Data Collection Plan

Objectives:

1. Examine the primary considerations of how health informatics data is collected, stored, and retrieved to facilitate the meaningful use of health information by various stakeholders.
2. Identify the cycle of collecting meaningful data.
3. Describe how to analyze data in order to evaluate and implement additions to an EHR.
4. Discuss the evolving role of big data and data analytics in health care settings.

Resources

• Read “Data Governance, Data Literacy and the Management of Data Quality,” by Koltay, from International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (2016).
• Read “HIM Coming of Age Through Information Governance and Data Governance,” by Andrews, from Journal of AHIMA (2018).
• Read Chapter 23 in Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.
• Read “Rules for Handling and Maintaining Metadata in the EHR,” from Journal of AHIMA (2013).

Discussions

Discussion 1

Discuss various occasions in which predictive analytics are helpful and important in the health care setting. How does this impact the health informatics?

Discussion 2

Very large amounts of data are collected and stored within health care settings every day. Additionally, multiple stakeholders need to use some of this data for a variety of purposes. Discuss the primary challenges of storing, retrieving, and using all this data in a meaningful way. What role does the informatics profession play in managing this data and in assisting others in accessing, interpreting it, and utilizing it for a variety of purposes?

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Assignment

Data Collection Plan

Currently, the hospital in which you work has implemented a new clinical practice that will reduce the amount of radiation to a child’s brain. The child enters the emergency room with a head injury and a Glasgow Coma Score of 14 or more, and the child is not vomiting. It has been asked that the physician not order a CT scan. To ensure that all physicians are in compliance with the practice, a report will need to be generated for the chief marketing officers at each facility. To generate the report, you are asked to create a data collection plan. Include the following criteria into your plan:

1. Consider health informatics regulations and standards regarding the collection of personal data. Identify what data elements would be needed to pull the report from the electronic health record.
2. Discuss theories that could be utilized when collecting data.
3. Discuss the essential questions that you would ask in order to ensure that you are collecting the correct data. (Do they want the report to be on ongoing? Do they want just a single report?)
4. Explain how the data collected will improve or influence the situation.
5. Discuss how to protect the patient’s identity when doing reporting.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.