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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 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. Billing Registration Point of care charting CPOE Patient portals EMR
2. Identify a core group of individuals within the organization who should be actively involved in the selection of the expanded systems. . Administration Directors 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. Training Budget Time Customization User- friendly system Customer sevice
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- helps to ensure the organization that all the information has transferred into the new system is correct and in the correct format Application testing-helps to make sure all functions of the new system properly working
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Documentation testing- all documents that were developed during the implementation process are accurate and correct Conversion testing- ensures that the transfer from the old system to the new system can be done Training testing- team should train a few employees on how to use the system to see what changes need to be made for the system for the system to run properly when implemented
in your search for an electronic solution. The request for information is used to find out information about the specific system. The team needs to decide which vendors system they would like to see. After they see all the systems and how they run, they must decide which system will suit theirs needs . They then need to issue a request for a proposal to each of the top vendors. By submitting the proposal, this gives the vendor the information needed to propose a system that will meets the needs of the organization. The request for quotation is used to help determine the