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Readings

· Course Text: Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals

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. Chapter 5, "Healthcare Information Systems" (pp. 128-129, "Administrative Systems" through "Contract Management Systems") This section identifies key management information systems currently in use in health care organizations.

· Course Text: Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

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. Chapter 13, "IT Alignment and Strategic Planning" This chapter establishes the interrelated processes of strategic planning in an organization and the effective use of IT, both as a strategic goal and as a means of helping an organization follow its other long-terms plans.

· Article: Rogoski, R. R. (2006). Counting on efficiency: Healthcare organizations in growth mode need financial information systems that can accommodate expansion. Health Management Technology, 27(3), 10–14. Retrieved from http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=2009332856&site=ehost-live&scope=site The article examines how U.S. health care organizations are in need of financial information systems that can accommodate expansion. The problem in health care, however, is that the best-in-breed approach taken by many institutions has created a world of disparate systems that require interfacing with other hospital systems.

· Article: Catalino, J. (2010). Software solutions can trim rising costs. Health Management Technology, 31(3), 10-11. Retrieved fromhttp://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=49031761&site=ehost-live&scope=site The article focuses on the enterprise-wide solutions in U.S. hospitals use to reduce their costs in March of 2010. It mentions that such solutions have the capability to integrate information systems across the different facilities of healthcare institutions. The author states that some of the benefits that hospital administrators can get from these solutions include centralized key business functions, reduced operational costs and efficient data organization.

· Article: Medical center meets performance objectives: At Mount Sinai Medical Center, delivering critical cost metrics to doctors and administrators was the missing piece of the puzzle. (2009). Health Management Technology, 30(11),18–19. Retrieved fromhttp://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/resultsadvanced?sid=be17e766-dfb0-4634-b530-5c37973c61d8%40sessionmgr14&vid=4&hid=6&bdata=JmJxdWVyeT0mY2xpMD1GVCZjbHYwPVkmY2xpMT1USSZjbHYxPU1lZGljYWwrY2VudGVyK21lZXRzK3BlcmZvcm1hbmNlK29iamVjdGl2ZXMmdHlwZT0xJnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d This article recounts a prominent hospital's challenge in getting critical information quickly to its health care providers, and its successful efforts at standardizing its reporting environment, which included offering business intelligences dashboards and self-service analytic applications for clinicians, administrators, and executives.

· Article: Charge capture upgrade improves cash flow: While the Kentucky Medical Services Foundation was successful in converting users to the new platform, there were surprises along the way. (2009). Health Management Technology, 30(9), 30–31. Retrieved fromhttp://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/resultsadvanced?sid=be17e766-dfb0-4634-b530-5c37973c61d8%40sessionmgr14&vid=8&hid=6&bdata=JmJxdWVyeT0mY2xpMD1GVCZjbHYwPVkmY2xpMT1USSZjbHYxPUNoYXJnZStjYXB0dXJlK3VwZ3JhZGUraW1wcm92ZXMrY2FzaCtmbG93JnR5cGU9MSZzaXRlPWVkcy1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d This article describes steps a health care foundation took to improve the automated charge-capture technology used by their physicians, and technological and human factors that were considered in moving to a new system.

· Articles for this week's Application Assignment: Browse through recent issues of Health Management Technology in the Walden Library to find summary articles about recent management applications, similar to those listed below. Read at least two of these articles published in the last two years on management applications, preferably related to the area of health care in which you intend to work. These will help you arrive at a topic for this week's Application Assignment. (Note: The following are provided as examples, and are not required reading. To open them, right click on the URL and select Open in a New Window, or copy and paste in a new browser window.)

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. "Snapshot" patient data.(2009). Health Management Technology, 30(1), 26. Retrieved fromhttp://go.galegroup.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/ps/infomark.do?action=interpret&source=gale&srcprod=EAIM&tabID=T003&prodId=EAIM&userGroupName=minn4020&docId=A192052363&type=retrieve&contentSet=IAC-Documents&version=1.0&authCount=1&u=minn4020

. Sage software healthcare. (2008). Health Management Technology, 29(10), 42. Retrieved fromhttp://go.galegroup.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/ps/infomark.do?source=gale&srcprod=EAIM&userGroupName=minn4020&prodId=EAIM&tabID=T003&action=interpret&docId=A187904356&type=retrieve&contentSet=IAC-Documents&version=1.0

Websites

· Website: Health Management Technology http://healthmgttech.com/

This website offers feature articles, white papers, and opinion columns on issues and advances in health management technology as well as other related resources.

Optional Resources

· Course Text: Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals

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. Chapter 6, "Strategic Planning"

· Article: Hospital chooses SaaS for Web performance. (2010). Health Management Technology, 31(3), 32. Retrieved fromhttp://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=2010596063&site=ehost-live&scope=site 

· Article: Trapp, C. (2008). True believer: A multispeciality early adopter implements a multidisciplinary charge-capture solution and streamlines continuity of care. Health Management Technology, 29(9), 26–28. Retrieved from http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=18795740&site=ehost-live&scope=site