Data and System Integration
UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST
Data and System
Integration
Task 1
ATMC Semester 1,
2018
Background: Health Information Technology
On
the 17th of February 2009 the United States government legislated
the “Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act” or “HITEC Act” (America, 2009). At the heart of this legislation
is a requirement for all health providers to maintain electronic health records
in a manner to facilitate data integration and sharing amongst providers with
the goal of achieving this by 2014.
Prior
to and subsequent of this legislation, a wealth of scholarly articles has been
written in respect to the impact of HITEC, more generally on the benefits of
maintaining Electronic Health Records (EHR) and the challenges for Enterprise
Information Architecture (EIA), see e.g. (Brennan, 2017) (Adenuga, et al.,
2015) (Raghupathi & Raghupathi, 2014).
It
is recommended that you undertake your own review of the current literature to
gain insights into designing an EIA for EHR.
You
are to prepare a preliminary report for the Australian Federal Government
describing the benefits of an Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture (EIA RA) for developing a national EHR system. Attention should be
made to an information centric design and how to best achieve this.
The
intended audience for this report are government officials who may have
knowledge of the health system but limited computing knowledge.
Your report should follow the following
template:
Executive
Summary
Table
of Contents
Table
of Figures
Table
of Tables (if needed)
1.0
Introduction
2.0
Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture
Discuss
the benefits an EIA RA approach can provide to guide development of a EHR
system. This discussion should expand on at least three of the identified
benefits and should include at least one diagram providing an overview of the
proposed system.
3.0
Information Management and Integration
The
disparate nature of entities and systems within health care, the volume of
structured and unstructured data, and the sensitivity of that data pose
challenges for data management and integration.
You are to describe several of these
challenges and propose strategies to overcome them.
4.0
Conclusion
5.0
Recommendations
Bibliography
Report Format
Your
report should be no less than 2,000 words and it would be best to be no longer
than 3,000 words.
The report must be formatted using the
following guidelines:
•
Paragraph
text 12-point Calibri single line spacing
•
Headings
Arial in an appropriate type size
•
Margins
2.5cm on all sides
•
Title
Page is not to contain headers, footers, or page numbering
•
Header
is to display the Report Title (excluding the title page)
•
Footer
to display your name and the page number (excluding the title page)
•
Title Page – Must not contain headers or
footers. Include your name as the report’s author.
•
Page
numbering
o
Executive
summary to the last page of Table of Figures / Table of Tables to use
roman numerals
(i, ii, iii, iv)
o Introduction
and onwards to use conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) starting at page 1 from
the introduction
•
The report is to be created as a single
Microsoft Word document (version 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, or Office 365). No
other format is acceptable and doing so will result in the deduction of marks.
•
The report must use the built-in
features of Microsoft Word to create page numbers, section numbers, citations,
cross referencing of sections, figures and tables, table of contents, table of
figures, table of tables, and bibliography.
Please follow the conventions detailed
in:
Summers, J. & Smith, B., 2014, Communication Skills Handbook, 4th Ed,
Wiley, Australia.
Referencing
The
report is to include (at least 5) appropriate references and these references
should follow the Harvard method of referencing. Note that ALL references
should be from journal articles, conference papers, technical papers or a
recognized expert in the field. DO NOT use Wikipedia as a reference. The use of
unqualified references will result in the deduction of marks.
Assignment
Return and Release of Grades
Assignment
grades will be available on the blackboard in two weeks after the submission.
An electronic assignment marking sheet will be available at this time. Where an
assignment is undergoing investigation for alleged plagiarism or collusion the
grade for the assignment and the assignment will be withheld until the
investigation has concluded.
1.
The task of developing an EIA for
EHR would in practice would take a team of IT professionals hundreds of hours
to complete. It is acknowledged that your time is constrained to several weeks
and approx. 20 hrs work on this assignment, and as such this assignment is not
so much about completing it but seeing how far you get.
2.
Whole text books have been dedicated
to the topic of EIA RA, thus in your discussion of EIA RA you will need firstly
to be succinct, and secondly to be selective in describing aspects of EIA RA
significant to an eHealth system.
3.
It is not expected that you become
an expert in eHealth, but it is expected that you demonstrate your research
into the field as it pertains to EIA
4.
As this is a master’s level course,
you will be graded on your ability to put forward an argument supported by
scholarly articles. Simply regurgitating the text book is not sufficient.
5.
There is no correct answer and it is
expected that students’ answers will vary greatly, thus there is little chance
of accidental plagiarism.
6.
Ensure that you clearly understand
the requirements for the assignment – what must be done and what are the
deliverables.
7.
If you do not understand any of the assignment
requirements – Please ASK your
tutor.
8.
Each time you work on any aspect of
the assignment reread the assignment requirements to ensure that what is
required is clearly understood.
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