OM008: Health Information Technology

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contains the Rubric that will be used to evaluate your responses.

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1. Healthcare information exchanges (HIEs) are maturing and providing opportunities for healthcare providers and payers to collaborate
on patient healthcare records and to streamline care. The proliferation and acceptance of healthcare information exchanges are slow,
as they are not widely accepted. Describe the overall advantages of HIEs. Explain the root causes of the issues with these exchanges,
and describe what strategies are underway to drive acceptance. (1–2 pages)

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Rubric
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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 1: Define the central role of health information technology for healthcare providers, organizations, and patients.
Learning Objective 1.1: Explanation of challenges Response vaguely explains Response clearly explains Response demonstrates
Explain challenges related to acceptance of challenges related to the at least two challenges the same level of
related to acceptance healthcare information acceptance of healthcare related to the acceptance achievement as “2,” plus
of healthcare information exchanges. of healthcare information the following:
exchange is missing.
exchanges.
information exchanges.
Response vaguely explains Response explains a
strategies underway to Response clearly explains specific challenge in an
drive acceptance of at least two strategies or authentic or real-life
healthcare information policies that underway to healthcare environment
exchanges. drive acceptance of industry or organization
healthcare information related to acceptance of
exchanges. healthcare information
exchanges.

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2. Surveys show that healthcare provider satisfaction is related to the technology available to them in providing patient care. Identify the
health information technology most used in patient care and the advances in technology used to enhance patient care. (2–3 pages)

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Rubric
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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 1: Define the central role of health information technology for healthcare providers, organizations, and patients.
Learning Objective 1.2: Identification of the health Response vaguely Response accurately Response demonstrates
Identify the health information technology identifies the health identifies the health the same level of
information technology most used in patient care information technology information technology achievement as “2,” plus
most used in patient and the advances in most used in patient care. most used in patient care. the following:
technology used to
care and the advances
enhance patient care is Response vaguely Response identifies at least Response identifies one
in technology used to missing. identifies one one advancement that is additional advancement
enhance patient care.
advancement that is needed to enhance patient that is needed to enhance
needed to enhance patient care. patient care.
care.

3. Healthcare providers are taking advantage of real-time tool location systems (RTLSs) to monitor both their organization’s hardware assets
and patient progress. Examples of these systems are radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking for patient flow, asset tracking for
equipment location, and ultrasound tag tracking. Explain how hospitals can reduce costs and increase quality of care by using these tracking
systems. (1–2 pages)

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Rubric
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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 2: Describe the role of health information technology in the cost, quality, and access to healthcare and in the decision
making of healthcare organizations.
Learning Objective 2.1: Explanation of how Response vaguely explains Response includes an Response demonstrates
Explain how hospitals hospitals can reduce costs how hospitals can reduce explanation of at least two the same level of
can reduce costs by and increase quality of costs and increase quality relevant ways that achievement as “2,” plus
using tracking systems. care by using tracking of care by using tracking hospitals can reduce costs the following:
systems. by using tracking systems.
systems is missing. Response provides
Response is not supported Response is supported by examples from actual
by relevant academic relevant academic health care organization or
resources. resources. professionals that are
taking advantage of real-
time tool location systems
(RTLSs).

Learning Objective 2.2: Explanation of how Response vaguely explains Response includes an Response demonstrates
Explain how hospitals hospitals can increase the how hospitals can increase explanation of at least one the same level of
can increase quality of quality of care by using the quality of care by using relevant way that hospitals achievement as “2,” plus
care by using tracking tracking systems. can increase the quality of the following:
tracking systems is
systems. care by using tracking
missing. systems. Response provides
examples from actual
health care organization or
professionals that are
taking advantage of real-
time tool location systems
(RTLSs).

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4. A survey found that 70% of doctors use electronic health records in one form or another. Explain how sharing electronic health records
among doctors, patients, and payers can enhance the health of patients through effective clinical decision support. (2–3 pages)

Your Response
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Rubric
0 1 2 3
Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 2: Describe the role of health information technology in the cost, quality, and access to healthcare and in the decision
making of healthcare organizations.
Learning Objective 2.2: Explanation of how sharing Response vaguely explains Response explains at least Response demonstrates
Explain how sharing electronic health records how sharing electronic two relevant ways that the same level of
electronic health among doctors, patients, health records can sharing electronic health achievement as “2,” plus
records among and payers can enhance enhance the health of records can enhance the the following:
the health of patients patients through effective health of patients through
doctors, patients, and
through effective clinical clinical decision support, effective clinical decision Response provides
payers can enhance decision support is or explains fewer than two support. examples from actual
the health of patients missing. ways. health care organization or
through effective Response is supported by
professionals that are
clinical decision Response is not supported references to academic
sharing electronic health
support. by references to academic resources.
records among doctors,
resources.
patients, and payers.

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5. Describe how healthcare provider organizations can leverage health information technology and improve the processes of care delivery to
provide better patient quality of care. (2–3 pages)

Your Response
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Rubric
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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 3: Explain the role of health information technology in the processes of care delivery and performance improvement.
Learning Objective 3.1: Description of how Response vaguely Response describes two Response demonstrates
Describe how healthcare provider describes relevant relevant examples of how the same level of
healthcare provider organizations can leverage examples of how healthcare provider achievement as “2,” plus
organizations can healthcare provider organizations can leverage the following:
health information
organizations can leverage health information
leverage health technology and improve health information technology and improve Response describes at
information technology processes to provide technology and how they processes to provide least two tangible benefits
and improve processes better patient quality of can improve processes to better patient quality of patients receive when
to provide better care is missing. provide better patient care.
healthcare provider
patient quality of care. quality of care, or
organizations leverage
Response describes fewer Response is supported by
than two ways. references to academic health information
technology and improve
resources.
Response is not supported processes to provide
by references to academic patient quality of care.
resources.

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6. Describe how healthcare payer organizations can use healthcare information exchanges (HIEs) to improve processes of care delivery that
enhance the quality of service they provide patients. (1–2 pages)

Your Response
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Rubric
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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 3: Explain the role of health information technology in the processes of care delivery and performance improvement.
Learning Objective 3.2: Description of how Response vaguely Response describes two Response demonstrates
Describe how healthcare payer describes relevant relevant examples of how the same level of
healthcare payer organizations can use examples of how healthcare payer achievement as “2,” plus
organizations can use healthcare information healthcare payer organizations can use the following:
exchanges to improve organizations can use healthcare information
healthcare information
processes to enhance the healthcare information exchanges to improve Response identifies at least
exchanges to improve quality of service they exchanges to improve processes to enhance the two commercial
processes to enhance provide patients is missing. processes to enhance the quality of service they healthcare information
the quality of service quality of service they provide patients.
exchanges and describes
they provide patients. provide patients, or
how healthcare payer
Response describes only Response is supported by
one example. references to academic organizations employ them
to improve their processes
resources.
Response is not supported to enhance the quality of
by references to academic services they provide
resources. patients.

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7. Explain how industry standards for interoperability of electronic healthcare records can enable secure and private access to patient data. (2–
3 paragraphs)

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Rubric
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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 4: Explain the benefits of industry standard requirements for interoperability between facilities, care teams, and community
networks.
Learning Objective 4.1: Explanation of how Response vaguely explains Response includes an Response demonstrates
Explain how industry industry standards for how medical information explanation that the same level of
standards for interoperability of and applied healthcare thoroughly describes two achievement as “2,” plus
interoperability of electronic healthcare interoperability standards medical information and the following:
records can enable secure can enable secure and applied healthcare
electronic healthcare
and private access to private access to patient interoperability standards Response describes at
records can enable patient data is missing. data. that can enable secure and least three medical
secure and private private access to patient information and applied
access to patient data. Response is not supported data.
healthcare interoperability
by references to academic
Response is supported by standards and how they
resources.
can enable secure and
references to academic
resources. private access to patient
data.

8. Describe how medical information exchange and applied healthcare interoperability standards for healthcare record communications can
increase efficiency of inter-departmental communications, between general practitioners and specialists, and between providers and
regulatory agencies. (2–3 paragraphs)

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Your Response
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Rubric
0 1 2 3
Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 4: Explain the benefits of industry standard requirements for interoperability between facilities, care teams, and community
networks.
Learning Objective 4.2: Description of how Response vaguely Response clearly describes Response demonstrates
Describe how industry industry standards for describes how industry at least two ways that the same level of
standards for healthcare record standards can increase industry standards can achievement as “2,” plus
healthcare record efficiency of inter- increase efficiency of inter- the following:
communications can
departmental departmental
communications can increase efficiency of inter- communications, between communications, between Response describes at
increase efficiency of department general practitioners and general practitioners and least one additional way
inter-department communications, between specialists, and between specialists, and between that industry standards
communications, general practitioners and providers and regulatory providers and regulatory
can increase efficiency of
between general specialists, and between agencies, or only one way agencies.
is addressed. inter-departmental
practitioners and providers and regulatory
Response is supported by communications, between
specialists, and agencies is missing.
Response is not supported references to academic general practitioners and
between providers and
by references to academic resources. specialists, and between
regulatory agencies.
resources. providers and regulatory
agencies.

9. Describe how healthcare organizations can adopt social media to enable patient access to the organizations and their staff and to address
patient healthcare issues. (1–2 pages)

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Your Response
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Rubric
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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 5: Identify how health information technology influences the patient experience.
Learning Objective 5.1: Description of how Response vaguely Response thoroughly Response demonstrates
Describe how healthcare organizations describes how healthcare describes at least one way the same level of
healthcare can adopt social media to organizations can adopt healthcare organizations achievement as “2,” plus
organizations can enable patient access to social media to enable can adopt social media to the following:
the organizations and their patient access to the enable patient access to
adopt social media to
staff and to address organizations and their the organizations and their Response describes one
enable patient access patient healthcare issues is staff and one way to staff and one way to real-life example from
to the organizations missing. address patient healthcare address patient healthcare health care organization or
and their staff and to issues. issues.
professionals that have
address patient
adopted social media to
healthcare issues. Response is not supported Response is supported by
by references to academic references to academic enable patient access to
resources. the organizations and their
resources.
staff and to address
patient healthcare issues.

10. Describe how physicians can use the Internet and social media to enhance their interactions with medical services that affect their patients.
(1–2 pages)

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Rubric

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 0 1 2 3
Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 5: Identify how health information technology influences the patient experience.
Learning Objective 5.2: Description of how Response vaguely Response thoroughly Response demonstrates
Describe how physicians can use the describes how physicians describes at least one way the same level of
physicians can use the Internet and social media can use the Internet and physicians can use the achievement as “2,” plus
Internet and social to enhance their social media to enhance Internet and social media the following:
interactions with medical their interactions with to enhance their
media to enhance their
services that affect their medical services that affect interactions with medical Response includes a
interactions with patients is missing. their patients. services that affect their detailed description of at
medical services that patients. least two Internet services
affect their patients. Response is not supported
that physicians can use to
by references to academic Response is supported by
enhance their interactions
resources. references to academic
resources. with medical services that
affect their patients.

11. Explain how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) promotes the adoption of technology to improve the quality of care. (1–
2 pages)

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Sub-Competency 6: Explain healthcare regulations that influence the adoption and use of health information technology.
Learning Objective 6.1: Explanation of how the Response vaguely explains Response includes an in- Response demonstrates
Explain how the Patient Patient Protection and how the Patient Protection depth and comprehensive the same level of
Protection and Affordable Care Act and Affordable Care Act explanation of how the achievement as “2,” plus
Affordable Care Act (PPACA) promotes the (PPACA) promotes the Patient Protection and the following:
adoption of technology to adoption of technology to Affordable Care Act
(PPACA) promotes the
improve the quality of care improve the quality of (PPACA) promotes the Response provides at least
adoption of technology is missing. care. adoption of technology to one real-life example from
to improve the quality improve the quality of health care organization or
of care. Response is not supported care, using specific
professionals that were
by references to academic examples.
influenced by the Patient
resources.
Response is supported by Protection and Affordable
references to academic Care Act (PPACA) to invest
resources. in health IT to enhance the
quality of care for patients.

12. Describe how the federal government has sought to influence the adoption and use of electronic health records in the past 10 years. Discuss
the effectiveness of these efforts. (2–3 pages)

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Rubric

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Not Present Needs Improvement Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Sub-Competency 6: Explain healthcare policies and regulations that influence the adoption and use of health information technology.

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 Learning Objective 6.2: Description of how the Response vaguely Response provides a Response demonstrates
Describe how the federal government has describes government thorough description of the same level of
federal government sought to influence the programs intended to three aspects of achievement as “2,” plus
has sought to influence adoption and use of influence the adoption and government actions the following: Response
the adoption and use electronic health records use of electronic health intended to influence the describes how government
of electronic health in the past 10 years is records. Discussion of adoption of EHRs in the actions will continue to
records in the past 10 missing. effectiveness of these U.S. and their effectiveness influence EHR adoption in
years. efforts is insufficient. in accomplishing this goal. the future.
Response is not supported Response is supported by
by references to academic references to academic
resources. resources.

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