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 
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  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