Assignment: CDS Implementation & Project EvaluationUnit Outcomes addressed in this Assignment:Describe why clinical decision support is needed and its impact.Explain the major types of clinical decision support.Synthesize the current adoption status and the barriers to the wide adoption of clinical decision support.Course Outcomes addressed in this Assignment:HI501-2: Discuss the relationship between health information decision-making and cognitive support in the clinical setting.HI501-3: Analyze the socio-technical aspects of health computing.Unit 4 Assignment Instructions:Part I: Clinical Decision SupportIn your role as director of health informatics you have been asked to research clinical decision support tools. There has been limited CDS activity at the institution prior to your arrival. Now, with Meaningful Use and the increasing need to provide increased care value, the appropriate use of CDS is an institutional priority. The current CDS available at your institution consists primarily of off-the-shelf drug interaction and drug-allergy alerting, which is the source of significant clinician complaints due to the rate of false-positive alerts.There is a strong sense within the institution’s administration that IT in general and CDS specifically should be leveraged to improve care value and to enable the institution to influence its clinical practice patterns more systematically and more rapidly. You have a reasonable budget and adequate help to make meaningful changes. You also have support from key institutional stakeholders, including healthcare system executives, the nursing informatics officer, and the chief medical informatics officer. You have been asked to devise a strategic plan for CDS at your institution and to have concrete “wins” within. You will create a PowerPoint presentation with speaking notes that covers the following criteria:IntroductionObjectivesCDS ToolsBenefits of using CDSDescribe the approaches you would use to ensure that all aspects of patient care were considered when developing a CDS system.Discuss how would you prioritize the efforts of your CDS team?Potential areas on which to focus include areas in which payment rates are tied to national quality measures, CDS interventions that meet Meaningful Use requirements, readmissions for congestive heart failure and other care events for which payers increasingly are not reimbursing.Part II: Evaluation StudyIt has recently been decided to put in bar code administration software to scan medications at the time of delivery 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 arm band. The application makes it possible to print out a list of the patients with their scan patterns and the nurses sometimes carry this printout because patient’s arm bands can be difficult to locate, or nurses do not want to disturb patients while they are sleeping.The barcode 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.The hospital administration wants to conduct an evaluation study. You are assigned to be the lead on the evaluation.What is the key evaluation question for this project?Who are the stakeholders?What level of theory is most appropriate; why?What are specific elements to measure by stakeholder group?Continue your presentation with an example answer to the questions above. You will need to ensure that you provide proper reference supports to show your interns that you have used evidence to support your answers. The total length of your presentation should be 15–20 slides excluding title slide and reference slide.RequirementsYour presentation should be 15–20 slides.You should include at least five peer-reviewed sources (your text may be one).Your presentation should be in APA format.Submitting Your WorkSave your presentation in a location and with the proper naming convention: username-Course Name-section-Unit x_Assignment.docx (section is your course section and x is your unit number).
