Health informatics

“The use of medical information exchanged from one site to another through the use of two-way video, email, smartphones and other forms of telecommunication technology,” was what was stated by the American Telemedicine Association. The use of telehealth has been significantly increased over the years due to the fact of its excessive and fascinating advertising therefore the issue now, is how effective and productive is Telehealth when it comes to prescribing medications? The overall…

Without proper implementation and communication, the patient can easily start to feel like he is “dehumanized” as one study of telemedicine put it (Barwa, Bhute, & Rani, 2014). The patient can start to feel like they are inhuman objects when they are seeing the medical provider through the technology instead of in person. Patients may miss the personal connection with the physician and may feel a sense of insecurity and lack of trust using the telehealth technology. This feeling of…

Telehealth Telehealth is a collection of means or methods to enhance all aspects of healthcare through support using telecommunications technologies. Telehealth uses electronic information to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and wireless communications. The use of telehealth brings with it some benefits such as provider flexibility, patient satisfaction, and staff…

Island Health Telehealth services connect patients with their out of town providers via video conferencing. The Island Health Telehealth team uses surveys and statistics to closely monitor the usage of Telehealth services throughout its jurisdiction. Through the weekly room utilization statistics for Campbell River and Nanaimo, it is clear that Telehealth in these locations is not being used to its maximum potential. This triggered the research question, “What do Island Health programs and…

Electronic Health Records (EHR) is already being implemented through most facilities due to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, however on different platforms. Institutions with different platforms need to share clinical data and deliver seamless care to achieve high quality outcomes, instead of information hoarding (Van Alstin, 2015, p. 9). Health Information Exchange (HIE) is the electronic sharing of health-information between different organizations…

is a number one priority within the healthcare delivery system. With the development and implementation of the electronic health record additional resources have become available to assist allied healthcare professionals ensure proper documentation of patient care and outcomes. Medical data code sets are required for data elements in the administrative and financial health care transaction standards adopted under HIPAA for diagnoses, procedures, and drugs. Under HIPAA, a code set is known to…

TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY 1.2 Problem Context The relationship between doctors and patients is a base for better healthcare services. To manage this relation between doctor and patient a smooth medium must be established. Currently many clinics in small cities as well as in some big cities are using paper-based method, which is old and problematic way of scheduling appointments and keeping record of patients. But upon increasing number of patient it will be…

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provide high-quality care for its patients. An electronic health record (EHR), as well as current health information technology (HIT) is important to a healthcare organization in order to provide care that is efficient and safer for its patients. Through accurately completing health records, implementing policies and procedures, and putting safeguards into place within the healthcare organization can improve data integrity in the electronic health records (EHR) system while helping the…

Formal standards in healthcare have derived from the need to develop a standardized system for informal applications within hospitals (Laureate Education, 2010). For example; hospital pharmacies, medical billing and clinical staff required an application to accomplish patient care in an ever growing field of information technology. Standards in healthcare were created to make processes work more efficiently (Hammond, Cimino, 2006) and comprise a set of rules and definitions that specify…