Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment:

HI530-1: Apply healthcare terminologies, vocabularies, and ontologies for health information systems.

Instructions

Imagine you are an EHR Business Analyst for large hospital system conducting a root cause analysis of an interoperability issue. Using the knowledge gained from your unit 1 Reading, write-up an analysis that applies the appropriate healthcare terminologies, vocabularies, and ontologies for a health information system used in a hospital setting.

Requirements

• Write a 3-page analysis that includes the below information:
  • Definitions of appropriate healthcare terminologies, vocabularies, and ontologies
  • Explanation of how each healthcare terminology, vocabulary, and ontology should be utilized
  • Explanation of how future interoperability issues can be avoided

Imagine that you are an EHR Business Analyst for a large hospital system. You are conducting a root cause analysis of an interoperability issue. Think of the various healthcare terminologies, vocabularies, and ontologies that have been used for health information systems over the past 10 years. Which terminologies, vocabularies, and ontologies would be appropriate for a hospital setting? As you picture yourself in the role of an EHR Business Analyst, reflect and answer the questions outlined in your Unit 1 Writing Assignment. E

Submitting Your Work

Put your responses in a Microsoft Word document. Save it in a location and with the proper naming convention: username-CourseName-section-Unit 1_Assignment.doc (section is your course section and 1 is your unit number).

However, if you look deeper to figure out what’s causing the problem, you can fix the underlying systems and processes so that it goes away for good.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a popular and often-used technique that helps people answer the question of why the problem occurred in the first place. It seeks to identify the origin of a problem using a specific set of steps, with associated tools, to find the primary cause of the problem, so that you can:

1. Determine what happened.
2. Determine why it happened.
3. Figure out what to do to reduce the likelihood that it will happen again.

RCA assumes that systems and events are interrelated. An action in one area triggers an action in another, and another, and so on. By tracing back these actions, you can discover where the problem started and how it grew into the symptom you’re now facing.

You’ll usually find three basic types of causes:

1. Physical causes – Tangible, material items failed in some way (for example, a car’s brakes stopped working).
2. Human causes – People did something wrong, or did not do something that was needed. Human causes typically lead to physical causes (for example, no one filled the brake fluid, which led to the brakes failing).
3. Organizational causes – A system, process, or policy that people use to make decisions or do their work is faulty (for example, no one person was responsible for vehicle maintenance, and everyone assumed someone else had filled the brake fluid).

RCA looks at all three types of causes. It involves investigating the patterns of negative effects, finding hidden flaws in the system, and discovering specific actions that contributed to the problem. This often means that RCA reveals more than one root cause.