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Scenario Need Thursday

The leadership team in your organization wants to improve the quality of care provided to elderly patients in their homes. Consequently, they are interested in implementing a health information technology solution that enables the collection of bio physiological data, such as weight, blood sugar, blood pressure, and other relevant variables.

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. Additionally, the Guiding Questions: Implementation Plan document..

Develop an implementation plan, based upon the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process that supports the organization's vision for safe, high-quality health care.

  • Assess the adequacy of existing information technology (IT) infrastructure in your organization or practice setting.

  • Assign tasks and responsibilities for deploying a new system.

  • Develop an implementation schedule.

  • Determine staff training requirements and strategies.

  • Develop a strategy for collaborating with patients and other health care providers.

  • Develop a post-deployment system evaluation and maintenance strategy.

  • Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.

  • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support your assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.


Your implementation plan should be 5–7 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.



Scoring guide

When addressing each point, please make sure it meets these criteria


Assesses the adequacy of existing information technology infrastructure in an organization or practice setting, and identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the assessment). 14%

Assigns tasks and responsibilities for deploying a new system, including rationale and alternatives. 14%

Develops an implementation schedule, including rationale and alternatives. 14%

Determines staff training requirements and strategies, and identifies assumptions on which the determination is based. 14%

Develops a strategy for collaborating with patients and other health care providers, and identifies assumptions on which the strategy is based. 14%

Develops a post-deployment system evaluation and maintenance strategy, and suggests criteria that could be used to evaluate the success of the initiative. 15%

Writes clearly and concisely. Grammar and mechanics are error-free 10%

Integrates relevant, credible, and convincing sources of evidence to support assertions. Source citations and references are error-free. 5%