Healthcare Service Analysis activity

INFS2004
Introduction to Health Informatics
Assignment 2

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ASSIGNMENT OUTLINE
Your team is required to design a Telehealth application that assists patients and/or clinicians in the
management of COVID-19 in Australia. You should carefully research about this problem and
consider the types of clinical issues that are relevant to COVID-19 within the Australian context.
Your research about the management of this issue should translate into your design.
In designing this telehealth application, you should consider the major topics discussed during
lectures and workshops such as (but not limited to):
– The variety of existing telehealth applications and the major considerations involved in their
design and implementation.
– System architecture/s (e.g. web-based, cloud-based, mobile, etc.) and interface design
considerations of this system in addressing the needs of the clinicians, caregivers and
patients.
– Various data that will be collected through this system and how these data will be stored and
managed for continuous care.
– Use of appropriate clinical terminology system (e.g. SNOMED-CT) and classification
system (e.g. ICD-10-AM).
– How this system would communicate data with other information systems (e.g. pathology,
GP clinics, hospital systems, and My Health Record) and use of a health-messaging standard
(e.g. HL7 V2, V3 or FHIR).
– The decision support given by this system to clinicians, caregivers and patients at various
points within the processes.
– Linking this data with other health registries and information systems for data analytics,
research, epidemiological studies and policy level decision-making.
– Various ethical, security and privacy considerations in collecting, storing and
communicating data.
The design should be conceptually at a high-level with accompanying diagrams illustrating
important aspects of the interface design and features. The level of detail required for describing
the design in this assignment should be thought of as being equivalent to a marketing person
pitching an idea to a potential investor who would want to invest in developing your telehealth
application.
The relevance of the design for managing COVID-19 should be apparent. Higher marks will be
given to innovative designs that enhance efficiency and safe practices of managing COVID-19
through intelligent application features. Describing the characteristics of a general telehealth
application that applies to any clinical problem will receive much lower marks.
Your report should discuss why you chose the design and explicitly describe the aspects of COVID-
19 you are catering for through your system. Any resources used to assist you in developing your
design should be properly referenced.
TEAM CREATION
In this assignment, students will work in pairs. You can assign yourself to a group on vUWS via the
‘Group Project Signup Sheet’ menu link. Once you are in a group, it is each team member’s
responsibility to contact each other and commence work. You can use various methods to
collaborate such as Zoom for videoconferencing and Google Docs for document sharing.
POINTS TO NOTE
• Depth of understanding of COVID-19, and successfully converting those requirements to
telehealth features is a must.
• Clear high-level descriptions of the system design and good coverage of the major design
components are important.
• Accompanying diagrams clearly illustrating important aspects of the interface design and
features that match the descriptions should be included. Diagrams should be part of the
Word document in the appendix.
• Design innovation that enhances the efficient and safe practice of managing COVID-19
through intelligent application features will give you higher marks.
• Structure, format and quality of writing should be at professional level.
• Reference List should cover all resources utilised and properly formatted with in-text
referencing.
SUBMISSION CRITERIA
You should submit your final report (including application/interface design diagrams in the
appendix) through the relevant Turnitin submission link under the ‘Assessment’ link in vUWS.
Only one report submission per-group is required (under either student vUWS account).
MARKING CRITERIA
See below for the marking criteria matrix. Both group members are expected to equally contribute
to the project work. Each group member should submit a confidential peer assessment, using the
template provided on vUWS, to the special link (not the assignment submission link) provided,
before the deadline. Please note, assignments will not be marked unless peer assessment forms are
received from both students in each group. Students who do not equally contribute to project work
will receive low or zero marks (and FNS grade) for this assignment.
If there is the situation that your project partner is poorly responsive to your contact requests or to
ongoing assignment tasks, please commence or continue working on your assignment and keep a
record of the parts that you have completed. You should also keep trying to contact your partner to
give him/her the opportunity to join in but please keep a record of any attempts at contacting your
partner. You will have the opportunity to feedback your contribution during submission time
through the peer assessment forms.
DO NOT PLAGIARISE other student group work or literature resources without proper
attribution. Please be careful not to quote verbatim from resources unless you use quotation marks.
Facts from resources should be paraphrased in your own words. Plagiarising includes the
technique of copying language and ideas from original resources but only changing
intermittent words.
Any evidence of student collusion or copying will be strictly dealt with according to the Academic
Misconduct Policy for the University.
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