Assignment: Health Care Information Management
Vila Health: Interfacing and Interoperability
As Vila Health is acquiring rural hospitals, your superior has asked you, a midlevel administrator, to explore options in regard to informatics at Vila Health. You have been asked to examine whether or not the main hospital should invest in interfacing all of their current systems with the possibility of transitioning the new acquisitions to this new interfaced system.
Instructions
For this assignment, create an executive summary, outlining the pros and cons of investing in interfacing the current system, including the components, infrastructure, and investment needed. Make recommendations, including whether to interface (why or why not) and whether the current, different systems at the newly acquired hospitals should be transitioned to the same system as the main VH hospital in Minneapolis, or kept the same with upgrades. Support your summary with peer-reviewed sources.
Refer to the unit studies, including the Vila Health: Information Systems Interfacing and Interoperability challenge (linked in Resources), and create an executive summary, in which you will:
• Analyze the key characteristics of different HIM systems, including applications, department-specific functions, and capabilities.
• Accurately identify the components, infrastructure, and investment needs for the HIM systems at each hospital.
• Accurately identify the pros and cons of maintaining the current systems, interfacing the current HIM systems, or replacing all systems with a single new HIM system.
• Make recommendations based on best practices in HIM, supported by current literature.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.