Question

Health Informatics:

Research modern trends in healthcare. Compare and contrast U.S. healthcare modern trends to healthcare trends in other countries.

How These Trends Could Meet The HITECH Act and Meaningful Use

Are these requirements that are specified in the Meaningful Use program that came from the HITECH Act. Discuss whether these trends could meet any of the Meaningful Use requirements.

Answer 1

Answer :

Research modern trends in health care :

1. Using a wearable devises for monitoring of health problems. Ex. Technological watches may provide our heart rates and temperature.

2. Patient customer experience personalization. It means the client has to get belief on institutional care.

3. Leveraging data for health care, means using tools to know the quality of health care, ex. By doing audit.

4. Augmented or strengthening of training to health care professionals.

5. By using smart hospital technology devices like self adjusting beds, computerized care, etc.

6. By collecting the data from the clients and analyzing it to provide quality of care or to evaluate the client outcomes.

These are the research modern trends in health care.

Comparison of US health care trends to other countries :

* USA is developed country, Here there is a more technological equipments are available to provide all types of care to clients.

* some other countries are developing countries, so here there is no that much technological instruments, to provide technological care, they need to transfer the client.

HITECH act : it is health information technology for economic and clinical health act.

Main goal of this provid quality of care to clients ,safety and efficiency of care, and engage patients in their care, and increases coordination of care by using computer technology.

* so according to this act the trends could meet useful requirements, through good health information systems and by using adequate technological care.