Description
Introduction:
Today s healthcare ecosystem is influenced by external factors such as legislative events economic changes and
social trends impacting delivery systems. The role of the health informatics professional is to analyze and
respond to the information needs of external and internal customers throughout the continuum of healthcare
services (the healthcare ecosystem). For this task you will be expected to demonstrate your understanding of
today s healthcare ecosystem and trends in services and how health informatics professionals play an important
role in monitoring the impact of national health information initiatives particularly in the use of information
systems.
Select one large hospital in your geographic area or one that is nationally known for its service excellence.
Some examples are Johns Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland; Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota; Cleveland
Clinic in Cleveland Ohio; Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Massachusetts; or Ronald Reagan UCLA
Medical Center in Los Angeles California. You may use the hospitals website latest annual report or other
reports found on their website to locate information needed for this task.
Task:
A. Discuss how one historic legislative social or economic event impacted the growth of your chosen hospital.
Note: The historic legislative social or economic event should be based in the local community.
B. Compare a point of your chosen hospitals mission vision and/or value to a service provided to the
community.
1. Explain a quality improvement initiative from your chosen hospital.
C. Interpret trends and future development of your chosen hospital by doing the following:
1. Analyze how your chosen hospital uses health informatics technologies to impact its healthcare delivery.
2. Evaluate how your chosen hospital uses emerging trends in technology to support its projects and initiatives.
D. When you use sources include all in text citations and references in APA format.
Note: When bulleted points are present in the task prompt the level of detail or support called for in the rubric
refers to those bulleted points.
Note: For definitions of terms commonly used in the rubric see the Rubric Terms web link included in the
Evaluation Procedures section.
Note: When using sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project the submission MUST include
APA formatted in text citations with a corresponding reference list for any direct quotes or paraphrasing. It is
not necessary to list sources that were consulted if they have not been quoted or paraphrased in the text of the
paper or project.
Note: No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from
sources even if cited correctly. For tips on using APA style please refer to the APA Handout web link included
in the General Instructions section.

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