Question

Imagine that your healthcare facility is soon moving to an EHR as well as looking at the purchase of other types of technology. Create a PowerPoint presentation that advocates the use of health information technology to promote quality of care and patient safety.

Requirements

? Presentation should be at least 15 slides.

? Slides highlight the important basics.

? Advocates the use of IT to promote quality of care and patient safety.

? Promotes IT applications that improve quality of care and patient safety.

? Convinces coworkers that IT is essential to meet the quality care initiatives.

? Includes information in the Notes section that you will speak about during your presentation.

Answer 1

SLIDE 1:

Health Information Technology

SLIDE 2:

Members in the HIT:

• Physicians
• Nurses
• Educators
• Researchers
• Public
• Insurance companies
• Technology staff
• Vendors.

SLIDE 3:

Benefits of HIT:

• It increases the efficiency of the healthcare.
• Improves patient safety.
• Improves the quality of care.
• Healthcare costs can be reduced.

SLIDE 4:

Role of HIT:

• It generates and provides necessary information.
• Helps in Clinical decision-making.
• It provides and shares the necessary data in clinical and research work.
• Electronic health system helps to analyze multiple data.

SLIDE 5:

Uses of HIT:

• EHR adoption helps in gathering of data rapidly.
• It allows to exchange of health information across various health systems.
• It increases the Knowledge and minimizes the work.
• It transfers the data rapidly.
• It improves the health outcomes.

SLIDE 6:

Important features:

• Maintain upto date activities of patient information.
• It alerts any drug allergy or drug to drug interactions.
• e-prescribing of drugs without hand written.
• Electronically can record the vital signs.
• It alerts of drug errors and repeated investigation.
• Provide clinical summaries.
• Helpful in clinical decision.

SLIDE 7:

Goals of HIT:

According to American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT(ARRA)

• Improve quality of care
• Patient safety.
• Improve efficiency of care
• Reduce of healthcare disparities.

SLIDE 8:

Standards of HIT:

• Uses common language for the purpose of interoperability.
• Applications should follow the standards for the data transfer.
• Maintain the standards of lab results.
• Usually SNOMED, LOINC are widely accepted worldwide.

SLIDE 9:

Guidelines for Clinical Practice:

• Develop systematic statements for practitioners in clinical decision.
• Formulate evidence based approach for treating of specific conditions.
• Clinical practice guidelines recommends the evidence based point of care.
• Clinal practice guidelines improves the patient safety and quality of care.

SLIDE 10:

IT Governance

• IT vendor should design effectively and concern about the Organizational goals, values, and Mission.
• The software should be updated.
• IT vendor should involved in the discussion of HIT issues.
• Rectify the issues as soon as possible.

SLIDE 11:

Considerations in maintaining of EHR:

• Flexibility
• workflow efficiency
• Clinically designed product
• Training and support
• Installation
• Vendor support

SLIDE 12:

Security Rule:

• set of rules that restricts patient information access.
• Integrity of the information.
• Free from threats of misusing patient information.

SLIDE 13:

HIT evaluation:

• Accessibility
• completeness
• Privacy
• Security
• Confidentiality
• Reliability

SLIDE 14:

Telehealth

The use of telecommunication in healthcare, public health and in health education.

Communication include the internet, e-mails, video conferencing, imaging source, and wireless communication.

It is helpful in remote health services.

SLIDE 15:

Challenges

• Understanding the Language processor correctly.
• Knowledge to capture the patient data.
• Planning of Design and techniques of use.
• Financial investment.