To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion.
Privacy & Personal Information
The privacy of personal information, and of health information in particular, continues to be a dynamic issue in the United States. As more and more health information is computerized, healthcare consumers express concern about their privacy and that they are losing control over their personal health information.
Click here to access the section of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) website devoted to health privacy. CDT is, by the way, a champion of online civil liberties and human rights and is dedicated to keeping the Internet open and free. Review the insights, posts, and press releases posted in CDT's health privacy section and respond to the following:
• How has the law protecting health information impacted access to healthcare information?
• According to the insights, posts, and press releases posted on the site, how successful has the law been at protecting health information?
• Is there more work left to be done or are there other areas of concern, now that the law is in place? If so, what are these?
• According to the insights, posts, and press releases posted on the site, has the law had any unforeseen, negative consequences? If so, what are these?
• In your opinion, what direction should future efforts to protect health information take?
Support your answers with references, examples, and clearly written rationales.
ACCESS: The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) website devoted to health privacy
https://cdt.org/issue/privacy-data/health-privacy/Assignment 3: System Planning
In this course, you will progressively work on a system implementation process in six stages:
• Week 1: System planning
• Week 2: System analysis
• Week 3: System selection
• Week 4: System implementation
• Week 5: User training and system mainten
You can use Internet resources, peer-reviewed journals, and reputable, published articles, and you may interview an executive of a healthcare facility that has implemented an electronic medical record system/electronic health record system or similar system to describe the six implementation steps.
In this week you will start with system planning complete a 3-5-page executive summary while considering the following components:
• Describe a fictional healthcare organization: type, size of staff, and amount and type of patients it is able to serve.
• Establish the need for a system.
• Set achievable goals and objectives.
• Allocate a budget.
• Identify a project manager (a fictitious name and title) and project team (fictitious names and titles).
• Determine whether to build in-house or acquire from outside, and support your decision with reasoning.
• Set a timeline for system implementation or project completion.
Complete the assignment in a 3-5-page Word document
Assignment : Grading Criteria Maximum Points
Described a fictional healthcare organization: type, size of staff, and amount and type of patients it is able to serve. 5
Established the need for a system.
Set achievable goals and objectives.
Allocated a budget.
Identified a project manager (a fictitious name and title) and project team (fictitious names and titles).
Determined whether to build in-house or acquire from outside, and supported your decision with reasoning.
Set a timeline for system implementation or project completion.
Presented a structured document free of spelling and grammatical errors.
Properly cited sources using the APA format.