394 Search Results for Clinical Informatics
Problem Statement
Planned change is necessary in the healthcare setting. Described as “purposeful, calculated, and collaborative,” planned change helps prepare nursing staff for a new technology or process, ensuring its safe and effective Continue Reading...
DESIGN FOR CHANGE PROPOSAL
Re-hospitalization of older adults has become prevalent in most of the health facilities in Canada, posing financial challenges for the health system as well as the older adults. Besides the rise in healthcare expenses that Continue Reading...
World Wide Web consortium as it applies to HIPPA
Abstract
The government of the U.S.A. enacted the HIPAA in 1966. In the Information and Technology sector, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is one of the standards. W3C has to ensure that, software, Continue Reading...
KATHARINE KOLCABA'S COMFORT THEORY
Evaluation of K. Kolcaba's Comfort Theory
Structure
Are the concepts in the theory explicitly and/or implicitly described in the theory?
(including the four concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing; nurse/nursin Continue Reading...
Health Information Technology Systems Life Cycle or HIT systems life cycle has several broad categories. One such broad category is EHR or electronic health records. EHRs are patient-centered, real-time records. They allow users to get information i Continue Reading...
GWA (Genome-Wide Association ) Study Analysis for OCD
The OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is a type of mental disorder that makes people doing the same thing repeatedly. In other words, the OCD is characterized by unreasonable obsessive fear and Continue Reading...
Immersion Project: Best Practice Recommendations for End-Stage Dementia Care
My immersion project created opportunities to interact with other care professionals, including primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, geriatric specialists, hospice Continue Reading...
HEALTHCARE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The state of healthcare in the United States is very much influenced and improved through the increased use of technology solutions. Whether it be the use of tablets, laptops, electronic healthcare records and Continue Reading...
Tonsil Problems
Surgery is a traumatic and often dangerous event. While tonsillectomies are somewhat common in the history of surgical procedures, it is necessary to investigate the problems of Amy as listed in the case study following a post operat Continue Reading...
DNPs Are Effective Leaders
The Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) prepares leaders for the fast changing health care industry and provides opportunity for candidates to integrate their quotidian practice skills with the knowledge gained in their st Continue Reading...
Electronic Health Records
The state of today's technology has transformed many of the methods and systems society uses to live and interact with one another. In the medical community, technology has also become a much larger part of how healing and Continue Reading...
Healthcare Management (discussion Questions)
Healthcare Management: Compliance and Regulation
Various regulatory and compliance issues that dictate how health care professionals conduct themselves standardize the healthcare industry. According to G Continue Reading...
Nanomaterials
Advances in Nanomaterials and Their Applications
Nanomaterials, including carbon nanofibers and nanotubes, are being explored extensively for their use and application in multiple manufacturing domains. One of the most eager manufactu Continue Reading...
Electronic Medical Records
While history counts the inventor of paper among the hundred most influential people in the history of mankind, the services of paper have proven to be doubtful during floods, earthquakes, fires and other disasters. With t Continue Reading...
Difficulties
Empirical research is necessarily designed to provide a workable framework through which a researcher may test a hypothesized explanation for observable phenomena, but the two primary branches of scientific inquiry differ greatly in te Continue Reading...
Predicting the Future of Medical Health Records
Predict the form and function of medical health records in 2030 (provide specific example to support your response).
With the advent of digital databases used to store vast amounts of medical informat Continue Reading...
Information Systems for Healthcare Management
Of the many enterprises that rely on information systems to attain their objectives, healthcare management is the most challenging and costly. The combination of highly complex application, systems and p Continue Reading...
Communication
Electronic communication has become one of the most important methods for people to communicate with one another in recent years. Spielberg (1999) noted that patients have sought to utilize electronic communication with their physician Continue Reading...
Health Information Privacy Legislation
The relevance of protecting the personal health information of the residents of Prince Edward Island (PEI) cannot be overstated. Towards that end, I propose that you introduce legislation that would protect as Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues Necessitating the Creation of 1996 HIPAA Act:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was enacted to bring necessary changes to the procedures and practices within the healthcare industry. The development of th Continue Reading...
Medication Administration Tech
Policy and Procedure Change Bar Code Reader System for Medication Administration
Though the Utah State Hospital has an integrated electronic prescription system there is no evidence that the institution utilizes bar c Continue Reading...
Regulatory Influences on Curriculum
Curriculum development and learning drivies learning in the nursing discipline. In this vein, the NLNAC and the National League of Nursing (NLN) do this in the various states. By using case studies, their impact u Continue Reading...
Health Care Systems and Administration of Services
Why do you think (1) hospitals and (2) physicians have invested less in information technology than banks have? What can be done to reduce resistance and encourage adoption?
Every industry has bene Continue Reading...
So, they have the best chance of isolating the underlying cause from the non-underlying causes. They are well-versed in the structure and classification of the ICD-9 codes as well and this helps them to better report the mortality.
Another reason i Continue Reading...
Staff must be trained to use Electronic Health Records in a way that optimizes the potential benefits of the new technology, while avoiding sloppy habits that not only reduce effectiveness but are even potentially detrimental to the quality of healt Continue Reading...
(Menzel, 1990, p. 3) Fisher, Berwick, & Davis alude to the idea of integration in health care, with providers linking as well as creating networks of electronic medical records and other cost improvement tactics.
The United States and other nat Continue Reading...
As the sole owners of a license to practice medicine on which industries and other business entities build profits, they need to take solid steps to assert their rights. They listed strategies to put their situation and demands across to the current Continue Reading...
This bill was sent to the U.S. Senate and set for vote mirroring a bill previously passed by the House during the Summer of 2003 which failed to pass the Senate because of vehement disagreement that was even "within the parties over the prohibition Continue Reading...
Firstly, the professors in the nursing schools should use gender-neutral language, since addressing nurses as she sometimes makes the male students to doubt their career. Therefore, there should be gender-neutral image. It is also very significant t Continue Reading...
Advances in Digital Medical Imaging
Origin
In the past few decades advances in healthcare have emerged, as new forms of technological integration are implemented as part of the overall healthcare management system. Healthcare providers, doctors and Continue Reading...
The other dimension is related but is definitely separate. Some end-users are not only uninformed on how to administer electronic health records, they may actively resist and otherwise undermine the setup and these people need to be identified or e Continue Reading...
, 2005). The framework centers strengthening the compatibility with existing values and practices to also ensure a high level of simplicity and observable results, two other factors crucial to creating an effective framework (Rogers, 2003). All of th Continue Reading...
Managing Change in the Workplace
The author of the article talks about change in the workplace. She states tat change is exhirating and terrifying. She also states that change is badly needed around any workplace. Whatever an individual's attitude t Continue Reading...
Lewin model of change can be useful as a way of encouraging people to get motivated about changing an ingrained policy that is no longer serving the organization. The first, foundational step of the model is the need to 'unfreeze' current standard o Continue Reading...