You will write a 5-6 page long Final Report which is the extension of your submitted Midterm Report, where you identified a problem within health informatics. Your Final Report should describe a new potential innovation or a technological solution for the identified problem.
The paper should:
- Describe a background on the problem within health informatics (e.g., health behavior change technologies and theories discussed in class and in your readings),
- an idea for a new technology in that area, the details (along with a mockup/visual design or workflow of the technology), and
- the barriers or expected implementation issues in developing and marketing this technology.
The Final Report should be approximately 5-6 pages (not including references), single-spaced, and in 12-point Arial font, with 1-inch margins. Please use 8-10 or more new sources for your report and follow APA format for your citations. The final needs to have at least 10-20 sources, these may also include some of the sources from your midterm paper but extra sources are needed as well.
To summarize, in the paper, you will need:
1) Background/significance of the identified problem in the Midterm Report,
*Please do not spend more than 1-2 paragraphs on this section as we have it in your midterm and do not copy-paste from your midterm- summarize instead the main points.
2) A novel innovative solution to this problem. Do not simply explain a solution already being developed or implemented. This idea must be something YOU come up with to address this problem. Please ensure you do research to confirm this is a novel idea and not an idea already being developed. If your idea builds on a previous solution please explain how your idea is different or fills in gaps the previous solutions did not.
3) Description of technology/modeling approach.
(e.g., Describe the user interface. How does it work? What features are available and why? What accessibility features are built-in? What technological tools or algorithms are needed to develop it (step-by-step process)?)
4) Describe implementation barriers and ways to address them, and
5) The mockup/visual design or workflow of the technology
You can ask the teaching team for office hour appointments to discuss your questions/issues in a timely manner to avoid last-minute changes.