Assessing IT Systems for Health Information Management (HIM)

Assessing IT Systems for Health Information Management (HIM)

Overview

In this assignment you will examine IT systems applied to health information management (HIM), potential vulnerabilities of these systems, and protocols to mitigate the risk of data and security breaches that are due to these vulnerabilities. IT systems are used for health information and data management in many areas, including patient electronic medical records (EMR), hospital operations management, and health care policy decisions. The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a project management framework used to assess IT systems and associated organizational needs to identify and implement improvements to the system. You will write a paper to examine how the SDLC framework can be used to assess an IT system applied to HIM and evaluate risk mitigation protocols that reduce system risk and improve patient quality of care.

Instructions

Write a 5–6 page paper in which you:

  1. Choose a type of IT system applied to Health Information Management (HIM) for improved patient quality of care supported with an explanation for your selection.
examine how health care professionals and decision makers evaluate health care economics to understand the economic dynamics of health care systems

Implications of Health Economic Concepts for Health Care

Overview

In this assignment you will examine how health care professionals and decision makers evaluate health care economics to understand the economic dynamics of health care systems. Consider the complexity of providing health care and the intricate relationship between the fundamentals of economics and the elements of health care systems. Understanding this relationship is vital for informed decision making and optimization of health care systems. You will write a paper about health economics in relation to health care professionals, delivery, and government and private sector involvement.

Instructions

Write a 4–6-page paper in which you:

  1. Assess the value of health care professionals and decision makers understanding the discipline of health economics.
  2. Defend or critique the importance of considering the complex nature of health and health care when examining the economic principles related to health care delivery.
Analyze current data mining practices and evaluate the pros and cons of data mining

In this assignment, you will analyze current data mining practices and evaluate the pros and cons of data mining. Provide one example of a company that has successfully practiced data mining and discuss why they were successful. Then, research a company that experienced a failed data mining practice. What data mining best practices could they have implemented to avoid this failure?

Distinguish between the short-run and the long-run in a macroeconomic analysis

Unemployment and inflation are an economy’s two most important macroeconomic issues. The federal government’s fiscal policy and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy try to maintain both a low unemployment rate around a natural rate and a low inflation rate around 2%.

  • Evaluate the historical relationship between unemployment and inflation. (hint: You may start from A.W. Phillips’s finding of the relationship between unemployment and inflation.)
  • Distinguish between the short-run and the long-run in a macroeconomic analysis. Why is the relationship between unemployment and inflation different in the short-run and the long-run?
  • Assess the recent 20-year U.S. unemployment and inflation data. Do the current U.S. unemployment and inflation data confirm the short-run Phillips curve?
  • Analyze why the recent 20-year U.S. unemployment and inflation data approves or disproves the short-run Phillips curve.
  • Evaluate whether the Phillips curve can still validly resolve today’s issue of unemployment and inflation and forecast unemployment and inflation. Why or why not?
  • Recommend any policy, method, or opinions for the current U.S. unemployment and inflation as a policy maker for either fiscal policy or monetary policy (or both).

The Short-Run and Long-Run Relationship Between Unemployment and Inflation Final Paper