I want you to answer the following assignment

APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE

Assignment #2

Complete Individually

Course Number - ACS-2816-001

Course Name – Health Information Systems

Total 30 Marks

Due Date: February 23, 2023

General Instructions:

Prepare a written report with your answers.

Submit in a MS Word format only

Show calculations in your responses (if applicable).

Problems:

1. (2 Marks)

You check your pulse, and you discover that your heart rate is 100 beats per minute. Is this rate normal or abnormal? What additional information would you use in making judgement? How does the context in which the data is collected influence the interpretation of those data?

1. (2 Marks)

Given the imprecision of many medical terms, why do you think serious cases of miscommunication amongst health care professionals are not more common? Why is greater standardization of terminology necessary if computers rather than humans are to manipulate patient data?

1. (2 Marks)

Based on the discussion of coding schemes for representing clinical information, discuss three challenges you foresee in attempting to construct a standardized terminology to be used in hospitals, physicians’ offices, and research institutions.

1. (6 Marks)

Calculate the following probabilities for a patient about to undergo CABG surgery (see Example 3.2): a. The only possible, mutually exclusive outcomes of surgery are death, relief of symptoms (angina and dyspnea), and continuation of symptoms. The probability of death is 0.02, and the probability of relief of symptoms is 0.80.

1. (2 Marks) What is the probability that the patient will continue to have symptoms?

1. (2 Marks) Two known complications of heart surgery are stroke and heart attack, with probabilities of 0.02 and 0.05, respectively. The patient asks what chance he or she has of having both complications. Assume that the complications are conditionally independent, and calculate your answer.

1. (2 Marks) The patient wants to know the probability that he or she will have a stroke given that he or she has a heart attack as a complication of the surgery. Assume that 1 in 500 patients has both complications, that the probability of heart attack is 0.05, and that the events are independent. Calculate your answer.

1. CASE 1 QUESTIONS (8 Marks) Read the Case Study from the textbook and answer the following questions:

1. In which types of situations would private telehealth services be most useful for Canadians? (1 Mark)

2. In which types of situations would current telehealth services be limited or restricted for Canadians? (1 Mark)

3. How can Leaf improve the continuity of care for patients using its services and ensure interoperability with other systems? (2 Marks)

4. What are some potential drawbacks of incorporating telemedicine in the traditional healthcare system? (2 Marks)

5. Provide some thoughts on the innovations in telemedicine that would overcome the restriction of today’s telehealth services. (2 Marks)

1. CASE 11 QUESTIONS (10 Marks) Read the Case Study from the textbook and answer the following questions:

1. Given the RAI-MDS 2.0 dataset, how to identify the RUG-III classifications for patients with vs. without dementia? What have you found and why? (2 Marks)

2. Imagine that you had been presented strong evidence that the RUG-III groupings were indeed composed of heterogeneous patients. Given the strong regulations surrounding the provincially-mandated use of the RAI dataset, what solutions to this problem might be viable? (2 Marks)

3. Consider the datasets in this and related settings that are increasingly becoming available and accessible. What other data would you seek in order to more accurately group patients according to their needs, and by extension, predict resource utilization? How would this data be reported, to whom, and for what purpose? (3 Marks)

4. Given that many other technologies can potentially be leveraged to address this problem, what are some of the other possibilities with existing technologies that can predict resource utilization? (2 Marks)

5. What are the legal and ethical implications and considerations of collecting and using data in this manner? (1 Mark)

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