HIM 615 Topic 5 Assignment Grand Canyon

Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, standards-developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services.

After reading “Strategic Initiatives” (see Module 4 assigned readings), refer to the journals listed:

Search the GCU Library and the websites of professional health care informatics organizations, such as the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Useful periodicals include:

• Health Data Management
• Health Management Technology
• Healthcare Informatics
• Healthcare IT News

Locate a case study that discusses how a health care organization solved a communication problem with a hardware solution while maintaining existing software.

Prepare a professional report (1,250-1,500 words) as if you are the informatics director of a 300-bed facility and the chief operating officer (COO) has given you the following directives:

1. Improve communication and coordination between admitting, laboratory, pharmacy, and clinicians to increase throughput; assume that each department has its own system currently in place.
2. Propose a solution that maintains existing software in each department and is supported by the HL7 initiatives.

In addition, define your focus and select a hardware solution; it may consist of a phased approach or an approach that directs attention only to one of the groups, or it may involve all of the aforementioned departments.

Provide a solution; emphasize interoperability.

Discuss how HL7 will improve communication and coordination between the departments.

Address the challenges of incorporating interoperability mandates from the Office of the National Coordinator.

Consider the challenges of an environment that is best of breed and the desire to move to a standard EHR across a health care enterprise.

Your solution may not implement new EHR software, but must provide a hardware solution to increase throughput.

Be creative with the context and formatting.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.