HCAD 615 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION
Course Objectives for Assignment:
- Apply the principles of information management in a variety of settings such as large, networked enterprises, ambulatory care
centers, long term care facilities and integrated provider delivery networks. - Examine Information Technology Implementation by analyzing a case on using integrated systems that collect, track, and share
information across local- and wide-area network tools to clinical and administrative audiences.
Assignment Scenario: After being so successful at your internship, you decided to pursue a career in HIT. Review the information below and provide the details for the final assignment.
- Using online career sites (e.g., indeed.com or jobmine.himss.org https://jobmine.himss.org/jobs/) or any other healthcare career site:
- Locate a position for the healthcare CIO using your selected healthcare career site. Include the position information.
- Discuss the required academic qualifications, experience, and other desired/required characteristics.
- Assess your candidacy for this position using career tools on CareerQuest at the UMGC.
- Develop a plan to close the gaps necessary to meet the position requirements.
- Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a term used in IT for an official who oversees the functions of collecting, processing, and presenting information of the organization to top management for making informed business decisions. The same concept is used in healthcare. However, the information collected and used in healthcare organizations differs the normal business information.
- In a tabulated two-column format compare functions/responsibilities of CIOs for the routine business organizations and healthcare organizations.
- Determine which responsibilities of the CIO are different in healthcare and business organizations?
- Assess if they are more critical in healthcare than the business organizations and why.
- Support your viewpoints with arguments and/or real-life examples (if you work in healthcare).
All supportive evidence should be formatted in APA 7th Edition.
Deliverables: Due Tuesday of Week 12 by 11:59 pm EST (no late submissions are accepted):
- Plan to close the developmental gaps for CIO position.
- Comparison of CIO in HC and Business organization in a tabular/narrative format. https://www.instructionaldesign.org/models/
