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Instructions
You are volunteering with the World Health Organization in Somalia. Prior to your starting your volunteering, the WHO wants to ensure that you fully understand how economics, culture, ethics, and religion impact healthcare in the country.
For this assignment, write a minimum of two-pages explaining how economics, culture, ethics, and religion impact healthcare in Somalia. Give specific examples, and compare how the healthcare in Somalia differs from healthcare in the United States.
Follow APA guidelines, and include a title page and reference page with at least 2 sources. 

The topic will not be about a radiologic modality or the
diagnosis/treatment of a disease (although it may be incorporated). The topic will be on PATIENT CARE. The
paper is to be composed APA style: Typed, double-spaced, and MINIMUM of 4 pages in length. 1. Section 1 Introduction (an ABSTRACT section is NOT REQUIRED)
2. Section 2 Definition/Description
3. Section 3 Clinician’s perspective, outline, list, objective while patient is in your care
4. Section 4 Precautions, safeguards, and safety measures (and possible hazards)
How would this patient be treated differently than a regular patient? What are your challenges
and precautions?
5. Section 5 Conclusion, summary 
include citations, must have at least 3 source, APA. Write about what a technologist does in the case a patient has an emergency while under their care and how to exercise surgical asepsis techniques. I included what I started with, im not sure if its any use 🙁

You will not be writing the entire proposal for this assessment; only parts of it. You will add to your proposal in later assessments and complete it in Assessment 3. Be sure this part of your proposal includes all of the following headings, and your narrative addresses each of the bullet points:
Introduction
Identify the disease or condition from the following list for which you will review the quality of care:
Asthma.
Diabetes.
Myocardial infarction.
HIV/AIDS.
Cancer.
Explain the reasons for your choice.
Information Collection
Complete the following:
Determine the patient population to be reviewed.
Evaluate which information system or systems best provide the needed information.
Determine the specific documentation you are looking for. Explicitly state the reasons for each and all of your choices. Be sure to answer all of the following questions in your narrative:
Do you want to review information only from your office? Or do you also want to review information for hospital admission and/or emergency room visits?
Do you wish to review all patients who have ever been treated for the selected condition? Or only those treated within a specific time frame? Will you only review patients within certain demographic parameters?
What type of documentation do you want to review? This may include:
History and physical (H&P).
Discharge summary.
Progress notes.
Labs.
Radiology.
Others.
Identify where you are going to find the information you need. Which information system or systems would be best to use, and what information can you collect from each system? Possibilities include:
Pharmacy.
Point of care (POC).
Results management.
Computerized physician order entry (CPOE).
Determine the type of system or systems (financial, administrative, clinical, et cetera) you would use.
Information Life Cycle
Complete the following:
Describe how you plan to manage this information from collection to destruction. Be sure to address all of these questions in your narrative:
How will the information be collected and documented? By whom? In what context?
How will the information be stored?
How will you control access to the information?
How can you ensure the documentation meets interoperability standards?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of integrating your office information with an HIE?
What challenges exist regarding the standardization of health information?
When and how will the information be destroyed?
Legal Considerations
Complete the following:
Differentiate between the legal aspects of health information confidentiality, privacy, and security, as it applies to your proposal.
Apply laws governing health information confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Determine whether the information you are retrieving requires the use of PHI.
If not, why not?
If so, summarize how the PHI will be used.
Plan for how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will impact health care personnel, policies, and procedures in your proposal.
Conclusion
Briefly summarize the value of the documentation review you are proposing to be performed.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Your paper needs to be in APA 7th format. It does need to be clear and well organized, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, to support orderly exposition of content.
Title page: Develop a descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet maintain professional decorum.
References: Include a minimum of two citations of peer-reviewed sources in APA format.
Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and references page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Instructions
You do not need to write your proposal in APA format. You do need to complete a cohesive, coherent, organized, and well-written proposal. Much of the information you include in your proposal will come from your previous assessments. Be sure your proposal includes all of the following headings and your narrative addresses each of the bullet points.
Introduction
Explain what information you propose to collect.
Provide the reasons for collecting this information.
Describe how this information could be used to validate or improve the quality of care at your facility.
Data Collection Plan
Propose an implementation plan and detail the information you plan to collect at your facility, including where and how it will be collected.
Specify the following:
The time period you propose to review.
The system applications you will use to collect the health information.
Write a narrative, create a timeline, build a flowchart, or use any other method of your choosing to demonstrate the flow of health record information through the information life cycle from creation to destruction. Identify those sections within the life cycle from which you will retrieve information.
Explain the use of information from an HIE and describe how it may affect patient care, clinical knowledge, and population health data.
Detail the personnel required to complete the health information review, including their needed skills and required training and job aids.
Describe strategies that will be employed to help personnel implement the review study.
Data Security Plan
Plan measures to protect PHI.
Apply laws governing health information confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Plan for the impact of HIPAA on health care personnel, policies, and procedures.
Benchmarking Plan
Identify the sources of national data and quality measures.
Describe how you will use the national data and quality measures as benchmarks to compare with data from your facility.
Explain how you will ensure data standardization, along with any other factors you need to take into account, so the data from these sources is compatible with the data you plan to collect.
Explain how the collected data will be compared to the benchmarking and quality standards.
Quality and Change Management Strategies
Explain how data outcomes could be used to perform quality improvement reviews and recommend evidence-based best practices for policies and procedures based on outcomes.
Recommend best practices for departmental workflow that will support the information review you are proposing.
Describe relevant evidence-based best practices and procedures from peer-reviewed articles or Internet resources that could facilitate needed changes.
Implementation
Detail the steps for implementing the information review study along with the expected time frames.
Conclusion
Summarize how the proposed study will improve the quality of patient care for your physician group.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Your paper needs to be clear and well organized, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, to support orderly exposition of content.
Title page: Develop a descriptive title of 5–15 words. It should stir interest yet maintain professional decorum.
References: Include a minimum of two citations of peer-reviewed sources in APA format.
Length: 5–7 typed and double-spaced content pages, not including the title page and references page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Question 1
Health systems informatics strives to align the various components of a healthcare organization into a simple adaptive system. 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 2
Question 25 pts
If the company has adequately prepared and trained staff for the new systems, users can expect problem-free system operation from the start.
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 3
Question 35 pts
It is reasonable to expect that the hardware, software, and network will likely need to be replaced within how many years as advance are made in technology, the organization’s goals and needs change, and the health care environment changes?
Group of answer choices
5 – 7 years
3 – 10 years
10 – 15 years
12 – 20 years
Flag question: Question 4
Question 45 pts
The 2020 US federal budget included $215 million to launch the Precision Medicine Initiative, which aims to develop “patient-powered research” 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 5
Question 55 pts
Security auditing addresses the risk that a system administrator is unable to ascertain whether security safeguards are operating correctly. 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 6
Question 65 pts
Match the following: 
Group of answer choices
Employing external firms
[ Choose ]             Common phenomenon in organizational life             outsourcing             Entrepreneur             Independent Contractors         
Consultants
[ Choose ]             Common phenomenon in organizational life             outsourcing             Entrepreneur             Independent Contractors         
Intrapreneur
[ Choose ]             Common phenomenon in organizational life             outsourcing             Entrepreneur             Independent Contractors         
Strive for integrity
[ Choose ]             Common phenomenon in organizational life             outsourcing             Entrepreneur             Independent Contractors         
Flag question: Question 7
Question 75 pts
Decisions about the technical infrastructure do not have important consequences for the healthcare organization’s overall information system 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 8
Question 85 pts
Companies should employ all of the following types of training except:
Group of answer choices
Training before and after go-live
Group training
One-on-one training
All of the above should be utilized
Flag question: Question 9
Question 95 pts
About ____ percent of organizational knowledge is housed exclusively in the minds of employees 
Group of answer choices
42%
32%
22%
12%
Flag question: Question 10
Question 105 pts
During the implementation process, it is important to maintain current workflow so that staff is not overwhelmed with changes.
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 11
Question 115 pts
The cost of insurance continues to drive much policy debate, sometimes overriding the attention given to efficiency, quality, continuity, patient-centered care, and beneficence. 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 12
Question 125 pts
Within the evidence-based practice paradigm, knowledge must be translated through a series of quests to increase its usefulness at the point of care. 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 13
Question 135 pts
In the STEEEP framework, effectiveness is defined as evidence-based decision making, suggesting, Patients should receive care based on the best available scientific knowledge. 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 14
Question 145 pts
The term “personalized medicine” is often described as providing “the right patient with the right drug at the right dose at the right time.”
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 15
Question 155 pts
By nature, dynamic systems are transformational in that they call for new delivery models, professional roles, organizational structures, and system designs, but they are difficult to analyze
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 16
Question 165 pts
Biomedical informatics provides knowledge about the effects of DNA disparities among individuals. 
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 17
Question 175 pts
Carative factors  complements conventional  medicine but stands in stark comparison to “curative factors.”
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 18
Question 185 pts
If users are ever to fully realize the system’s value, they must have access to technical support, preferably by—
Group of answer choices
Providing local, in-house support
Contracting with a local computer firm
Partnering with a neighboring organization
Training an employee to assume the support role
Flag question: Question 19
Question 195 pts
Knowledge management is a relatively new management tool that organizations are trying to incorporate into their management systems
Group of answer choices
True
False
Flag question: Question 20
Question 205 pts
Personalized medicine and precision medicine are synonymous. 

Directions:
The role of Compliance Officer can vary based on organizational needs and individual experiences and backgrounds. Susan is a Compliance Officer for a large hospital that operates as a trauma center. Her background is in case and quality management, and she is a trained nurse. Do you think that a Compliance Officer should have a clinical background such as a Nurse or Physician? Or should he or she have an administrative background with experience in management? Explain your reasoning.
Search the Internet to review a few job postings for a Compliance Officer. Did you find that your research supported or refuted your reasoning? Why?

Ethical Case Studies
Consider the ethical dilemma the health care professional is faced with in the selected case study. Pay particular attention to details that will help you analyze the situation using the three components of the Ethical Decision Making Model (moral awareness, moral judgment, and ethical behavior).
Note: The case study may not supply all of the information you may need for the assignment. In such cases, you should consider a variety of possibilities and infer potential conclusions. However, please be sure to identify any speculations that you make.
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Incident 2: Emergency Department Repeat Admissions — A Question of Resource Use
Matt Losinski finished reading an article that provided grim details of a study of the overuse of emergency services in hospitals in central Texas. He smiled that sardonic half smile that meant there was a strong possibility that County General Hospital (CGH) might have the same problem. As chief executive office (CEO), Losinski always saw the problems of other hospitals as potential problems at CGH, a 300–bed, acute care hospital in a mixed urban and suburban service area in the south central United States. CGH was established as a county–owned hospital; however, 10 years ago the county wanted to get out of the hospital business and the assets were donated to a not–for–profit hospital system. The new owner has continued a strong public service orientation, even though CGH no longer receives the tax subsidy it did when it was county owned; it must look to itself for fiscal health.
The study data showed that nine residents of a central Texas community had been seen in emergency departments (EDs) a total of 2,678 times over 6 years. One resident had been seen in an ED 100 times each year for the past 4 years. Given that an ED visit can cost $1,000 or more, the nine residents had consumed $2.7 million in resources. These high users of ED services were middle age, spoke English, and were split between male and female. To Losinski, the problem seemed like a manifestation of Wilfredo Pareto’s classic 80/20 rule.
Losinski forwarded the article on a priority basis to Mary Scott, his chief financial officer (CFO), and asked her to see him after she read it. Scott stopped by Losinski’s office late the next day and began the conversation by asking him why he thought the article was a priority. Scott reminded Losinski that Medicaid paid 75% of costs for eligible ED users and that the cross subsidy from privately insured and self–pay ED admissions covered most of the unpaid additional costs. Losinski had a good working relationship with Scott, but he was a bit annoyed by her rather indifferent response.
Losinksi wanted details on use of the ED at CGH. He asked the administrative resident, Aniysha Patel, to gather data to identify use rates for persons repeatedly admitted to the ED. The findings that Patel gave to Losinski two weeks later were not as extreme as those reported from central Texas; however, they did show that a few persons were repeatedly admitted to the ED and accounted for hundreds of visits in the past year. The clinical details were not immediately available, but a superficial review of the admitting diagnoses suggested that most admissions involved persons with minor, nonspecific medical problems—persons commonly known as the “worried well.” Although Scott was correct that Medicaid covered the majority of costs, the fact remained that over $200,000 each year was not reimbursed to CGH. Were that money available, it could go directly to the bottom line and could be used for enhancements to health initiatives for the community. In addition, repeated admissions to the ED contributed to crowding, treatment delays, and general dissatisfaction for other patients.
Losinski presented the data to his executive committee, which includes all vice presidents, the director of development, and the elected president of the medical staff. The responses ran the gamut from “So what?” to “Wow, this is worse than I imagined.” Losinski was bemused by the disparity of views. He had thought there would have been an almost immediate consensus that this was a problem needing a solution. The financial margins for CGH were already very thin, and the future for higher reimbursement was not bright. A concern echoed by several at the meeting was the requirement of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) that all persons who present at an ED that receives federal reimbursement for services must be treated and stabilized.
Losinski asked his senior management team for recommendations to address the problem of ED overuse.
[u06a1] Week 6 Assignment: Applying Ethical Principles
Due: Sun May 19, 2024 11:59pmDue: Sun May 19, 2024 11:59pm
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For this assignment, you will apply the four ethical principles to your selected ethical health care dilemma. Consider the ethical dilemma the health care professional is faced with in your selected case study. In addition to the week’s readings, use the Capella library to locate at least one academic peer-reviewed journal article you can use to support your analysis of the situation.
If you have not yet done so, use the Ethical Case Studies interactive to select a case study. Specifically, identify which case study you selected and briefly summarize the facts surrounding the case study. Then, use the four core principles that health care professionals need to know and honor when helping patients:
Autonomy: To honor the patient’s right to make their own decisions.
Beneficence: To help the patient advance their own good.
Nonmaleficence: To do no harm.
Justice: To be fair and treat like cases alike, which will be used to inform your work.
Note: The case study may not supply all the information you may need. In such cases, you should consider a variety of possibilities and infer potential conclusions. Please be sure to identify any speculations that you make.
Create Your PowerPoint
To complete this assignment, do the following:
Provide a title slide (slide one).
Identify which case study you selected and briefly summarize the facts surrounding the
case study (slide two).
Apply each of the four ethical principles to your chosen health care issue (slides three through six).
Describe on one slide how autonomy plays a role in your health care issue.
Describe on one slide how beneficence plays a role in your health care issue.
Describe on one slide how nonmaleficence plays a role in your health care issue.
Describe on one slide how justice plays a role in your health care issue.
Provide a URL linking to your field’s professional code of ethics (e.g., health care administration or public health) (slide seven).
Reference slide (slide eight).
Do NOT use the author notes for this assignment. Provide content within each slide only.
Academic Requirements
Your PowerPoint should meet the following requirements:
Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Your text should be concise.
Use bulleted or numbered lists.
Sources: Integrate scholarly sources and evidence into your text using APA in-text citations.
Length: Include eight slides, which include the title page and reference slides.
You will NOT use the author notes in this assignment-only provide information on the
slides themselves.
References: Use at least two references (the case study and an academic peer-reviewed
journal article) within the PowerPoint presentation.
APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citation of outside sources in the PowerPoint presentation and also on the reference slide.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information demonstrating a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity.
Apply autonomy to the identified health care issue.
Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care embracing principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and antidiscrimination.
Apply nonmaleficence to the identified health care issue.
Apply justice to the identified health care issue.
Competency 4: Write in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards, while demonstrating professional and personal honesty and integrity.
Apply beneficence to the identified health care issue.
Provide a URL linking to one’s field’s professional code of ethics.
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
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Applying Ethical Principles
Applying Ethical Principles
Criteria Ratings Pts
Apply autonomy to the identified health care issue.
40 to >34 pts
DISTINGUISHED
Applies how autonomy relates to a health care issue and supports with evidence or real-life examples.
34 to >28 pts
PROFICIENT
Accurately applies how autonomy relates to the identified health care issue.
28 to >0 pts
BASIC
Defines autonomy, but does not apply it to the health care issue or applies it incorrectly.
0 pts
NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not address autonomy in relation to the identified health care issue.
/ 40 pts
Apply beneficence to the identified health care issue.
40 to >34 pts
DISTINGUISHED
Applies how beneficence relates to a health care issue and supports with evidence or real-life examples.
34 to >28 pts
PROFICIENT
Accurately applies how beneficence relates to the identified health care issue.
28 to >0 pts
BASIC
Defines beneficence, but does not apply it to the health care issue or applies it incorrectly.
0 pts
NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not address beneficence in relation to the identified health care issue.
/ 40 pts
Apply nonmaleficence to the identified health care issue.
40 to >34 pts
DISTINGUISHED
Applies how nonmaleficence relates to a health care issue and supports with evidence or real-life examples.
34 to >28 pts
PROFICIENT
Accurately applies how nonmaleficence relates to the identified health care issue.
28 to >0 pts
BASIC
Defines nonmaleficence, but does not apply it to the health care issue or applies it incorrectly.
0 pts
NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not address nonmaleficence in relation to the identified health care issue.
/ 40 pts
Apply justice to the identified health care issue.
40 to >34 pts
DISTINGUISHED
Applies how justice relates to a health care issue and supports with evidence or real-life examples.
34 to >28 pts
PROFICIENT
Accurately applies how justice relates to the identified health care issue.
28 to >0 pts
BASIC
Defines justice, but does not apply it to the health care issue or applies it incorrectly.
0 pts
NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not address justice in relation to the identified health care issue.
/ 40 pts
Provide a URL linking to one’s field’s professional code of ethics.
40 to >34 pts
DISTINGUISHED
Provides a URL linking to one’s field’s professional code of ethics and provides a short description.
34 to >28 pts
PROFICIENT
Provides a URL linking to one’s field’s professional code of ethics.
28 to >0 pts
BASIC
Provides a URL linking to a professional code of ethics that does not apply, or link does not work.
0 pts
NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not provide a URL linking to one’s field’s professional code of ethics.
/ 40 pts
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
25 to >21.25 pts
DISTINGUISHED
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style without errors and uses current reference sources.
21.25 to >17.5 pts
PROFICIENT
Integrates into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
17.5 to >0 pts
BASIC
Integrates into text mostly appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style, but there are lapses in style use.
0 pts
NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
/ 25 pts
Produce text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
25 to >21.25 pts
DISTINGUISHED
Produces text that is free of grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
21.25 to >17.5 pts
PROFICIENT
Produces text with minimal grammatical, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
17.5 to >0 pts
BASIC
Produces text with some grammatical, usage, spelling and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow at times.
0 pts
NON_PERFORMANCE
Produces text with significant grammatical, usage, spelling and mechanical errors, making text difficult to follow.
/ 25 pts

Module 02 Content
Now that you’ve chosen two compliance plans, you can better understand the role of Compliance Officer and similar positions. You are developing two compliance plans in a way that all employees will understand at a large medical facility where you are the Compliance Officer.
To help you understand the concept of compliance, use the Internet to locate 2-3 positions for Compliance Officer, Quality Improvement Manager, or related positions. Use this information to create a consolidated job description. Be sure to include requirements such as Education, Professional Experience, and Responsibilities of the position.
Then, write a 2-3 page summary of an Overview of Compliance Plans. In your overview, state the purpose of your two compliance plans for your company and how they relate to the proposed job description. In terms that every employee will grasp, explain how all employees would benefit by supporting the key elements in every compliance plan – compliance standards, high-level responsibility (for each employee), education (about compliance), communication, monitoring/auditing, enforcement/discipline, and response/prevention.
Support your job description and overview with at least three research sources outside of your required reading. You should have a total of at least five sources, including the two from Module 01. Citations in APA format should be listed in a References Page at the end.
REFERENCES 
Compliance Officer in Action
Check a video website like YouTube for further insights through video into the world of compliance officers in health regulation and compliance.
Search for words like “Compliance Officer” or “Compliance Officer Hospital,” or “Chief Compliance Officer,” to find relevant video examples.
Internal Auditing
Many healthcare organizations as well as other types of businesses use internal auditing as a tool to make sure that processes are being done correctly. This process is often led by the Compliance Officer, or a comparable position within the organization.
Internal Auditing is when the organization uses its own staff to review the work of others. This function acknowledges that there can be weaknesses in the organization that could allow for fraud, abuse, or even embezzlement. Most internal auditing has been focused on revenue issues. Are the persons billed being paid correctly, or has the vendor been verified or certified? Do any unusual patterns show up?
Another aspect of internal auditing is that it can be a function of compliance. Internal auditing helps to make sure that the rules and regulations of the organization are being followed. For example: employees must be aware of certain rules in regards to billing. This function could be audited by testing employees on these rules. Those who do not pass the test will be provided additional training and retesting. Failure to pass the test after a certain number of tries could result in termination.
Internal auditing can also be used to review the organization prior to certification or accreditation. This gives the organization an opportunity to review itself and make adjustments before the certification or accreditation process.
Some of the goals of internal regulatory groups include:
Examine and evaluate the effectiveness of systems of internal controls.
Identify opportunities to reduce cost.
Review the integrity and reliability of financial information.
Review operations or programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives.
Identify opportunities for reducing costs, improving processes, or enhancing the organization’s reputation.
Review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure, classify, and report such information.
Review operations or programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives.
Verify that resources are acquired economically, used efficiently, accounted for accurately, and protected adequately.
Review operations or programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives.
Conduct investigations of suspected fraudulent activities in conjunction with other resources.
Facilitate and coordinating external audits.
Evaluate emerging audit trends and implementing best practices.

Master Mindshift: Focused Discussion
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to discuss health informatics in support of direct patient care, basic administration functions, and decision support system.  Individually, you may also explore and discuss the application of emerging technologies and their use in problem-solving and leadership decision-making.  This is also an opportunity for you to demonstrate your communication skills. 
To assist with learning about the current trend in health informatics, students will be directed to further expand their knowledge on the topic via the Health Information Management and Systems Inc. website. ( www.himss.orgLinks to an external site.) or via a peer-reviewed article from the following the Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationLinks to an external site..
In addition, you will be expected to be knowledgeable of the following skills:
Analyze formal and informal communication.
Compare/contrast the effectiveness of various communication methods.
Design effective communications for a wide variety of situations in healthcare organizations
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:
Health Informatics and how information systems,  informatics principles, and information technology are applied in healthcare delivery
Describe the effect of healthcare informatics as an emerging and transforming technology and how it will impact the major stakeholders of an organization and patient outcomes.
Articulate Ideas and Information.
Task:
1. Read an Article of Choice from Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationLinks to an external site.. Reflect upon what emerging technologies are being introduced and/or used in the field of health informatics.  In the discussion post, you will provide a link to the article that you choose.  In addition, you will write a short 3 paragraph response outlining the following:  why did you choose this article, how does it relate to health informatics and emerging technologies in healthcare, and what was the most striking detail of the article.  You will then read one of your classmate’s posts and remark on it by finding either a similarity or a contrasting point of view between their article and yours
2. Note for the final discussion you must first post your initial response before you will be able to see anyone else’s initial post.  Also, only one response is required. 
Criteria for Success:
A rubric will be used to grade your complete discussion.