HIM301 - Week 5 Discussion

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Benefits of Health Informatics and Data Exchange Error prevention, fewer unnecessary therapies, and better patient care coordination are all made possible by health informatics. To more effectively track and securely communicate a patient's entire medical history, more healthcare providers are becoming members of health information exchange information systems (Oberg, 2021). Because of the benefits of health informatics and the apparent necessity of health information exchange, health practitioners are using this approach more frequently (Walker et al., 2021). Here are a few instances of these advantages: o Provide clinical decision support tools to caregivers so they can provide better care and treatment. o Get rid of redundant or superfluous testing. Increase productivity by getting rid of unnecessary paperwork and handling. o Boost patient safety by lowering medication and medical errors; additionally, enhance public health issue reporting and oversight. o By informing healthcare consumers about their personal health information, you can improve healthcare quality and outcomes while reducing health-related costs. Risks Involved while Using Health Informatics Insiders who inadvertently divulge personal information: Heard conversations between medical staff members in the corridor or elevator, test results for a friend being processed by a lab technician, information left on the computer screen for other patients to view or access, misdirected fax or email messages, or misfiled and misclassified documents are just a few examples of how personal information can be inadvertently disclosed. Insiders who utilize their record-access privileges: When they learn information they don't need or should know, healthcare workers are prone to curiosity. Although there are no overall data to show the scope of the issue, interviews with staff members during site visits disclosed multiple instances where medical staff members had learned about the health of their coworkers or family members out of concern for their welfare (Chung et al., 2017). It has been reported that workers in the healthcare industry have accessed medical records to look into the possibility of STDs in coworkers or former spouses they were seeing. Potentially embarrassing medical information about politicians, celebrities, athletes, and other well-known individuals (such as episodes of mental treatment, and substance abuse) is frequently reported in the media. References
Chung, C. J., Kuo, Y. C., Hsieh, Y. Y., Li, T. C., Lin, C. C., Liang, W. M., ... & Lin, H. C. (2017). Subject-enabled analytics model on measurement statistics in health risk expert system for public health informatics. International Journal of Medical Informatics , 107 , 18-29. Walker, D. M., Yeager, V. A., Lawrence, J., & McAlearney, A. S. (2021). Identifying Opportunities to Strengthen the Public Health Informatics Infrastructure: Exploring Hospitals' Challenges with Data Exchange. The Milbank Quarterly , 99 (2), 393-425. Oberg, M. (2021). Reconciling External Clinical Data: Providers’ Friend Or Foe? https://core.ac.uk/download/489472240.pdf
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