The document discusses the evolution of health informatics and its impact on electronic medical records. It covers topics like the history of regulations, the HITECH Act, meaningful use, and current health care information systems. The author outlines their final project, which will discuss the evolution of health informatics, the impact of EMR integration on workflow and data sharing, and current health care systems like registration, billing, order entry, and diagnostic tools.

1. Health Informatics: Its Evolution
and Impact
Lynn Wedin
Health Informatics Capstone
Instructor: Olivia Pollard
October 6, 2014

2. Health Informatics: Its Evolution and
Impact
Topics of Discussion
 Health care informatics evolution and transitions to
today
 The impact on the electronic medical records integration
 Current health care information systems

3. Health care informatics evolutions and
transitions to today
 Discuss the history of regulations
 Discuss the Health Information Technology
Economic and Clinical Health Act
 Discuss the evolution of electronic health
records
 Discuss Meaningful Use
 Discuss advanced health record technologies

4. Impact on the Electronic Medical Records
Integration
 Discuss end user adoption and usability
 Discuss workflow changes and challenges
 Discuss interoperability
 Discuss availability of patient health information
 Discuss use of evidence based medicine and
documentation standardization
 Discuss codification of health information

5. Current Health Care Information Systems
 Discuss various health care information
system components
 Discuss hardware security
 Discuss access and software security

6. Why is this important?
 Understand why health care needs to change
 Understand how informatics can support change
 Understand informatics options available to support
change
 Understand how to implement health informatics

7. Final Project Outline
 Health Informatics Evolution and Transitions to Today
 IOM (1999), To Err is Human
 Estimated 98,000 people die annually in U.S. hospitals
 HiTech Act
 Penalties for not using electronic health records
 Meaningful Use
 Increase communication, efficiency, quality, and safety
 Meet objectives across stages

8.  Impact on Electronic Medical Record Integration
 Ease adoption
 Training
 End user involvement
 Workflow challenges
 Incorporating computer in workflow
 Standardized templates and evidence based order sets
 Codification
 Standardized identification of items
 Data sharing and extraction
 Better patient care
 Increased quality
 Increased safety
 Faster diagnostic result turnaround

9.  Current Health Care Systems
 Registration and Finance
 Admission and scheduling
 Billing and charging
 Clinical
 Order entry
 Documentation
 Pharmacy
 Medication verification
 Barcode medication administration
 Diagnostic
 Laboratory
 Radiology
 Cardiology

10. References
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