Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Scenario
Crystal Creek is a long-term care facility in Colorado that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and ongoing skilled nursing care to patients in need of assistance with activities of daily living, such as bathing, eating, and walking. The facility was recently acquired by a large for-profit healthcare system. Crystal Creek has an administrative team of senior-level managers who establish healthcare standards, make strategic policy decisions, and oversee personnel in support of the facility’s vision for long-term care.
You have recently been promoted to healthcare manager at Crystal Creek, and the administrative team has asked you to determine whether or not the current informatics system, called Health Insights, should be upgraded to the newer, more expensive version, as it would impact the facility’s budget needs for the quarter. You need to determine how the upgrade would improve healthcare delivery while maintaining regulatory compliance so that you can make an evidenced-based request for funds to the Crystal Creek administrative team.
Crystal Creek is comprised of the following departments:
Directions
For this project, you will develop a request for funds to the Crystal Creek administrative team that clearly explains how a new informatics system could improve healthcare delivery and organizational outcomes.
In your request, you must address the following:
What to Submit
Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:
Informatics Update RequestWrite a 1,000- to 1,500-word request for funds that clearly explains how a new informatics system could improve healthcare delivery for multiple departments. Possible deliverable options are: