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updating your professional portfolio

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Updating Your Professional Portfolio

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Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the required resources for the week.

For this assignment you will be building upon the work you have completed in your Portfolio account in previous courses within this program. Please access your Portfolio account, and review your summary of your career goal, your current resume, and three presentation work samples from courses within the Master of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics (MSHIA) program you have previously posted to your ePortfolio.

Based on your current experience and the work you have completed within the course and the program, make appropriate updates to your career goal and resume in preparation for completion of the program and your next professional steps. Of the three presentation work samples, choose one to revise in order to create a presentation that is more suitable for a professional organization setting.

Once you have completed your changes you will write a short reflection paper on these elements and the potential importance of your ePortfolio for your future career success. Be sure to support your statements in the paper with evidence from a minimum of four scholarly sources.

In your reflection paper,

  • Evaluate your career goals in the context of what you have learned from researching the five pillars of health informatics.
    • Describe any changes you made to your career goal in light of this new knowledge.
  • Explain the skills and experience needed to achieve employment in the health informatics jobs you are interested in pursuing once you have completed your degree.
  • Discuss at least five health informatics-related jobs that align to your experience, skills and interests.
    • Describe specific changes you made to your resume to make you more attractive to companies who are hiring for the health informatics jobs you are interested in pursuing and are aligned with your skills and experience.
  • Evaluate your revised presentation work sample.
    • Provide a rationale for the changes you made with regard to making it more relevant to a professional organization and thus more pertinent to a potential employer.
  • Include the link to your Portfolio account in your paper so your instructor may review your updated materials.

The Updating Your Professional Portfolio paper

  • Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing CenterLinks to an external site..
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course articles.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center.

    Required Resources

    Articles

    AL-Rawajfah, O. M., Aloush, S., & Hewitt, J. B. (2015). Use of electronic health-related datasets in nursing and health-related researchLinks to an external site. . Western Journal of Nursing Research, 37 (7), 952-983. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945914558426
  • The full-text version of this article is available through the Sage Journals Online database in the UAGC Library. This article describes how electronic records are used for research and problem-solving in the industry and will help you with your Transformation Agenda discussion this week.

Alzu’bi, A., Zhou, L., & Watzlaf, V. (2014). Personal genomic information management and personalized medicine: Challenges, current solutions, and roles of HIM professionalsLinks to an external site. . Perspectives in Health Information Management, 11 (Spring), 57-78. Retrieved from http://perspectives.ahima.org/

  • The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the UAGC Library. This article describes how informatics professionals will interact with advancements in personalized and precision medicine. It will help you with your Careers in Informatics discussion and your Updating Your Professional Portfolio assignment this week.

Frisse, M. E., Johnson, K. B., Nian, H., Davison, C. L., Gadd, C. S., Unertl, K. M., ... Chen, Q. (2012). The financial impact of health information exchange on emergency department careLinks to an external site.. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , 19 (3), 328-333. https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000394

  • The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the UAGC Library. This article describes how informatics professionals utilize solutions in a financially efficient manner in practice and will help you with your Careers in Informatics discussion this week.

Golberg, D., Leonard, R., McEnroe, S., & McDonald, J. (2015). Connecting the dots: Using ‘big data’ to build an efficient, integrated service lineLinks to an external site. . Healthcare Financial Management , 69 (8), 72-76. Retrieved from https://www.hfma.org/hfm/

  • The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the UAGC Library. This article describes how big data can be used to improve musculoskeletal care and will help you with your Transformation Agenda discussion this week.

Haas, S. A., Vlasses, F., & Havey, J. (2016). Developing staffing models to support population health management and quality outcomes in ambulatory care settingsLinks to an external site. . Nursing Economic$ , 34 (3), 126-133. Retrieved from http://www.nursingeconomics.net

  • The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the UAGC Library. This article describes how provider oriented professional staffing aligns with population health informatics and will help you with your Transformation Agenda discussion this week.