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Assignment 1 - Discussion - In the majority of healthcare environments, so many types of expendable medical supplies are needed. You'll have a limited amount of space to store them, and limited budgetary funds to purchase each type of them. There will be an uncertainty of who's coming in your facility's doors, and for what conditions they need care. You'll make your best prediction of how many will come to your facility this year vs. last year and the year before, but those numbers won't be exact - as demographic and economic trends can easily influence them. Given all the uncertainty in the healthcare environment (that's not going to go away) - what is the best way to evaluate your inventory management performance? How are budgetary item shortages best safeguarded against? Explain your answers in a concise 200-word response, using peer-reviewed sources to support your points.

Assignment 2 - Discussion - IDSs: Quality and Delivery - According to Ethoven (2009), an integrated delivery system (IDS) "is an organized, coordinated, and collaborative network that links various healthcare providers to provide a coordinated, vertical continuum of services to a particular patient population or community" (para. 1). There a number of benefits with the use of IDS's. Discuss several benefits associated with integrated delivery systems in regard to healthcare quality and delivery.

Ethoven, A.C. (2009). Integrated delivery systems: The cure for fragmentation. The American Journal of Managed Care.

Assignment 3 - Discussion - Role of Health Information Systems - Health information systems (HIT) are designed to help manage the collection, processing, standardization, and communication of data. New systems exist in health care in various stages. Some examples are implementation, use, meaningful use, optimization, and adoption. A simple overview of health information systems in hospitals are source systems, clinical EHR systems, supporting infrastructure, and connectivity systems. Data received from these systems provide statistics of different populations to include mortality and morbidity rates, size of the population, and vital statistics. Health information can provide surveillance to further advise how specific events or notifiable diseases affect a specific group of people, in a specific area, and at what rate.

For this discussion -

Q1. Discuss the disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations regarding the adoption of health information technology.

Q2. Describe some utilization, technical, practical, and human challenges of HIT.

Q3. Discuss how health information systems can improve the health care system.

Discussion Assignment Expectations

Support discussion ideas with peer-reviewed material garnered from at least one scholarly article.

When applicable, provide references and citations in APA Style formatting.