Question

Public health Chapter 12 Information Technology Describe four distinct benefits of an electronic health record (EHR). to Explain the relationship between point-of-care systems, surveillance and tracking systems, and retrospective analytic systems. ay Discuss the challenges of integrating data collected by a patient's mobile apps into a provider organization's EHR Discuss two ways in which provider organizations can use population-level analyses for performance improvement y List some of the strengths and weaknesses of clinical and administrative data for health services research. y List some critical success factors for EHR implementation and unintended consequences of inserting information technology into healthcare workflows

Answer 1

1. Four distinct benefits of electronic health record are :-

- Quality of care

- Fewer medical errors

- Improved patient safety

- Efficiency ( ability to establish and maintain effective clinical workflow )

- Cost reduction

3. The challenges of integrating data collected by a patient's mobile app into a provider organizations EHR are :-

- Breach of information

- more time to transfer the data

- needs special app to transfer the data

- space issue

4. Population level analysis in which the unit of analysis is defined population for example cigarette smoking prevalence etc . The models and theories refer to the casual mechanism linking population level variables for example - price and aggregate consumption . Provider organizations can use the population level analysis for improving the performance because population level analysis will help them to know about the major problems in the population and what are the causes for that and how to manage them by making improvements in the existing management system .

6. Some of the strengths and weakness of clinical and administrative data for health services research are :-

Strengths are :-

- it is available easily

- available in already arranged order

- less time for sorting and retrieval of data

- records from patient encounter and care

- provision of reliable information

- cost effective

Weakness are :-

- permission has to be taken from administration

- sometimes data is not set in arranged order

- some times the files and data 10 years ago are discarded

- needs more time if not available in arranged order

- difficulty to access