HSA 4191: Fundamentals of Healthcare Information Technology

Term Paper

Write on the application and challenges involved with implementing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system for a private family medicine practice. This is a small family practice with 3 doctors and a HIT budget of $60,000 annually and $150,000 for upfront expenditures.

The term must answer the following questions.

1. What are the most important functionalities of the EHR that need to be implemented at the practice?

2. Is it possible for any existing Practice Management Systems to be integrated with the EHR?

3. Identify any two critical challenges in implementing the EHR.

4. Identify any four critical advantages the EHR would provide to the practice.

5. How would you manage the project planning and implementation of this EHR?

6. Explain the technology security considerations and how HIPAA governs its implementation.

7. Discuss strategies for disaster recovery and include discussion on storage media options

8. Evaluate cloud computing considerations, to include cloud-hosted versus local installation

9. Make a recommendation on the type of EHR system this practice should adopt and support your decision using data.

Using references/citations appropriate to the content of the answer Providing examples that will support your answers or claims

Based on the knowledge gathered from these materials develop your strategy/solution/ approach and describe it. Please make sure that you list all the resources that you have used in the reference list.