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Implementation of Information Technology in Healthcare Systems

Problem Description Today, the flow of information and integration of technology is a major concern to many firms and organizations, especially when it comes to healthcare system . A lot of countries, globally, are trying to deliver healthcare services in a more efficient, safe, and affordable way. However, in emerging markets, the lack of Information Technology (IT) infrastructures serves as hindrance to the growth and development of the healthcare industry. The use ...

Implementation of Information Technology in Healthcare Systems – Research Proposal

Abstract The objective of this paper is to present a proposed study about the implementation of Information Technology in Healthcare Systems. Specifically, the authors focused on the use of Management Information Systems (MIS). The research proposal focuses on obtaining evidences and insights about the potential use of information technology in the management of healthcare organizations. For the research approach and design, the proposed paper is to be a qualitative exploratory study. For this proposal, it has been found, based on the discussions about problem description, justification of the problem, and the preliminary review of related literatures, that there is ...

The two major systems of Health Information Technology (HIT) are Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the system of practice management (PM). EHR has become an essential tool of modern health care to meet the standardized criteria. The majority of the physicians conduct their practices on PM system. Although, both of these systems don’t perform the same tasks and are meant for different purposes. The primary functions that EMR performs are the clinical ones while PM system is meant for billing as well as scheduling functions. The similarity between these systems is that both of them go through the ...

Introduction

The emergency department provides the urgent services to the ill patients. In the emergency department, the doctors provide the enhanced care to the patients when they are in the critical situation. With the advancement in the technology, the health care professionals provide the advanced treatment to the patients in the emergency department (Petrillo-Albarano & Little, 2010). On the other hand, intensive care units are also called ICU. The patients who are in a critical condition are admitted to the ICU. At first, the patients are treated in the emergency department, but if they cannot recover from the emergency department they ...

Health care standards have been evolving over time. A plethora of processes and forces take part in igniting the developments. These changes could be ad hoc, systematic or even consensual. At the bottom lurks a well-established organizational structure whose object is to review the performance of the standards and propose advancement where circumstances so require. However, certain areas lag, occasioning serious inefficiencies to the system. Often, the legal framework is a serious undoing and affects the realization of these standards. Besides, diverse standards contain varying recommendations, and this tends to atrophy the efforts therewith. Perhaps a biggest of all ...

EHRs

Electronic Health Records are a broad category of HITs containing a patient’s clinical history. The system’s primary user is the provider and would encompass primary clinical information relevant and unique to the patient from the provider’s perspective. Some of the information contained in EHRs include demographics, medication reports, patient charts, laboratory data, and past medical information. Thus, the system is an automated version of patient information offered as part of the support process from various interface users (Keyhani et al., 2008). This paper considers the lifecycle of EHRs through a description of the process involved in ...

Nowadays not a community is able to manage their businesses without having a well-developed computerized system of supporting it. Studies in the field of medicine are extremely important especially if they are based on ways of adoption and application of IT innovations in various healthcare services management and deliveries. The system of providing studies is the medical informatics, where people use information technology in order to achieve some goals in the healthcare industry. This paper is to analyze medical informatics` impact on the quality of care along with listing some potential issues of its implementation into the wide use. ...

In healthcare organizations, patients are admitted, tested, put under medication, and discharged. All these activities generate data that is analyzed to produce information stored as patient records. This information can be overwhelming especially for large organizations. In some cases, patient information may be scattered in different hospital departments. This means that reconciling such information would be a difficult task yet patient information is important. Therefore, information needs to be managed in such a way that it is accessible to authorized personnel, easily modified and stored (Vest & Gamm, 2010). Health informatics is a discipline concerned with the management of healthcare ...

Introduction

The present scenario evidently indicates the requirement of safeguarding protected health information (PHI) of the patients undertaking treatment across various medical facilities. The qualified nurse in the existing scenario surpassed the legal, ethical and professional conventions while encountering a traumatized lead singer in the clinical setting. The transfer of the protected health information of the singer through the smart phone to an unauthorized person and the social web sites, even in a good intent converted the scenario as the subject of a lawsuit requiring legal intervention. The selling of the significant information of the admitted patient to a famous ...

One of the sciences involved in the field of nursing is nursing informatics. It is a relatively new branch of science which focuses on the integration of nursing information and knowledge with information and communication technology management to help in the promotion of the people’s health globally. It has been claimed that the field of nursing informatics greatly helps the healthcare practitioners achieve a healthcare which is patient-centered. Nursing informatics can be used in multitude of ways such as (1) development of various representations and standards that can provide appropriate support for different researches and evidence-based practices; (2) ...

Abstract

Lately, the health care sector in New Zealand has been facing challenges related to the old-fashioned method used in offering services. In many occasions, it has made it difficult for patients to access affordable health services since many health hospitals lack the technological capacity to handle the increasing numbers of patients with different ailments. Due to this, the relevant agencies have been pushing health service sector, particularly the public health sector, to embrace modern technology so as to address the health crisis in the country. This has seen many health organizations to launch programs geared towards adherence to the ...

Competency is the possession of knowledge, skills, behavior, and the capacity to enhance the patients’ safety, medical outcome and satisfaction. Informatics as a nursing competency focuses on the integration of technology as an evolving practice of nursing. The use of electronic health records in the healthcare management has been critical in the promotion of the patient’s safety, medical outcome, and promotion of efficiency in health institutions. This paper will study the importance of informatics competencies in enhancing patients’ safety, medical outcome and satisfaction. Also, the study will put into perspective the implications of informatics on nursing education, practice, ...

Informatics

The health profession continuously evolves through time. It entails the use of technology in order to deliver the quality service that the clients deserve. As such, informatics could be of great help for improving the health profession. The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (2016) defines “the study and application of information technology to the arts, science and professions, and to its use in organizations and society at large” (IUSIC, 2016). As for science, informatics involves the engineering of information systems and the practice of processing data and information. It studies human interaction with information, as well as ...

Public health informatics (PHI) denotes the logical application of computer science, information, as well as technology to the practice of public health, learning, and research (O'Carroll, 2013). PHI is an interdisciplinary vocation that uses engineering, mathematics, information science, as well as related social sciences to significant public health processes and problems.

The field of informatics has been applied and is significant in the components of public health involving public health surveillance, nursing, environmental health, emergency response, and administration. Public health informatics has provided methods or techniques for attaining goals of public health in a ...

Responsibilities of Informatics Nurse

Nursing informatics refers to a way of maintaining patient information in an organized manner (Lee, Lee & Moorhead, 2009, p. 9). The modern smart phone and tablet computers devices helps nurses keep or maintain the latest patient information. This is an evolving field and the roles of an informatics nurse may change on a daily basis or from one health facility to another. More often than not, though, informatics nurses are in charge of systems implementation. This involves working with information technology to incorporate computer systems within the nursing workflow. Informatics nurse ensures implementations of systems are undertaken smoothly, without affecting ...

First of all, thank you very much for your input, Victor. I find it interesting that most of the times we communicate to others the Master program we are enrolled in, all sorts of potential career opportunities come in mind –project manager, systems analyst, bioinformatics software engineer, information security officer, etc. (American Medical Informatics Association, 2015)-, but providing training or education is not traditionally one of them. However, I find it very brave and positive that you would like to pursue this career within the health informatics area. You have mentioned that one of the challenges as a ...

An Analysis

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Abstract

The paper is entitled Nursing Informatics Theory Paper: An Analysis and it generally discusses Patricia M. Schwirian’s Nursing Informatics Theory called NI Pyramid and Schwirian Cube. The goal of the paper is to establish its usefulness in the clinical nursing practice and find ways in which the system can further be developed to address the recent trends in information technology to fit the demands of the nursing health care delivery system. After extensive review it was established that the model has perfect use for the clinical nursing practice. However, issues on security, cost and maintenance should ...

Abstract

Patients put immense trust in the healthcare providers, and in return expect safety in their hands. Healthcare Informatics, and electronic health records in particular goes a long way in ensuring their safety. The EHR improves care through safer, more accurate and complete information being shared among all the healthcare providers. Wait times for appointments - procedures, and access to community care facilities - are reduced. So are for the laboratory test results and clinical diagnosis. The electronic systems also ensure enhanced security of health information through encryption. It also allows doctors access to secured patients’ information. These include patient physicals, ...

Introduction

This essay aims to discuss certain aspects about the increasing trend of rapidly growing Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) among the US’s major foreigner community Latino. The matter becomes serious when specifically we look at the population of this community in the Los Angeles (LA) county, of the California (CA) State. It has around 4.9 million Latino-based population. The Latino population includes 48.3 percent of total in LA and 38.4 of total in California. They also comprise of 21.6 percent of total firms in LA and 16.5 percent of total firms in the California. They are owned either by ...

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Introduction

Biomedical resources including gene, protein sequence databases, literature, and ontologies are abundant. These resources have terminology in common consisting of the names of proteins, genes, molecular functions, and diseases. The terminology is present in various controlled vocabularies and nomenclatures. However, only common terminology does not mean that all resources have standard vocabularies and are interoperable. One of the salient features of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®), when evaluated against other terminology, is the presence of knowledge sources (Bodenreider, 2004).

This study discusses the approach of Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) that covers the most of the biomedical domain.

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Introduction

The healthcare sector plays a crucial role in the society and promotes physical, social, and economic wellbeing of a country. Hence, health information should be well managed for better service. Advancements in technology have led to the emergence of various systems for managing client data. Key among these is the healthcare informatics technology.

What is EHR?

EHR stands for Electronic Health Records, an informatics system that allows access and evaluation of a wide pool of data entities ranging from a diverse spectrum. Data sources such as population-specific and non-patient information and articles can help generate the data entries. Moreover, data entities can be drawn from prescribable ...

1. Primary prevention avoids the development of a disease. Promotion activities such as health education are considered primary prevention. True or False (Explain) It is true that primary prevention avoids the development of a disease. Primary prevention involves all the measures that are taken to prevent any disease from occurring through reduction of the risk factors (Bloom, 1996) Risk factors are the conditions that when present, they encourage the development of a particular disease. Risk factors also encompass certain behaviors and exposures that have a potential of leading to occurrence of a given disease. Interventions that are taken may include but not ...

Health Care Organizations

main features, capabilities, and operational benefits 1. Information Management (IM) / Information Technology (IT) Analysis is being incorporated into many types of organizations and healthcare is no different. Hospitals are discovering that with the appropriate implementation and training, comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) systems are coordinating services for more efficient service and shorter patient stays. (Silow-Carroll, Edwards and Rodin, 2012, p. 16) The purpose of installing EHR systems into health care organizations is to integrate and streamline and outpatient and inpatient care. Another purpose is to harmonize the spectrum of services so each patient is appropriately matched with ...

Introduction

Health informatics is the use of informational science and computers for the advancement of health care. Utilizing computers, medical technology, and communications infrastructure the goal of the field is the advancement of health care and the better delivery of health care services. Many fields fall under the purview of health informatics including: medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacology, occupational therapies, and medical research. Health management information systems combines “people, data, processes and health information technologies to collect, process, store, and provide needed results – all in support of healthcare” (Tan, 2010, p. 71). Several enterprise level software packages exist in order ...

Article Review

Article 1 Banas, Colin A, Erskine, Alistair R, Sun, Shumei and Retchin, SheldonM. Phase Implementation of Electronic Health Records Through an Office of Clinical Transformation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2011; 18: 721-725.

Article Synopsis

This article is a case report that delves into the implementation of electronic health records. While electronic health records present various benefits to the health care system such as improved patient outcomes and cost savings, their uptake and diffusion through the healthcare sector has been rather slow and limited. Therefore, this article presents information on the phased implementation of electronic health records by examining a ...

Abstract

There are many developments that are seen with the handling of health records in clinical settings. Health records are an important issue in managing hospitals. Patient data is important to both patients, doctors, clinicians, the government and medical organizations. This is because they are used to assess the health status of a patient. The government is working hard to ensure that the medical procedures are being automated so that there is accuracy and reliability of the systems is an important aspect when handling patient records. This is the reason as to why automation and development of information systems to manage ...

Clinical Information Systems

Inputs, Throughputs, and Outputs of the Clinical Information System in Use

When used for the administration of health services, the inputs of a clinical information system include information such as the patient’s name; contact information; clinic facilities, supplies and equipment; patient bills; and others. When used in clinical care, the inputs of a clinical information system include the patient’s vital signs, their medical history, observations regarding the patient’s condition, the diagnosis, and the treatment (Mishra et al., 2006). The throughput includes coding and decoding processes that transform data into a standardized or encrypted format (Mishra et al., 2006). Finally, ...

Introduction

Healthcare involves the collaboration of various medical organizations, institutions, and providers, all of whom manage their own data under different storage and retrieval systems, and though practical and efficient within the target system, there is a lack of uniformity in structure across other systems (Masud et al. 2012). Moreover, there are often variations in data compiled from the same resources. This lack of synergy between the various data storage systems, and the types of information stored, preclude the sharing of data among the various healthcare professionals, institutions, and organizations. E-health systems, on the other hand, allow the storage and retrieval ...