Question

Identify technical and clinical factors that limit the application of data mining tools within the EMR and EHR.

Discuss why the clinical and business functions have not been well integrated.

Answer 1

Answer :

Technical factors that limits to the application of data mining tools with in the EMR (Electronic medical records) and ( Electronic health records):

* the extent to which the clinical data should be received or accessed by technically.

* information or data structures and storage factors by using technology.

* some of the security and safe guard problems due to lack of maintenance of confidentiality.

Clinical factors that limit to the application of data mining tools with in the EMR and EHR :

* The general factors includes health status of the population and general information regarding population.

* Population based information like their health status and their received care and what the information they need regarding health.

* some of the legal restrictions in the organization like rules and regulations limitations to do the works electronically.

* organizational politics like, some times if any known person in the organization the health care providers may give information to them illegally or with out knowing to the authority.

* Due to lack of common vocabulary capacity leads to there will be a limited application of data mining tools in the EHR and EMR.

Clinical and business functions have not been well integrated because, clinical functions are entirely different from business functions.

* business functions are having production, research and development, purchasing , marketing, human resource management, accounting and budgetting or finance.

* clinical functions are :

Support the people in all health care activities and providing health care services, and always clinical functions are related to the health of the peoples, by evidence based practices, not depending on only profit purpose.

So the clinical and business functions are not well integrated.