Health informatics

Problem Statement: Patient data security is an ongoing and evolving problem in healthcare. According to the US Census Bureau, US Department of Health and Human Services, “143 million patients’ records have been compromised over the past five years…” (Zeadally, Isaac, & Baig, 2016). A patient’s medical record information is a highly sought after commodity among hackers, cyber criminals, and identity thieves because it contains “personal, insurance, and financial information”. They are able to…

Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of the data to support patients, nurses, and providers in all areas and roles of care to make decisions. The likelihood of success with technological, personal or professional life relies solely on understanding one’s own abilities and limitations. Understanding my own competency will enable me to focus on the area of improvement that leads to success. As far as my technological skills are concerned, I would categorize myself into an intermediate…

Lauren, you provided the group with a very well written post. As you mentioned, it is very important to understand and provide the clients with the population health promotion model with every interaction. In addition, the nurse and healthcare team need to create and maintain a safe environment for the client within every environment. Safety questions can be asked to identify if the client’s home is a safe environment. Therefore, an occupational therapist can make a home visit to observe the…

Quality Improvement and Safety • Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practice • Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies • Essential VI: Health Policy and Advocacy • Essential VII: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes • Essential VIII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving Health • Essential IX: Master’s-Level Nursing Practice.…

act on its knowledge, values, ethics and skilled practices of caring, healing and health (Watson, 1999). The medical establishment continues to attempt to reduce the nearly100,000 patient lives lost unnecessarily, annually since the IOM surveillance began reporting this as a problem in 1999 (IOM, 2010). Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States. … Nurses can and should play a fundamental role in…

Electronic health records also have built-in medical alerts and reminders allowing providers to be notified of abnormal lab results, potential drug interactions, and timing of tests required for monitoring blood levels associated with certain conditions or as a side effect of medications. It can also provide evidence-based practice plans for certain diseases and disorders facilitating the provider’s choices in…

ROI based Secured and Robust medical image watermarking in Transform domain. ABSTRACT: In medical field, It’s common to transmit medical image and medical reports from one hospital to other hospital for diagnosis of the diseases. In that case the patient personal information and medical image plays a vital role while transferring over network. Because if a third party got those information and he intentionally cross change the information of multiple patients with wrong medical images,…

position working at Aetna Better Health of Ohio, a new managed care plan released by Aetna, I worked extensively with a program called Predictive Pathways Modeling (PPM). This software was used internally to store data that case managers were to utilize in order to predict how a particular patient would behave, dependent on variables such as cost utilization, chronic illnesses, frequency of emergency room and hospital visits, and other factors that essentially cost a health plan more money. I…

Proper coding if very important because if a wrong code is used it can cause several problems not only for the patient but for the providers. Proper coding is very important in so many areas of the billing, ensuring accurate payment for the physicians to create a valid record of the patient’s medical history (www.healthcarebusinesstech.com/medical-coding). Proper coding can help expedite the payment for service and can also determine if a claim is approved or denied. It also tells us what…

San Diego, California, April 3, 2017: PatientClick, Inc. is proud to announce the release of their new patient portal application, PCConnect, designed to give patients more control over their health and wellness. The patient-facing Telemedicine application for iPhone users allows patients to quickly and easily connect to physicians from the comfort of their home or office via a secure internet connect. Available to registered PatientClick Heathcare users, PCConnect is a free companion app to…