Health IT, or health information technology, is a growing field that is revolutionizing the medical industry. If you’re interested in writing a good paper on this topic, here are a few things you should know:
The HITECH Act generally belongs to a broader health information technology (HIT) concept. HIT has three aspects defined as its primary purposes: provide better care, make the care affordable, and pursue healthy populations and communities (McBride & Tietze, 2018). In this context, the HITECH Act contributes to the technological transformation...
Abstract In the last century, there has been an accelerated development and adoption of information systems and technology in patient care. The healthcare sector is not an exception as numerous advancements in health systems technology are being achieved to improve patient care and, subsequently, the healthcare system. This paper seeks...
Background Information Although blockchain technology was initially launched as an asset for the financial industry, it is safe to say that it could be applied to any other professional field. The ultimate nature of blockchain technology makes it possible for healthcare providers to benefit from implementing new digital instruments (Farouk...
Introduction The use of advanced technologies in medicine is now ubiquitous, and utopian visions of a high-tech future in the service of almost any branch of medicine have become closer than ever to reality. New technologies are actively used by health services in most developed countries. First of all, technological...
Technologies are meant to enhance everyday life in many areas, and healthcare is not an exception. For example, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are intended to improve the efficiency and quality of health care delivery (Kruse et al., 2018). However, aside from various benefits, EHRs also have some drawbacks, both of...
Introduction Informatics in healthcare helps to work with data, which are results of clinical trials, medical examinations, treatment results, and other outcomes. Computer systems organize, compute, compare, and show them to clients and patients as they describe their health state. Those outcome data are the basis for medical decisions, which...
Introduction It is important to note that diabetes is a chronic condition where an individual’s body experiences issues with blood sugar regulations. Although there are a number of key underlying reasons behind the disease, such as genetics, diet, sleep, and weight, and others, behavioral elements play a central role in...
Introduction Delivery robots technology has been widely used in nursing practice in most developed countries. It is one of the most common technological practices in nursing. The technology seems to be highly accepted and preferred, and therefore researching about it will give more information about its importance and any limitation...
The organization of modern medical practice in such a way as to ensure the highest possible patient safety seems to be the cornerstone of nursing. In the modern world, digital methods of storing information are becoming a new established tradition and progress is made mainly through the development of computer...
Clinical errors have become a widespread tendency over the last ten years. While technology prosperity is at its highest historical levels, the human factor still plays a significant role in clinical issues increase. Thus, nearly 100,000 cases are recorded annually, which indicates a stable but not growing tendency (Center for...
Introduction Electronic health records (EHR) are now widely used in the US healthcare setting. These IT systems enable healthcare professionals to improve the quality of care significantly. It has been acknowledged that EHR systems are instrumental in reducing the rate of medical errors and associated negative health outcomes for patients...
Nursing Informatics and Nursing Informaticist Nursing informatics means a specialty that involves the integration of nursing science with a raft of information and analytical sciences. It aids in identifying, defining, managing, and communicating knowledge, data, and information that is aligned to nursing practices (Kumari, 2019). The role of a nurse...
Issue Overview Nowadays, the overall system of the emergency department working patterns requires some revision in terms of avoidable visits. According to the researchers, the term “avoidable” can be defined as the visits that did not require further medical intervention (Hsia & Niedzwiecki, 2017). As for the current situation in...
Evolution of Record Keeping Healthcare record keeping is important. Documentation empowers professionals. Effective management of archives fosters therapy. Record keeping in healthcare is an important factor due to the monitoring of patients’ performance and improvement based on the treatments. Human evolution posed a solution to the management of the archives...
The decision-making process in the healthcare sector is complex, multi-component and largely dependent on the qualifications of the healthcare professional. The complexity of the existing factors is in many ways an obstacle to the implementation of any automated decision-making system. Until recently, technical solutions were unable to provide something qualitatively...
EHR The term EHR has the definition of “a repository of electronically maintained information about an individual’s health status and health care, stored such that it can serve the multiple legitimate uses and users of the record” (McDonald, Tang, & Hripcsak, 2014, p. 391). According to Shillingstad, EHRs have done...
Healthcare centers tend to face a severe problem of wastefulness in terms of supply utilization. As a result, it leads to considerable financial losses since the medicaments are not used and later discarded. Thus, it is vital to advance the supply chain management in order to avert growing medical costs...
Introduction Education is key to success, which means that it is a major necessity in an individual’s life. Through education, students can learn various things, including learning how to deal with arising matters like the increased cybercrimes, phishing, and spam emails. There are various teaching methods and can be categorized...
The Significance of Usability The user-friendly experience of a product is referred to as usability. A useful product can readily accomplish the desired goals. A usable product allows the user to remember how to use it and teach others. The user’s purpose, and remember how to use it on subsequent...
Introduction With the increased rate of technology reliance while working, it is necessary to secure all the elements of online data and information. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been rampant in modern systems with the development of cloud-based software. Therefore, if there is the advancement of technology, it means the hackers...
Patient Scenario The approved patient scenario concerns a 55-year-old male patient diagnosed with diabetes three years ago. In addition to diabetes, the client suffers from alcohol addiction and regularly smokes, exacerbating his condition. The nursing assessment shows that the patient is at high risk of developing diabetes-related complications due to...
In this century, technological advancements influence all aspects of people’s life. Technology applications are changing traditional health care system methods to provide a comprehensive approach to medical treatment and decision-making processes. The health care system is rich in information and data that need to be evaluated, as medical workers have...
The operators must be clear and concise with the information they pass to the clients. The operators should ensure that they avoid being too wordy by only focusing on the relevant issues to be addressed. Having a clear communication and information system for the donors will build trust and increase...
With the rapid growth of technology today, the medical field has adopted technology to enable it increase the productivity of most health care professionals. After an interview with the IT director at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, it is true that there are various areas where technology has been adopted...
Introduction Electronic Health Record (EHR) products help manage users’ information and patient care. The products control such records as billing, prescriptions, appointments, communication, and test results. Some of the EHR products include CareCloud Charts and the Advanced Data systems corporation (ADSC). Carecloud Charts provide patients care tools and clinical reporting....
Future of Informatics The recent surge in the adoption of personal computing technology and access to Internet services has had far-reaching implications on informatics in the last ten years. In essence, there has been massive evolution on informatics and data management not only in healthcare but also in other organizational...
The article chosen for analysis is “NHS Contact-tracing App Released in England and Wales” by Sara Rigby, and it appeared on Science Focus magazine on September 24, 2020. The technology presented in the article is the “NHS Contact-Tracing App”, which is being used for contact tracing among people living in...
Introduction An electronic health record (EHR) is defined as the digital version of patients’ paper charts. The technology is real-time, patient-centered, and it avails records instantly and securely to approved users. Within the last decade, medical facilities have consistently used this software to manage efficiency during practice (Robson et al.,...
There are several studies that have proven the benefits of Electronic Health Record (EHR) for patient’s safety, as well as their ability to improve efficiency in primary care settings (Porterfield, Engelbert, & Coustasse, 2014). Regardless of the benefits of the implementation of EHR in primary health care settings, health care...
Nursing care is all about information. It encompasses recording and interpreting data about patients, sending this data to other specialists, diagnosing and developing care plans, finding and analyzing information, scheduling, making reports, and so on. That is not surprising that technologies can make nursing practice noticeably easier and more efficient,...
Introduction The rapid development of technology allows for enhancing the perception of health assessment. Medical personnel and patients can no longer rely solely on physical examination to monitor the state of health – the new digitalized means of analyzing personal data facilitate timely recognition of issues, providing detailed reporting. The...
I might want to professionally pursue training in medical informatics role. I have had aspirations to train in a profession that shall enable me to perform an overall database management role in major medical institutions. I am deeply fascinated about specializing in medical informatics. This is because the training shall...
Overview The facility has a website and Facebook page for its online marketing. However, the main concern is that they are not being utilized in the best way possible to market the facility and services offered to the community. Objectives of the project The most important goal of the project...
Introduction The notion of medicine has always been covertly correlated with every aspect of human life. Thus, the slightest modification in the behavioral patterns is to be immediately considered by the healthcare authorities. Such a phenomenon is primarily characterized by the fact that modern people, to stay healthy, have to...
Abstract Studies associated with telenursing have indicated an increased benefit of using technology in the nursing care delivery system. The benefits of using the telenursing technologies range from improved diagnosis and consultations to the development of career options to professional nurses. Most importantly, telenursing have led to the improved patients’...
Name: Lexicomp Author: The application is created by Lexicomp, a developer of clinical information solutions applicable to various spheres. Endorsement: the application offers access to multiple databases licensed by the FDA, and other governmental agencies, which means that it is a licensed tool that can be used by individuals for...
Structure is the key focal point for quality improvements. The availability of reliable facilities and equipment alongside qualified doctors and nurses constitute paramount aspects that lead to the provision of the high-quality care. Apart from structure, outcomes and customer satisfaction makes the patients feel respected, cared for and treated with...
Complete interoperability in health care institutions faces significant challenges in enabling meaningful use and incentives, as well as, maintaining a competitive edge. The key role of interoperability is to ensure high efficiency in various functions including research, finance and clinical operations, which enhance both profitability and the organization’s ability to...
The use of IT enabled systems is gaining momentum in most hospitals. The systems are used to improve the quality of nursing services that patients receive with an aim of enhancing their safety. In this regard, the paper gives credible information to enable various stakeholders in the health sector to...
Introduction Nursing is the core of flow of information in most health care facilities therefore, if nursing informatics is developed, it will augment the availability of information to nurses for clinical practice, education, management and research ( Scholes & Barber, 2010). Informatics is a combination of computer science and information...
Introduction Telemedicine refers to “the use of telecommunication and information technologies to provide clinical health care at a distance” (Alexander 189). Telemedicine assists in bridging the gap between medical personnel and patients, especially in remote locations. It ensures that patients living in remote regions have access to regular medical services,...
Introduction Among contemporary medical technologies in the field of health protection, an important role is paid to telehealth. The main purpose of telehealth is the enforcement of the right of a person to qualified medical care in any place and at any time. Telehealth is the logical development of the...
Technology has hit many sectors of the economy. The medical sector has not been spared either as it has experienced massive technology change, which has in turn reformed the way they operate. Through the usage of these new technologies, there has been considerable betterment of the way the operation of...
Introduction Millions and Millions of patients visit public and private hospitals annually with various medical conditions. To facilitate quality diagnosis and treatment of patient’s ailments there need be a proper system of obtaining and capturing the patient’s medical records. This case study analyzes whether it is advisable for system development...
Introduction Information technologies cover all areas of human life, and healthcare is no exception to the rule. Doctors and their patients can benefit significantly from the use of mobile apps and other programs for the treatment of various diseases. However, the development of new tools intended to facilitate the process...
M-Health is a catchword title of the term “mobile health,” which is one of the fields of e-Health. It includes medical services such as monitoring, disease prevention, diagnostics, using mobile devices, and wireless data transmission technologies. To use m-Health technologies, a patient needs a mobile device such as a smartphone,...
Health informatics has become one of the most influential fields of healthcare management due to its importance in organizing and analyzing health records to improve health outcomes. The medical information systems tend to lag behind possible innovations, but the utilization of the new technologies significantly improves them. This practice is...
Medical record review, also known as retrospective chart review, is a study type in which researchers do not collect new data but instead rely on patient-centred information that was already collected. This data may come from a variety of sources, such as databases of health providers and information published by...
Telehealth or telemedicine refers to the use of information and telecommunication technologies to deliver health care services at a distance. It gained widespread support over the two previous decades, primarily as a way of supporting patients in remote settings (Graves & Doucet, 2016). Although telehealth offers substantial advantages, such as...
Despite substantial progress over the past years, insurance claim denials remain a topical issue for both patients and healthcare institutions. As for the former, this problem entails the lack of financial security and the potential inability to receive proper treatment. As for health service providers, insurance claim denials account for...
The current on-going COVID-19 crisis shows the critical importance of technology and its availability in combatting the virus. The disruption of global supply chain networks created a major deficit in a wide range of medically necessary items starting from masks to artificial ventilation machines. Therefore, it is essential for the...
Today, technology and healthcare are inseparable, and providing the high-quality patient care without Informatics seems challenging. Nurses are specifically taught to “utilize informatics skills in their practice” (Masters, 2015, p.301). I felt the effect of informatics on my workplace environment when electronic medical records (EMRs) replaced the paper based ones....
At the Millennium of technical progress, any aspect of human’s life can not remain untouchable. Digital inventions modify the world every day. There are dozens of examples such as cell phones, computers, the Internet. Changes happen in the medical industry as well. One the most recent approaches stand for the...
Modern technology changes the shape of every activity. Some changes make it easier to work; some provide certain risks. With the expansion of high-tech devices in the healthcare system, not only doctors and nurses but patients as well face the necessity to understand how the technology works. However, it is...
Mission and Goals The Select Specialty Hospital is a health care organization that specializes in acute care for patients with various health problems. In this assignment, the attention will be paid on the Select Specialty Hospital’s pulmonary rehabilitation after trauma service. The paramount aim of the identified organization and the...
Technology plays a big role in our society because almost everything we do involves technology. It is not constant as it keeps on improving and as it changes, so do our lifestyles change for the better mostly. Technology has a huge variety, it may include; communication or just chemicals. It...
New heart scanning technology opens new opportunities for the population to monitor and prevent heart attacks. The main problem is that in many cases it is difficult to predict cardiovascular changes and possible risks associated with heart failure and reductions in coronary blood flow. New heart scanning technologies allow doctors...
How do you envision Social Media be integrated at the Point of Care? Are there any examples and/or models that already exist? Social media tools that can be implemented in healthcare include various networking and media-sharing platforms, blogs, article databases, and so on. A great variety of media may be...
Scenario for Mrs. Goodwine mHealth Application Teaching Evaluation References Diabetes Monitor. (2017). Web. Eng, D., & Lee, J. (2013). The promise and peril of mobile health applications for diabetes and endocrinology. Pediatric Diabetes, 14(4), 231-238. Web.
Problem Nowadays, the issues of health care and insurance in this sphere are very significant as far as the growing number of natural and technological disasters and armed conflicts bring more people to the need of an effective health care system and health insurance industry. To make their work more...
Healthcare technology, especially its user-technology interface, needs to be usable and functional. There exist different approaches to evaluating such qualities, and one of them is the human factors method (Harte et al., 2017; Punchoojit & Hongwarittorrn, 2017). The present paper will use a specific example of a user-technology interface and...
Informed consent At the heart of a respectful relationship between a patient and a provider of healthcare lies the principle of shared decision making. And informed consent is its practical application. There are some ethical principles of informed consent that are universal and which both patients and medical staff can...
Electronic health records (EHRs) are a relatively well-tested method of keeping medical records that are reported to have multiple benefits. In particular, recent evidence suggests that EHRs are somewhat likely to improve specific quality outcomes. Such outcomes include advanced continuity of care, better guideline adherence, and more efficient and time-efficient...
Introduction Artificial intelligence or AI is the use of algorithms and software solutions to enable computers to analyze data and make conclusions without people’s help. Nowadays, AI is increasingly used in healthcare, and the purpose of such technologies is to improve clinical decision-making and reduce the impact of the human...
Scenario for Mr. Willis mHealth Application Teaching Evaluation References Cardio Mobile. (2017). Web. McCarthy, K. (2016). 5 of the best smartphone apps for heart disease patients. Web.
Introduction In a few decades since its advent, computers and computer based technologies have demonstrated tremendous potential for aiding the development and progress of humankind. This potential has translated into the computers and computer based technologies pervading nearly every sphere of human activity. Healthcare is an important facet of human...
Apply Quality Improvement The use of technology in nursing is one of the key elements of the successful provision of care. Meaningful use is one of the incentives aimed at making technology integration successful and efficient. The meaningful use incentive presupposes the use of a certified EHR (electronic health record)...
The present paper is devoted to a short analysis of four TED presentations by Christakis (2010), Cukier (2014), Golbeck (2013), and Selanikio (2014), who discuss the topic of data analytics. Two of the authors consider the issue directly in the context of healthcare, but it is possible to apply the...
What is your opinion of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program? Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program (BCCAP) that complies with HITECH Act was completed in 2014, which resulted in the creation of 17 Beacon Communities (ONC & HHS, 2014). I suppose that BCCAP is significant in focusing on smaller units...
The Purpose of the Program The purpose of the program is to increase the skill of computer operation among the nursing staff at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. While the computer operation level of younger nurses is often sufficient, more veteran nurses have experienced a certain level of...
Healthcare technology addresses different problems and makes solutions more accessible. Technological interventions exist for fall prevention (Bernocchi et al., 2019). Falls disproportionately affect certain populations, and falls in older adults with arthritis are very common because of the associated balance impairment (Manlapaz, Sole, Jayakaran, & Chapple, 2019; Quach & Burr,...
Healthcare delivery to patients with chronic diseases is often a time-consuming and tiresome process since healthcare professionals struggle to perform essential diagnostics and select proper treatment. To improve the overall quality of care for individuals with multiple illnesses, practitioners attempt to incorporate a series of advancements in management, technology, and...
Introduction In order to improve care quality and optimize resources, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that prescribes using the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) was introduced in 2015. The employees of Home Health Aides (HHAs) are largely resistant to implement electronic documentation in their practice due to a lack...
Apply Quality Improvement The presented case indicates that the EMR used in the hospital is ineffective. The use of a different system can make a difference for this institution. The term “meaningful use” refers to the use of specialized electronic health record (EHR) technology to maximize safety, promote efficiency, improve...
Introduction to the Project There are several studies that have shown the benefits of the use of electronic health records (EHR) for patients’ safety, as well as their ability to improve efficiency in primary care settings (Porterfield, Engelbert, & Coustasse, 2014). Regardless of the positive effects of the implementation of...
What is the purpose of this research? The article written by Pals et al. (2015) focuses on the identification of the users’ perception of technologies used for risk assessment. In particular, attention is paid to the discussion of the usefulness of the Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathy (CAN) that measures heart rate...
Scenario for Mr. Richards Mr. Richards is a 35-year-old male diagnosed with high blood pressure He did not feel well during the past week due to his blood pressure, so he went to a hospital He works as a financial analyst at a large international company (stressful job) He cannot...
Technology is widely used in modern healthcare to address all of a patient’s necessities and perform complex treatment operations. The majority of the spectrum of healthcare technologies is going to be used during acute care. These include tools that monitor a patient’s health, various scanning and performance equipment, as well...
Jackson Memorial Hospital Jackson Memorial Hospital has presented a health information initiative that focuses on coordination care, the lowering of resource utilization and having the ability to avoid emergency department visits. Jackson Memorial Hospital will be utilizing an electronic Health record System that shares information throughout Jackson and Community providers....
Scenario mHealth Application Teaching Evaluation References Caffrey, M. (2017) Welldoc’s Bluestar seeks to empower patients with type 2 diabetes through real-time coaching, provider feedback. Web. Mayo Clinic. (n.d.). Type 2 diabetes. Web.
Introduction M-health refers to the medical and public fitness progression that is backed by mobile devices, for instance, smartphones, patient monitoring gadgets, personal digital support, and other wireless tools. With more than four billion mobile phone users across the globe, the application of the devices as a means of health...
Introduction The emergence of health information technology has revolutionized the way patients’ data is collected, documented, stored, retrieved, viewed, managed, shared, and utilized. Consequently, healthcare providers can select from the many available applications to enhance the way they deliver care to patients. One such application, electronic health records (EHR), is...
Telehealth incorporates a wide range of services that employ telecommunication technology. In this paper, the use of telehealth for fall prevention will be considered by discussing an article by Bernocchi et al. (2019). This source will be reviewed in detail, and a mind map of the technology’s application will be...
The technology of telehealth or Telemedicine is being applied actively in healthcare. There are various studies that examine the influence of telemedicine on participants: the results demonstrate that telehealth can provide better results than an on-site treatment. Although it might sound doubtful, Davis et al. (2011) conducted a study about...
Introduction The top areas of cancer computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), which seem to be most often discussed and particularly well translated to practice, are breast, lung, and colon cancer diagnosing (Giger, 2015, p. 409). With respect to machine learning (ML), Giger (2015) suggests that it is applicable to the case of...
What is meaningful use? Meaningful use, as it can be interpreted in the context of health information technology, refers to a minimum set of standards for the use of electronic medical records to improve the process of sharing information about patients between all stakeholders involved (Murdoch & Detsky, 2013). Meaningful...
Introduction Today, technological progress affects virtually every sphere of human activities, and many professions change with the development of technologies. Within recent decades, the landscape of nursing has evolved to a significant extent due to the introduction of various technological advancements and innovations, which brought about many discussions about different...
What have you found to be the most valuable contributions of the initiative to build upon as the press for health information exchange continues to progress in this country? The Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) is a most significant Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiative that was developed by the Office...
The need for guaranteeing patient safety through error-free services can be understood well only by examining the topic of bar code medication administration (BCMA). This subject introduces to readers and other interested parties technology-based approaches that serve the purpose of minimizing faulty prescriptions by confirming electronically that the health officer...
One of the most common examples of wasted efforts that I see is the time spent on technological issues and problems that arise when nurses use electronic documentation or any other tools that require personal computers or laptops. As computers can lag due to overuse, clinical practice and data transmittance...
Apply Quality Improvement This task has been devoted to the assessment of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in terms of its acceptance, errors, and availability of information. The paper is aimed to define the term “meaningful use.” Besides, it will dwell upon the importance of the issues mentioned in the task....
The paper is devoted to the improvement of care delivery models regarding children under the age of 5 years old. The fact is that the lack of clinical competence among parents and their inability to provide appropriate care to children significantly impact this group’s health. For this reason, the change...
The modern healthcare sector significantly benefits from the extensive use of technologies that promote better results and precondition the introduction of new approaches to performing important activities. For this reason, robotics is one of the most topical issues peculiar to the work of modern health units and specialists. It can...
As nursing labor is becoming increasingly intertwined with modern technology, new possibilities for more effective delivery of care open up. As such, telenursing, which might not be associated with cutting-edge technology, is still regarded by some scholars as a prominent mode of caregiving (Balenton & Chiappelli, 2017). In this paper,...
Introduction With the rise of digital devices and the internet, many industries crucial for humanity and the quality of human living have also begun to transform. One of the recent approaches that combine IT, remote monitoring, and other technologies (i.e., electronic devices, the Internet) is the population health analytics that...
The management of food and drugs represents a complicated issue that requires rigid guidelines and well-established standards. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines the policies toward food and drug management, including the approval of drugs and the identification of food-related threats to the American population....
Medication errors are a burden for hospitalized patients being a costly and frequent problem. Therefore, many attempts are made to reduce the incidence of medication errors and thus improve patient outcomes and the quality of care that are the major concerns of the contemporary health care system. One of the...
Scenario mHealth Application Teaching Evaluation References Misra, S., & Abuel, V. (2017). App Review: DrawMD. Web. Visible Health. (n.d.). DrawMD. Web.
Analyzing HRSA Data Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) website provides extensive data regarding programs, services, and other health care initiatives, sorting information by geography: HHS regions, states, congressional districts, counties, and ZIP codes. HRSA’s activities in Clark County, Nevada involve awarded grants and details such as their amount, distribution,...