...120 credits that include general education courses that provide a general foundation of learning. Courses in this area can include English, mathematics, history, and science. The remaining credits focus on coursework related to building your knowledge and skills in the business side of health care. In addition, you’ll look at how you can select a curriculum track or certificate to expand your career opportunities. What you will cover 1. BSHA Program Overview a. Describe the purpose of the BSHA program. 1) Program Description a) The Bachelor of Science in Health Administration (BSHA) Program is designed to integrate a framework of general education courses with a health care curriculum that prepares the graduate with the foundational knowledge needed to enter today's challenging health industry. The BSHA curriculum addresses the basic body of knowledge, understanding, and skills identified as relevant to an ever expanding and diverse health care arena. Coursework includes content in some of the following areas- management, finance, legal and ethical parameters, risk and quality management, human resources, and information systems. Upon completion of the core curriculum health care students have the opportunity to select an area of focus that is designed to expand their professional opportunities. 2) Program aligns to industry and educational standards a) General education courses provide the start to your educational journey and can lead to your success with skills...
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...Health Care Information Systems Terms Sherrilynn Walters HCS/483 August 1, 2011 Health Care Information Systems Terms |Term |Definition |How It Is Used in Health Care | |Health Insurance Portability and |Health Insurance Portability and |Health Insurance Portability and | |Accountability Act |Accountability Act outlines the rules and |Accountability Act is used in healthcare to| | |regulation on protecting personal health |protect patients from having his or her | | |information of patients. |health information and identity shared | | | |unless it benefits the health of a patient.| | |Health Insurance Portability and | | | |Accountability Act states what information | | | |can and cannot be shared about a patient’s | | | |medical information and identity to | | | ...
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...Health Care Information Systems Terms Cassandra Jackson HCS/483 10/26/2015 Mr. Mathis Banks, Jr Health Care Information Systems Terms Define the following terms. Your definitions must be in your own words; do not copy them from the textbook. After you define each term, describe in 40 to 60 words the health care setting in which each term would be applied. Include at least two research sources to support your position—one from the University Library and the other from the textbook. Cite your sources in the References section consistent with APA guidelines. Term | Definition | How It Is Used in Health Care | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act | is certainly an important piece of legislation, and it has a direct impact on how health care organizations create and maintain health information. | HIPAA plays a major role in the health care environment because without it all people's medical records will be visible for everyone to see. Health care facilities should really take this law serious because there is a major penalty for violation. | Electronic medical record | An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one healthcare organization. | It speeds up the healthcare reports along with eliminating errors on a daily basis. EMR stores all medical information electronically instead of using papers. This also increase work efficiency...
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...Information System Briefing Cyndi Pearl M. Auza University of Phoenix, HCS 483 Health Care Information Systems March 27, 2012 Mr. Robert Rupnow The process to choose the right information system for our health organization starts with understanding the large investment this will be for our organization. An information system is not just the software application that fits the special technical needs of our organization. The driving force will be to choose the right information system for our health organization that meets our organization’s goals, as well as meeting the needs of our stakeholders. Some of those goals can include being able to provide fast, reliable, and complete accessible information for the patients, and consumers, as well as securing their privacy and confidentiality. This is why it will be critical to bring in all user groups in the system acquiring process in order to understand and balance the cost to benefits, as well as exploring all possible options within our organization. The first step to selecting and acquiring an information system for our health care organization will be to acquire a project steering committee. This committee will be the folks who will coordinate, plan, manage, and organize the system acquisition process. And the lead individual to manage the operations will be just as critical to making the project a success. Our project team should involve about five to six strong individuals who are representatives from key groups within...
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...Health Care Information Systems Terms HCS/483 June 3, 2013 University of Phoenix Health Care Information Systems Terms Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - HIPAA is the federal legislation signed in 1996 to protect all patients’ medical records with privacy guidelines that are seen by health care professionals. It also gives patients more control over their medical records. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act are used mainly to protect patient information in a health care setting. HIPAA is also used to reduce fraud and abuse from health care professionals. If HIPAA regulations are not met the consequences could be great. Electronic medical record (EMR) – An EMR is an electronic record of an individual’s health information that is generated, assembled, and managed by those who are authorized physicians and other staff from a health care facility. Electronic medical records are used in a health care facility to record patient information such as patient identification, insurance information, visits, diagnosis, and labs. EMR’s can be accessed easily, and there is no need for paper files. EMR’s can be accessed by portable devices like a tablet. Electronic health record (HER) – An electronic record of an individual’s health information that is generated, assembled, and managed by authorized physicians and other health care professionals between several health care facilities. Electronic health care are used in health...
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...It Project Implementation Failures HCS/483 HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS October 4, 2011 Ms. Mary Anne Moore It Project Implementation Failures The purpose of this report is to identify five indications for the Information Technology (IT) project implementation failure of the Memorial Health System. This repost will also describe for each indicator of failure, what could be done differently to avoid or eliminate the effects of the indicators in the future. DEFICIENCY OF CLARIFICATION If the purpose and objectives for implementing IT into an organization is not made clear and concise then there will be resistance. Meaning if it is not made abundantly clear to leadership and staff (steering team) how the (in the case of Memorial Health System) Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system will be used to improve healthcare and reduce medical error, the initiative will be doomed from the very start. TO ABATE OR AVOID THIS POSSIBLE OUTCOME Ensure that all employees whose jobs will be directly affected by implementation of the CPOE are thoroughly informed of goal, objective, and expectations of what the perspective technological advancement entails. INADEQUATE CONFIDENCE IN THE PROJECT One of the major problems implementing the CPOE at the Memorial Health Systems was that physicians did not feel confident that the CPOE would aid them, instead add onto their work load. If physicians that work in a hospital have no confidence that a prospective process will...
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...Post Week 1 Health Care Information Systems Terms HCS/483 Healthcare Information Systems - Week 1 Name: Guidelines: Please use this form to submit your assignment and NOT the one on the UOPX website. Define the following terms. Your definitions must be in your own words; do not copy them from the textbook. After you have defined each term in your own words, describe in at least 50 words the health care setting in which each term would be applied. Utilize a minimum of two research sources to support your claims—one from the University Library and the other from the textbook. Be sure to cite your sources in the References section consistent with APA guidelines. This assignment is due Week One. 1. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Definition This was a federal law placed to protect patient information. How Used in Healthcare HIPAA is used to safeguard and protect patient information and without the use of HIPAA, private patient information could be exposed. HIPAA is critical because it could have an effect on health care workers, patients and the health care facility as well. Violation of HIPAA laws could cause a health care worker to lose their job, it could violate a patient’s rights, and it could damage the facility’s credibility. 2. Electronic medical record Definition An electronic medical record is a computerized medical record used to store patient information. How Used in Healthcare Electronic medical records...
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...IT Project Implementation Failures Shana Pardue HCS/483 July 18, 2011 Dr. Michael Solomon IT Project Implementation Failures “Many projects have been subject to considerable delay, increasing budget deficits, and in some cases, severely negative impacts on the quality and effectiveness of care” (Murray et al, 2011, p. 2). Memorial Health System (MHS) is dealing with lack of candor, lack of belief in the project, project complexity, inability to anticipate short-term disruptions, and lack of technology stability and maturity while implementing a clinician provider order entry (CPOE) system (University of Phoenix, n.d.). These potential failures can be avoided with proper planning and integration. Not realizing the complexity of the project is a failure that MHS made while implementing the CPOE program (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). MHS has eight hospitals with a minimum of 2,600 beds (University of Phoenix, n.d.). An alternate route to implementing into all eight sites at once would be to select one site to implement the program into. The needs at each site may be different due to locality and patients, so it would benefit all involved to handle each site separately. Lack of belief in the project is the next failure that MHS has dealt with (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). MHS has a lack of full support from the stakeholders (University of Phoenix, n.d.). “Projects that are viewed as illegitimate by a large portion of the people in an organization rarely succeed”...
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...System Implementation HCS 483 Jose Rivera 06/10/13 System choice and implementation is a process that requires much thought, planning, and considerations. There are four steps for selecting and acquiring an information system. The more carefully and detailed the steps are followed, the better the system will be for the organization. Goals need of the new system must be established. The new system must meet the goals and fit the needs of the organization to be functional. Each member of the process plays specific and important roles during the selection, implementation, and maintenance phases of the new system. Stakeholders There are many steps for selecting and acquiring an information system for an organization. An organization will need to know that their current system needs to be replaced. The need for replacement might be because the current system no longer fits the organizations needs or the costs to maintain the current system are too high. From there the steps are planning, selection, implementation, and support of a new health care information system, (Wagner, Lee, & Glaser, 2009, p. 5). “The primary focus of this planning and analysis phase is on the business problem, or the organizations strategy, independent of any technology that can or will be used,” (Wagner, Lee, & Glaser, 2009, p. 8). Now that it is clear there needs to be a new system implemented, the next step is to determine the functional needs and requirements. This step, if...
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...Health Care Information System Briefing Debra Paul HCS/483 Health Care Information Systems University of Phoenix – Cypress Creek September 13, 2012 Norma L. Lloyd Week Three Assignment Health Care Information System Briefing In the health care industry today organizations are continually in search of new advances in technology relating to information systems to implement and keep the competitive advantage in administrating the best patient health care. Improving the quality of care and service while attempting to reduce costs within the organization is paramount in the way organizations must function and survive today with regard to health care. Implementing an information system is a big challenge, which is why choosing the correct information system is vital to the organization in assisting and ensuring that the goals are met. The decision-making process involves various roles that stakeholders, clinicians, administrative, and patients play in the process to decide which system best suits the organization (eHealth Initiative, 2011). This briefing will confer the process of selecting and acquiring an information system, how the organizations goals drive the selection, and the roles of the organizations stakeholder play in the selection and acquisition process. Process for Selecting and Acquiring an Information System Stakeholders from each department must participate in the system selection process from the start. The importance for team members to...
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...IT Project Implementation Failures Danielle Washington HCS/483 March 13, 2012 Chip Snyder IT Project Implementation Failures For every type of technology there is also a type of failure to go along with it. The failure rate of the IT project implementation is outstandingly high. There are about thirteen different types IT project failures. Those failures consist of but not limited to lack of clarity of purpose, lack of belief in the project, insufficient leadership support, and organization inertia. Other failures are organizational baggage, lack of appropriate reward system, lack of candor, perplexity complex failure, and failure to respect uncertainty. The remainder of those failures is initiative undernourishment, failure to anticipate short-term disruptions, invisible progress and lack of technology stability and maturity. In the following paragraphs five of these failures will be highlighted in regards to the Memorial Health System CPOE Implementation case study. The first failure highlighted is lack of belief in project. This is when the organization not convinced that the project is worth doing at all and in turn brings forth resentment (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). In the case study when the CPOE was brought before everyone the project was considered controversial. If I was CEO I would have proposed it then took a vote to see what the outcome would be and let everyone voice their opinion and then take everything into consideration before making a...
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...IT Project Implementations Failures Joseph Garcia HCS/483 7/4/2011 Eric Rios IT Project Implementations Failures There are many factors that play into failures of implementing an IT project. As in the Case Study – Memorial Health System CPOE Implementation there were clearly barriers set in place that affected leadership and staff. The purpose of this paper is to examine CPOE implementation barriers within the Memorial Health System and to determine possible methods to overcoming these challenges. Any project or initiative is destined for trouble if its objectives and purpose are unclear. One of the many barriers present was the lack of vision shared within the organization between the physicians and management. They worried their workload would increase because CPOE systems replace verbal orders with computer-entered orders by doctors. Dr. Mark Allen, a primary care physician commented, “The hospital is trying to turn me into a $12-an-hour secretary and they aren’t even paying me $12 an hour.” (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009) The desire to obtain a shared vision as a whole should have resulted in a presentation of what the purpose of the CPOE initiative was intended to achieve. As was the result when some of the doctors that had not left the system attended the CPOE vendor’s annual user group meeting. They saw the release of the vendor’s most recent system and immediately decided they wanted it for Memorial. Another concern with the project was the leadership put in...
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...Week 4 HCS/483 When ever an organization is thinking of implementing a New It Initiative they must ensure that they are well organized and fully understand the length and time a project may take. According to Cook “ Project failure occurs when a project is significantly over budget, takes must longer than estimated timeline, or has to be terminated because of so many problems have occurred that proceeding is no longer judged to be viable.” With Memorial Health System failed implementation of a CPOE system they had many problems including an over budgeted project, Lack of belief in project, Insufficient leadership support, Failure to respect uncertainty, Failure to anticipate short-term disruptions, and initiative undernourishment. In this paper we will discuss all six of these problems along with give possible solutions to each of them. Failure to respect uncertainty: When the system was finally implemented it was had a lot of bugs in the system. They implemented the system at all of facilities. Because of this as well as a few other issues such as lack of training the system was taken offline and they continued with the old system. The solution to this problem would have been to implement the system in one location instead of the entire hospital. This place can be used as the test facility in which you can do two things. One you can work all the bugs out and the other would be to use it as a training facility where you can send employees to get training on a system that...
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...Health Care Reform Part I Health care spending in the United States is among the highest of industrialized nations (Health Policy Education, 2011). Health care reform found its roots in the 1900s when just prior to that physicians were caring for hospitalized patients without charge. Today it is a main political issue tipping the scales toward a presidential election. Team C chose this topic because of the serious nature and as future managers, leaders in health care administration; a greater understanding is required. This team seeks to discuss three major points in regard to health care spending, such as unnecessary spending, options if health care reforms fail, and ongoing coverage for ongoing care as it relates to macroeconomics and also propose three solutions identified within the research, respectively, information technology, influence of pricing and allocation of services, and prevention. Background Health care expenses in the United States were in excess of $2.3 trillion in 2008. Accounting for three times as much spent in 1990 and eight times that spent in 1980. According to Kaiseredu.org (2010),”This equated to $7,681 per resident and accounted for 16.2% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)” (Background). Below is a graph taken from Kaiser.EDU.org, which depicts how dollars were spent in regard to health care 2008. Today health care costs account for 16% of the nation’s GDP. On an individual basis, per capita, the cost is twice that of other major...
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...Axia/HCS 483 | Information System Briefing | November,2011 | Information System Briefing Selecting and acquiring information systems is important to this organization. Information systems are designed based on the organization’s needs, thus simplifying patient needs, departmental, and other information. Information systems should also accommodate other departments as well such as radiology, pharmacy, and other various branches of the hospital. An information system is, of course, an expensive technology but can greatly benefit the hospital. With information systems many systems have to be installed databases, storage, identification, and selection. Once it is up the organization still has to think about an offsite back up station with a firewall. It is to much for an organization or investors to take in, making it imperative that the organization receives the system designed to their needs. Selecting and Acquiring When selecting what is needed for the organization one has to look at many different variables. Does the organization have many branches, do they have different specialties, patients, billing, and other various staff. Communication between these is vital to making the information system work. The information also has to be user friendly and easy to obtain by staff. If any of the information is not easily obtainable it will make the organization run slow in all departments or fragment it. That means that patient information could be lost resulting in duplicate...
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