Question

An effective digital health ecosystem relies on a broad spectrum of technical, clinical, and administrative stakeholders to gather and analyze patient data and then use that information to improve the quality of care offered. Within the health care environment, information systems and technology (IS/IT) are used to ensure patient privacy and security, inform optimal decision making, and assist in operational efficiency, which further enhances the services that clinicians, hospitals, technology developers, researchers, and policymakers are able to provide.

The textbook outlines five major components of health care management information systems (HMIS):

1. Content and Data - The data component is at the center of all heath IS/IT. Clinical, technical, and administrative stakeholders rely on these data to make the most well-informed decisions for enriching the delivery of their health care services.
2. Infrastructure – Hardware, software, user interfaces, and other digital applications can be used to accelerate communication and seamlessly share information across networks.
3. Data Analytics – Once data have been gathered, they can be analyzed and manipulated to inform what has happened in the past and why, as well as to assist in predicting what will happen and how those situations can or should be handled.
4. Network Compatibility and Communications – The interoperability of networks and information systems used across the health care services industry is essential as data are exchanged across multiple platforms, even within a single organization. Challenges arise in ensuring that the systems work well with each other and that they are able to communicate complex health processes and treatments, as well as specialized medical terminology.
5. Administration and Management – The role of this interfacing position is to assemble and coordinate the other four components of the health IS/IT ecosystem, performing the tasks necessary to put the goals of the health care organization into action to serve both the users and consumers.

Choose the component that most interests you and write a 500-750-word response about how you envision yourself performing in that role. Include the following points in your response:

1. Describe the health care setting where you see yourself working and detail the roles and responsibilities of your position. How would your role incorporate health IS/IT?
2. Within your chosen health care organization, how would your position within the health IS/IT be integrated into the larger HMIS?
3. Describe one hypothetical challenge in your selected area of focus that could be overcome using health information technology. How would this technological innovation or solution improve the effectiveness of current HMIS systems and processes?

Answer 1

Administration and Management

Healthcare information systems capture, store, manage, or transmit information related to the health of individuals or the activities of an organization that work within the health sector.Clinical and administrative systems for managing patient details on an administrative level.

The health management information system (HMIS) is an instrument which could be used to improve patient satisfaction with health services by tracking certain dimensions of service quality. Quality can be checked by comparing perceptions of services delivered with the expected standards.

The use of Health IT in medical clinics improves the quality of healthcare that is delivered by providing accurate patient records and allows doctors to better understand the patient’s medical history. Having a comprehensive patient history empowers doctors to more accurately treat ailments and prevent over-prescribing medications which can be fatal. Without medical records, physician’s would need to depend on the patient’s memory, which can lead to inaccurate medical history due to forgetfulness, complex drug names, and ailments affecting the patient’s recollection.

Patients that suffer from disease and ailments directly benefit from Health IT because of the improved level of care. The benefits of electronic health records include: Better health care by improving all aspects of patient care, including safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, communication, education, timeliness, efficiency, and equity.

n primary care, examples of health IT include the following:

• Clinical decision support.
• Computerized disease registries.
• Computerized provider order entry.
• Consumer health IT applications.
• Electronic medical record systems (EMRs, EHRs, and PHRs).
• Electronic prescribing.
• Telehealth.

Health care setting : CLINIC . consider here you are working as a PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE.Your role is to

Public health nurses integrate community involvement and knowledge about the entire population with personal, clinical understandings of the health and illness experiences of individuals and families within the population. They translate and articulate the health and illness experiences of diverse, often vulnerable individuals and families in the population to health planners and policy makers, and assist members of the community to voice their problems and aspirations. Public health nurses are knowledgeable about multiple strategies for intervention, from those applicable to the entire population, to those for the family, and the individual. Public health nurses translate knowledge from the health and social sciences to individuals and population groups through targeted interventions, programs, and advocacy.

Public Health Care Nurse can use information technology in her duty to ease her work moreover by the help of IT she can report a fast and accurate report.

1. Evaluating health trends and risk factors of population groups and helping to determine priorities for targeted interventions.
2. Working with communities or specific population groups within the community to develop public policy and targeted health promotion and disease prevention activities.
3. Participating in assessing and evaluating health care services to ensure that people are informed of available programs and services and assisted in the utilization of those services.
4. Providing essential input to interdisciplinary programs that monitor, anticipate, and respond to public health problems in population groups.
5. Providing health education, care management, and primary care to individuals and families who are members of vulnerable population and high-risk groups

A nurse can use information technology in her fields and gain benefits like

Increased Patient Safety

Efficient Care Coordination

Enhanced Performance Analysis

Increased Patient Information Accessibility

Reduced Operational Costs

A best example with current situation is COVID 19.Its affects the entire world scientists and all the health care professionals entirely depend on IT for collecting and managing data.Also, through social networks people sharing knowledge about how to prevent and control these viruses.