Question

Describe the role a health informatics professional in managing health information throughout its life cycle and challenging related to protecting the integrity of health information.

Answer 1

Role of health informatics professionals:

• They use their knowledge of health information system , databases and informative technology security to gather , store , interpret and manage the massive amount of data generated when care is provided to the patients.
• Analysing data to help facilitate decisions and actions.
• Developing data- driven solutions to improve patient health.
• Collaborating with other departments in healthcare system to reduce expenses through strategic data analysis.
• Designing and implementing tools to measure data , patient care effectiveness and processes.
• Facilitating the communication and translation of regulatory and IT requirements between departments.
• They also interact with IT professionals to improve the way data is generated and presented .
• They also research on daily patient care.

Challenges in protecting integrity of health information :

• MEDICAL ERRORS- patients can receive misdiagnosis , wrong prescription dosages of false information about their current health status leading to harm to patients and causes additional medical problems.
• RETRIEVING MEDICAL RECORDS - patients get their service from different specialities of medicine so medical records from all these specialities should be able to be accessible to health informatics professionals at one single time.
• ENSURED QUALITY AND SAFETY OF CARE - they must ensure in decreasing the errors and render the patients with good quality of service and care.
• Sometimes medical informations are uncertain and inconsistent information.
• Need for standard structures for representing biomedical knowledge , data and patient data .
• They also need digital certification and right technology to support health information system.
• Challenges relating to developing models , methods and tools for enabling risk assessment.
• Ensuring the safety of software in an interfaced, network enabled clinical environment.