Final project
BUSI 505
Final Project Overall Assignment Instructions
Overview
Health Informatics is an applied field of study incorporating theories from information science; computer science; the science for the specific discipline, such as medicine, nursing, or pharmacy; and the wide range of sciences used in the healthcare delivery. As a result, health informatics specialists draw on a wide range of theories to guide their practice.
Instructions
You are to submit a final research paper focused on a selected topic below. This paper is to be reflective of a master’s level academic research paper and will be assembled throughout the course by producing several deliverables:
· Module 3: Week 3: Annotated Bibliography
· Module 4: Week 4: Outline
· Module 5: Week 5: Final Paper Draft
· Module 7: Week 7: Final Paper Submission
Please choose one of the following four (4) major theoretical approaches as the main topic of your final paper and relate it to a current topic (practices, policies, and/or regulations) in healthcare informatics1:
1. Systems Theory
· Characteristics of Systems
· Resistance to Change
· Systems and the Change process
· Function vs purpose
· GIGO
· Entropy – the need to be replaced/wears out and negentropy – more complex, how IS systems grow
2. Information Theory
· Shannon and Weaver Information-Communication Model
· Levels of communication
· Blum’s Model Wisdom added (Review data, information, and knowledge)
· Graves Model
· Nelson Model
3. Learning Theories
· Behavioral Theories
· Information Processing, or Cognitive Learning, Theories
· Adult Learning Theories
· Learning Styles
4. Change Theories
· Planned Change
· Diffusion of Innovation
· Using Change Theories
· Change Management
· Put stages on board – and explain how it works in real life
· Knowledge stage
· Persuasion Stage
· Decision Stage
· Modification Stage
· Confirmation Stage
The final paper submission is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) at the end of Module 7: Week 7.
1 Paper topic must be approved by the instructor before you begin working on researching the topic.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.
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