Instructions:
This is a Healthcare Information Systems term paper. There are 5 questions that must be answered for this assignment. When you read the questions below, keep in mind that your answer has to be from a Healthcare Information Systems perspective.
Questions:
1- Why would it be (or not be) beneficial to combine supply chain management (SCM) and customer relationship management (CRM) into a single system for healthcare servicesorganizations? What about combining SCM with enterprise resource planning (ERP), or other combinations of Health management information system (HMIS) enterprise software for healthcare services organizations?
2- Why is it difficult to integrate IT and medicine? Discuss the need for an integrated management perspective of HMIS. Further, list and illustrate the basic functions of an HMIS. How may these basic functions be extended to accommodate complex healthinformation processing tasks such as medical diagnosis and tele-consultation?
3- What are some of the critical success factors in HMIS implementation and how should one go about standardizing service nomenclature, such as the process service names and outcomes in order to achieve a level of ease with implementing enterprise-wide software? Why must people be sold on the software and readiness to change before moving ahead with a large-scale implementation such as ERP?
4- What are the major issues with existing HIMIS? Discuss why the system interoperability is becoming a major concern for HMIS. And further explain the combined practice wants to implement wireless notepads for the physicians and staff to make changes directly to a patient’s records. What data integrity and security do you foresee? Discuss if there are any other impact or beneficial use of ‘Web Services’ to HMIS besides as a solution for HIMIS’ interoperability issue?
5- What are some of the major HMIS enterprise software? Discuss the need for a data sharing culture in implementing the various HMIS enterprise software. And what do you see as the trend of healthcare services organizations with the applications of HMIS enterprise software?
Requirements and Directions:
– Each question must be answered in a minimum of 300 words
– Each question has an entire page of answers
– Each answer is expected to be concise, direct and to the point
– Do not write the questions again in the paper just write the number of the question next to your answers
– You can use any kind of sources to answer your questions
– The answers of each questions must be complete
– Make sure to answer every aspect of the question
– The writing must be of high quality and sentence structures with no grammatical and spelling mistakes.
