Hci 600 grand canyon - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Informatics impacts the delivery of care and healthcare organizations in a variety of ways. Besides influencing the practice and environment of patient care, in what ways do informatics and informatics professionals interact more broadly across organizations and health systems? What broader value does informatics contribute to the delivery of health care across organizations and systems?

What are the primary challenges with integrating data from personal devices and applications with data within an EHR? Do you think most consumers are comfortable with sharing their personal data in the clinical environment? Supposing the sharing of such information is beneficial for consumers' health, what can be done to help consumers overcome their reticence?

Discuss an example of a mobile device or social or health-related application you use in your everyday life that stores personal health data and could potentially benefit your health. How could the technology or application be improved and utilized in the health care setting to provide a more detailed or holistic picture of a person's health status to providers?

Discuss how personalized medicine can create an environment where patients feel comfortable self-reporting and how personalized medicine can aid the provider in creating a trusting relationship. Explain how a Christian worldview could guide interactions with patients using personalized medicine.

Very large amounts of data are collected and stored within healthcare settings every day. Additionally, multiple stakeholders need to use some of this data for a variety of purposes. Discuss the primary challenges of storing, retrieving, and using all this data in a meaningful way. What role does the informatics profession play in managing this data and in assisting others in accessing, interpreting it, and utilizing it for a variety of purposes?

What are the primary challenges for interoperability? Discuss an organization that is working to promote interoperability within the clinical environment. Describe one of their initiatives, its benefits and challenges, and its impact on the delivery of care.

What are the primary advantages and disadvantages of the EHR and its relation to CPOEs and eprescribing? How do these impact clinical documentation and patient care?

Discuss how informatics and data collection help to create better systems that incorporate new technologies and care delivery models. Other than within the field of personalized medicine, how do you see informatics supporting innovation in health care?

Discuss the primary regulations related to patient privacy and security that affect the how information is stored, retrieved, and utilized in the health care environment. What are the major challenges facing health care organizations as they work to implement regulations and standards, including meaningful use criteria.

Discuss various occasions in which predictive analytics are helpful and important in the health care setting. How does this impact the health informatics?