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Triple Constraints Health care informatics and how that field interacts and is affected by triple constraints is the subject of this brief report. Further complicating this paradigm is thre passage and enforcement of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Specifically, the meaningful use objectives that are mandated by that act have simply added more hoops for informatics project personnel to jump through. While the HITECH act and the general topic of triple constraints has made the proverbial playing field more treacherous, it is possible to navigate the project landmine that exist and the requirements posed are not without merit and purpose in the grand scheme of things.

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Since the HITECH Act has been the bigger and more recent development relative to triple constraints, that will be covered first. There are four initial definitions and parameters for meaningful use that are required and five more that are desired over the long haul. The four that are non-optional in the views of the United States government and the "spirit" of the act are to improve quality/safety/efficiency and reduce health disparities, engage patients and families, improve care coordination and maintain privacy and security of patient health information. The more conceptual and long-term goals stated on the HealthIT.gov website are better overall clinical outcomes, improved population health outcomes, increased transparency and efficiency, empowered individuals and more robust research data on health systems (HealthIT.gov, 2014).

In the end, this all sounds good but does put a bit more pressure on the overall triple constraints of scope, time and cost. One of the major pressure points...

While health care information teams do have a role to play on this subject, there is (in the end) not a whole lot that can be done just by the informatics team because the factors that cause healthcare disparities are complex and often have little to do to nothing to do with healthcare information teams or hospitals in particular as the rising costs of health care and societal inequity is not something that is caused by hospitals, at least not unilaterally. For example, if systemic healthcare costs are so out of whack that a challenged minority will not go to a doctor until they are truly in bad shape and then they go to an emergency room with no insurance, the hospital still has to treat the patient and track their progress irrespective of why they don't have healthcare coverage or access to doctors and those problems have more to do with more general and/or other factors that have nothing to do with the hospital's IT system (KFF, 2014)(HIMSS, 2014).
However, there is a way to have the best results and outcome for all involved. However, there is really "quadruple" constraints, rather than triple. The parameters of a project must fulfill four general precepts, that being that…

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HIMSS. (2014, February 12). Meaningful Use OneSource | Health IT Topics | HIMSS. Meaningful Use OneSource | Health IT Topics | HIMSS. Retrieved February 12, 2014, from http://www.himss.org/meaningfuluse?navItemNumber=13303

HealthIT.gov. (2014, February 12). HealthIT.gov. Meaningful Use Definition and Meaningful Use Objectives of EHRs. Retrieved February 12, 2014, from http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/meaningful-use-definition-objectives

Houry, D. (2012, November 3). Why health reform is key for minorities. CNN. Retrieved February 12, 2014, from http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/02/opinion/houry-heron-health-care/

KFF. (2014, February 10). Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: What are the Options? -- The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care What are the Options Comments. Retrieved February 10, 2014, from http://kff.org/disparities-policy/issue-brief/eliminating-racialethnic-disparities-in-health-care-what/
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