Assignment:
Case Studies
Prior to beginning work on this assignment review of Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.
Select two of the case studies located in the course textbook at the end of and answer the questions associated with those case studies in a cohesive, APA-formatted paper.
Part 1
a. How are patients prioritized for bed assignment?
b. Describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of this new software; include the stated organizational goals in your answer.
c. Discuss how this software might share data with other institutional applications to provide a dashboard view of census-type activity.
Part 2
a. Which components are critical to Mrs. Smith staying safely in her home?
b. Describe whether Mrs. Smith's regimen might be augmented using telehealth applications.
Part 3
a. Should you introduce the clinicians to standardize terminologies and involve them in the discussions about electronic health records (EHRs) before contacting potential software vendors? Or should you contact landers, select the best software, and tell the clinicians what you selected?
b. What steps would you need to complete before reporting to the board of directors?
c. What strategies will likely increase your chances of success? What strategies will increase your chances of failure?
Part 4
a. Describe the approaches you would use to ensure that all aspects of patient care were considered when developing a clinical decision support (CDS) system.
b. How would you prioritize the efforts of your CDS team?
c. How would you balance the need to deliver desired CDS capabilities quickly against the benefits of establishing robust infrastructure to enable future deliverables to be implemented more quickly?
d. Identify one area for quality and value improvement.
e. Define CDS interventions that you would implement to address this area of need.
f. Describe how your approach aligns with the best practices discussed in this chapter.
g. How would you systematically measure the impact of these CDS interventions?
Case Studies Papers
Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center's APA Style resource for each case study.
Required Resources
Text
Nelson, R. & Staggers. N. (2018). Health informatics: an interprofessional approach (2nd ed.).
Chapter: Technical Infrastructure to Support Healthcare
Chapter: Administrative Applications Supporting Healthcare Delivery
Chapter: Telehealth and Applications for Delivering Care at a Distance
Chapter: Home Health and Related Community-Based Systems
Chapter: Clinical Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
Chapter: Public Health Informatics
Chapter: Health: The Intersection of Mobile Technology and Health