Part ILesson 1Case Study 1. Better Service to Current Patient PopulationYou are the administrator of a 250-bed hospital. A recent…
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Final Reflection
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Evaluation strategies

Evaluation strategies
This methodology has a broad overreaching perspective encompassing most general groups in addition to borrowing some aspects from the natural perspectives of these camps such as
? scientific approaches
This strategy employs an experimental model under which it gives priorities based on the desirability of impartiality, accuracy, objectivity and validity of the information generated.
? Management oriented model
Under this strategy, the evaluation model is able to include the logical framework or log frame the models developed by the US agency for international development as well as the general systems theory in addition to the operations research approaches in this category.
? Quantitative / anthropological model
This model put a great deal of emphasis on the on the importance of actual observation, retention of evaluation context quality and value subjective human interpretation of during evaluation.
? Participant oriented model
This aspect comes in handy in paying attention to the central importance of evaluation Participants.

Information gathering tools
For this research, information would be gathered by use of surveys and questionnaires. These would be administered to the work place population who would be sampled randomly. The random sampling would pick the third person to report to work on the Specific day.
The methods of research analysis
In the course of the analysis of the research data, caution would be observed to distinguish between the truth and facts as presented by the sampled population (saris, 2009). Thus the analysis would be aimed at clearly outlining what was actually learnt from the research, what conclusions can appropriately be drawn, the recommendations that can possibly follow from the research (Saris, 2009). As well as the limitations that emerged in the course of the research.
The relevant ethical and legal considerations and organizations requirements
As expected, the organization was overly concerned about the privacy and how the research excises’ can offer privacy top sensitive information (Saris, 2009). Off course, privacy means different things to differ t people and in this case, the type of privacy applicable was privacy in the sense covered by the privacy act. In this sense, privacy is concerned with the protection of people’s personal information as well as the sensitive information on the operations of the organization.
Part B
With the objectives in mind the research area identified i.e. the healthcare industry in one of the clinics in Australia where I work; we sought out to find out the truth about information systems efficiency in the centers around this area. But we had to first get a go ahead from the administration, which we did.
The research was conducted under a close surveillance of a team of thirty: Who were divided into a five groups… One group was involved with spreading (distributing) questionnaires to the outpatients who would provide viable information on the reaction on the kind of reception they get when they are received at the clinic. The second group vocation involved a one on one pep talk with the waiting patient/inpatients who willingly gave information on the standard of service given to them at the finding vital medical documents, some of them were inclusive students who were enrolling into institution and needed a documents for their whole medical check up. The third group had an almost similar work criterion, this involved them finding out the type of information systems that were being used at this electronic based clinic. The fourth were involved in carrying out surveillance on the history of Compliance act of 1988.This involved a thorough inquiry with the management on any cases of breaching this statute, moreover to ask the disposal of null files of patients using the system(Anonymous.2011). The fifth and last group involved keeping track on the efficiency of the research being conducted.
Part C and D
The results from each group revealed great facts. The first group found out that the many of the patients and people around that clinic that day had a lot of eagerness to fill the questionnaires and contribute to this research which was a positive reaction that helped us conduct it successfully. The third group revealed that the Mediflex program and Best practice system provided the much needed recording and storage for the collection of patient information. The Mediflex is used in booking doctor appointment with doctors as well as nurses, while the Best practice is used to solely store medical info i.e. accessible to whole medical staff. The second group’s vocation yielded good feedback on the efficiency of obtaining vital information through their electronic information system, the students interviewed agreed that the system was fast enough to help them in recovering medical documents that they may have lost during and after admission to institutes.
Finally the fourth and the fifth outcomes were that, the Privacy act was adhered to, in cases that involved the eighteen year old persons who had not claimed their medical documents by twenty five years (Anonymous.2011). The documents had to be destroyed in the presence of a third party in order to uphold the statute.
The employees at the information desk equally revealed that there work was cut by half once the Electronic based filing system was introduced: as opposed to before where by they used manual filing.
The E-filing system improved the management important medical documents in clinic. Hence it should be encouraged to be used in every other heath institutes. This as well managed to record an upward trend in the number of patients to the clinic.

References
Anonymous.(2011). Health Insurance Amendment(compliance) Act 2011.Retrieved on 21 November 2011 from http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=the%20health%20compliance%20act%201988&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medicareaustralia.gov.au%2Fprovider%2Fbusiness%2Faudits%2Ffiles%2F4822-0711-health-insurance-act-faqs.pdf&ei=P87MTqeVOormrAeI8uW7DA&usg=AFQjCNEchVBJj9Ytv-VwJE5Eq4fz5dN_4w&cad=rja
Saris, W. (2009). Research, evaluation and analysis of questionnaires for survey research 1, retrieved on 18November 18, 2011from http://www.upf.edu/dcpis/_pdf/2010-2011/programes_masters_ciencia_politica/Designx_evaluation_and_analysis_of_questionnaires_for_survey_research_I.pdf