Periodically I would want to make sure the data was audited to make sure the underlying processes and systems used for capturing it were working correctly. In conjunction with these measures of ensuring patient data is being correctly captured processes for data reliability assessment would be used (Alhaqbani, Josang, Fidge, 2009). While these two areas of capturing patient data accurately, auditing it to make sure the underlying processes are in fact working correctly, and then layering in reliability assessment analyses would serve as the foundation for the types of software applications that would be used for automating patient information capturing. The specific types of applications would be business process management (BPM)-based so that if necessary the underlying processes of patient information capture could be re-engineered over time. The use of BPM and business process re-engineering (BP) within the context of software applications would also ensure they would continually be…...
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Health Care Informatics
Expert Systems
Expert systems are always computer applications that tend to combine computer equipment, special information and software so that they imitate reasoning and advice of expert human. Being a part of artificial intelligence they offer discipline-specific advice as well as explanation to their users. Artificial intelligence covers a broad field of several aspects of computer generated thought, on the other hand, expert systems focuses narrowly. The area where expert systems will function well is with specific problems or activities as well as a discrete database of digitized rules, facts, models and cases. Based on the software program, it always integrates a searching and sorting program with a knowledge database. This specific searching plus sorting program for an expert system is called the inferent engine.
What makes inferent engine are the entire systematic processing rules and logic that are associated with task at hand. Mathematical probability serves as the core…...
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Healthcare Informatics & Technology
1. What were the goals of the Cure4Kids program in 2003? How have they evolved?
Cure4Kids was developed with the overall intention of treating and hence improving the wellbeing of children suffering from pediatric cancer and AIDA (Quintana, Nambayan, Ribeiro, Bowers, Shuler and O’Brein, 2003). Towards this end, in addition to education, the other stated objective of Cure4Kids was the provision of “tools for communications and collaborations among individuals” (Quintana, et al. 2003, p. 978). To effectively fulfill this mandate, Cure4Kids’ website at this point contained online seminars as well as lectures presented in two main formats, i.e. audio-enabled PowerPoints and video streaming. Essentially, the website also contained tools for online conferencing. This effectively enabled health care professionals, particularly those in countries with limited resources, to not only access the relevant materials, but also collaborate in meaningful ways in an attempt to rein in pediatric cancer and AIDS.
Over…...
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al., 2012).
The existing reporting systems lack the level of usability inherent in social media applications as well. Social media applications have created and continue to fuel the expectation of usability that is the new standard for tablet-based applications and systems (Boicey, 2013).
The proposed new analytics application will also enable the entire healthcare provider staff to have greater agility and flexibility in defining process workflows and quickly redefining dashboards and key performance indicators to align with the needs of patients. For the first time, analytics will be aligned precisely to the patient, not to the physician or worse, the healthcare provider's system constraints and requirements. This will liberate the massive amount of data in existing systems as well, enabling healthcare providers to create highly effective programs for interpolating trends and analytics throughout the entire workflow of patient treatment programs.
Finally, the proposed new real-time analytics application will make it possible to have…...
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Business Plan for Health Care Informatics
The purpose of this paper is to present a business plan for the implementation of syndromic surveillance system. The major sections of the business plan are: identification of the key objectives and scope of the project; the project life cycle, budget estimate, staff planning, and activity timeline; major risks and vulnerabilities of the project; success evaluation methods, and communication plan for the primary stakeholders.
This paper presents a business plan for implementing a syndromic surveillance system to resolve the health informatics management issue. The business plan is divided into multiple sections. The first section describes the major goals and scope of the project, i.e. what objectives the hospital aims to achieve by implementing a syndromic surveillance system in its operational setup and at what scale it has planned to implement it. The next section presents the four stages of project life cycle. These are: project…...
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Information Technology Breaches at a Healthcare Company:UCLA Health and Implications for the FutureAs our organization knows all too well, healthcare data breaches are occurring with alarming frequency. But just as hackers have more and more tools at their disposal to cope with such breaches, we too as healthcare IT experts, managers, and providers have more tools to guard against them. Online records have significantly improved patient care through comprehensive, sharable records. In wrong or inexpert hands, sharing of data can harm rather than heal. The frequency of healthcare data breaches, magnitude of exposed records, and financial losses due to breached records are increasing rapidly (Seh, 2020, par.1) Understanding how and why they have occurred in the past is important to ensure that they do not occur at our institution in the future.Summary StatementA good example of a recent data breach which ultimately resulted in legal action is the 2015 breach…...
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Health Informatics: Evolution of the FieldAccording to Sweeney (2017), the discipline of healthcare informatics unites technology, healthcare science, computer and information systems, and even knowledge of human psychology to optimize healthcare. There has also been a many decades-long struggle to encourage more providers to adopt electronic health and medical records to ensure greater uniformity and accuracy of data across providers. Unfortunately, many providers are concerned that the investment of training, new equipment, and other measures are too costly to justify a full shift to electronic medical files, although the ubiquity of computers makes holding out more and more difficult. Providers are now employing experts in the specialty of informatics to better understand how to use its power for good, and to increase healthcare providers comfort levels in using informatics on a daily basis.When first implemented, one of the concerns of passing the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) was that…...
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Patient portals, electronic medical records, and personal monitoring devices are three of the most revolutionary technologies in the healthcare sector. Each of these technologies presents patients with the potential to empower themselves, taking control of their own healthcare outcomes, and taking part in their overall healthcare goals. These technologies also streamline healthcare administration and minimize medication and billing errors. However, each of these technologies is also constrained by a range of issues related to accessibility, with potent socioeconomic class disparities evident. Security and standardization of healthcare technologies are also proving problematic. Patient portals, electronic medical records, and personal monitoring devices are all technologies that have the potential to radically improve the quality of healthcare and patient outcomes, as well as improve overall patient experiences. Because of their abundant benefits, these technologies need to be embraced and promoted through effective public health policies. Otherwise, disparities will continue to threaten to exacerbate…...
Figure 1 portrays the state of Maryland, the location for the focus of this DR.
Figure 1: Map of Maryland, the State (Google Maps, 2009)
1.3 Study Structure
Organization of the Study
The following five chapters constitute the body of Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Review of the Literature
Chapter III: Methods and Results
Chapter IV: Chapter V: Conclusions, Recommendations, and Implications
Chapter I: Introduction
During Chapter I, the researcher presents this study's focus, as it relates to the background of the study's focus, the area of study, the four research questions, the significance of the study, and the research methodology the researcher utilized to complete this study.
Chapter II: Review of the Literature in Chapter II, the researcher explores information accessed from researched Web sites; articles; books; newspaper excerpts; etc., relevant to considerations of the disparity in access to health care services between rural and urban residence in Maryland and the impact of the lack of financial resources. The…...
mlaPotter, S. (2002) Doing Postgraduate Research. London: Sage.
Qualitative research: Approaches, methods, and rigour, (2008, Nov. 7). Microsoft PowerPoint Qualitative Research AdvC08 RS.PPT. Retrieved March 10, 2009 from www.unimaas.nl/bestand.asp?id=11629
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Nursing Health Care Informatics
"…At the beginning of the 21st century, nursing informatics has become a part of our professional activities…[and has] advanced the field of nursing by bridging the gap from nursing as an art to nursing as a science…" (Saba, 2001, 177).
Nursing Health Care informatics relate to and address technology and other cutting edge issues of great interest in the healthcare field. According to the AMIA, Nursing Informatics is the "…science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide." New and relevant knowledge presented in the genre of informatics helps to empower nurses and other healthcare practitioners to deliver the most effective patient-center care possible. This paper presents several informatics in the belief that applying healthcare technologies and practices that are genuinely progressive and helpful to today's nurse is a way…...
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HEALTHCAE & INFOMATION TECHNOLOGY
The state of healthcare in the United States is very much influenced and improved through the increased use of technology solutions. Whether it be the use of tablets, laptops, electronic healthcare records and some others, the use of technology has become more and more pervasive as the years and decades roll on. However, not everyone is sold on technology being a saving grace and those same people often think that technology solutions being added to healthcare actually do not help or that they make things worse rather than make them better. However, there is a cacophony of evidence that suggests and proves that electronic healthcare records, electronic administration and the use of information technology in a strategic and adept fashion actually makes things better over the long haul. This is true for patients, administrators, healthcare professionals and the wider network of providers that are typically also using…...
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(Menzel, 1990, p. 3) Fisher, Berwick, & Davis alude to the idea of integration in health care, with providers linking as well as creating networks of electronic medical records and other cost improvement tactics.
The United States and other nations over the last twenty or so years, have begun a sweeping change in health care delivery, regarding the manner in which health information is input, stored and accessed. Computer use in the medical industry has greatly increased over the last thirty years the culmination of this is fully networked electronic medical record keeping. (Berner, Detmer, & Simborg, 2005, p. 3) the electronic medical record trend began in the largest institutions first, as hospitals and large care organizations attempted to reduce waste and improve patient care, while the adoption has been much slower among physician's practices and smaller medical institutions. (Hillestad, et al., 2005, pp. 1103-1104) Prior to this time medical…...
mlaResources, and Utilization
Healthcare Budgetary Decision Making
With resources becoming increasingly limited in the healthcare industry, managers are continually challenged with devising effective strategies for dealing with budgetary concerns. The most prominent challenge comes in the form of decision making that results in striking a balance between cost reduction and the maintenance of high quality care and safety for patients. The following discussion outlines approaches that can be utilized by managers to effectively deal with budgetary concerns in healthcare settings, with an emphasis on the advantages of group decision making strategies.
It is evident that there is often a struggle in the healthcare industry for managers to continually and effectively manage depleting resources, address the ever-changing needs of patients, and all the while provide a high level of patient care (Sibbald et al., 2010). This struggle has at its core a need for improvement in regards to the processes in which priorities are established in…...
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Stated to be barriers in the current environment and responsible for the reporting that is inadequate in relation to medical errors are:
Lack of a common understanding about errors among health care professionals
Physicians generally think of errors as individual that resulted from patient morbidity or mortality.
Physicians report errors in medical records that have in turn been ignored by researchers.
Interestingly errors in medication occur in almost 1 of every 5 doses provided to patients in hospitals. It was stated by Kaushal, et al., (2001) that "the rate of medication errors per 100 admission was 55 in pediatric inpatients. Using their figure, we estimated that the sensitivity of using a keyword search on explicit error reports to detect medication errors in inpatients is about 0.7%. They also reported the 37.4% of medication errors were caused by wrong dose or frequency, which is not far away from our result of 50.5%. (Hui, Colombia…...
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Others include delays in data accessibility, albeit shorter delays and the continued need for source data verification (Donovan, 2007).
Other obstacles have occurred in the developing of mobile healthcare applications. These have included mobile device limitations, wireless networking problems, infrastructure constraints, security concerns, and user distrust (Keng and Shen, 2006).
A third problem that has been encountered is that of a lack of education on not only the importance of the information technology but also training on how to use the specific pieces of equipment. The tools that are provided to people are only as good as the training that is provided on how to use them. The tools may be able to do wonderful things, but if those that are using them do not know how to get the best use out of them they will in the end be less efficient.
Medical Errors
According to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) medical…...
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Health informatics, also known as healthcare informatics or biomedical informatics, refers to a discipline that is a hybrid of science and engineering and involves the application of informatics fields to medicine. There are number of different topics that fall under the healthcare informatics umbrella, though the creation of electronic health records for patients is probably the most widely used application.
Essay Titles and Essay topics for Health Informatics
Tallying the Tests: How Monitoring COVID-19 Test Results Has Helped Track the Pandemic in the U.S. and Abroad
Vaccine Records and Privacy Concerns: How Do State....
1. Improved diagnosis and treatment AI can assist nurses in diagnosing and treating patients by analyzing vast amounts of data, identifying patterns and trends, and providing recommendations based on evidence-based medicine. This can lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses, as well as personalized treatment plans. 2. Enhanced patient monitoring AI can continuously monitor patients vital signs, symptoms, and other health metrics in real-time, alerting nurses to any abnormalities or changes that may require immediate attention. This can help prevent medical emergencies and improve patient outcomes. 3. Predictive analytics AI can predict potential health complications or deteriorations in patients, allowing....
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