Health Informatics Assignment Week 25 to 26
Week 25 Questions
Qu1.
Draw a patient demographic data entry screen mock-up designed for a touch screen tablet, following elements of good form design. Include at least 5 demographic details.
- Describe the features of your screen that will help erasure data quality and user satisfaction.
- Describe how you would change your screen if it were to be used with a small screen device, such as a mobile phone.
- Describe the validation steps necessary to ensure that data is correct.
Qu2.
A nursing staff member wants to know the process of implementing an electronic rostering system in a nursing home.
Describe the process of implementing such a system, using the system development life cycle, including the types of documents that would be produced. Use examples specific to a nursing home rostering system.
Qu3.
Compare and contrast three types of system modelling (data flow, entity relationship, and use cases), including in your answer the purpose and benefits of each type.
Provide a simple example or small fragment of each model with respect to a nursing home electronic rostering system.
Qu4.
Give advice about system security to a small medical practice (consisting of 3 doctors, l admin staff and 4 networked computers and a server, connected to the internet). Organize your advice into categories: integrity, confidentiality, and availability.
Qu5.
Describe a testing plan for your enquiry case study; you should consider unit, integration, and system testing. Determine who should participate in the testing process. Also, provide examples of some of the data you would use for the testing.
Qu6.
Describe a system to control software maintenance requests, including a complete written procedure for each step, and a rationale for each procedure. Provide mock-up of a maintenance request from appropriate to your system.
Week 26 Questions
Question 1 Describe 5 principles of good screen design and explain how this is demonstrated in the following user screen provided:
Reference: Australian Digital Health Agency accessed on 20 March 2020,
https://onlinetraining.digitalhealth.gov.au/portal/webclient/index.html?userName=OnDemandTrainingUser#/desktop
Question 2
Describe one of the workflow processes in the following object relationship diagram and how the objects (users and systems) interact with each other:
Question 3
Redstone Hospital is looking to implement a new Patient Administration System (PAS) called PatientCareSystem (PCS). The system performs operational processes (Register Patient , Store Patient Demographics and create patient encounters), has a data store for Patient Identifiers (MRN Pool) and the following data flows:
Data Flow |
To |
From |
Patient Unique Identifier MRN |
Patient Care System (PCS) |
MRN Pool |
Patient Demographic details |
Admissions Officer entity |
Patient Care System (PCS) |
Admission data |
Patient Care System (PCS) |
Admission Officer entity |
Report data on new MRNS created |
Patient Care System (PCS) |
MRN pool |
Create a context diagram illustrating a selected workflow process
Question 4
A new staff member joins the department that you are working in and asks you what a Business Case is and what it is used for. Describe what you would tell them and identify three key components in developing a Business Case. You can use examples to explain your answer.
Question 5
Describe ransomware and malware? Describe three IT strategies used to protect health information in health care organisations against Cybersecurity attacks.
Question 6
Payback analysis is an important consideration in demonstrating the cost benefits of an Information System application. Explain the concept of payback analysis and when it takes effect in the table below:
Explain what is happening at year 0 and year 4
Complete the missing figures
Year |
Cost |
Cumulative Cost |
Benefit |
Cumulative Benefit |
0 |
$90,500 |
$90,500 |
$0 |
$0 |
1 |
$125,000 |
$215,500 |
$86,400 | |
2 |
$86,200 |
$301,700 |
$98,500 |
$184,900 |
3 |
$361,900 |
$126,800 |
$311,700 | |
4 |
$45,400 |
$407,300 |
$551,700 | |
5 |
$32,000 |
$305,000 |
$856,700 |
Question 7
Evaluate 2 examples of system maintenance and support