Write a three- to four-page case study analysis addressing the points below. If needed, review the Ashford Writing Center’s Writing a Case Study Analysis (Links to an external site.) resource for assistance. In addition to the course textbook, utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources to support your answers.

• What is the key evaluation question for this project?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• What level of theory is most appropriate?
• What are specific elements to measure by stakeholder group?

Homegrown Provider Order Entry System Case Study 

[WLOs: 2, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

· Review Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.

·  Review the article  What Informatics Is and Isn’t (Links to an external site.).

· Read the case study in your course textbook found at the end of Chapter 4.

 Write a three- to four-page case study analysis addressing the points below. If needed, review the Ashford Writing Center’s  Writing a Case Study Analysis (Links to an external site.) resource for assistance. In addition to the course textbook, utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources to support your answers.

· What is the key evaluation question for this project?

· Who are the stakeholders?

· What level of theory is most appropriate?

· What are specific elements to measure by stakeholder group?

The Homegrown Provider Order Entry System Case Study

· Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the  Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)’s  APA Style (Links to an external site.)

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

· Title of paper including the chapter number and case study title

· Student’s name

· Course name and number

· Instructor’s name

· Date submitted

· For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to  APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

· Must utilize academic voice. See the  Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.

· Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

· For assistance on writing  Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as  Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.

· Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.

· The  Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

· To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this  Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.

· Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s  Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)

· Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the  Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Case Study

 

“A 410-bed hospital has used a homegrown provider order-entry system for 5 years. Leaders recently decided to put in bar code administration software to scan medications at the time of delivery in order to decrease medical error. The administration is concerned about medication errors, top-level administration is concerned about meeting the Joint Commission accreditation standards, and the IT department is worried that the scanners may not be reliable and may break, increasing their costs. The plan is to have a scanner in each patient’s room; nurses will scan the medication when” “they get to the room and scan their own badges and the patient’s armband. The application makes it possible to printout a list of the patients with their scan patterns, and the nurses sometimes carry this printout because patient’s armbands can be difficult to locate or nurses do not want to dis-turb patients while they are sleeping. The bar code software was purchased from a vendor and the facility has spent about a year refining it. The IT department is responsible for implementation and has decided that it will implement each of the four inpatient settings one at a time at 6-month intervals.”