SUMMARY………………………………………………………………………………………………………3-4 DEFINE THE PROBLEM/ISSUE……………………………………………………………………………………………..5 IMPROVING QUALITY OF HEALTH……………………………………………………………………………5 IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE COST………………………………………………………………………………5 IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM………………………………………………………….5 LITERATURE REVIEW…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..6 WHAT IS HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY……………………………………………………...6-8 INFORMATICS IN HEALTHCARE……………………………………………………………………………….8-9 BENEFITS OF INFORMATICS……………………………………………………………………………………9-10
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industry is being faced by a major threat that is misuse of patient health information. To protect the patient and their families during their job transition or the unemployment period and to protect the patient health information from being misused the U.S Congress ratified HIPAA i.e. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA protects patients and their families in times of their unemployment by providing them with Health Insurance at that particular time. (Wikipedia, 2011)
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University of Phoenix Material Health Care Information Systems Terms Define the following terms. Your definitions must be in your own words; do not copy them from the textbook. After you have defined each term in your own words, describe in 40 to 60 words the health care setting in which each term would be applied. Utilize a minimum of two research sources to support your claims—one from the University Library and the other from the textbook. Be sure to cite your sources in the References
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Reflection Two: Information Management Jessica Quiñones-Gruetzmacher Walden University NURS 6015: Information and Healthcare Technologies Applied to Nursing Practice Dr. Juanita Rass April 15, 2012 Introduction Nurses have various roles when dealing with clients. Some of those roles are caregiver, communicator, teacher, advocate, leader, manager, and researcher. This course has added other roles to the previous list, such as data gatherer, information user, knowledge user and knowledge
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and unsecure storage means that electronic medical records eliminate many layers of human contact for an overall reduction in what can become costly mistakes. • Safety and security: While paper files can be lost, damaged, stolen or subjected to natural disasters, electronic medical records circumvent many of these situations with greater safeguards. • Cost-efficiencies through data consolidation: By creating a centralized location for digitized medical records, this system reduces duplication
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Strategies for Evaluating Electronic Medical Records System Keisha Williams-Young HCS/587 May 02, 2011 In the past few years, many organizations have been making technological advances when it comes to medical records. By implementing Electronic Medical Records system to the Long-Term Care Home Facility, managers will be taking a huge leap into the future. Of course, when organizations decide to make an over-haul change of this magnitude, managers
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Comparing and contrasting Sentara Health System 2010 and Eastern Maine Medical Center 2008 Davies Organizational Award Minerva Ndikum Medical Informatics 6208 DE PhD Philip Aspden This paper compares and contrasts eight different views of two winners of Davies enterprise award. The HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies award recognizes excellence in the implementation and use of health information technology, specifically electronic health records (EHRs), for healthcare organizations
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2012 the Supreme Court rendered a final decision to uphold the health care law”. The Affordable Healthcare Act affords new means to hold insurance companies responsible and offers strong selections for customers. For example as part of the recently upheld Affordable Care Act, all health insurers are required to spend a percentage of each premium dollar collected to pay claims and to provide clinical service and activities that improve health care quality. ("Healthcare.gov", 2012) The Medical Loss Ratio
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government programs related to health informatics by doing the following: 1. Evaluate how each current program is impacted by licensure, certification, or accreditation standards. 1. The Electronic Medical Record and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT). 1 2 2. The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT). 3 3. HL7 –Health Level 7 4 (1)The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)
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that there are obvious reasons for the incorporation of health informatics to justify apparent flaws in the government programs such as Medicaid, TRICARE and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program are three legislative policies which impede its progress. With most disciplines there exists certain parameters which provide the basic focus for which the disciplines fashion themselves around. In all there are seven elements in the public health sector; http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6103a5
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