Secondary Data in Healthcare Research

Instructions 

As you have discussed so far in this course, healthcare has lagged behind other 

industries in terms of digitization of records, in particular patient health records. 

Write a paper that includes the following: 

Explain the importance of information technology (IT) in patient transitions in different 

types of healthcare settings. 

Provide some insight into the status of the federal government initiatives that are 

underway (regional health information networks, electronic health records that are 

available from anywhere, etc.) with the goal of creating a health information exchange 

in the United States. 

Finally, knowing the status of the NHIN and initiatives, use critical thinking to analyze 

how your primary healthcare provider compares. 

 Review the meaningful use implementation scenarios at the following site: 

                  Source: S&I Framework: Scenarios. Retrieved from 

                             http://www.siframework.org/scenarios.html

 Using one of these scenarios, describe a specific example of how your provider’s office is state-of-the-art. 

 Describe a scenario where the office is also lagging behind. Using that scenario, identify the primary obstacles      the office faces, describe several potential solutions to this problem, and identify the one that would best fit your 

provider's office. 

Requirements

The Assignment should be three to four pages in length, prepared in a Microsoft Word 

document, with a minimum of three citations and APA-formatted.