Electronic Cigarettes Scenario

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HIM 301 Week 3 Guidance

Overview

Assignment Due Date Format Grading Percent

Electronic Cigarettes Scenario Day 3

(1st post) Discussion 4

Week 3 Quiz Day 6 Quiz 5

Emergency Department Downtime Case Study

Day 7 Assignment 4

Data Analysis Paper Day 7 Assignment 18

Please note the verb in each of the learning outcomes this week. This week is not about “memorizing” content but requires you to read and explore online resources, draw conclusions and manipulate data to form information.

1. Analyze trends and events leading to the development and adoption of electronic personal health records (PHR).

2. Analyze the role of the employee and employers in the monitoring of selected health parameters.

3. Compare and contrast approaches for information system implementation.

4. Assess the critical factors when evaluating the acceptable frequency of system downtime.

5. Analyze health data. 6. Create a form and the associated data dictionary.

Looking Ahead: A Note About Week Five Final Project

Before you continue reading on about Week 3, let’s take a pause and look at our Week 5 Final Project deliverable in this course. Please refer to your course guide. You have a choice with the final project to do either a video upload or a PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes. You also have a choice in terms of the topic that you would like to present for this project. Because your Final Project is an educational presentation for a group of colleagues, you must spend time doing quality research on your topic before starting on your video or PowerPoint presentation. For that reason alone, it is worthwhile to take some time this week to take a look ahead and start perhaps compiling some research on the topic that you would like to present.

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Discussions

To receive full credit for your DQs, your responses should be robust and not just copy and paste from the reading.

Substantive participation includes responses to discussion questions as well as discourse between students related to the subject matter. Substantive responses must be based upon the course content, theory, or personal experiences—not mere opinion. Examples of substantive participation do not include posting assignments or a question a student might have for the facilitator or the group. A simple “I agree” will not count. Substantive responses should also include appropriate documentation/citation.

Note: Week 3 Discussion 1, Option 2 should be page 256, questions 1, 2 & 3.

Note: Did you notice that for this option, you were assigned a pro or con stance? Your post should reflect if you are in favor (PRO) of the Big Bang approach and why OR why you are against (CON) the Big Bang Approach and why. Review Box 17-4 on page 285 of the textbook, which presents the key points of two approaches for implementing and upgrading an information system. You will be assigned one of two positions: The Big Bang approach or the incremental approach. Prepare a statement supporting the approach assigned to you and provide specific examples justifying your position.

Assignments

The assignments this week are not something you can whip together in the last few hours of Day 7, but rather they require thoughtful reflection of the subject matter. Remember, we are looking at the topics from the perspective of informatics. Prior to starting your assignments, you want to make sure that you are going into the Ashford Library, using the Student Study Guide provided in Announcements and extracting at least two or three articles on the topic to support your assignment.

Materials Posted in Announcements in Canvas

Please note that your instructor has posted an example of one response to the Chapter 18 Emergency Department Downtime scenario in the class Announcements in canvas. This is purely an example to show you how you might approach doing this grid. Your grid should be unique and the response that you write should describe the grid that you present.

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KIDS COUNT data center

Part of this week’s formative paper is the use of the KIDS Count data center. Start early on the assignment, since you will be:

• Researching data

• Graphing data

• Analyzing data

This assignment is a peek into the heart of informatics.

This assignment is worth 20% of your grade so you want to do well on this assignment. Look at the assignment early so if you have questions, you have time to ask me for help.

Case Study

1. Read the chapter 2. Read the case study 3. Notice the requirements of the case study

a. # of references 1. In addition to the textbook, utilize a minimum of two scholarly

sources to support your points b. # of pages

1. Your response to the case study questions should be a minimum of one full page in length, excluding the title and reference pages

4. Answer each case study question

Case Study: Chapter 18 Emergency Department Downtime Case Study Hints:

• Plot each component on the Downtime Determinates for both parts I and part 2 of the scenario as it unfolded. See figure 18-2 and 18-3 for an example

• Document your IT response: Prepare the email/memo you would send out from an IT perspective

• Document end-user response: Prepare the email/memo you would send out from an end-user perspective

• Outline your communication plans • Make changes to the assessment and plans to account for changes to the

scenario: What would you suggest the plan should be? • Notice that a data dictionary is part of this assignment. There is one

posted in Class Announcements for your review. Let this sample be your guide!

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• Use the EDIS Sample Document posted in Class Announcements to provide your response with regard to two additional Data Dictionary elements that might be used to complete the Data Dictionary for the Emergency Department Information System. You have a sample from a Washington State Hospital region in your Class Announcements. What other kinds of Patient Data Elements might you see adding to this Data Dictionary.

If you did not read the chapter, you will have a hard time with the case study. As you read the chapter, be sure you understand Table 18-5, Figure 18-2 and Figure 18-3. For the first discussion question, you need to create two boxes like the box seen in Figure 18-2.

With the first box, taking the first downtime scenario in the case study, plot (mark) the seven components relative to Impact/Risk and Length of Downtime/Time to Recover. The seven components are listed in the case study. How do you know where to place each component? Look at Table 18-5 Downtime Levels.

With the second box, you are repeating the process, but with the second scenario outlined in the case study.

Reminder: Don’t forget to answer the rest of the question.

• Document your IT response: Prepare the email/memo you would send out from an IT perspective

• Document end-user response: Prepare the email/memo you would send out from an end-user perspective

• Outline your communication plans

Did you notice this recommended multi-media items?

Multimedia

French, T. (n.d.). Excel chart tutorial [Video file]. Retrieved from http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelcharts/ss/Chart_wiz_step.htm

American Psychological Association. (2014). The basics of APA style [Tutorial]. Retrieved from http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

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Still need more help with the graphing?

• YouTube videos

• Blogs

• Wiki

• Microsoft Office website

Student Resources on the Publisher Website

Have you checked out the student resources for the textbook?

• Review questions to help prepare for the quizzes o (Another quiz in Week 4)

• Additional resources

Spotlight on HIMSS

Have you checked out the resource library on the HIMSS website?

Topics include:

• What is the value of HIT (Health IT)?

• How is technology driving health care reform?

This week’s reading

Chapter 12 The Engaged e-Patient - Chapters 12, 13 and 14 begin to discuss a very important theme in HIM that will be explored in more depth in later courses. This is the theme of the “engaged” patient or consumer. When we discuss engaging consumers (or patients if they are in a health care setting) we also generally speak of engaging families and designated caregivers of those patients. The topic of the e-Patient covers areas like use of the Internet to look up health information and also patients’ use of secured online medical portals (much like banking or online school portals). There are even applications today where identified online patients can do electronic visits with their providers. These visits, called e-Visits are a convenience for patients and are also and effective and billable way to deliver non-urgent provider services in some settings as discussed by Mehrotra, Paone, Martich & Albert, et al (2013).

Chapter 13 Social Media Tools for Practice and Education - How do doctors and hospitals use social networking to their advantage? What are the challenges of using social networks as a provider? How do consumers and patients use health related web sites? These topics are explored in Chapter 13.

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Chapter 14 Personal Health Records (PHRs) - PHRs are secure personal health records for patients. These are used for both business use such as scheduling and insurance updates as well as clinical services like prescription refills and viewing medical testing results.

Chapter 16 Strategic Planning and Selecting an Information System - Introduces you to the challenges of acquiring new technologies for use in healthcare. The financially intensive topic of software and hardware system upgrades is also covered. Did you know that there is a list of health vendor software that is certified by the Federal Government for use in billing recipients of Medicare payments? This list documents vendors who make different kinds of EHR or electronic health record software. The list can be viewed at the following web site: http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/certified- health-it-product-list-chpl.

Chapter 18 Contract Negotiations and Software Licensing

Chapter 19 Implementing and Upgrading an Information System - A very practical discussion about the role of HIM professionals in installing or implementing software in the health care environment. There are many elements to this such as testing software, documenting systems functions and also training the people using these tools who we call “end users”.

Chapter 20 Downtime and Disaster Recovery for Health Information Systems - Helps you address the Emergency Department Case study.

After reading a chapter you need additional information, check out the HIMSS website. CEO Eric Schmidt was a speaker at HIMSS. Want to see why he attended HIMSS? Check out the You Tube video Google CEO Eric Schmidt at HIMSS. While viewing the video, how many components we have touched upon in this course? This course is an introduction to a number of informatics facets, but just an introduction.

Week 3 assignment is worth 20% of the grade. If you are stuck on the graphing part, see below. You can select the steps in a number of ways; I just chose one way to do this.

Step 1: You go to the website provided.

Step 2: Select Data by Topic.

Step 3: Select a Topic.

Step 4: Make it easy on yourself and select one of the national indicators under the topic.

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Step 5: Choose two locations (You can choose two states, two cities, two congressional districts) I chose two states. Under United States Locations, uncheck all and pick two states.

Step 6. Under Years, select four years of data.

Step 7. Now scroll up and you will see Table, Map, Line Graph and Bar Graph.

Step 8. Select Line Graph, scroll down and expand the Table View. Copy the table into an Excel spreadsheet. You can copy and paste the Line Graph into your paper.

Step 9: Now scroll up and you will see Table, Map, Line Graph and Bar Graph.

Step 10: Select Bar Graph, scroll down and expand the Table View. Copy the table into an Excel spreadsheet. You can copy and paste the Bar Graph into your paper.

Step 11: Now, create your Pie chart. Copy the table off the website into Excel.

Step 12: Delete the Number column (not empty it, but delete it)

Step 13: Highlight the table.

Step 14: Select Insert.

Step 15: Select Pie Chart (you can use whatever type of Pie chart you like).

Step 16: Your Pie Chart will appear in Excel. Add the title and copy it into your paper.

Hint: Two of the graphs are similar and reflect similar information. How does it appear with the third graph?

This is what the table will look like that you will highlight to insert a graph.

Location 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Alabama 80,000 82,000 64,000 59,000 49,000

Colorado 59,000 76,000 61,000 57,000 41,000

Florida 262,000 274,000 259,000 234,000 175,000

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References

Itop seo. (2014, January 19). Google CEO Eric Schmidt at HIMSS [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efAxFsiJNQk

Certified Health IT Program (2014). Retrieved from: http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/certified-health-it- product-list-chpl

Mehrotra, A., Paone, S., Martich, G.D., Albert, S & Shevchik, G. (2013). Characteristics of patients who seek eVisits instead of office visits. Telemedicine and eHealth (19), 7.