unit 8 HI 300 assignment

Kaplan University School of Health Sciences

HI300 Assignment Directions

Unit 8 Assignment Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

 Discuss the impetus for health information exchange (HIE) in the United States.  Describe basic HIE organizational structures, architectures, and services.  Reinforce the need for data stewardship in HIE services.  Identify the state, regional, and local activities in achieving benefits and overcoming

challenges for HIE organizations.  Describe the federal government's concept of a nationwide health information network.

Course outcome(s) assessed/addressed in this Assignment:

HI300-5: Identify current federal initiatives aimed at promoting electronic health information exchange. 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, and APA-formatted.

Kaplan University School of Health Sciences

HI300 Assignment Directions

Submitting your work: Submit your Assignment to the appropriate Dropbox. For instructions on submitting your work, view the Dropbox Guide located under Academic Tools at the top of your unit page. Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you with meeting APA expectations for written Assignments.

Kaplan University School of Health Sciences

HI300 Assignment Directions

Unit 8 Assignment Grading Rubric = 90 points

Assignment Requirements Points possible

Points earned by student

Clearly justifies the understanding of information technology and patient transitions in different types of healthcare settings

0–20

Includes discussion of federal government initiatives 0–15

Discusses current federal government initiative underway in regards to the RHIO, EHR, Information Exchange

0–30

Explains status of own primary care physician 0–25

Total (Sum of all points)

Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or APA errors. (See Writing Deductions Rubric in Doc Sharing)

Adjusted total points

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