Victor, I agree with you on Nursing Informatics. According to the American Medical Informatics Association (2015) nurse informatics develops communication and information technologies, educators, researchers, chief nursing officers, chief information officers, software engineers, implementation consultants, policy developers, and business owners, to advance healthcare. Nursing Informatics also promotes the best health possible by integrating nursing, its information, and knowledge, with the management of information and communication technologies. Applying Informatics knowledge allows healthcare providers achieve the quality of patient care and promote the health of patients, families and communities both local and global (American Medical…
One may produce population health and wellness reports. You can ensure costly tests, labs, and scans are not lost and needlessly duplicated. Interoperability ensures records can be accessed at any Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) worldwide. The security systems surrounding it prevent unauthorized access and protects from loss due to natural or man-made disasters.…
The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains the International Classification of Disease (ICD). This system design is a healthcare classification system that provides diagnostic codes for classifying disease, sign and symptoms, abnormal finds, etc. The ICD-9 system has been in use for over 30 years now is replaced by ICD-10. The change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 has received much opposition from the United States as well as the medical industry. The benefits of using the ICD-10 are the in depth details of the new codes, a more accurate payment system for new procedures, fewer miscodes, and rejected improper reimbursement claims.…
Healthcare information organizations are continuously finetuning to meet health information standards. In the mid-1980s, the standards developing organizations (SDOS) was formed. The SDOS maintain, coordinate, promulgate, revise, amend, reissue and interpret health information. SDOS address several aspects of health information.…
Yes, I do feel these three sites were useful. It’s easy to navigate and compare hospitals and user-friendly. It gave some great facts. If I was a patient I would have to choose Greenville memorial. This is they are more experience than Mary black and have seen a wide field of patients.…
A very helpful resource my preceptor utilizes is the ASCCP.org website. ASCCP stands for American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. This website provides guidelines and algorithms to help establish an appropriate treatment plan for patients with abnormal pap smears. These recommendations were developed and approved by a steering committee made of national professional organizations, government agencies, and advocacy organizations. They used literature reviews, evidence based practices, and risk-based assessments to develop the guidelines (American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology [ASCCP], 2013).…
The committee on professional development of AHIMA states that health information management (HIM) professionals are responsible for improving “the quality of healthcare by insuring that the best information is available for making any healthcare decision” by managing healthcare data and information resources (Zeng, MD, PhD, Reynolds, EdD, RHIA, & Sharp, MBA, RHIA, 2009) . Explain policies and standards that govern health IT Health information technology (health IT) involves the exchange of health information in an electronic environment. According, to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) the widespread use of health IT within the health care industry will improve the quality of health care, prevent medical errors, reduce…
This system was first published in 1992 and included 336 interventions and developed by nurse researchers at the University of Iowa (Adubi et al., 2017). It is exclusively geared towards nursing interventions and encompasses the proficiency of all nurses explicitly. Similar to NANDA-I, NIC is researched based and valuable for documentation, communication, integration of data across systems, productivity, competency, and reimbursement (Schwirian, 2013). Moreover, NIC has both physiological and the beneficial psychosocial components included in its structure. The NIC is updated frequently and given a unique numeric code involved in SNOMED (Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine).…
Aimsweb Assessment Summary Aimsweb was started by Pearson as a place to store DIBELS data and developed into something more over time. Now it is used as a curriculum based measurement tool for universal screening, progress monitoring, and data collection that aids RtI. The system measures students’ math and reading skill sets as well as provides a subjective way to score students’ writing. It can be used for children K-12 as a way to identify those at risk for academic failure and to monitor students to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention (Aimsweb FAQs).…
Why interested in HIM I am interested in Health Information Management (HIM) because it is an essential means of delivery of quality care. Also, HIM professionals are experts in the field of patient health information and medical records. With my experiences as a Home HealthCare Provider, it will enable me to have more focus and interest in the field. Besides, Health Information Management (HIM) is one of the fastest growing occupations, dealing with computer technology and its application which currently most healthcare system operates worldwide. Experience with Technology…
The Attention Deficit Disorder Association is an organization dedicated to providing service and empowerment to adults with disabilities. The ADDA website provides excellent information, resources, networking and professional job opportunities for adults with Attention Deficit Disorder to succeed and lead better lives ADDA, (2015). The Attention Deficit Disorder Association website brings awareness by creating presentations targeting employer’s to raise awareness of ADHD in the workplace. The ADDA also provides workshops on how to manage ADHD in the workplace. The ADDA partners with organizations such as the U.S. Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology, an action that promotes employers to use technology in hiring, employing, and…
With clinical information systems patients medical records can be brought up on a screen instantly instead of taking time to get the file and then look though it. In administrative information system they are there to help with the financial part and can budget things like payroll. The Internet has given people a place to look up information on certain treatment and medicines. This helps with the patient knowing what kind of treatment they will be getting and if there is other options to try first. With better technology it will reduce the time of hospital stays and there are less invasive…
Nursing Informatics Daniel O’Brien University of Louisiana Lafayette Introduction Informatics, and more specifically, nursing informatics, is continuously playing a larger role in patient care. Informatics is the use of technology and science and making it available to continued and wide spread use (McGonigle, Hunter, Sipes,, & Hebda 2014). McGonigle et al. continues to discuss nursing informatics as using this science of technology to enhance patient care, outcomes, and satisfaction. This tool of informatics allows the nurse to store data, trend this data, and extract useful information for the continuity and improvement in care (McGonigle et al., 2014). Informatics aims to improve the overall knowledge of nursing professionals…
Out of all the websites that I have reviewed, the most interesting one was the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Website to compare the hospitals in your home area. It shows how each hospital does on treating several different diseases and shows what the national average is in our country. I found this extremely helpful because it helped confirm some of my beliefs in the Oakwood system, but also showed the misconceptions of the Oakwood system. I had always known that they had an issue with giving patients infections, but I did not realize it was not as bad as I had originally thought. Once more, the website helped to inform me that my hospital does not do well with stroke victims, but Garden City is one of the best in the state.…
Government Agencies Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) CDC, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, promotes health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. The CDC Epilepsy Program conducts epilepsy program activities in improving care, improving communication and combating stigma, self-management, surveillance and prevention research, increasing public awareness and knowledge, and strengthening partnerships. http://www.cdc.gov/epilepsy/index.html National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) NINDS is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a component of the National Institutes of Health. It is the leading…