Assignment: Electronic Health Record

HealthIT Topic of Week Assignment

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Guidelines with Scoring Rubric

Requirements

Students will go to and select a current topic of the week that may impact their practice. Students, in a professionally developed paper, will discuss the rationale for choosing the topic, how it will impact practice in a positive or negative manner, citing pros and cons. Include a discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment. In the conclusion, provide recommendations for the future. Submit completed FierceHealthIT Topic paper for Wk. 5 to dropbox by end of Week 5.

Preparing the paper

The FierceEMR and FierceHealthIT Current/Popular Topic of the Week assignment must be a professional, scholarly prepared paper. See the guidelines for writing a professional, scholarly paper in the Course Resources. The professional paper will have an introduction, body of paper to explain what you are doing, summary/conclusion, and at least three scholarly references.
Required texts may be used as references, but a minimum of 4 sources must be from outside of course readings.
All aspects of the paper must be in APA format as expressed in the 6th edition.
The paper (excluding the title page, introduction and reference page) is 4-6 pages in length.
Ideas and information from professional sources must be cited correctly.
Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing.

Category	Points	%	Description
Introduction	20	11.4	Introduction presents a brief overview of the parts of the paper.
Selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides rationale for selecting topic	30	17	Provides convincing rationale for topic selection
Convincing arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner citing pros and cons.	40	23	Convincing arguments of how topic impacts practice in a positive or negative manner; pros and cons are presented
Discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment	30	17	Provides a discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process to develop the assignment Assignment: Electronic Health Record
Conclusion	20	11.4	Concluding statements summarize insights about the key elements of the paper gained during the assignment. Recommendations for the future are provided
APA Style	20	11.4	Text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.
Citations	7	4	Ideas and information from sources are cited correctly. There are a minimum of three scholarly, current (5 years or less) references.
Writing Mechanics	8	4.5	Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work,
Total	175	100%	A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

Grading Rubric

Assignment Criteria	Exceptional Outstanding or highest level of performance	Exceeds Very good or high level of performance	Meets Competent or satisfactory level of performance	Needs Improvement Poor or failing level of performance	Developing Unsatisfactory level of performance
Content Possible Points = 140 Points
Introduction	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	14 Points	0 Points
Introduction	Introduction presents a brief overview all parts of the paper.	Introduction presents one of the two required elements.	Introduction does not include either of the two required elements.	Minimal attempt at introduction.	No introduction is present.
Selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides rationale for selecting topic	30 Points	26 Points	24 Points	21 Points	0 Points
	Successfully selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides rationale for selecting topic	Selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides minimal rationale for selecting topic	Selects HealthIT Topic to discuss; not related to practice; provides minimal rationale for selecting topic	Selects HealthIT Topic to discuss; not related to practice; provides no rationale for selecting topic	Does not complete assignment
Convincing arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner citing pros and cons.	40 Points	36 Points	32 Points		0 Points
	Provides convincing arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner -pros and cons presented.	Some arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner -pros and cons presented, but are not convincing in nature.	Minimal arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner -pros and cons presented.		No discussion of positive or negative impact presented
	30 points	26 points	24 points		0 Points
Discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment	Discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment is presented	Some discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment.	Minimal discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used presented		No discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used
Conclusion	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	14 Points	0 Points
Conclusion	Concluding statements summarize insights about the key elements of the paper gained during the assignment. Recommendations for the future are provided	Provides a summary of key points and a partial summary of insights gained during the assignment. Includes some recommendations for future related to topic.	Concluding statements are present but do not address insights and/or includes minimal recommendations for future related to topic	Minimal concluding statements present but no insight or recommendations for future are presented.	No conclusion.
Content Subtotal_____/140 Points						Minimal concluding statement.
Format Possible Points = 35 Points
APA Style	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	14 Points	0 Points
APA Style	0–1 APA format errors in text, title, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.	2-3 APA format errors in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.	4-6 APA format errors in text, title page, in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.	7-9 APA format errors in text, title page, in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format	10 or more APA format errors in text, title page, in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.
Citations	8 Points	7 Points	6 Points	4 Points	0 Points
Citations	0–1 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited correctly. There are a minimum of three scholarly, current (5 years or less) references.	2-3 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.	4-6 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.	7-9 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.	10 or more errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.
Writing Mechanics	7 Points	6 Points	5 Points	3 Points	0 Points
Writing Mechanics	0–3 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	4–5 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	6-7 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	8-9 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	10 or more errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing.
Format Subtotal_____/35 Points						8–9 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing
Total Points____/175 Points