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Advanced Information Management and the Application of Technology
Western Governors University
Advanced Information Management and the Application of Technology
A1. Advantages & Disadvantages
The healthcare system is consistently changing for the better. With those changes,
healthcare facilities must evolve in the methods they manage that sensitive information about our
patients. Health information systems (HIS) are technology-based platforms for the storage and
transmit of patient’s medical records. Based on the information that is obtained from HIS, it can
help create new policies, program development, research, and effective patient outcome. When
it comes to developing a HIS, we must consider the following advantages and disadvantages:
usability, interoperability, scalability, and compatibility.
Some of the advantages of any HIS are the reliable of prescribing/medication
documentation and past medical history reconciliation. Having accurate medication information,
can help with more accurate patient care and decrease the risk of medication interaction or
overprescribing narcotics. The accurate and real time documentation can help with improving
patient outcome. Providers can document at the bedside to help with accurate, and real time
documentation. As I work in the emergency room, having accurate and real time information is
imperative during critical life-saving events. Also, during those events, having the ability to pull
up prior visits and critical information can also help with increasing positive patient outcomes.
With all the advantages of HIS, it can help with reduction of wasteful costs, reduction in length
of stay, better patient outcome, and increase in profitability.
Some of the disadvantages of any HIS are technical difficulties or glitches, and the cost
of implementation of new HIS. There is always some form of technical issues when
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mplementing new HIS systems. Some of those issues can cause moderate to severe delays
which can cause additional money. The issues can also cause a delay in accessing accurate
patient information which can potentially decrease a positive patient outcome. Another
disadvantage is the training of all the staff on the new HIS. The training would require extra
hours for the staff and the educators responsible for the training.
Usability is one of the most important aspect of a HIS that providers and other healthcare
professionals look for. One of the advantages of using a HIS is the drop-down features. The
drop-down features create a more uniform charting and easily for all parties to review the
charting. However, a disadvantage of drop-down boxes is the choices are very limited and they
do not allow to give the whole story. Some HIS have added a feature where the clinician can add
a comment to a particular section to address what was not a choice on the drop-down box and
give a more detail summary of the patient. Again, this can take away for the providers by having
to add comments and not taking care of the patient in an appropriate manner.
Interoperability is the ability for HIS to communicate with other platforms and/or
software by the exchange of data, and the interpretation of that data. By having a HIS that can
communicate with multiple other platforms or software can help reduce in medical errors
especially with lab results. At the emergency room, we depend on the lab’s ability to process our
specimens and record the results into their software and having that data transfer to our HIS for
our review in an accurate and short time. If the HIS is not able to interpret the data that is being
transmitted from the lab, we will not be able to accurately treat our critical care patients and
result in a very negative outcome like death. Another disadvantage is the cost for implementing
the HIS and all supporting software, computers, scanners, and associated consistent upgrades.
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