Do the following to prepare to successfully complete this assignment on data discovery:
Review the work you did in your Week 3 assignment, as it will inform the work you do in this second assignment.
Conduct independent research on clean data characteristics. Consult the Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research GuideLinks to an external site. for research tips and help in identifying current, scholarly, and/or authoritative sources. You will be using the information from the research you conduct to complete the assignment.
Analyze Independence Medical Center’s Core Data Sets [XLSX] Download Independence Medical Center’s Core Data Sets [XLSX]. Be sure to analyze all the tabs in the spreadsheet.
Instructions
For this assessment, continue on in your role as Independence Medical Center’s privacy and security manager. Your boss, the CIO, is impressed with the work you did in recommending a DMGP framework for Independence Medical Center. (This is the work you completed in your Week 3 assignment.) As is often the case in health care administration, good work is rewarded with more work. Various departments at Independence Medical Center have brought potential data quality issues to the CIO’s attention.
As a result, you have a new task. Your boss wants you to conduct an investigation into potential data quality issues that could pose risks to the organization. You will evaluate Independence Medical Center’s core data sets from multiple data sources. After identifying the potential data quality issues, your boss has asked you to prepare a data discovery report in which you propose recommendations to help resolve the data quality issues you identified. As part of this process you will also create a spreadsheet that defines Independence Medical Center’s data elements and formats.
This assessment consists of two parts.
Part 1: Spreadsheet
Based on your analysis of Independence Medical Center’s data sources, systems, and noted recommendations, create a spreadsheet to define data elements and formats.
You have been provided data sets from Independence Medical Center.
Review the data located within the data sets.
Identify errors in the data.
Be sure to create your spreadsheet according to recommended data collection practices and formats that support enterprise information management and data integration.
Create a data dictionary to prevent these types of data errors in the future.
Do this in the Recommendations tab included in the Independence Medical Center’s Core Data Sets [XLSX] Download Independence Medical Center’s Core Data Sets [XLSX]spreadsheet.
In the first column under “Data Element” list the column headers in which you found the data errors.
In the second column under “Definition” provide the definition of the Data Element.
In the third column under “Format” provide the type, number, and arrangement of characters for the Data Element.
In the last column under “Source System,” identify the system in which the data element would be located.
Your final data dictionary (Recommendations tab) should contain at least 10 row entries.
For example:
DATA ELEMENT DEFINITION FORMAT SOURCE SYSTEM
Example: Patient Last Name Legal last name of the patient Text; 30 characters EMR registration screen
Physician Name Name of the attending provider
Text; 30 characters;
Last name, first name;
Required field
EMR registration screen
State State of legal residency
Text; 2 capital letters;
State abbreviation;
Required field
EMR registration screen
Part 2: Data Discovery Report
Write a 4–5 page data discovery report that identifies potential issues related to enterprise information management and data integration based on all of the following:
Your review of your proposed framework for a DMGP for Independence Medical Center from the previous assignment.
Your research on the characteristics of clean data.
Your analysis of Independence Medical Center’s core data sets.
Your boss has asked you to include all of the following headings in your data discovery report and to answer all of the questions underneath each heading:
Best Practices for Clean Data When Using Multiple Sources (1/2 page).
What are the best practices for maintaining clean data when using multiple sources?
Include multiple examples and references to current, scholarly, and/or authoritative sources.
Explain how best practices for cleaning data can applied to Independence Medical Center.
Data Quality Issues When Using Multiple Sources (1 page).
What data quality issues in general do organizations face when using multiple sources?
Include multiple examples and references to current, scholarly, and/or authoritative sources.
What specific data quality issues appear in Independence Medical Center’s core data sets?
Data Formatting Issues Related to Integration When Using and Storing Data From Multiple Sources (1 page).
What data formatting issues related to integration in general do organizations encounter when using and storing data from multiple sources?
Include multiple examples and references to current, scholarly, and/or authoritative sources.
What specific data formatting issues appear in Independence Medical Center’s core data sets?
Recommendations for Data Sources, Systems, and Core Data Set Items (1 page).
What are your top 3–5 recommendations for Independence Medical Center’s data sources, systems, and items to be included in its core data set?
Be sure to include the rationale behind your recommendations.
Include multiple examples and references to current, scholarly, and/or authoritative sources.
Conclusion (1 to 2 paragraphs).
What are the 3–5 key pieces of information you want your CIO to remember from your data discovery report?
Note: You know that the CIO has a reputation for asking a lot of questions about how someone came to his or her conclusions. Be sure to include references to current, scholarly, and/or authoritative sources throughout your data discovery report.
Additional Requirements
Length: Data Discovery Report (4–5 double-spaced pages) and the Excel spreadsheet.
Font and font size: Times Roman, 12-point type.
APA: Follow APA style and formatting guidelinesLinks to an external site. for citations and references. Include a separate References page.
Writing: Create a clear, well-organized, professional document that is generally free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
