The Assignment - PowerPoint Presentation: Health Information Technology to Address the Continuum of Care

Once choosing a scenario from the Learning Resources you will develop a PowerPoint presentation to provide an overview of how information technology will address issues in that organization(s)/setting. You understand that for such an expensive and complex recommendation, in-depth research must be conducted along with a high level leadership plan as to how you would recommend approaching the initiative along the Systems Development Lifecycle steps: 1) Acquire; 2) Plan for; 3) Implement; and 4) Support the technology solution.

In a 15- to 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, including extensive speaker notes and 5-6 peer reviewed references applied using APA Format:

-Analyze the problems and opportunities that the technology is aimed to address in this organization(s)/setting

-Critique any legal and/or regulatory concerns related to using technology in this organizations(s)/setting

-Acquisition: Explain your recommended steps in the systematic evaluation and acquisition of the technology

• SWOT summary
• Vendor partner recommendations
• Process to evaluate vendors

-Planning: Develop a Project Charter for how you would plan for implementing this technology.

• Scope of the project/program
• Key stakeholders
• Risks and mitigation plans
• Financial justification

-Implementation:

• Change Management Strategy
• Security and Privacy Plan
• Data sharing, systems integration needs
• Use of cost reducing emerging technology platforms

-Support and sustainability:

• Financial sustainment plan
• End user technical support plan
• Potential fit with emerging industry technologies

Briefly address any competitive advantage that this technology might provide for the selected organization(s).

The Scenario -

Critical Access Hospital Electronic Health Record Bedford Hospital is a 25-bed hospital in rural Pennsylvania. They have recently completed the process of being designated by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) a CAH (critical access hospital). Prior to this designation they were part of a large academic health center but have since divested from that health center. As part of that agreement their current electronic health record contract, which is with Cerner Corporation as part of that medical center's enterprise agreement, will be expiring in 24 months. Currently all aspects of Cerner's inpatient product are implemented including documentation, orders, decision support and electronic meds administration. Cerner's registration admissions discharge scheduling and patient identification products are also part of this agreement as are the laboratory radiology and pharmacy systems. © 2016 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 2 of 2 While Bedford Hospital was part of the academic center the Cerner product suite was financially supported as part of the overall corporate structure. As part of the divestiture agreement, the academic center has agreed to support Bedford's Cerner systems in total for a 24-month period, absorbing the Cerner software and enterprise hardware costs in that timeframe. Bedford Hospital is taking financial responsibility for three IT staff and day-to-day IT costs such as networks devices email and Internet costs. The CEO and CFO of Bedford Hospital have pulled together an interdisciplinary team to examine the technology options for Bedford Hospital after this 24-month period.