Benefits of a capital item

IHP 450 Module Five Journal Rubric

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 304 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

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Benefits of the EMR Assignment provides a thorough explanation of benefits that are clearly related to the EMR

Assignment provides an explanation of benefits that are related to the EMR

The explanation of benefits is incomplete and/or the relationship to the EMR is not clear for some of the suggested benefits

Assignment does not list benefits of the EMR

30

Ways the Benefits Can Be Estimated

Assignment suggests multiple, appropriate ways in which the benefits can be estimated

Assignment suggests multiple ways in which the benefits can be estimated, however some of the suggestions are not appropriate

Assignment suggests only one way in which the benefits can be estimated

Assignment does not suggest ways in which benefits can be estimated

30

Memo: Justification Memo provides a well- supported justification based on sound cost-benefit reasoning and is exceptionally clear and concise

Memo provides a well- supported justification based on sound cost-benefit reasoning

Justification is not well- supported, and/or the cost- benefit reasoning is not sound

Assignment does not use cost- benefit to justify the EMR

30

Memo: Writing (Mechanics/Citations)

No errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

Minor errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

Some errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

Major errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

10

Earned Total 100%