The health care organization where you work just purchased a community hospital. You have been asked...
The health care organization where you work just purchased a community hospital. You have been asked to serve on a clinical health care information system committee to merge the two health care information systems. 150 words
1. What do you think is the role of the nurse in a health care information system selection committee?
2. What considerations should be taken into account when merging two different health care information systems?
3. After a decision is made to select a health care information system, which conversion type(s) might be appropriate? Why?
Homework Answers
Ans) 1) Nursing informatics is a field dedicated to delivering high-quality patient care through efficient management of data and technical systems. Using data, an informatics nurse can analyze trends, monitor for any consistent errors, and implement new, more efficient systems.
2) Health information systems help gather, compile and analyze health data to help manage population health and reduce healthcare costs. Then the healthcare data analysis can improve patient care. Clinical decision support systems can use big data to help diagnose individual patients and treat them.
3) Components of a national health information infrastructure can be divided into three interrelated categories:
(1) health care data standards and technical infrastructure
(2) core clinical applications, including EHRs, CPOE systems, digital sources of medical knowledge, and decision-support tools.
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