Complete your case study analysis and write-up in at
least 1000 words
Conduct your own research to find additional information
to help you build your case. Including information on these points will add
depth to your analysis.
• Different stakeholder perspectives
• Interoperability and how patient data is integrated.
• Cost and ROI – are these technologies financially
feasible?
• Patient Safety and Quality of Care
• Data privacy and
security
• Statistics on current use of this technology. How many
organizations are using it today? What is needed for these technologies to
become more widely adopted in the future?
Review websites that may provide additional information
for your case study such as:
a. Annual reports
b. Press releases
c. Articles published about that organization
Write following
the outline of 3 main sections to your analysis: What, Why, How. (See further
description of the outline for the case analysis below
Case Study Articles:
If you have selected HIE:
Choose one of these organizations to use as the basis for your case
study:
Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) https://vitl.net/
HealthInfoNet
Contexture Regional Health Information Exchange
https://contexture.org/
You may also
search these websites for the latest information on health data exchange work
that is actually going on today.
https://www.healthit.gov/topic/health-it-and-health-information-exchange-basics/health-information-exchange
https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/interoperability-hie (this link works outside of Blackboard,
please copy and paste into a browser)
Outline for case study write-up: What…. Why…. How 1.
Describe what is this case all about a. Briefly summarize the key points (do
not restate all the material in the case).
Describe why this technology is important
a. Use evidence/statistics to support your points
b. Use evidence from other assigned readings that support
your position.
c. Include why the reader should care about this topic.
d. When you are citing evidence to support your position,
link it to your argument. How
does this evidence support your position statement? (Spell
it out, don’t leave it to the
reader to do this analysis of the evidence)
e. Find evidence to help you summarize the advantages and
disadvantages to using these technologies.
f. Describe the business intelligence and analytics
challenges involved with using these
technologies.
Specify how you would recommend the stakeholders to proceed
to expand the use of these
technologies
a. What action(s) should be taken and how can decisions be
made to improve outcomes?
b. How can we deal with some of the issues and problems they
faced?
c. How could they improve their performance?
d. Include some realistic short and long-term steps. What is
the priority or order of steps
that should be taken? Is there something that must be done
first?
e. Consider any risk associated with your recommendations.
What’s the worst thing that
could go wrong? How would you contain or eliminate this
risk?