This assignment includes three parts.

Part I: Create a Health Informatics (HI) Compliance survey for healthcare facilities to ensure their internal data dictionary requirements are in compliance with standards and regulations for Health Informatics. All key regulatory agencies and accreditation entities must be included in your survey: Joint Commission, HL-7, ASTM, NCQA, HEDIS, and ACS.

Part II: You are the Chief Information Officer of a large hospital. You are tasked with completing the HI Compliance survey. After answering all of the survey questions with detailed explanations, determine if your hospital can ensure that (1) internal data dictionary requirements are being met; (2) external data standards are being met; and the data format satisfies your hospitals data integration needs.

Part III: Part of your role as Chief Information Officer is to share and disseminate the survey and survey findings. Create a brief report educating staff on the uses and purposes of a data dictionary and the survey findings. Your report should discuss the challenges associated with data integration.