IT AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PAPER ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW

IT AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PAPER ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW

For this assignment, you will select an area of Health Information Technology Continuous
Quality Improvement recommendations and discuss their application and impact on outcomes
and processes.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Select an area of Health Information Technology Continuous Quality Improvement (HIT CQI) recommendations of interest. Choose an area of interest to you as an APN to improve patient outcomes, safety, quality, processes, or costs. This may include items such as EMR, episode start and end dates for global procedure codes, benchmarking data, standardizing survey items for same quality measures, or reducing disparities in health
and care through modifying existing mechanisms to report race and ethnicity, language, etc.

• Discuss the role of Health Information Technology in Quality Improvement targeting your area of interest. Include a discussion of how this type of technology impacts the data to decision cycle, reporting, HIPAA considerations, and can improve data collection,
analysis and reporting to improve outcomes and cost. Points to consider: costs of implementing and running the Health Care IT system, staff and consumer education, and what impact the IT system will have on improving the CQI processes.

• Your paper must include 5–6 scholarly, peer-reviewed articles in addition to the assigned reading.

• The length of your paper is to be 5-7 pages formatted to current APA standards. Include a titel page and references page.

• For your own authenticity review, you may submit a draft via the IT and Quality Improvement Paper: Draft Submission prior to submission of the final document. The submission of a draft document is optional.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

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