snhu HIM 220 Module Two Worksheet You are a healthcare professional working in a hospital that consists of 150 beds and 14 primary care clinics. You have been assigned the task of enhancing the electronic solution for your healthcare organization to prepare for the expansion of the hospital network. The hospital is part of a network of 15 hospitals located in several areas in Texas and is also part of a health information exchange (HIE). To fully support the enterprise health information system, you need to find the best enhancements to the current system. To address the expansion of the enterprise, you must consider a few steps by answering the items below: 1. What applications should be added to facilitate the hospital's expansion? Consider tools such as decision support, encoders, clinical reminders, reporting triggers, and clinical guidelines in your response. . Any proposed applications that are to be added to help with the hospital expansion would need to be patient portals with access to mobile applications for ease of access. Security needs to be in place when communicating with providers through these apps. An Electronic Health Record (EHR) system for digitalizing a patient clinical record, along with computerized provider entry (CPOE) to help minimize any errors. Treatment/and or medication orders will also need to be secured within a patient portal. 2. Identify a core group of individuals within the organization who should be actively involved in the selection of the expanded systems. · Identifying the core group of individuals within an organization should be actively involved in the selection of the systems and should be the end users. Such as: Nurses, physicians, physician assistants, pharmacy personnel, and admissions/or medical records staff members. 3. Using the information, you find in Chapters 4, 5, 9, and 11 of Introduction to Information Systems for Health Information Technology, develop a checklist of five to seven items that need to be considered when choosing the system enhancements. Consider patient access tools such as portals, personal health records, and the use of mobile applications. A list of things that need to be considered when choosing the correct way to enhance a system would be as follows: · Ability to keep a patient's data secure and confidential. · The cost of the program implantation system. . The time that is required to train end users on new applications within the new system. · A user-friendly operating system. · New application compatibility with legacy systems in place. · Using downtime procedures upon any implementation of new applications. 4. Using the information available to you in Chapter 5 of Introduction to Information Systems for Health Information Technology, explain what testing steps you would take to evaluate a system prior to allowing it to go into production.
snhu To ensure that the new system is properly installed and in working order, the following testing should be done. · Interface testing: ensure that data is transferred and properly displayed in each correct field. · Integration testing: ensure all hardware (computers, printers,