Congratulations. You're halfway through the Capstone. Now that you've explored a few different data-sets, and gotten a sense of some of the essential elements of interest in population Health informatics, It's time for module three. By the end of this module, you will demonstrate your ability to design an informatics intervention. We'll start off by having you gain familiarity with workflow evaluation in modelling. Some of the details regarding what takes place at clinic A was provided in the initial case prompt. But during a second site visit, you've observed some more details about the As Is workflow, and that description is being provided to you as a part of this module. As you're gaining familiarity with Business Process Model and Notation, BMPN, a graphical approach to representing a business process, remember that for the Capstone, we have one particular scenario we're focusing on. But in the future, you might be dealing with the situation where the screening is being performed by a nurse, where she's entering the information into a Microsoft Word document on a laptop, and that document is being uploaded by an administrative assistant to a cloud-based platform, and a central office is downloading these screenings, and aggregating them every three days into a dashboard, and reports are being printed off, and being sent by snail mail to members every four months. More sophisticated, believe it or not, than what's going on currently at improving health's clinical delivery delivery sites. But the same skills you are demonstrating for our scenario will help you address all of those other informatics problems in any of a number of scenarios down the road. During this module, you'll also be proposing an intervention that incorporates the screening tool. Look back at the lectures by Dr. Harold Lehman, and Dr. Paul Nagy, related to decision support if you need a refresher. Now,remember, regarding the accountable health communities core health-related social needs screening questions, one of the challenges you're going to have, is thinking through some of the rules that they've provided, the open-ended guidance, some of the scoring. How are you going to develop an informatics intervention when you've been told that, underlined answer options indicate positive responses for the associated health-related social need, a value greater than 10 when the numerical values for answers to questions 7-10 are summed indicate a positive screen for interpersonal safety. But with housing instability,as you'll see on the website, have questions that have three options that are underlined for housing instability when it comes to bug infestation, mold, lead paint and inadequate heat, you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven options that are underlined, with interpersonal safety you have a numeric scoring system, and if something is positive, what should the front-line staff actually be doing for that member? There are so many questions that you'll be looking into, and exploring. Remember, even though we're dealing with population health informatics, what are those five rights of clinical decision support that you need to be thinking about? What is the right information that needs to be delivered to the right person? What exactly is going to be the intervention format? What channel are you going to use? How will it take place at the right time, and workflow? All of those concepts apply in this particular context as well. Note, that with the additional context provided to you in module three, you can go back, and fill in some of the blanks in your previous as-is stack analysis for module one, or you can iterate on any other portion of the deliverables from the Capstone as well. Again, welcome to module three, and we'll see you back at the start of module four.
