Objective
Describe health care informatics recovery following a disaster
Discussion Overview
This discussion forum explores recovery of health care informatics systems following a disaster.
The rubric used to grade this discussion is available in the Student Resources module of this course.
Deliverables
Your participation in the discussion forum, including the following:
A response to the initial questions in the discussion descriiption. Your initial post should be 200-250 words in length, and include references and citations.
A statement of agreement or disagreement is insufficient for the purposes of scholarly discussion. You must include references and citations in your responses to other student discussions. Your responses must be courteous, and should include specific scholarly information about the topic.
The level of evidence you use to support your statements in the initial and subsequent posts is important and must be evident in each part of the discussion. Your textbook and any article you are asked to locate/read should always be used as evidence. The next level of evidence would be peer reviewed articles, and after that, well known web sites for example: CDC or the AHA. Avoid the use of blogs or obscure or non-healthcare related web sites. Never utilize Wikipedia for scholarly work.
Step 1 Post a response to the discussion board.
Respond to the following questions:
Describe one disaster that would have implications for health care informatics systems.
Describe at least two ways data from health care informatics systems can be saved for retrieval following a disaster.
Describe at least one financial and one non-financial cost associated with a disaster that affects health care informatics systems.
Use this book as a resource: Step 1 Post a response to the discussion board.
Describe one disaster that would have implications for health care informatics systems.
Describe at least two ways data from health care informatics systems can be saved for retrieval following a disaster.
Describe at least one financial and one non-financial cost associated with a disaster that affects health care informatics systems.
Use this book as a reference: Hebda, T., Hunter, K., & Czar, P. (2019). Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare
Professionals (6th Edition). Pearson.