541 Search Results for Healthcare Informatics
Periodically I would want to make sure the data was audited to make sure the underlying processes and systems used for capturing it were working correctly. In conjunction with these measures of ensuring patient data is being correctly captured proce Continue Reading...
Health Care Informatics
Expert Systems
Expert systems are always computer applications that tend to combine computer equipment, special information and software so that they imitate reasoning and advice of expert human. Being a part of artificial i Continue Reading...
Healthcare Informatics & Technology
1. What were the goals of the Cure4Kids program in 2003? How have they evolved?
Cure4Kids was developed with the overall intention of treating and hence improving the wellbeing of children suffering from pediat Continue Reading...
Triple Constraints
Health care informatics and how that field interacts and is affected by triple constraints is the subject of this brief report. Further complicating this paradigm is thre passage and enforcement of the Health Information Technolog Continue Reading...
al., 2012).
The existing reporting systems lack the level of usability inherent in social media applications as well. Social media applications have created and continue to fuel the expectation of usability that is the new standard for tablet-based Continue Reading...
Healthcare Informatics: Tele-health technologies
1) Tele-health technologies represent a sub-division of healthcare information technology which aid in delivering long-distance health education, public health, clinical care, health administration and Continue Reading...
Patient portals, electronic medical records, and personal monitoring devices are three of the most revolutionary technologies in the healthcare sector. Each of these technologies presents patients with the potential to empower themselves, taking cont Continue Reading...
Business Plan for Health Care Informatics
The purpose of this paper is to present a business plan for the implementation of syndromic surveillance system. The major sections of the business plan are: identification of the key objectives and scope o Continue Reading...
Figure 1 portrays the state of Maryland, the location for the focus of this DRP.
Figure 1: Map of Maryland, the State (Google Maps, 2009)
1.3 Study Structure
Organization of the Study
The following five chapters constitute the body of Chapter I Continue Reading...
Information Technology Breaches at a Healthcare Company:UCLA Health and Implications for the FutureAs our organization knows all too well, healthcare data breaches are occurring with alarming frequency. But just as hackers have more and more tools at Continue Reading...
Nursing Health Care Informatics
"…At the beginning of the 21st century, nursing informatics has become a part of our professional activities…[and has] advanced the field of nursing by bridging the gap from nursing as an art to nursing as Continue Reading...
Healthcare Workers: Personality Type and InformaticsOne of the greatest challenges of ensuring healthcare workers are educated in informatics is the likely clash of different personality types needed in both disciplines of health and IT. Healthcare w 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...
Health Care IT
Health Care Information Technology
The days of paper-based records in health care are fading. It is widely believed that the broad adoption of clinical applications such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE) can lead to major Continue Reading...
Healthcare Information Technology
Electronic Medical Record:
User friendliness is among the significant factors- probably the most essential factor- hampering extensive usage of Electronic Medical Record EMRs in respiratory therapy within my organi Continue Reading...
Healthcare
Delivery of Quality Health Care
The good old saying; health is wealth is as valid today as it was at the time when it was said. Health is the most important construct of human happiness. It is a unique element which cannot be substituted Continue Reading...
Health Care Delivery Systems
The structure and organization of the resources that make it possible to provide health care services to target populations is referred to as a health care system. The variety of health care systems is very wide with str Continue Reading...
Therefore in the economic sense many institutions have been viewed to lay back.
Knowledge and Expertise in Telemedicine
Another challenge has to do with the limited knowledge and expertise in telemedicine as well as the need for enhanced and modif Continue Reading...
These stakeholders are also vital in the promotion of the application of standards-based technology.
This is critical as it enhances the safety and security of the citizens as they pursue low-cost health care services and products within the contex Continue Reading...
Healthcare Coordinator Interview
An overview of VHA's tele-health program is given in this article which includes an interview of a leader who is involved in this program. This program along with its operational and strategic considerations can be u Continue Reading...
Healthcare Technology
One of the main barriers to implementing such a plan as described above is the expense of doing so; but that is true only if one looks at the immediate cash expense. The savings created by providing medical personnel with their 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...
(Worcestershire Diabetes: a New model of care Stakeholder event, 2007)
The continuum of care for the diabetic patient is shown in the following illustration labeled Figure 1.
Diabetes: Continuum of Care
Source: Worcestershire Diabetes: a New mode Continue Reading...
Here second question that is raised for the author is that till now and for the future, many healthcare architectures have been designed that increase the availability of the patient records, not only on the national but on an international scale as Continue Reading...
Healthcare Budgetary Decision Making
With resources becoming increasingly limited in the healthcare industry, managers are continually challenged with devising effective strategies for dealing with budgetary concerns. The most prominent challenge co Continue Reading...
The results were that out of the 17,937 adults surveyed: women were more likely to utilize health care services in comparison to men, whites were more inclined to seek treatment in comparison with blacks and 43% of the population sample was highly e Continue Reading...
Healthcare: Heath Information Management
Population health management (PHM) has gained prominence in mainstream healthcare organizations in recent years for the simple reason that healthcare is changing, and physician groups and healthcare systems a Continue Reading...
Stated to be barriers in the current environment and responsible for the reporting that is inadequate in relation to medical errors are:
Lack of a common understanding about errors among health care professionals
Physicians generally think of erro 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...
Healthcare Information Systems
Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University Australia, have written this article to point out the need to change the method of access control in the current health care environment. They have introdu Continue Reading...
5) Celebrate the customer decision and ask for feedback- Many customers will be with us for the duration of their lives. Everyone will inevitably become sick and will need to make tough decisions in regards to their health. Whatever their decision, Continue Reading...
Lack of accountability, transparency and integrity, ineffectiveness, inefficiency and unresponsiveness to human development remain problematic (UNDP).
Poverty remains endemic in most Gulf States with health care and opportunities for quality educat Continue Reading...
In respects, it could also reduce lawsuit expense when patients want to sue because of the wrong medication is given or harm is done in the process of medication administration.
"We often resist the new way of doing things..." (Thede, 2009, Sept). Continue Reading...
Others include delays in data accessibility, albeit shorter delays and the continued need for source data verification (Donovan, 2007).
Other obstacles have occurred in the developing of mobile healthcare applications. These have included mobile de Continue Reading...
This is because in most health facilities, the data is kept in a uniform way and the same is used for your next visit. According to the privacy law which applies to medical practitioners, confidentiality and privacy of the patient should not be comp Continue Reading...
Personal Healthcare Technology
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and the Sunrise Children's Hospital
The Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, which includes the Sunrise Children's Hospital, is an approximately 55-year-old facility located in Sout Continue Reading...
Product or Service Supplied
The product supplied to patients is generic pharmaceuticals. “A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug which is equivalent to a brand-name product in dosage, route of administration, strength, quality, Kinet Continue Reading...
CIO Briefing: Process of Health Care Information System Selection and Organizational Goals
Process of Selection of Health Care Information System
In order for the organization to begin the selection of a health care information system, it is necess Continue Reading...