NURS 8310 Week 1: Introduction to Epidemiology and Population Health Essay Assignment Imagine walking out of your home to a chaotic scene of disaster relief personnel dressed in hazmat suits. Hollywood has long played upon fears of a catastrophic epidemic with movies such as Outbreak (1995) and Contagion (2011). In films such as these, the…

NURS 8210 Week 7: Nursing and Health Care Informatics Tools: Telehealth, Robotics, and Decision Support Systems “Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.” – Bill Gates (as cited in Frazer, 2007)   Technological innovations are dramatically changing how the health care industry operates.…

NURS 8210 Week 6 Discussion: HIT Usability and Design Challenges Reflect on your experiences with the integration of new technology. How have these implementations affected the procedures that you perform at work? As the end user, it can be easy to overlook all of the important decisions that went into the finished product that you…

NURS 8210 Week 6 Assignment 1: Application 2: Meaningful Use Paper Continue working on Assignment 2: Meaningful Use Paper, assigned in Week 5.   By Day 7 Submit your Assignment.   Submission and Grading Information To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:   Please save your Assignment using the naming…

NURS 8210 Week 5 Assignment 1: Application 2: Meaningful Use Paper Why are many health care organizations hesitant to adopt electronic health records (EHR) when they have the potential to improve quality, increase access, and reduce costs? Some organizations are concerned with the ethical and legal issues that may arise in daily operations. In 2010,…

NURS 8210 Week 6 Assignment 2: Application 3: Health Information Technology Project Week in Review This week you analyzed overall usability and design of a HIT system/application and formulated strategies for overcoming challenges. Next week you will explore the use of decision support systems along with cutting-edge technologies that seek to improve patient care and…

NURS 8210 Assignment: Application 3: Health Information Technology Project  In previous Discussions and Applications, you have explored various aspects of health information technology systems: the historic development of HIT, how data flows across HIT systems, and standards and interoperability requirements including specific terminologies used in your practice setting. In this Application Assignment, you will have…

NURS 8210 Week 4: System Development Life Cycle HIT Projects and Decision Makers   A nurse leader sought to implement greater security in the children’s wing of the hospital by installing a new alarm and monitoring system. Due to budget constraints, the CNO rejected the proposal, stating that current security methods were sufficient. Shortly after…

NURS 8210 Week 5: Nursing and Health Informatics Ethics and the Law “Whatever, in connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.”…

NURS 8210 Health Information Technology Project Assignment: Write a 12- to 15-page (plus references) paper that includes the following:       Organization Information (5 points)   Briefly describe the health information technology system/application and the organization type (hospital, clinic, public health agency, software company, government health information website, private virtual health information site, etc.).…