The Medical Staff at your hospital (which is part of an integrated health system

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The Medical Staff at your hospital (which is part of an integrated health system of network hospitals, a nursing home, multiple physician practices) requires the integration of a knowledge based application to be integrated within their organizational EMR. However, during the medical staff meeting it becomes clear that end-user needs are not clearly defined. Your job is to develop a needs assessment for this knowledge based application and address integration issues and different end user requirements at the different locations. Within your assessment you will need to: Define how you will conduct the needs assessment How will you guide the physicians in defining their end user needs Define basic components of how you feel the knowledge-based system should be implemented Determine who is the best department to manage the knowledge based system.. How would this look as a performance pyramid?

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Let us define some of the end user needs in the needs assesment problem. Various factors are involved in needs assessment. Most of the needs could be traced out by asking some basic questions as below.

Most of the needs will get identified by answering these questions.

The knowledge based system should be able to provide a solution to all the questions that are raised above. Only then the knowledge based system will satify all the needs. The best department in managing the knowledge bases system would be pharmacy department. Because they are the ones who provide for all the needs of the physicians.

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