Developing an Innovative IT Strategy–Data Driven Approaches to Challenges in the Health Care Continuum
To Prepare for this Assignment:
Review the Final Project Scenarios file that has been uploaded and select a setting of care from one of these scenarios:
Long-Term Care
Critical Access Hospital
Telemedicine for Rural-Based Health Facility
Research current and specific clinical and financial management problems in these settings of care and evaluate how technology might be justified to address the most pressing challenges.
The Assignment:
Write a 3 page excluding title and reference pages) APA style paper, addressing the following elements for the scenario that you choose. This will also be the scenario used to complete the Final Project. For this Assignment, address the elements of a project Charter used to plan the acquisition of an HIT solution for the setting of choice. The Charter should include:
Problem statement. A specific statement of the problems that you intend to address in this scenario using technology solutions.
Scope of the HIT solution to be acquired. This includes both the technical elements of the scope and the business and clinical functional elements of the scope.
Stakeholders analysis including the needs of both internal and external stakeholders. This analysis includes a summary of the business and clinical system functions that the technology should address for each of the executive stakeholders.
Risk Analysis. A specific statement of the financial, technical, legal, ethical, and operational risks involved in introducing HIT into this setting and the feasible mitigation strategies to address these risks.
