Biomedical QA System: A Summary

Healthcare has evolved over past decades and continues to remain an issue of concern for individuals everywhere. Effectively managing data is important to improving the performance in the health care system. Accumulating, evaluating, deciphering and acting on data for particular performance measures allow health professionals to identify shortcomings and make the necessary adjustment, and track the outcome.

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As a social worker my perspective about QAPI is important to the role that social workers play. Data related to patient outcomes,complaints, medical injuries and medical errors should be used to identify potential problems and to identify opportunities for improving care. Social Workers working in an patient care environment should alway be aware of QAPI scores in their facility. Even though Social workers are less familiar with collecting data on measurable outcome measures and may need additional education and collaboration on how to proceed. I think social workers should be able to have a say in how to improve QAPI in a facility. Social workers are apart of an Interdisciplinary team and the out come of QAPI affect every one in a facility.

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is a publicly traded Fortune 500 company providing clinical laboratory services. The company is the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services serving half of the physicians and hospital in the U.S. Quest Diagnostics provides patient services through diagnostic information services and clinical lab testing. Quest Diagnostics competes with three types of laboratory providers: hospital-affiliated laboratories, other commercial clinical laboratories, and physician-office laboratories.

The idea of the organization's fate is given by the strategic plan research of the BHcare. This paper will explain the review of BHcare’s mission, vision, and value statements. Akaena will also discuss the strategic plan and display any sources required to perform an internal and external investigation.

Throughout the course of Health Information 371, we have looked at various tools that are used or could be used in the field to help design, build, and implement systems. These tools explored concepts that were mostly related to the medical standpoint on how to diagnose patient’s through decision-making techniques. This helps the health professional make an accurate diagnosis based off of evidence and not speculation. Within the Health Information field, as informatics specialists we need to consider all of these techniques when designing the systems, creating policies, and updating the servers. Having knowledge on these tools will assist us when creating technologies, which will give health professionals all the necessary techniques to give the patient the best possible care available. Four tools that I believe will have a significant potential to affect my approach while practicing

My Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; that’s what set my mind to being a Medical Lab Technician. As an optimistic freshman, I had a mindset that my 4 years of high school would go smoothly with flying colors; I was taking my first college class, AP World History. However, mid-year that mindset changed. I had been having major knee pain for 2 weeks with high fever, it was agony. My parents immediately took me to the hospital because my primary physician thought I had Kawasaki. As we were waiting in the emergency room, I could feel my parent’s consternation. I’m the first born with one younger sister. I can’t picture how distraught my parents would be if their first child passed away at such a young age with so much academic potential. Along with that, it had been less than a year that my grandmother passed away so my mom was truly

In 1999 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report that shook the world. “To Err is human” warned and informed the healthcare industry that a need for change is necessary. The lack of consistency in the delivery of the quality of care that is provided to the US population. In response, Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have become a resolution for such an issue. The objective of this paper is to highlight the benefits of implementing a CDSS as well as the challenges faced today when implementing such a system. Furthermore, study will be conducted to explore what can be done to further research and recommendations will be given as to how CDSS implementation can improve health outcomes. Clinicians, staff as well as patients are

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Decision support systems are ideally interactive systems that allow the decision making physician to come to the conclusion based on a host of information pulled from data bases, personal knowledge, predesigned modals etc. Decision support systems have many benefits such as; patient-time efficiency, speed up process of decision making, promotes learning and training, reveals new approaches in thought process, generates new evidence in support of a decision and encourages exploration and discovery of the decision maker (Bosworth, York, Kotansky, & Berman, 2011). Although these systems require end user expertise, correct inputs and appropriate modals, they also require vast and exstenive information. Immunoinformatics are used to compile vast amounts of data for the immunology field (De Groot A. , Immunomics: discovering new targets for vaccines and therapeutics , 2006). This data includes genetic mapping, protein structures, cytometry data and many other data pools needed by immunologists to make correct decisions. Immunoinformatics face to challenge of compiling this enormous amounts of data in an organised and correct way. This data needs to be mapped into correct diagnostic modals for the physician to use in their decision support system (Barh, Misra, & Kumar, 2010). This data leads to new ways of hypothesis testing for immune responses

My academic interest is geared towards pursuing a master degree in the field of biomedical informatics with a view to becoming a problem solver and a major contributor to new discoveries in the field. I would like to pursue a career in research, development and teaching of methodologies, processes and tools that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of information flow as well as usage in the healthcare setting. I would like the output of my work and research to have significant influence towards improving patient care outcomes whilst reducing information costs in the entire healthcare system.

Clinical decision making is a complicated process that depends on human capability to provide full attention to memorize, and create enormous amounts of data to all areas. IT systems are able to access information, arrange them, and recognize links between them. Clinicians often ‘know’ information such as a patient’s allergies, drug interaction and if that drug is on recall.

I have chosen to study Biomedical Informatics at Rutgers University because I would like to pursue a career in the research, development and teaching of methodologies, processes and tools that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of information flow as well as usage in the healthcare setting. This is important in order to improve health outcomes through information system in both the private and public sector of the healthcare.

The medical model system is a good delivery method because it concentrates on the individual that has a sickness or disease. The person in need will have to rely on a doctor for treatment. The medical model is sometimes criticized because it focuses on the individual and their weakness, rather than their strengths. The public health model is a good delivery method because it focuses on the well-being of an entire population.

Millions of researches are being carried out across the world. Hence the scope is very limited for a person/organization to follow all the studies going on. Even if you track a study, it becomes a real problem to analyze data that is being updated continuously on that trial. Apart from this problem, there are many other obstacles like inaccurate results in search of a particular medical problem and even if you do find accurate results, it becomes hard to put all information at one place retrieved from various sources. In order to overcome the above problems, we are developing a one-stop clinical trials user-friendly application that addresses all the related problems.