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Please Complete BOLD direction on peer review.
Introduction:
This unit’s discussion will let you post your idea for your final report, think about the kinds of sources you may need to complete that report, and get some feedback in advance of the formal proposal for that project that is due Sunday.
Directions:
Write a 250-word post in which you explain your chosen idea for the final report in which you answer the following questions:
What organization have you chosen to write for and how are you (have you been) connected to that organization?
What problem in that organization will you address? Why is solving this problem important to the organization?
Who is the primary audience for the report? Are there any secondary audiences?
What kinds of information or types of research sources do you think you will need to help your write the report?
When you reply to others’ posts, you should consider:
Does this project seem to meet the requirements of the assignment?
Do you think the idea will be sufficient to sustain a 10-page report? If not, what can you suggest that will help the writer expand or narrow the idea to fit the constraints of the assignment?
Could the idea be more specific or more focused?
What questions do you have about their ideas that would help them develop their proposals for Sunday? What would you like to know more about?
What additional information or types of sources could be useful for this project?
I would like to write about Document Management Systems. Document Management Systems (DMS) are computer systems and software used to store and track documents captured through the use of a document scanner in an electronic format. Document Management systems have allowed the health care industry to evolve tremendously over the past few years. Health care records are more accessible than they have ever been. The advancement of electronic medical records has evolved health care on many levels and given businesses the ability to import documents and store them in multiple ways.
Some of the positive things about Document Management Systems are they allow you to find, retrieve, and use documents readily. They eliminate the need for storage to keep paper documents and they improve security, as you will no longer have paper documents lying around that contain health care information on them. As information security is a positive aspect, it is also a negative one.
Authorized individuals should only view medical documents. If you have health care information, you need procedures for determining who can have access. The data needs to be properly encrypted. The most secure systems will encrypt data whenever it is sent as well as giving you the option of encrypting it when it is stored on the disk. There needs to be good audit controls to provide a record of most activity within a document manag ement system, identifying who accessed information, when they accessed it, and what modifications are made. The better the audit controls are, the better you can deal with potential security problems.
The primary audience for this report is anyone who is interested in information technology security and how it relates to medical records. I can research companies who specialize in medical record imaging as well as companies who create and maintain document management systems. Issues relating to security is also a topic I would like to further explore. I think this topic would be adequate to sustain a 10-page report.