28 Dec HCAD5643 Main Healthcare

HCAD5643 Main Healthcare Info & Tech Management

Module 1 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

How does health systems informatics differ conceptually from bioinformatics and medical informatics? What is the scientific base for each?

Describe the US health system as a complex adaptive system.

What is transformational change, and why is health systems informatics considered to be transformational?

In what ways was the development of the EMR disruptive to, yet an adaptation of, traditional clinical practice in hospitals?

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Module 2 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

How has the role of health professionals changed but not been diminished in an information-driven health system?

Make a case for and against public advertising of prescription drugs as a patient information strategy.

What is transformational change, and why is health systems informatics considered to be transformational?

HCAD5643 Main Healthcare Info & Tech Management

Module 3 Discussion

Please respond to the following topic for your discussion this week:

What role has the federal government played in the expansion of CDSS technology and how do you see CDSSs evolving in the future?

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Module 4 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

What are the different platforms that support e-health? Give examples of each.

What are some of the challenges in nursing education related to clinical practice and informatics, both in prelicensure and in clinical practice?

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Module 5 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

Do some research on the costs of sequencing a genome and sequencing an exome? As a hospital administrator, what policy or policies would you propose for choosing between the two approaches? Why?

Given enough genetic information, a precise identification of a person can be made. How do you think data warehouses that integrate clinical information with genomic information can be used to accomplish meaningful research while protecting patient privacy?

Identify three core metrics, and define how they are measured (including their numerators and denominators). How would you track progress on those metrics?

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Module 6 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

Debate the issue of giving patients the right to exclude sensitive information from their patient record; include health and risk factors and for different age groups.

How can an integrated regional health information system serve to support clinics and hospitals in rural and isolated communities?

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Module 7 Discussion

Please select one of the following topics for your discussion this week:

What are the basic components of an information management strategy? Is there one component that is more important than the others? If so, which one and why?

If given a choice to implement an information management strategy or an analytics strategy, which would you perform first? Why?

If you were the CEO of a hospital, what immediate steps you would take to improve the delivery of health services in your organization?

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Module 8 Discussion

Each student will create a PowerPoint slide presentation. The PowerPoint presentation should be less than 15 slides and contain brief bullet points to support your presentation (no narrative on slides). If you do not follow the PowerPoint slide presentation instructions you will not receive full credit for this assignment.