Discussion 4 After completing the assigned readings and activities, please choose to answer question A or B. You do not have to answer both, unless you choose to do so. In this discussion area, please respond to at least 1 peer that posted the option A or B that is opposite to the one you chose for your initial post. Question A: 1. Suggest an improvement project for your practice or healthcare organization that would improve patient safety or quality. What information would you like to have about your practice area that could be extracted using data mining strategies? 2. Briefly explain how you would design an improvement project that would utilize the data mined to improve a process or a patient outcome. 3. Before implementing the intervention(s) you've described in your improvement project, explain the importance of consulting with clinical experts. 4. Do you feel that it is ethical to mine data for improvement projects? Explain why or why not. or Question B: There is a strong link between informatics and evidence-based practice. 1. Identify an evidence-based practice(s), how you know the practice is evidenced-based, how the best practice is incorporated into every day nursing practice, and a related policy (this could be a federal, state, or facility policy). 2. Identify two examples of how informatics is used in relationship to the evidence-based practice you've described. 3. Explain the importance of consulting with clinical experts before deviating from evidence-based protocols. 4. Do you feel that there is a situation where not incorporating evidence-based practice is ethical? Explain why or why not? Please type or paste your posting into the discussion topic box, instead of attaching a document. A few optional readings to stimulate your thinking about data mining are: Data mining slashes Medicaid ER visits http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/data-mining-slashes-medicaid-er-visits Big Data https://healthitanalytics.com/news/data-mining-big-data-analytics-in-healthcare-whats-the-difference Data Mining Applications in Healthcare https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915036066 Please note: Initial discussion posts are due by 11:59 on Thursday Each initial discussion posting should end with a question related to the topic to stimulate further discussion. The initial posting must include at least two APA citations and references (one of which must be a journal article). Each reply post must include at least 1 APA citation and reference.