Assignment: Informatics in Home Health

Assignment: Informatics in Home Health

Assignment: Informatics in Home Health

Week 7 discussion Discussion Prompt 1 Discuss the role of informatics in home health care and related community-based systems. What are your experiences with such settings? Do you expect to have more contact with them in the future? Discussion Prompt 2 Monitoring population health status is a central public health activity. A variety of survey systems, such as the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), as well as state and national reporting systems, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), and National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) provide public health practitioners with the ability to assess health trends, identify and respond to emerging health hazards, and guide development of interventions and policies that address serious health conditions such as obesity, smoking, and diabetes. With the proliferation of EHRs within acute and ambulatory care systems, how much of this survey activity do you think can be folded in under routine data collection and exchange activities?

Healthcare informatics became its own profession after 1991, when the X12N Insurance subcommittee was created. At this time, the ASN started to develop the widespread standards that would be used for health facilities to use and maintain an interactive communication system that stored claims, administrative, and financial information.

Since there was a growing need for a universal type of technology that facilities in the country could use, there was no denying that the need for a new specialist who could choose, manage, and train clinical staff on these systems were created. This is where the role of the Health Information Manager was born. Here is how information in widespread health information systems is used in the medical sector:

Used For Higher Quality Care

When technology is used to not just treat the patient but also to facilitate communication and to store patient data, it is easy to see just how much health information technology can contribute to delivering a higher quality of care. Whether this means that the clinical team is more informed or the administrative team can stay on top of appointments and claims.

One of the biggest roles of informatics within health care is finding a way for hospitals, clinics, provider’s offices, and other facilities to deliver patient-centered care. This gives the patient the power to take control over their own care by accessing their electronic medical records or using a secure system where they can communicate with their doctors and nurses.

What Do Information Systems Do with Patient Data?

The entire field of Health Information Management revolves around an electronic system that becomes a portal where patient data and even things like training materials or pamphlets is stored, acquired, shared, and used by clinicians or the patients themselves.

Within the system itself, patients have access to provide the clinical staff with important and relevant health information. Doctors and clinical staff who are authorized to send treatment information to patients currently in care. The system itself facilitates the availability of the important information sent by either party to ensure the right information is being transmitted and the medical team is being updated when necessary.