Issues in Establishing RHIOs
Order Description
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This assignment facilitates comprehensive knowledge transfer in regard to the components, infrastructure, and functionality of the regional health information organization (RHIO).
Scenario:
You have been hired as the director of public health informatics for the Centervale County Department of Public Health because you have valuable knowledge about the functionality and functioning of RHIOs. This is what you have learned about Centervale’s plans:
• The Centervale County department of public health plans to deploy a county-wide RHIO.
• The department requires healthcare establishments and practitioners in the county to migrate from a paper-based health records system to an electronic medical records (EMR) system within the next five years.
• The department also requires all practitioners to connect to the county Health Information Exchange set up by the RHIO within the next five years.
Directions:
Your primary responsibility is to propose policies and mandates that ensure maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of protected health information.
Keeping that in mind, prepare a 10 slide PowerPoint presentation for the Centervale County Department of Public Health officials that includes the following:
1. Discuss the challenges of privacy and confidentiality within the history and evolution of public health informatics.
a. What opportunities will the migration to an EHR and the implementation of a RHIO provide to address these challenges?
2. Address the following issues with establishing a county-wide RHIO:
a. Identify and discuss the privacy concerns about the collection and distribution of health information across the RHIO.
b. Describe the access rights of individuals and any groups to the data collected and stored by the RHIO.
c. Identify and explain interoperability standards deployed by the RHIO.
3. Propose a list of policies and mandates that would ensure maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of protected health information as mentioned in the above issues.
4. Evaluate and identify the best tools or system of public health informatics to manage the county’s public health information and explain how that tool or system will uphold privacy.
a. Give examples of how key public health information systems in the United States use these policies and mandates to guarantee the security, confidentiality, and accessibility of the data they contain.
b. Describe some of the search tools available to locate and analyze public health data.
5. Examine how the policies, mandates, tools, and standards that have evolved in the development of RHIOs might contribute to a global strategy for use of information technology (IT) in healthcare to reduce health inequity.
Use the PowerPoint Notes pane on each slide to explain your discussion points as if you were actually presenting this information to a group. .
Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Grading Criteria
Assignment Components Proficient Maximum Points
Discuss the challenge of privacy and confidentiality within the history and evolution of public health informatics.
What opportunities will the migration to an EHR and the implementation of a RHIO provide to address these challenges?
CO 1
PO 3.a, 4.b Challenges of privacy and confidentiality within the history and evolution of public health informatics are clear, complete, and accurate. Opportunities a migration to an EHR and the implementation of a RHIO provide are clear, specific, and accurate; they clearly address the challenges. 24
Identify and discuss the privacy concerns about the collection and distribution of health information across the RHIO.
CO 3
PO 3.b Privacy concerns identified are clear and appropriate to the scenario. Concerns directly focus on the collection and distribution of health information across the RHIO. 36
Describe the access rights of individuals and any groups to the data collected and stored by the RHIO.
CO 3
PO 3.b Access rights of both individuals and groups to data collection are clearly and accurately described. 40
Identify and explain the interoperability standards deployed by the RHIO. Interoperability standards deployed by the RHIO are accurately identified. Explanation is clear and complete. All applicable standards are present. 36
Propose a list of policies and mandates that would ensure maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of protected health information as mentioned in the above issues. Proposed list of policies and mandates is complete and clear. It includes policies and mandates that would lead to maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of protected health information. Ideas are grounded in scholarly evidence. 32
Evaluate and identify the best tools or system of public health informatics to manage the county’s public health information and explain how that tool or system will uphold privacy. Give examples of how key public health information systems in the United States use these policies and mandates to guarantee the security, confidentiality, and accessibility of the data they contain. Describe some of the search tools available to locate and analyze public health data. Tools or systems identified to best manage the county’s public health information are specific and appropriate for the scenario. Explanation of how those tool(s)/system(s) will uphold privacy is included. Explanation also provides accurate examples of how key public health information systems in the U.S. use these policies and mandates. Accurate search tools available to locate and analyze public health data are also identified. 32
Examine how the policies, mandates, tools, and standards that have evolved in the development of RHIOs might contribute to a global strategy for use of information technology (IT) in healthcare to reduce health inequity. Examination of how the policies, mandates, tools, and standards have evolved in the development of RHIOs is accurate and clear. Explanation of how that evolution might contribute to a global strategy for use of IT in health care is clear, specific, and includes an explanation of how it will reduce health inequity. 28
Standard Components
Organization
Write with clear organization appropriate to required format, including introduction, thesis/main idea, transitions, and conclusion, when appropriate. Introduction has a clear opening, provides background information, and states the topic. The assignment (e.g., report, presentation) is organized around an arguable stated thesis or main idea. Transitions are appropriate and help the flow of ideas. Conclusion summarizes main argument and has a clear ending. Writing generally provides a consistent coherency among ideas. 16
Usage and Mechanics
Write using proper grammar, spelling, usage, and mechanics appropriate to the required format. Writing follows format’s conventions of spelling and grammar throughout. Writing skills are competent. Good command of language. Bullet points and/or sentence structures are accurate. Capitalization, punctuation, and indentation reasonably well followed. Spelling errors are very few. All errors are infrequent and do not interfere with readability or comprehension. 20
APA Elements
Include proper attribution, paraphrasing, and quotations of all sources. Using APA format, accurately paraphrased, quoted, and cited throughout the presentation when appropriate or called for. Only a few minor errors present. 20
Audience and Communication
Write specifically to key audience, using terminology and tone appropriate for the formal audience, and assignment. Writing is focused. Tone and terminology are adequately formal and are appropriate for format, audience, and assignment. 16
Total 300
