Week 5 "Interoperability" Please respond to the following: Elaborate on the trend of interoperability of health care management information systems. Determine a significant challenge that health care organizations will face when creating an interoperable system. Justify your response. Suggest a significant benefit of interoperability that is the result of the SAPHIRE project. Provide support for your rationale. "Solutions to HMIS Issues" Please respond to the following: Determine the most significant requirement of an effective solution to interoperability. Provide a rationale for your determination. Suggest a significant challenge of applying WSIHS to health care management information systems (HMIS), and indicate how the challenge may be mitigated. Week 6 HMIS Planning" Please respond to the following: Analyze the main functions of the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling (PODC) model of management, indicating where managers are most likely to struggle performing these functions. Provide a rationale to support your response. Suggest a key factor that management must consider when making the decision to implement an HMIS. Provide a rationale for your determination. "Developing HIMS in a Health Care Organization" Please respond to the following: Create an argument for the HIMS development method you think would be the most effective in a health care organization. Justify your response. Speculate on whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for using Open Source Software in a hospital setting. Provide support for your rationale. Week 7 Data Stewardship" Please respond to the following: Determine a significant force that would have the most impact on the decision to implement HMIS. Justify your response. Determine a critical element in the process for implementing a health information management system, and specify the conditions under which this element would improve the implementation of the system. Success Factors" Please respond to the following: Determine what you believe to be the most critical factor for the successful implementation of a health information management system. Justify your response. Suggest three specific ways in which IT service management can demonstrate its value in improving the delivery of quality health care services. Support your rationale. Week 8 HMIS Standards" Please respond to the following: From the e-Activity, determine a key factor that has delayed the widespread implementation of electronic health records in health care organizations. Provide an example of the effects of each factor to support your rationale. Determine two areas where HIPPA has influenced the development of HIMS standards. Justify your response. Integrating HIMS Standards" Please respond to the following: Recommend two types of health care information that you believe should be standardized for all health care organizations. Support your rationale. Analyze the importance of standardized data collection and reporting in health care, and support your response. Next, determine two functions of standardized data collection that could improve the quality of health care services on a global scale. Provide an example of each function to support your analysis. Week 9 e-Health" Please respond to the following: Compare the key similarities and differences between the concepts of telemedicine, tele-care, and tele-health. Provide an example of how each method is affecting the quality of today's health care services on a global scale. Create an argument that e-Health has significant economic benefits to its users. Provide support for your argument. e-Health Trends and Challanges" Please respond to the following: Suggest the stakeholder group that will benefit the most from e-Health. Provide support for your rationale. From the e-Activity, determine a significant barrier to the advancement of e-Health models in the delivery of patient care. Suggest how this barrier can be minimized. Provide a rationale for your determination. Week 10 Innovationin HIMS" Please respond to the following: Compare and contrast the functionality and efficiency of the complaint-push model and data-pull model within the process of health care service delivery. Recommend a strategy improving the effectiveness of each method for delivering patient care. Determine a significant aspect of a complex health care system that represents barriers to a more rapid diffusion of HIT. Next, suggest how these barriers can be removed or minimized. Support your rationale. HIT Management and Implementation" Please respond to the following: Determine a key process in the delivery of health care services that would be more efficient and effective through the application of a specific model of HIT. Support your response. Analyze the barriers to the implementation of HIMS in a complex adaptive system (CAS). Propose a strategy to help reduce the level of resistance from the clinical staff during a transition from CAS to HIMS innovations. Provide a rationale to support your response. Week 11 Looking Ahead" Please respond to the following: Predict what the major issue discussed in this course will be 20 years from now. Explain in detail why you believe it will be a major issue. Thinking about the subjects addressed in this course, predict what will be the focus of this course 10 years from now. Explain your rationale