Overview
Q1. In your role as chief information technician at Carrion Care Medical Center. You are asked to discuss socio-technical theory and social technical systems. You are to create a fact sheet that explains how socio-technical theory and socio-technical systems are used in health informatics.
Instructions: Your fact sheet should include the following:
- Brief description of socio-technical theory and socio-technical systems.
- Describe how socio-technical theory and socio-technical systems are used in health informatics.
- Select two topics from each category below and discuss how each are related to HI, socio-technical systems, and theory.
- Discuss how each of your selected topics can contribute to or hinder the functionality and usage within socio-technical systems and health computing.
Social | Technical |
Health and clinical care | Medicine and bio sciences |
Management | Computer sciences |
Organizational theory, change and transformation | Communications and Information technology |
Citizen driven informatics | Database design |
Politics & economics | Ergonomics |
Socio-tech benefits analysis | Cloud computing |
Psychology, sociology | Personal Health Records (PHR) |
- Your fact sheet should be at least one full page or a maximum of two pages.
- Include appropriate visual elements, such as pictures, symbols, graphs, etc. that support the text.
- Provide citations for supportive resources throughout, if needed.
- References in APA format should be included on a separate page.
- Q2.
- .In this assignment, you are the health information manager for XYZ Medical Center. You are tasked with solving interface issues that older adults experience when navigating the health systems. You will create a user interface proposal that focuses on older adults and interface challenges. You will select one user interface challenge that a facet of older adults may experience with using health systems. You will create a solution to this challenge via a storyboard. Your solution will be shared with members of your team.
- Your proposal should include the following:Provide a user analysis that focuses on the elderly population.
- Identify characteristics of the population.
- Select a challenging usage situation among the elderly population.
- Examine the user’s motivation for using the interface.
- Analyze the one challenge that you selected.
- Explain the solution to the challenge.
- Based on the challenge selected, defend any design changes that should be considered.
- Setting
- Sequence of events
- Solution: satisfaction of the user