What are the 4 major digital challenges in the healthcare industry?

Final Exam (Summer 2021)
Instructions:
All of the topics refer to the INFO 6130 articles posted on Blackboard. You are free to get more references from each topic online
if needed. Be sure to cite all references. Use the citation and reference format given in this class. Place your name and student
number at the top of the first page. Place the following statement under your name: “I have worked on this exam independently and
have not given nor received help from anyone.”
Format the answers as Times New Roman, 10 pt. Single Spaced, number all of the pages. Start each Question on a separate page
by entering inserting a page break. Please write out each question as a sub-heading, underline it and answer the question. Insert page
number at the bottom right of each page. Leave a blank line between sib-questions.
You may use the articles as a reference, please cite the exact page you are taking the information from or quoting. Be sure to answer
each question in in your own words. To be comprehensive, it is estimated that you will need to write about 1-1 ¼ page for each
question, depending upon the number of sub-questions. If you use external articles, you will need to cite (with page numbers) them
as well the materials from class. Be sure to submit a bibliography at the end of the exam.
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have 3 tries to get an originality report. Turn in both your exam (Word file) and originality report (PDF) via an email attachment
prior to Wednesday, July 28, 5:00 pm using the file format: lastname-final.docx and lastname-originality.pdf.

Questions

1. Healthcare ecosystem:
a. Comprehensively discuss all of the industries in the healthcare ecosystem (based on class discussion)
b. Each stakeholder has their own contribution and value. Discuss each.
c. What are the 4 major digital challenges in the healthcare industry? Discuss each.
d. Discuss reengineering / transformation in the healthcare ecosystem.
e. What is the role of digital disruptors in the ecosystem?
f. Discuss the digitization of medical equipment.
g. How will digitization play an important role in patient medical records?

2. Hospital administration:
a. Discuss the obligations specific to hospital outpatient departments.
b. Discuss the obligations specific to off-campus hospital facilities.
c. Discuss the requirements specific to joint ventures between hospitals and physicians.
d. How should hospitals manage the use of space by non-provider-based groups?

3. Privacy and security:

a. Discuss why patient privacy matters.
b. Explain how the HIPAA either helps or hurts the burden of regulations in the industry.
c. What are the provider responsibilities under HIPAA.
d. Under what circumstances can a provider disclose a patient’s health information to another health care
provider?
e. Which plays a more important role for health care providers to comply with health care regulations – federal or
state privacy laws? Discuss why.
f. Discuss the HIPAA security rule.

4. Blockchain:

a. Comprehensively define blockchain.
b. What technologies are involved in blockchain?
c. What are the processes involved in blockchain?
d. Discuss how blockchain can be used in health information exchanges?
e. What are the implementation challenges and considerations in using blockchain?
f. Illustrate blockchain with respect to online patient access.

5. Future of the healthcare ecosystem:

a. Discuss the components of the ecosystem that can be changed. Discuss the opportunities for each component of
the ecosystem.
b. How can information technology make those changes work? Discuss each of the technologies and how it
applies to the components in (a) above.
c. Discuss the financial benefits before and after the changes (use earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation,
and amortization.
d. Discuss the 5 opportunities to better the healthcare ecosystem that lie beneath the uncertainty

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