Reflective Journal: Benefits of a Capital Item
Prompt:
Your consulting work with the physician’s group in Module Three earned you rave reviews and now your boss has asked you to put your skills to work in support of a local community health center. As the Assistant to the CFO you have been tasked with preparing a public statement on the justification of purchasing the electronic medical record.
After explaining the benefits of the EMR and making suggestions for ways the benefits can be determined, write a memo to the community health center’s Board of Directors that uses your determinations to justify the purchase of the EMR. Refer to the mini-case on page 340 of the textbook.
Create a journal assignment that:
● Explains the benefits of the electronic medical records system (EMR)
● Explains the ways the benefits can be estimated
● Includes a written memo to the community health center’s board of directors that justifies the purchase of the EMR
Guidelines for Submission: You will submit two deliverables for this assignment. Your explanation of benefits should be 1-2 pages in length with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and citations in APA style were applicable. Your written memo to the community health center’s board of directors should be 1-2 pages in length with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and citations in APA style were applicable.
Module 5 Guidelines and Rubric attached below.
Textbook – page 340 attached below
Nowicki, Michael. (2018). Introduction to the financial management of healthcare organizations (7th ed.). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press. ISBN: 978156793904