Technology and Decision-Making Paper Allie Timbo Health Care Informatics HCS482 November 8, 2010 Richard Ong, MBA, FACHE Technology and Decision-Making Paper More than ever before, information technology is helping clinicians and health care systems improve the collection and management of data along with the ability to aid in decision–making for clinical and business issues. Information technology has led to significant improvements in quality of care, patient safety, and communication
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the software needed for nurses to properly care for and chart on their patients. With the knowledge of nursing practice and informatics, this team member would very valuable in bringing the two together in the most efficient way possible. The next team member would also be from the IT department. A Director of Clinical Informatics would be chosen for this project. The Director of Clinical Informatics play a vital role in the project because of the knowledge of current hospital technology, upgrades that
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Supply patients with an electronic copy of their discharge instructions upon request. 12. Report required clinical quality measures to CMS. 13. Maintain up-to-date problem lists of current and active patient diagnoses. (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2014) Part II: ensuring buy-in by my staff for the implementation of documentation: 1. I would educate my staff with a series of brown bag lunch during which I will make a PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate what is the Meaningful Use, EHR
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The Benefits of Technology in Nursing and Healthcare Abstract This paper explores nursing informatics and technology in the emergency department of a local level 1 trauma center. The references cited provide discussion and statistics on several types of nursing informatics utilized today by this facility, including benefits and shortcomings. Personal experience from the author are also incorporated as he witnessed first hand the nursing informatics and technology “explosion” and how this
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Basic Principles of Data Data collection is an important activity in every sector including the health sector. The basic principles of data collection include the acquisition of public health data and its legitimate use or disclosure. The data collection programs should also involve collecting minimal personal information to be applied in the surveys. The data collection programs should use strong and effective policies to ensure that privacy and confidentiality of personal data are not infringed
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care and staff function. A committee comprised of one physician, the nurse and one staff assistant was formed to define the EMR requirements. Unfortunately, the practice did not have a budget for IT support. Luckily, the nurse had training in nursing informatics and became the internal IT consultant. After extensive research, the committee decided to invite two vendors for an onsite demonstration and finally selected one for the
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Module 6 Quiz 1. Did the EHR seem to be well aligned with SunHealth’s overall strategic plan? Explain your rationale. SunHealth wanted to implement electronic health record (HER) to improve patient safety, decrease medical errors, and help ensure the providers were using evidence base medicine. The organization also envisioned HER allowing patients to view their records through a PHR or a patient portal, the patients then would become more involved in their own health care. Ultimately
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Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper Nursing practice now requires that nurses be involved in strategic planning process. Strategic planning is a process by “which the guiding members of an organization envisions its future and develop the necessary procedure and operations to achieve that future (pg242).” This paper compares the strategic planning process with the nursing process. Strategic planning there is a process used to keep you on track determines a position and develops a strategy
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Importance of Nursing Theory We can define nursing theory as a group of concepts that describe and present current knowledge in nursing. Nursing theory looks to provide an overall vision and understanding of the profession of nursing. It helps to organize knowledge obtained and advances the way a discipline is practiced (Shea & Cavan, 2014). Before this course I had little exposure to nursing theory and its application in the clinical realm. I knew things were done a certain way but truly did not
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Running Head: RBDT Task 1 RBDT1 Task 1 A. The healthcare industry has dramatically changed over the past 10 years where even the federal government has honed in on how healthcare costs are managed. Healthcare Informatics has introduced a whole new era of electronic support systems in how health care records are stored and the people that manage them. This combination of people and systems are vital to the industry standards and how companies across the United States will utilize them to manage
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