Read the article, "Successful Strategic Planning: Creating Clarity".  HIMSS article Successful Strategic Planning Creating Clarity. (See attached).

Review the following HIT toolkit for Critical Access and Small Hospitals and familiarize yourself with the "Adopt" and "Utilize" sections:http://www.stratishealth.org/expertise/healthit/hospitals/htoolkit.html

SCENARIO-

You are the Health Information Manager at a 25 bed critical access hospital. You wear many hats at this organization and currently oversee all HIM Department functions (coding, transcription, document imaging, etc.), the management, maintenance and implementation of the EHR and privacy & security. The organization has been sequentially implementing and adopting their "Best-of-fit" EHR in a modular fashion (similar to the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model - http://www.himssanalytics.org/emram/emram.aspx).

One of the organization's goals is to improve quality through benchmarking with similar organizations and their strategic HIT imperative is to improve patient safety with a closed loop medication administration.

Among the modules that have been implemented, CPOE has been fully implemented and adopted by physicians. You are now charged with the implementation and adoption of the BC-MAR module for the EHR system in order to meet the organization's goals and their closed loop medication administration HIT goal.  The organization has 5 nurses that perform and record medication administration. In preparation for adopting a BC-MAR system, you asked the nurses to map the current process as shown in the figure below. To show variation among the nurses, each variation was numbered. These numbers do not coincide with a given nurse. Instead, if there were three variations among the five nurses, the three variations were numbered 1, 2, and 3 respectively. If each of the five nurses did something different, there were 5 variations illustrated. (see attached for image of medication workflow diagram)

After reading the article provided, the scenario above, reviewing the toolkit and researching BC-MAR, you will:

List a minimum of 3 steps the Project Manager should take for the following: 

BC-MAR HIT planning

BC-MAR HIT design

BC-MAR HIT selection

BC-MAR HIT implementation

BC-MAR HIT integration

BC-MAR HIT testing

BC-MAR HIT evaluation

BC-MAR HIT support/maintenance

Analyze the Medication Administration workflow diagram. Then compare the Medication Administration workflow and the potential workflow using BC-MAR described at http://www.stratishealth.org/expertise/healthit/hospitals/htoolkit.html under Section 2.2 Effective Use.

In 2 paragraphs, share your thoughts and conclusion on how the hospital can meet their strategic goal through the use of BC-MAR.

Attachment:- Assignment.rar