Case Study, Stage 2: Data Flow Among Health Care Systems
Before you begin this
assignment, be sure you have read the “ Family Clinic Case Study”, the
course readings assigned to date, and feedback on your graded Stage 1
assignment.
Purpose
of this Assignment
This assignment specifically
addresses the following course outcomes to enable you to:
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Analyze the flow of data and
information among disparate health information systems to support internal and
external business processes
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Examine the implications of
ethical, legal, and regulatory policy issues on health care information systems
Family Clinic Medical Practice
In your Stage 1 assignment,
you created process models for the patient visit process in the Family
Clinic.For the Stage 3 assignment,
you will identify an Electronic Health Records System that will address the
process problems at the Clinic.The EHR system you identify will initially be implemented at the
Family Clinic, but will soon need to be able to connect and communicate with
external systems.As part of analyzing the
requirements for the new system, one step is to consider how that system will
enable the Family Clinic to exchange electronic data with other health
organizations – such as other providers, pharmacies, insurance companies, and
even patients themselves.The case study mentions
several of these.For this assignment you will
select two types of external organizations and describe what kind of data would
flow between the Family Clinic and those organizations and how that can be
done effectively.
Assignment
1.
Review the Family Clinic
Case Study and identify two types of external organizations (e.g., hospitals, nursing
homes, rehabilitation centers, laboratories, pharmacies, etc.) with which the
Family Clinic needs to communicate and the purpose of the
communication.
2.
Make a list ofat least fivedata elements or items of information that would be shared with each
external organization, and explain whether that information is going out from
the Family Clinic or coming in from each of the two external
organizations.Note:More than five data elements are required to earn full points.
3.
Conduct some external researchand findat least onedata interchange standard that
would apply to the data that is exchanged witheachorganization.Provide a brief description of what the standard
is, what it requires, and why it is important.(There are some specific data interchange standards
that apply to health data exchange; if the same standard applies to the data
exchange with both organizations, explain how it relates to each.)
4.
Research, list and discuss three
legal, regulatory, or ethical considerations that would relate to this data
exchange and explain what needs to be done to ensure compliance with
each.You must include at least one
legal/regulatory consideration and at least one ethical consideration.
Formatting
For academic writing, the
writer is expected to write in the third person. In third person, the writer
avoids the pronouns I, we, my, our, you and your. The third person is used to
make the writing more objective by taking the individual, the “self,” out of
the writing. This method is very helpful for academic writing, a form in which
facts, not opinion, drive the tone of the text. Writing in the third person
allows the writer to come across as unbiased and thus more informed.
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Your paper should be about two
pages, single spaced.
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You should includeat least one external source.These are sourcesother than those provided in
the classroom.Sources should be scholarly or
professional in nature, rather than random websites.NOTE: More than one external source is required to earn
full points.
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Add a title page, and a
reference page.
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Use APA formatted citations
and references for all external sources used.
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Compare your final work to the
rubric to be sure you have met content and quality criteria.
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Submit your paper via your
Assignment folder as a Word document, or a document that can be read in
Word.
Your paper will be evaluated
on whether or not you correctly incorporated the course concepts from the
textbook and readings, and have addressed all parts of the assignment, using
the rubric below.
