Assignment:
PART I: Case Study
Scenario:
Community Hospital plans to replace its current hospital information system. One part of the process is the design of the functional requirements for admitting, emergency services, and clinic interfaces to the master patient index. You are a member of the functional requirements development team and have been assigned the task of determining user satisfaction with the current system and what enhanced features or functionality is desired.
Directions:
Create a survey instrument to assess current interface functionality. Your final product should be at least 2 pages in length. The deliverables of this project include:
•Description of survey purpose and goals.
•Identification of target audience.
•Development of questions and survey instrument.
•How data will be tabulated and analyzed.
PART II: Essays
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the below questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments, if possible. You may also utilize LIRN for your research. For concise APA formatting guidelines and LIRN guidelines, please visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC). Your answer to each question should be at least one page in length and utilize APA guidelines.
1.A hospital is trying to determine the cause in the recent increase in the average length of stay. Explain why a data mining approach to answering this question might be useful.
2.Explain the differences between a data mart and a data repository. Please be as descriptive as possible and provide examples.
3.Explain why there are issues with physician licensing in telemedicine.
4.List and describe in detail three functions that an ADT system can support.
5.A physician's office wants to install software to process patient claims to each insurer. Because patients have multiple types of insurance, the software will need to not only transmit the claims but also understand what information needs to be sent to each insurer. Would you choose a two-tier or three-tier architecture for this application? Why?
6.The text states that "individuals may intuitively know that automating a problem will not fix it." What does this mean, and what else can be done to fix the problem being addressed?
7.As part of 2009s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the government allocated $2 billion to accelerate the adoption of health information technology. Why?