Question

identify, and then describe a healthcare process in detail including the tasks of the process, individuals involved, the goal of the process itself, the interactions between the individuals involved, and their interaction with health Information Technology to accomplish those tasks.

Identify social, behavioral, and technical influences on the process. Give the opinion on how you think the tasks of the process are affected by these influences. Discuss any unintended consequences or workarounds that may be present in this process.

Answer 1

Answer-1

healthcare process is a set of interrelated interactive Healthcare activities which transforms input into outputs.

In the Healthcare system, the process of Healthcare and their improvement is emphasised. the elements of health care are,

• Prevention
• Detecting health problems.
• Diagnosing diseases.
• Treating diseases and providing for a good end of life

If we focus on complete health care system,It would be natural also to took upon the processes from citizen's point of view.From that perspective, the following 5 main process are identified.

1.Keeping identity(PREVENTION)

This includes the physical fitness,bed nets against malaria, a good diet, clear drinking water, and less use tobacco. It is the concept,is recieving special attention in the prevention of chronic diseases,and prevention of the emergence or development of risk factors.The main intervention is through individual and mass health education.

2.Detecting health problems

It is the actions taken  prior to the onset of diseases,which removes the possibility of disease.Individuals more actively engage in monitering their own health status.Daily measurement of hypertension,blood sugar,cancer screening tests like pap smear,are the example of this process.

early detection of problem otherwise called primary prevention, is a holistic approach.It relies on measures designed to promote health or protect against specific disease or agents and hazards in the environment.It utilize the knowledge of prepathogenisis phase of disease,embracing the agent host and environment

3. Diagnosing disease

This is the process of needed to trigger the next process of treatment.There are few thins less cost effective than the wrong diagnosis.The timeline diagnosis is critical for may disease treatment. Health care system provides knowledge and methodes for this process.

4.Treating diseases

curing and caring is at the core of most of today's discourse on quality improvement in health care.Through self management,the person can work as a stronger partner with the health care system to improve the process.

5.Providing for good end of life

An effective but endless treatment process is not always consistent with a good end of life. For many diseases aging is the root cause leading to the deterioration of all human systems. A holistic point of view,is required ,there for there is need for more physicians in the specialty of geriatric care.

When a disease process has advanced beyond his early stages,It is still possible to accomplish by a tertiary prevention.It signifies the intervention in the late pathogenesis stage. It is the all measures available to reduce impairment and disabilities, minimise the suffering caused by existing departures from good health and to promote the patients adjustment to immediate condition.

Goal of health care process

goal of the health care process are ,

• Be proficient in obtaining clinical data by an interview,physical examination,and interpretation of laboratory data.
• Be proficient in utilizing clinical data to prioritize problems and formulate differential diagnosis.
• Formulate diagnostic and therapeutic plans demonstrating awareness of risks ,benefits, costs, patients preferences , and ethical and psychosocial issues.
• Utilize the excellent communication skill with patients.
• Demonstrate the commitment to ethical principle and their professional responsibilities.

Individuals involved in health care process are,clerical workers,prehospital staff, physicians and nurses, nurse aids, administrative and billing, social services, physical therapist, mental health workers.and more.The more people added,and the more complex and convoluted the process become.

Interaction between individuals in health care;

Health care industry is has one of the most complex infrastructures compared to other global industries. Consider all moving parts and transfer of data across health system starting with individual practices and prehospital care, through hospitals and into palliative care facilities.When health care process management work well, It is finely tuned machine that lends to the treatment and recovery of patients and providers faster of services to families through social and administrative services.

Task included in health care process

history collection,physical examinations, collecting specimen, various diagnostic test involving invasive and non invasive procedures, different types of treatment modalities like, chemotherapy,surgery,physiotherapy, counselling techniques,death care, emergency management and care

tasks outside the patient care

• Charting and paper work- including nurses records, treatment interventions, medication administration etc
• Inventory and ordering
• nursing education
• Equipment maintenance
• committee participation
• Work scheduling.

Answers- 2

social, behavioral and technical aspects of health care process

Health is determined by several factors including genetic inheritance,personal behaviors,access quality of health care and the general external environment.Some types of social variables such as socioeconomic status, or poverty robust evidence of their links to health since the beginning of official record keeping.

It should be emphasized at the outset that the social determinants of health can be conceptualized as influenzing health at multiple level through out the life course.Thus for example,poverty can be conceptualized as as an exposure influenzing the health of people.Furthermore ,poverty may deferentially and independently affects the health of the individual at different stages of life course.race , ethnicity,social support,social networks and psychosocial work environments, have effects on patients behavior to cooperate with health care process .

I believe that ,there is a great relationship with health care process and these influences.When a person seeks health care,he or she has to go through many stages in the health care,more over the patient have to communicate with various persons in different field of health care settings,all the procedures and treatment modalities are based on the clients decision,moreover,the clients reactions towards the health care process is depend on the culture,and race whom belongs to.The technical aspects in the hospital has also have important role in through out the health care process.,such as various diagnostic methods,electronic health records are plays important role in health care process.