Health informatics

Standards are an important component of many informatics-related projects and tools, including electronic health records. Are any potential risks associated with initially focusing on standards development as a solution to a newly identified informatics use case? Discuss why or why not. When responding to this Discussion Board thread, it may be helpful to consider the following mock scenario: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing a new electronic Registry to enable…

Explain how the United States has both market and social justice of health care. Market justice assumes that consumers are financially stable and are willing to purchase health care services at market prices. Under market justice, the distribution health services are significantly based on the consumer’s ability to pay for adequate services (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 41). The problem with market justice is that without adequate income or health insurance through employment people find themselves…

Teladoc Inc.: Means of Production Teladoc Inc. offers telehealth solutions to health care organizations, physicians, insurers, employers, and governments. The company develops licensable software solutions, telecommunication and video-conferencing. Teladoc also offers a robust virtual health care delivery system that seamlessly connects patients to providers for medical consultations. Teladoc’s virtual health care platform is designed using quality function development and supported by…

CT scan you would have to pay separately for each service received. When paying for quantity of care a sick person is worth more than a healthier patient. With the understanding that the more providers do the more they get paid, thus draining the health care system. The Affordable Care Act has established several models in hopes to replace the fee for service. The first model is based on accountable care organizations. Accountable care organizations groups primary care physicians,…

Developing a single patient engagement platform across all care settings, with predictive healthcare management tools, will help empower patients to better manage their health and coordinate with all of their providers for improved healthcare outcomes. Although the healthcare organization may have an existing patient portal, this may not be offering the correct tools and benefits to the patient. Research previously discussed in this paper determined there would be positive outcomes of…

government and agencies. ii. TC 215 : • Standardization in the field of health informatics, to facilitate the coherent and consistent interchange and use of health-related data, information,…

Electronic medical records are designed to provide nationwide access of organized collections involving patient health information. These records are proposed to keep track of a patient’s entire health and medical history in a computerized, electronic format. It may include a series of data, including demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology…

Technology transforms the way health care functions, and it is the major contributor in advancing quality care and reduce errors That might potentially occur when caring for patients. Also, information technology on health care has shown significant progress in digitizing medical/patient records, such as Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). Laboratories, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other organizations treatments depend on their stored information (databases system). These organizations…

HL7 stands for Health Level Seven and it is the standard used for exchanging information between medical applications. This standard defines a format for the transmission of health-related information. Information sent using the HL7 standard is sent as a collection of one or more messages, each of which transmits one record or item of health-related information. Some examples of HL7 messages could include patient records, laboratory records and billing information. HL7 International outlines…

The outpatient facility I am going to discuss is pediatric primary health care facilities. Pediatric primary health care is an outpatient facility that deals with the medical care of children from birth to adolescents up to 18 years old. The most important provider in a pediatric primary health care facility is the pediatrician. A pediatrician is a primary care doctor who only sees children, and specializes in the physical, emotional, and behavioral needs of children. A pediatrician does…