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Explore how seamless data exchange and integration across healthcare systems and devices can improve care coordination, enhance clinical decision-making, and enable efficient healthcare delivery. In today’s healthcare landscape, patients frequently receive treatment from many doctors in various healthcare locations. Interoperability is critical in this complicated context. Interoperability refers to the capacity of multiple healthcare systems and technology to interact and share data easily, increasing the quality and continuity of patient treatment. With the promise to improve speed, accuracy, and patient outcomes, interoperability has become critical for healthcare professionals, governments, and patients. In short, interoperability is the glue that ties the modern healthcare system together, ensuring patients receive the best possible treatment at every point of their healthcare journey. Visit AITechPark for cutting-edge Tech Trends around AI, ML, Cybersecurity, along with AITech News, and timely updates from industry professionals! What is Healthcare Interoperability? Consider interoperability a common language that various systems (such as mobile applications, third-party systems, electronic health records, and others) utilize to interact. They do this through healthcare data interchange architectures, application programming interfaces, and standards. Without healthcare interoperability, healthcare providers and others would be unable to access crucial information, and data would be isolated. Just as two people speaking different languages cannot communicate without the assistance of a translation, several systems cannot share data without a common language.
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The Health Information Exchange (HIE) in U.S
Yehyun Park
Purdue University
01/02/2019
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Health Information Exchange (HIE) is an information system that promotes a secure sharing of critical information as well the inclusive access critical medical information about a patient electronically (Abdelhak et al, 2014). One merit of the use of such electronic systems in the U.S is that they occur in different verities. The HIE also offer different types of services. Evidently, a recent development has enabled the HIE systems to promote the Marketplace and regional institutional services concerning the health sector. The merit of HIE applications included the improvement of speed, Quality, safety and reduced relative prices of charge per patient for care. This is made possible by the quick sharing of critical information among the doctors, pharmacists, nurses among all the relevant health personnel. The HGIE systems are such that, they are technically enabled to provide quick response to information demand with the relevant urgency and thus aids in the making of vital patient’s data and medical progress devoid of medical errors, readmissions, and duplicate testing. The resulting system has a generally improved diagnosis.
HIE enables three line of services in general: directed exchange, Query-based Exchange a consumer-mediated exchange services. Direct Exchange is the sending or receiving data electronically in the aid of coordination by caregivers. Whenever heath care provider wants to consult with other providers about a planned care, they employ the Query-based exchange while consumer-mediated Exchange enables patients to manage through control of the use of their personal information (Abdelhak et al, 2014). The availability of the three forms of health information Exchange makes the strong point of HIE since their integration in use is guided by some predetermined policies, technology, principles, and policies provision which have already been piloted before. The three forms are completely available throughout. With the Consumer-mediated Exchange system, the patient can be able to monitor the use of his personal medical information by their care provider. The patients can make a participation in their care enhancing through providing alternative providers with their heath condition, describe their heath information give the health missing or incorrect information, track and manage their own health.
Describe basic HIE organizational structures, architectures, and services
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Clinical Information System In Healthcare
Olufunmilayo Adeleke
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Introduction
Clinical information system (CIS) is purposely designed to be used in critical care conditions such ICU ( Intensive Care Unit).
In modern hospitals it can network with other computer systems including radiology and pathology.
The information is drawn to the electronic patient record by the systems (Musen, Middleton & Greenes, 2014).
Communication has been improved by the use of CIS because health professionals are able to share information.
Health Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) is selected organization for CIS use.
Clinical Information system is important in enhancing service delivery to the patient especially those in critical conditions and those who needed more attention.
Electronic patient record records make it easy to access information of the patients and communication enhance sharing of information.
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Role of CIS
CIS helps in improving the quality of services provided to patient who are in critical condition
Facilitates sharing of information and communication concerning specific patient (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017).
Enables the faster decision making by the physicians or clinicians during the encounter with patient in critical condition.
The X-rays for the patient can be taken and scanned when in need.
CIS plays important roles in the healthcare facilities.
it improves service quality provided to the patients, sharing of information and enables decision making process to be done within a short time because all the information needed can be easily accessed.
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Role of CIS
Help the healthcare to achieve equity and patients are provided with better care.
It allows analysis of the information by the health agencies or healthcare practitioners.
Clinical information system assist recording of the data of the patient.
Eliminates errors which would have occurred when entering data manually.
It also becomes easy to analyze health information by the health agencies including government or donors who need to provide some assistance to the healthcare.
Recording of data by the patients become easy because there is no manual entering of the data hence eliminating errors.
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Impacts of CIS
Increases access to medical information because of good maintenance of the records form of the patient.
The authorized users would be able to receive the immediately as there is no time wasting in files transfer (Boulware et al, 2016).
It also make it easy for the clinicians to address emergence admission or unscheduled visit.
It also minimizes overload of the information and promote a better care of the patient.
Keeping of the records form of the patient become easy since all the information can be accessed in the portal.
Transfer of information is only through the authorized users hence maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s data.
It becomes easy for the healthcare to do admission for emergences and attend to .
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CHAPTER 4
Assessing Health and Health Behaviors
Objectives
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1. Describe the expected outcomes of a nursing health assessment.
2. Identify the components of a nursing health assessment conducted for an individual client.
3. Examine life span, language, and culturally appropriate nursing health assessment tools for children, adults, and older adults.
4. Compare the similarities and differences among the various approaches to assessing the family, mindful of cultural influences.
5. Evaluate the criteria for conducting a screening in the community.
6. Compare the similarities and differences among the various approaches to assessing
the community.
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Cultural competence is the ability to communicate effectively with people of different cultures. Providing culturally competent care is the cornerstone of the nursing assessment. The nurse’s aware- ness of her own attitude toward cultural differences and her cultural worldview and characteristics
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are critical to her understanding and knowledge of various cultures. Recognizing that diversity exists in all cultures based on educational level, socioeconomic status, religion, rural/urban residence, and individual and family characteristics will ensure a more successful encounter (The Office of Minority Health, 2013). An online cultural educational program, designed specifically for nurses and featur- ing videotaped case studies and interactive tools, is available.
The Enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services, based on a definition of culture expanded to include geography, spirituality, language, race and ethnicity, and biology, provides a practical guide to culturally and linguistically sensitive care (The Office of Minority Health, 2013).
Technology is having a significant impact on health care. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) promotes involvement of the client in developing a dynamic, tailored database. The EHR offers great promise to improve health and increase the client’s satisfaction with his care. Data aggregation, cross-continuum coordination, and clinical care plan management are critical com- ponents of the.
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Digitization is bringing a sea change to a U.S. healthcare industry already facing waves of uncertainty. By taking the right steps, this can be a major opportunity for industry players.
Forecasting the future of any industry is difficult, none more so right now than healthcare in the United States. There are countless reasons why healthcare will look different in the near future, not least of which being the country's movement toward national coverage. However, digital transformation—the cumulative change that comes when digital technologies are introduced wholesale into an established industry—is poised to have an even bigger impact. For the U.S. healthcare industry, digital technology will be transformational, cutting healthcare delivery costs, eliminating errors through improved electronic medical records, and establishing routinized, evidence-based approaches to treatment.
Digital forces are pulling at the industry and significantly altering services, products, innovation, delivery, and remuneration (see figure). There are digitally integrated healthcare providers, digital medical devices and technologies, and digital delivery and monitoring of home healthcare. In addition, new ideas are emanating from developing markets, agile competitors are embracing technology, and a digital-friendly federal administration is pushing innovation. And don't forget the digital consumer who is used to digital banking, digital retailing, and digital education, and expects digital healthcare.
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