Review the contents from Module 5-8. Submit a final paper to analyze how health information systems can improve patient-centered care. Relate the topics to your own experiences. Use at least 3 additional academic references. Your paper should be at least 1000 words, using APA style formatting. Include the following topics in your paper.

1. How can the health information technologies (e.g., CPOE, telehealth, and telemedicine) be used for improving patient participation and promoting patient empowerment?
2. How can these technologies be applied for reducing medical errors and adverse events.
3. How can these technologies promote personalized medicine?
4. What are the barriers and challenges of implementing these technologies?
5. What are the strategies to overcome these barriers and meet the challenges?

Submit a final paper to analyze how Health Information Technology (HIT) can improve patient-centered care. SLOs, Elements of final paper.

1. Identify information systems tools, techniques, and methodologies applicable to healthcare systems.
2. Create a reporting and support process for healthcare decision-making based upon the research for question #1
3. Design information policies to ensure consistency with the clinical, ethical, legal and financial requirements of healthcare institutions.
4. Evaluate all aspects of the plan to utilize HIT to improve patient-catered care as designed in 1-3.

The Grading Rubric for this Final Project can be accessed here.

Week 5

Learning Objectives:

Evaluate how EHRs can improve patient participation.

Analyze how EHRs can be used for health outcomes research.

Determine the challenges of EHR observational studies and future potentials of EHRs

Week 6

This Week’s Activities

Learning Objectives:

Determine the advantages of CPOE systems.

Assess how CPOE systems can be used for the prevention of ADEs.

Analyze the cost-effectiveness of implementing CPOE systems.

Week 7

This Week’s Activities

Learning Objectives:

Determine how telehealth can benefit different types of care settings.

Analyze how telehealth can be applied for self-management support.

Assess the barrier to broad-scale application of theory-based telehealth delivery.

Week 8

This Week’s Activities

Learning Objectives:

Evaluate the benefits of telemedicine.

Determine how telemedicine can help in acute care.

Analyze how health information technology can promote patient-centered care and personalized medicine.