Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapters 12, 13, and 14 of Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.
Using the scenario below respond to the discussion question provided to you by your instructor. Based on your University of Arizona Global Campus major of study (e.g., Health Information Management, Nursing, Health Administration, Health and Human Services or Public Health) analyze benefits and issues associated with these informatics systems and exchange of data in these settings. Specifically, formulate your response from the standpoint of a professional working at a community health center as part of an interdisciplinary team addressing the issue of young consumers and electronic cigarettes.
Scenario:
Health consumers of all ages, including youth, are engaging in the use of electronic cigarettes. Using information found at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Electronic CigarettesLinks to an external site. web page, analyze the CDC recommendations regarding persons age 18 and younger and the use of electronic cigarettes. The IT department of the community health center started the design of an informatics application to collect data on electronic smoking in youth consumers who visit the center. Their data intake form includes consumer identification and demographic information fields.
Imagine you are working on a team within your organization to further develop the overall design of this informatics application aimed at collecting data related to electronic cigarette use and youth consumers who visit the health center.
For your initial discussion post you will be drawing a data form picture using Microsoft Word drawing functions to build the data form and attach it to your referenced discussion post in the Canvas classroom. If you need assistance using Microsoft products, you can review Microsoft’s Office Help & TrainingLinks to an external site. web page.
Initial Post: Your initial post should be a minimum of 350 words. Utilize a minimum of three unique credible or scholarly sources (excluding the textbook or other course provided resources) cited in APA format, as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. resource. Keep in mind that scholarly sources include peer reviewed articles and non-commercial websites. Review the University of Arizona Global Campus Library’s Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. tip sheet for more information about sources. Multiple pages from the same scholarly website will be counted as one scholarly source.
Category: Health Care Ethics Medical Law
maggie Pemberton
universty of arizona global campus
Introduction to Health Informatics
Instructor: Samuel Bufkin
case study 1
Michael H. Kennedy, Kim Crickmore,aand Lynne MilesaManaging the flow of patients and bed capacity is challengingfor any hospital, especially for unscheduled admissions. ForZed Medical Center, a large regional referral center in theSouth and a member of the University Health System Consor-tium, the challenge is even greater. As the flagship hospital fora multihospital system with more than 750 licensed beds anda Level 1 trauma center with 50-plus trauma beds, approxi-mately 70% of annual admissions are unscheduled.The vice-president for Operations has a PhD in Nursing, isa fellow of the Advisory Board Company, and has more than20 years’tenure at Zed Medical Center. Three of the tendepartments under her purview (Patient Care Coordinator,Bed Control, and Patient Transfers) are directly engaged inmanaging patient flow and bed capacity. The division is alsoresponsible for system-wide care coordination for patientsdischarged to skilled nursing facilities, to home health, andto home without planned service delivery. Current opera-tional goals include (1) decreasing the current length of stayby 0.3 days from 5.7 to 5.4 days and (2)“ED to 3”—a sloganincorporating the intention to place patients from the emer-gency department into a bed within 3 hours of the decision toadmit. With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servicesclarifying penalties for readmissions within 30 days, ZedMedical Center has been preparing to effectively managereadmissions based on CMS guidelines.The eight staff members assigned to Patient Transferscoordinate with hospitals within the region wanting to trans-fer patients to Zed Medical Center. They take calls, connectoutside transfers with accepting physicians, and arrangetransport. The accepting physician determines the patient’sneeded level of care, special care needs (e.g., diabetic), andthe time frame for transfer. The Patient Transfer Departmentuses the TransferCenter module of TeleTracking (www.teletracking.com) to manage the transfer and admission ofpatients. After a patient has been accepted for admission bythe admitting physician, Bed Control makes the bed assign-ment. The staff members of Bed Control assign incomingpatients to specific beds once the Patient Placement Facilita-tors from the Patient Care Coordinator Department identifythe nursing unit to which patients should be assigned. Thisdetermination is made based on the level of care required,physician preferences in choice of nursing unit, and the scopeof care supported by the nursing units. The Bed ControlDepartment uses the Capacity Management Suite of the Tele-Tracking software. The PreAdmitTracking module keepstrack of bed status with an“electronic bedboard,”which pro-vides a graphical user interface through which plannedadmissions, transfers, and discharges can be annotated. Thestatus of a bed freed by patient discharge for which a cleaningrequest has been made is also noted (dirty, in progress, orcleaned). The Bed Tracking module uses the medical center’spaging network to notify the environmental services staff of acleaning request and the unit director of the unit that a patientis incoming. The TransportTracking module automaticallydispatches patient transport requests via phone or pager. Chapter 7:
How are patients prioritized for bed assignment?
Describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of this new software; include the stated organizational goals in your answer.
Discuss how this software might share data with other institutional applications to provide a dashboard view of census-type activity.
case study 2 Mrs. Smith is 82 years old and is diagnosed with hyperten-sion, diabetes, and congestive heart failure. Her two childrenlive in California, whereas she lives in North Carolina in asmall family home on 10 acres of land in the Blue RidgeMountains. Mrs. Smith has been in the hospital four timesin the last year because of congestive heart failure. As her eye-sight and mobility get worse with age, she has found it a chal-lenge to stay on her medical plan and to do her shopping forthe right foods she knows she should be eating. Mrs. Smith’shealth plan, Purple Cross of North Carolina, assigned a nursecase manager to address her situation. Purple Cross provideda digital scale and a remote monitoring device that recordMrs. Smith’s condition every day by uploading her weightand transmitting the answers to a series of questions on atouch screen kiosk. The case manager also coordinated deliv-ery of Meals on Wheels, providing low-sodium, diabetic-compliant dinners to Mrs. Smith on an ongoing basis. Thecase manager calls Mrs. Smith twice a week, taking the timeto educate her about her medications, her activities, and thedisease-specific elements that will keep her healthy and outof the hospital. When the case manager identifies that Mrs.Smith can no longer organize her daily medications, a digitalmedication dispenser will be provided that will keep her onher medication regimen. The medication dispenser will bepreloaded with Mrs. Smith’s medications and will issue a sub-tle doorbell tone when it is time to take her medicines. Withthe combination of remote and real-time (telephonic) supportpersons and tech
Which components are critical to Mrs. Smith staying safely in her home?
Describe whether Mrs. Smith’s regimen might be augmented using telehealth applications.nologies, Mrs. Smith is able to remain in herhome and avoid further inpatient admissions .
Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing CenterLinks to an external site. ’s APA StyleLinks to an external site. resource for each case study.
Must include a separate title page for each case study with the following:
Title of paper including the chapter number and case study title
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. .
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. as well as Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site. , refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References
maggie pemberton
uagc
Introduction to Health Informatics
Instructor: Samuel Bufkin
In this assignment, you will design a form using Microsoft’s Office Help & TrainingLinks to an external site. webpage to help you with your data dictionary form. Answer the questions posed in the course textbook. In addition, design a form for capturing data when the Emergency Department registration system is not available.
For this assignment, you will be using Microsoft Word drawing functions in order to construct the data form. If you need assistance with using Microsoft products, you can review Microsoft’s Office Help & TrainingLinks to an external site. webpage.
Your case study must include
A minimum of 20 data elements which comprise a data dictionary outlining the following fields for each data element (your data elements should equate to those of 20 typical PHI elements):
Data field name
Field format (alpha, numeric or alpha numeric)
Number of characters in the field
Source of information
Example of the content
A memorandum to the end users written as though you were the IT Department in the case. You will write a Memo about the system being down describing why the system is down, how long, why, what areas are affected, what is being done, etc.
A picture that plots the downtime components discussed in the case (this is the Downtime Determinator Plot where you will draw the plot like that in your textbook denoting the planned vs unplanned stages of the downtime of the ER Department. Give the information on your plots as listed below):
Time of day/number of users
IT infrastructure affected
System criticality
Planned versus unplanned
Health system complexity
Communication: Amount required and are communication methods affected?
Ability to recover
The Case Study Paper
Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing CenterLinks to an external site. ’s APA StyleLinks to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper including the chapter number and case study title
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site..
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. as well as Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view the Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
Review Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.
Review the article What Informatics Is and Isn’tLinks to an external site..
Read the Pressure Ulcer case study in your course textbook found at the end of Chapter 3.
Write a three to four-page case study analysis addressing the questions below. If needed, review the Writing Center’s Writing a Case Study AnalysisLinks to an external site. resource for assistance. In addition to the course textbook, utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources to support your answers.
What are the steps of the practice-based evidence (PBE) process related to this case study?
As the health professional or informatics specialist working with the clinical team in the long-term care facilities, identify the following:
Elements to incorporate into the documentation that address factors identified in the original study.
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools that could be incorporated into computer systems.
How can the cost effectiveness of the new documentation requirements and standards of care be efficiently evaluated?
The Pressure Ulcer Case Study
Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing CenterLinks to an external site. ’s APA StyleLinks to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page for each case study with the following:
Title of paper including the chapter number and case study title
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
HIM 301 Introduction to Health Informatics
Instructor: Samuel Bufkin
universty of Arizona