Heather Arsenault HIM 220 - Healthcare Data Management 22EW3 Due Date: 1/16/2022 GRADE: 28.88/30
Southern New Hampshire University 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
hospitals located in several areas in the state of 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. In order to address the expansion of the enterprise, you must take a few steps into consideration 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. Registration Billing system Order entry Provider-Patient portals Point-of-care charting Electronic Medication record
2. Identify a core group of individuals within the organization who should be actively involved in the selection of the expanded systems. Administration . Nurses Physicians
3. Using the information you find in Chapters 4, 5, 9, and 12 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. Time Budget Training Interoperability Customization Customer service How user-friendly the system is
Heather Arsenault HIM 220 -- Healthcare Data Management 22EW3 Due Date: 1/16/2022 GRADE: 28.88/30
Southern New Hampshire University
4. Using the information available to you 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. Interface testing -- this helps the organization ensure that all information transferred into the new system is correct and in the correct format. Application testing -- this ensures that all functions of the new system are working properly. Documentation testing -- this ensures that all documents that were created during the implementation process are accurate. Conversion testing -- ensures that the team can transfer from the old system to the new system. Training testing -- the team should train a small group on how to use the system to see what adjustments need to be made to the training plan.
5. Explain how you would utilize a request for proposal, request for information, and request for quotation in your search for an electronic solution. . The request for information (RFI) is used to find out basic information about a specific system. The team should use these to decide which vendors system they would like to see. Once they look at all aspects of each system they will decide what
(RFP) to each of the top vendors. This gives the vendor all of the information needed to propose a system that meets the ne