Project Management Proposal

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Mock Case 005: Electronic Health Record/Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)

Elam Home Health agency has fifteen (15) nurses and forty-five (45) aides that do in-home patient care. Totally, they see approximately two hundred (200) patients per day. They are a hard paper company for nursing/home health aid documentation, mailing of physician orders, manual delivery of physician medication orders, and billing. Elam has decided to move toward a fully electronic health record. They have requested you submit an information technology (IT) strategic planning document that includes the following components:

1. Total electronic patient record. 2. Portable capabilities for nurses and home health aids to document at the     patients/clients home (to be transmitted at the end of the day to the office). 3. Ability to create pre-determined fields for an electronically generated plan of     care for their patients. 4. Accessibility for physicians to electronically sign orders and progress notes. 5. Capability to transmit physician medication orders to their primary pharmacy. 6. Ability to do electronic billing for Medicare and Medicaid.

Optional Web Sites:

http://www.pamij.com/roche.html  

http://www.mh.state.oh.us/oper/outcomes/planning.training/information.system.source.book.r2.pdf  

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/wpro/2006/9290612177_eng.pdf  

http://endingthedocumentgame.gov/PDFs/HealthcareDelivery.pdf

http://www.cyberfab.net/Documents/eHealth/Physiological/overview.pdf

http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/ejeta/specialMay07-issue/ejeta-special-07may-3.pdf

http://www.smartmd.com/news/ehr.htm