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HCIS 140T Wk 1 Discussion: Using Technology in Health Care
Benefits of EHRs include allowing health care workers to access and share information quickly and using the database functions to search for information using set criteria, such as provider and patient diagnosis. As a public health administrator, these databases could help your team determine the number of cases of a specific illness and prompt a plan to reduce the spread of infection.
- Why is it important for any health care worker to know the purpose, functions, and benefits of an EHR?
- How have databases changed the way information is processed and used in health care settings? Based on recent events, how could the search function in an EHR database help health care workers track a potential health risk?
Response Requirements
- ByThursday, respond to the questions above in a minimum of 175 words.
- By Monday, post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.
HCIS 140T Wk 2 Discussion: The Workflow of EHRs
EHRs contain all needed patient information. Consequently, many types of health care workers access them as the patient is cared for in the various departments of a health care facility (e.g., laboratory, radiology, surgery, and pharmacy). In fact, many forms are completed electronically before the patient ever comes in for their appointment or procedure. Since paper charts are no longer needed, extra steps in the workflow are reduced, creating more time for the health care professionals to spend caring for the patient rather than completing paperwork.
- Why is it important to understand the flow of information into and across EHRs?
- How does having access to EHRs change the way health care professionals interact with patients at an appointment?
Response Requirements
- ByThursday, respond to the question above in a minimum of 175 words.
- By Monday, post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.
HCIS 140T Wk 3 Discussion: Electronic Health Care Resources
As a medical records administrator, you have been tasked with continually checking the industry for new resources to improve your health organization’s method of electronically storing and sharing patient medical records.
Research 2 or 3 electronic health care resources. Examples include websites, mobile applications, or multimedia resources used by health care consumers for their medical needs.
Watch “Electronic Medical Records in Healthcare” to gain real-world insight about communicating in the health care field.
- Describe the websites, mobile applications, or multimedia resources you researched.
- Describe how health care providers use these resources to enhance their products and services.
- Explain the implications of using these resources in the health care industry. What are the implications for the consumer?
Response Requirements
- ByThursday, respond to the question above in a minimum of 175 words.
- By Monday, post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.
HCIS 140T Wk 4 Discussion: Information Systems Across Departments
A patient in a health care facility, such as a hospital, may visit or have contact with many types of health care workers who work in different departments. For example, they may be admitted after coming into the emergency department, and then go to radiology for a procedure, receive medication by a pharmacy tech, and be scheduled for surgery. No matter what type of health care professional interacts with the patient, each one must use some type of information system to document what happens with the patient in their department. As an emergency service coordinator, you will see all of these digital interactions between different departments and the patients.
Watch “Information Systems in Healthcare” to gain real-world insight about communicating in the health care field.
- Why is it important to have a firm understanding of all information systems regardless of department you work in? Provide details.
- As different as one information system is from another, how do they work together to improve the patient care process?
Response Requirements
- ByThursday, respond to the question above in a minimum of 175 words.
- By Monday, post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.
HCIS 140T Wk 5 Discussion: Breach in Medical Records
With so much information available electronically, computer breaches happen all the time, and as a medical records administrator, this is something you need to always be aware of.
Research recent health care privacy breaches to determine what caused the leak or breach, what the penalties were, and how the facility “repaired” the damage to the patients that were impacted.
- What is the breach you researched? Describe it and include what caused the leak or breach, what the penalties were, and how the facility repaired the damage to the patients who were impacted.
- Have you ever been impacted by any type of breach in which your personal information was exposed? What types of things did you have to do to further protect your information?
- If you have never been impacted by a breach, what impact do you think this type of information leak could have on your daily life?
Response Requirements
- ByThursday, respond to the questions above in a minimum of 175 words.
- By Monday, post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.