Healthcare Reform and 21st Century Healthcare Information Systems 4

Healthcare Reform and 21st Century Healthcare Information Systems 4

Prepare a well-written paper that addresses all of the following topics and requirements:

Analyze and evaluate the implications of 5-7 major initiatives associated with healthcare reform on the designing and planning of 21st century healthcare information systems.

Evaluate the challenges associated with each trend and ways to overcome them.

Include an assessment of the impact that each initiative may have on the following:

Leadership, governance, and the role of a healthcare CIO

Strategic HMIS planning and organizational culture

Characteristics and capabilities of an enterprise resource planning system

Review legislation and regulations that could influence the implementation of health information management systems.

Explain how CIOs might assess the merits of each initiative based on vision, mission, and strategy.

Predict the global trends in the adoption of major standards and the use of HMIS over the next five years.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Be 8-11 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages

Cite 6 or more references. (Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references; all facts must be supported; use in-text citations throughout the assignment and include them in an APA-formatted reference list.)

Adhere to the guidelines of the grading rubric

Be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.