Note:

This assignment is based on a healthcare organization of your choice. You can choose the

healthcare organization you work for or any other healthcare organization you are familiar

with.

Task: Total Wordcount: 3500-4000

You are taking the role of an informatics consultant specializing in healthcare who has a client

organization (your client is the healthcare organization of your choice). As an external

consultant you will need to carry out an assessment of informatics as currently used by your

client organization. The client organization requests a set of recommendations on how they

can improve their informatics systems in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness of

processes.

You should produce a report including the following issues:

1. Analyze the informatics systems currently used by your client organization.

2. Carry an in-depth investigation into one particular informatics system that enhances

operational efficiencies used by your client organization and discuss

recommendations for how this system can be improved.

3. Assess the ethical implications of dealing with data and discuss policies that are

implemented in your client organization to mitigate ethical issues.

Use a mix of academic sources (books and journal articles) and non-academic sources

(websites, news articles, specialist magazines, other publications etc.) to support your claims

throughout.