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Describe six examples of how data can be used to improve patient care of safety. For each, describe the data standards that enables this to happen.
Ans)In the context of health care, the term data standards encompasses methods, protocols, terminologies, and specifications for the collection, exchange, storage, and retrieval of information associated with health care applications, including medical records, medications, radiological images, payment and reimbursement.
- DEEDS is a data set used to support the uniform collection of data at hospital-based emergency departments and to reduce incompatibilities in emergency care data.
- Health care data sets are an important source of information for understanding health disparities and addressing health inequities in patient populations. Most health care data captures information about services that individual patients receive during encounters with the health care system
- Nurses are often called upon to help coordinate the care of their patients. Informatics improves the coordination of this information, allowing nurses to give their patients all of the information they need, improving both outcomes and the satisfaction with care.