Discussion 3: Barriers faced by healthcare leaders

Many health care leaders struggle with identifying the advantages and/or disadvantages when adopting a new or improving a current health information system. Many organizations are opting out of acquiring a new health information system due to the high monetary cost. Meanwhile, other health care organizations face resistance from their employees and other stakeholders when there is new system implementation. Overall, system acquisition is a challenge for most health care leaders.

Review each of the following articles:

Managing the data explosion
Catholic health partners to acquire Kaiser Permanente Ohio
Mergers and acquisitions may be hazardous to health IT
In a minimum of 300 words, refer to these articles (above) as you answer the following questions in your initial post:

Discuss at least three of the barriers faced by healthcare leaders in adopting health information systems. Can these barriers be prevented? Explain your answer.

Discuss some options that are available for health information system acquisition.

Discuss systems of checks and balances could be used to eliminate or reduce resistance.

Discuss how culture and/or behavioral factors influence acquisition.

Please use a format that includes sub-headings in all of your Discussion posts. For example, in Week 1, Discussion 1, you are to address specific points that are outlined in the discussion instructions. Your post should list those specific points as sub-headings as shown below:

The importance of health care information systems to health care professionals.

Four of the major health information systems and their use.

The impact of health information systems on patient care.

Three definitions of the term “health care information.”

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

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The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.