regulations and have caused operational and ethical problems from inefficient and ineffective use of technology.
2. The staff at Featherfall are not well-trained on the use of technology and do not communicate appropriately about technology use. The roles that pertinent to your consult are the health information management team, the clinical staff (doctors, nurses, etc.), and administrative staff. The health information management team uses proper coding practices, and the current technology system serves them well, despite its age. However, other roles in the hospital have had issues with the system. Clinical staff, for instance, have had record-keeping issues both due to lack of training on the system and the system itself being out of date. Administrative staff within the organization have taken issue with the lack of communication about the technology and its use between the various roles. When the current technology system was chosen many years ago, the needs of these various roles were not considered.
You will begin by preparing for your consultation. You will analyze the history of the field as well as determine standard guidelines for technology use and standard technologies used in the field. You will also prepare information for Featherfall regarding the ramifications for violating health laws and regulations. Finally, you will use this information to review technology options that could be implemented at the institution. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Preparation for Consult: In this section of your final project, you will prepare for your consultation on the organization’s technology choice. To prepare, you will analyze the field of health information management for determining standard technologies and guidelines related to technology use in order to inform your technology selection.
A. Analyze key historical events in the field of health informatics for how technology has been used that could inform the management of health information. Be sure to support your response with appropriate examples.
B. Determine guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management that Featherfall could implement. Be sure to support your response with research.
C. Determine the standard technologies currently used in the field of health information management. Be sure to support your response with research. For example, what record-keeping technologies are typically used in the field?
D. Develop an overview of how the pertinent roles described at Featherfall would interact with technology. E. Describe the process you would use to evaluate new health information technology systems. Be sure that your process will evaluate new
systems based on how they meet the needs of the organization and how they are compliant with health regulations and laws.
II. Health Regulations and Laws Ramifications: In this section of your final project, you will finish your preparation by reviewing and explaining the ramifications for the organization if it decides to wait on addressing its recent violations regarding technology use.
A. Determine how violating health regulations and laws regarding technology could impact the finances of the institution if these violations are not addressed. Be sure to support your response with examples.
B. Determine how violating health regulations and laws regarding technology could impact the daily operations of the institution if these violations are not addressed. Be sure to support your response with examples.
C. Determine how violating health regulations and laws regarding technology could impact the security of the health information in the institution if these violations are not addressed. Be sure to support your response with examples.
III. Technology System Recommendations: In this final section of your final project, you will review the provided technology options and make informed recommendations to the organization regarding which technology it should choose.
A. Determine the needs of the various roles of the organization in a new technology. B. Recommend a new health information technology system that meets the following criteria. Be sure to justify how your recommendations meet
the criteria. The new health technology must: 1. Abide by provided health regulations and laws 2. Align with the needs of all staff members of the previously described organization 3. Esnsure the ethical management and use of health information
C. Determine how the organization could more effectively invest its financial resources into the recommended technology system. Be sure to justify your response.
D. Determine how the organization could monitor the use of the new health information system. Be sure to justify your response. E. Determine how the organization could effectively invest its time into the implementation of the new health information technology system. Be
sure to justify your response.
Milestones Milestone One: Analyzing the Landscape/Setting the Scene
In Module Three, you will submit a discussion of the history of healthcare information management/informatics and the current landscape in terms of technology. This milestone will set the stage for your project. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric. Milestone Two: Moving Toward Compliance
In Module Five, you will submit an analysis of how the company in the case study is noncompliant and the strategies (general, not specifics) to move them toward compliance. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric. Milestone Three: Recommendations
In Module Seven, you will submit your recommendations for technology for the institution and how it will be implemented. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Three Rubric. Final Submission: Health Information Technology Recommendations
In Module Nine, you will submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded with the Final Project Rubric.
Deliverables
Milestone Deliverable Module Due Grading
One Analyzing the Landscape/Setting the Scene Three Graded separately; Milestone One Rubric
Two Moving Toward Compliance Five Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric
Three Recommendations Seven Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric
Final Submission: Health Information Technology Recommendations
Nine Graded separately; Final Project Rubric
Final Project Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your health information technology recommendations should be 6–8 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. All references cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Preparation for Consult: Key
Historical Events
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and examples used demonstrate a sophisticated awareness for how the history of health informatics can inform the management of health information
Analyzes key historical events in the field of health informatics for how technology has been used historically that could inform the management of health information, supporting response with appropriate examples
Analyzes key historical events in the field of health informatics for how technology has been used historically that could inform the management of health information, supporting response with examples, but analysis is cursory or illogical or examples are inappropriate
Does not analyze key historical events in the field of health informatics
6.2
Preparation for Consult: Guidelines
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and research provided demonstrates a sophisticated awareness of the standards for technology use in the field of health information management
Determines guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management that Featherfall could implement, supporting response with research
Determines guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management that Featherfall could implement, supporting response with research, but determined guidelines are inappropriate, or supporting research is misaligned
Does not determine guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management
6.2
Preparation for Consult: Standard
Technologies
Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates a comprehensive awareness of the standard technologies used in the modern field of health information management
Determines the standard technologies currently used in the field of health information management, supporting response with research
Determines technologies used in the field of health information management, supporting response with research, but determined technologies are not standard currently in the field, or supporting research is misaligned
Does not determine technologies used in the field of health information management
6.2
Preparation for Consult: Roles
Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates keen insight into the interrelationship between the various roles at the healthcare organization
Develops an overview of how the various roles at the healthcare institution i
Collepals.com Plagiarism Free Papers
Are you looking for custom essay writing service or even dissertation writing services? Just request for our write my paper service, and we'll match you with the best essay writer in your subject! With an exceptional team of professional academic experts in a wide range of subjects, we can guarantee you an unrivaled quality of custom-written papers.
Get ZERO PLAGIARISM, HUMAN WRITTEN ESSAYS
Why Hire Collepals.com writers to do your paper?
Quality- We are experienced and have access to ample research materials.
We write plagiarism Free Content
Confidential- We never share or sell your personal information to third parties.
Support-Chat with us today! We are always waiting to answer all your questions.
