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HIT Projects and Decision Makers

A nurse leader sought to implement greater security in the children’s wing of the hospital by installing a new alarm and monitoring system. Due to budget constraints, the CNO rejected the proposal, stating that current security methods were sufficient. Shortly after this failed proposal, an individual did in fact breach the children’s wing security and abducted a young child. Thankfully, the child was found and returned to her parents; and the CNO quickly found the money to install the new security system.

Not all HIT projects have such high-profile stakes. The main takeaway from this example is the importance of getting key stakeholders and decision makers on board when planning a new HIT project.

To prepare:
Bring to mind a HIT project implemented in your organization. Which leaders identified the project? Which stakeholders and decision makers helped moved the project forward?

Consider methods that were used to garner the support of stakeholders and decision makers to move the project forward.
Write a cohesive response that addresses the following:
Describe an example of a HIT project implemented at your organization and analyze how that project was identified and moved forward.

Evaluate the impact of key decision makers on moving the HIT project forward.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings

By Day 6 respond to at least two of your colleagues in one or more of the following ways:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.

Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.

Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.

Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.

Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.

Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you learned and/or any insights you gained as a result of the comments made by your colleagues.

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and any additional sources.

Readings

Course Text:Nursing Informatics: Where Technology and Caring Meet
Chapter 17, “Disruptive Innovation: Point of Care”

This chapter uses real-world integration examples to illustrate the visions and challenges that characterize Smart Point of Care systems.
Course Text: American Nurses Association (2015). Nursing informatics: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: Author.
“Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice” (pp. 67-79)
This excerpt presents the specific measurement criteria found within each nursing informatics standard.

Article: Madsen, M. (2010). Knowledge and information modeling. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 151, 84-103.
Retrieved from the Walden Library using the MEDLINE with Full Text database.

Within this article, the overall design models of information systems are linked to the metastructures, data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
Article: Peleg, M. (2011). The role of modeling in clinical information system development life cycle. Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(1), 7-10.

Peleg, M. The Role of Modeling in Clinical Information System Development Life Cycle. Methods Inf Med 2011; 50: 7-10.

The author of this article discusses the role of conceptual modeling in health information technology systems and how it has been an effective component of system development.
Article: Philip, A., Afolabi, B., Adeniran, O., Oluwatolani, O., & Ishaya, G. (2010). Towards an efficient information systems development process and management: A review of challenges and proposed strategies. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 3(10), 983-989.
Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.

This article examines the phases and methodologies found within the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and proposes a framework for establishing the crucial roles that participants must play during the SDLC.
Article: Szydlowski, S., & Smith, C. (2009). Perspectives from nurse leaders and chief information officers on health information technology implementation. Hospital Topics, 87(1), 3-9.
Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.

Qualitative research is used in this article to examine the trends, goals, outcomes, barriers, and mistakes that hospital leaders may experience when implementing health information technology systems.
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