Assignment Details

After the staff meeting at St. Augustine’s hospital, over 10 employees volunteered to work with you in the Healthcare IT Department. You have a team to help you set up the electronic health record (EHR) for the hospital.

In a plan to your team members, address the following:

1. Discuss the strengths or benefits of team collaboration.
2. Explain the barriers to team collaboration.
3. Describe the role that team collaboration plays in the development, selection, and modification health care information systems.
4. Illustrate the importance of the combined use of computer technology in health care practice management.
5. Discuss the importance of using computer applications in practice management.
6. Examine and discuss the areas of care delivery and how IT is used.
7. Explain the problems associated with the combined usage of IT in health care service delivery.
8. Describe the role of health care information management in facilitating the exchange of information and processes across organizations and multiple stakeholders.
9. Discuss the overall responsibilities of HIT management.
10. Explain the benefits of sharing health care information across organizations and multiple stakeholders.
11. Describe the managerial practices adopted to facilitate the safety and security of information among stakeholders

Use the following template: Unit 3 Assignment

Deliverable Requirements: Write at minimum a 5-page team plan addressing these questions. In your plan, cite your references using APA format.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
• Length: 5 pages minimum  
• Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.