Question

Evaluate the role of the Informatics leader in overseeing clinical documentation and information systems during a disaster. Explain which is more important: risk assessment, risk management, or a business continuity plan to ensure data security and confidentiality.

Answer 1

*Nursing informatics is a field of nursing that incorporates nursing, computer, and information sciences to maintain and develop medical data and systems to support the practice of nursing and to improve patient care outcomes.

*Nursing informatics is a specialty area of informatics that addresses the use of health information systems to support nursing practice.

*The health informatics leader playing an increasingly important role in the preparation, administration, and management of emergency response during a disaster either as a natural or man-made disaster. This can range from preparation and post-disaster response to remote technical support for caregivers.

*In the present years with newly emerging systems and technology related to health informatics are helped in improving the quality and timeliness of disaster response efforts.

*During an event of a disaster the informatics leader and his powerful systems dedicated to emergency preparedness, and those who oversee these technologies is to simplify decision making during emergencies.

*The informatics leader delegates his responsibilities to the informatics personnel to effectively use the health information databases and relevant systems have already proved a valuable tool in providing the infrastructure for reporting of information that can be used to manage volunteers, delegate emergency personnel and track victims.

*More than above making the data easily accessible from remote locations, be it by caregivers on the front lines of disasters or other hospitals located beyond a disaster's influence.

# The output of the risk management process is an input for making the security policy decisions.

*The risk management process is about making specific,security-related decisions such as the level of acceptable risk.

*When preparing a disaster recovery plan, perform a Business Impact Analysis (BIA).

*The first step of any disaster recovery plan (DRP) is to perform a Business Impact Analysis(BIA)

Thus we can say that to ensure data security and confidentiality a Business Continuity Plan is more important.