This is the assigment but I need help starting the project or to have an idea of

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This is the assigment but I need help starting the project or to have an idea of what I have to do:

- Address the elements of a project Charter used to plan the acquisition of an HIT solution for the setting of choice.

Scenario: Bedford Hospital is a 25-bed hospital in rural Pennsylvania. They have recently completed the process of being designated by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) a CAH (critical access hospital). Prior to this designation they were part of a large academic health center but have since divested from that health center. As part of that agreement their current electronic health record contract, which is with Cerner Corporation as part of that medical center’s enterprise agreement, will be expiring in 24 months. Currently all aspects of Cerner’s inpatient product are implemented including documentation, orders, decision support and electronic meds administration. Cerner’s registration admissions discharge scheduling and patient identification products are also part of this agreement as are the laboratory radiology and pharmacy systems.

While Bedford Hospital was part of the academic center the Cerner product suite was financially supported as part of the overall corporate structure. As part of the divestiture agreement, the academic center has agreed to support Bedford's Cerner systems in total for a 24-month period, absorbing the Cerner software and enterprise hardware costs in that timeframe. Bedford Hospital is taking financial responsibility for three IT staff and day-to-day IT costs such as networks devices email and Internet costs. The CEO and CFO of Bedford Hospital have pulled together an interdisciplinary team to examine the technology options for Bedford Hospital after this 24-month period.

- The Charter should include:

Problem statement. A specific statement of the problems that you intend to address in this scenario using technology solutions.

Scope of the HIT solution to be acquired. This includes both the technical elements of the scope and the business and clinical functional elements of the scope.

Stakeholders analysis including the needs of both internal and external stakeholders. This analysis includes a summary of the business and clinical system functions that the technology should address for each of the executive stakeholders.

Risk Analysis. A specific statement of the financial, technical, legal, ethical, and operational risks involved in introducing HIT into this setting and the feasible mitigation strategies to address these risks.

Explanation / Answer

Answer: Under this assignment, you have to prepare a document, here referred as Charter, describing the existing scenario with hospital, what may happen after 24 months' period, possible alternatives and their details and risks involved. This document will have the following sections:

1. Problem statement: Under this section, you should tell about the background of system being used at present, what is the possible scenario once existing contract expires and its effect on the organisation.

2. Scope: Under this section, you should specify all expected functionalities with respect to the outgoing system. To write this section, it is advisable that you search Internet to identify 2-3 possible alternatives that match expected functionalities, compare them and write how they stand with respect to each other.

3. Stakeholder: Under this section, you should specify all possible stakeholders like various departments/sections of the hospital, their specific requirements etc.

4. Risks: Under this section, you need to specify all possible risks involved. Risks can be many like what if organisations is not able to identify a proper alternative, what if identified alternative does not meet expectations, is too expensive, performance issues etc.

Hope this helps you to start on the project.

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