Application Exercises | Graded Assignment

Chapter 15 Application Exercises 1, 2, 3, and 4

1. Go to DSMO website at http://www.hipaa-dsmo.org (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Review the changes that have been requested in transaction standards. Click on one of the active change requests. Review the details and determine which HIPAA transaction standard is affected by the request and which DSMO has expressed interest.
2. Visit the HL7 website (http://www.hl7.org) and locate information on Version 3. Write a brief report on the reference information model and the requirements for vocabularies.
3. Locate federal regulations for either the Meaningful Use standards and certification program (42 CFR 170) or for HIPAA transactions and code sets. Write a brief report on recent changes to these regulations.
4. Work with a small team; identify a task that could be done more effectively using data exchange standards. Describe how the task is performed today, and how data exchange standards today make this task more efficient. Identify the information systems that are involved. Research the existing standards that could be used to solve this problem. Discover whether anyone is currently working on this problem. Report in your findings. Extra credit: Submit a proposal to a standards or profiling body to develop the use case into a solution.

Chapter 16 Application Exercises 1, 2, and 3

1. Search the internet and identify the vocabulary standards that ONC adopted and against which EHRs must be tested for certification to meet meaningful use criteria. Next access the NLM website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and locate the information on UMLS metathesaurus source vocabularies (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Develop a table or grid comparing the vocabularies required by ONC and the terminologies required for administrative transactions under HIPAA.
2. Using PHIN VADS, locate the value sets associated with National Healthcare Safety Network Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI). Find the value set for type of adverse reactions to an immunization. Write a report identifying the contents of the value set.
3. Using an Internet search engine, access and listen to the CTS2 in action audio (https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/LexEVS/Common+Terminology+Services+Release+2+%28CTS2%29+In+Action (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.). Write a report describing the different ways in which CTS2 can be used.

Assignment Guidelines

• You have the choice to write a two-page paper, double spaced, or create a multimedia presentation to respond to the exercises
• Clearly label your response to each exercise in your submission

Industry experts believe blockchain is a technology that has the potential to affect the business of most IT professionals in the next five years. Pick an industry you feel will be most affected by blockchain and how blockchain may be used in that industry. As an IT manager, how would you embrace blockchain? For instance, how would training occur for your team, what strategies might you use, what security methods may you recommend be used?
2 pages answers needed ( not including the required cover page and reference page. )

 Based on the summary of research findings identified from the Evidence-Based Project—Paper on Diabetes that describes a new diagnostic tool or intervention for the treatment of diabetes in adults or children, complete the following components of this assignment:

Develop a PowerPoint presentation (a title slide, 6- 10 slides, and a reference slide; no larger than 2 MB) that includes the following:

1. A brief summary of the research conducted in the Evidence-Based Project – Paper on Diabetes.
2. A descriptive and reflective discussion of how the new tool or intervention may be integrated into practice that is supported by sound research.

Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment:

HS499-5: Health Care Administration: Demonstrate an understanding of the forces impacting health delivery systems and the effective management of health care administration.

Instructions

There are many forces that impact health delivery systems. Choose one aspect that influences how health delivery systems are challenged, and describe the issue. Examples include, but are not limited to, access to care, quality health care improvement, lack of coordinated care, continuity of care (medical home), etc.

After reviewing the Logic Model Development Guide from the readings, create a logic model for a new program you would like to fund to address this impact on the health delivery system. Discuss how the program can be applied to reduce the impact on the health delivery system.

Requirements

 
Report Issue

Option 3: Community Empowerment

Select an issue for Community Empowerment that you have observed in your clinical setting and that you have discussed with your preceptor.  This might be a chronic health condition, a recent crisis or disaster in the community, a health-related legislative concern or something else! 

Then, answer all of the following questions:

• Describe the issue comprehensively.  Is the issue simply and easily explained by community members?
• Will the issue unite community members and involve them in the problem resolution or divide them?
• Is the issue consistent with the long-range goals of the community or clinical setting?
• How does the issue affect community or organizational resources (financial, personnel, supplies, etc)?
• Does the issue have the potential for creating new community partnerships?  Or new adversaries?  Why?
• What is your prediction for the final outcome of the issue?

Every ? must be answered. 

At least one page long. 

All APA. 

Must include at least one peer reviewed nursing journal article from 2015-2020