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describe advantages and disadvantages of using health information systems. 

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Over the past several decades, health care and information technology have undergone a period of dramatic change caused by a multitude of pressures and opportunities, many of which continue to persist and evolve. As we have moved into globalization of communication, technology, and information, Health Information Systems need to reflect what is happening to ensure optimal use of clinical information.

1.Create a roadmap using PowerPoint that discusses the role of health information systems in health care related to improving patient outcomes.

2.Describe how health information systems and applications can help improve the delivery of health care.

3. describe advantages and disadvantages of using health information systems.

Beaumont, R. (2001). Types of Health Information Systems. Retrieved from: http://www.floppybunny.org/robin/web/virtualclassroom/chap12/s2/systems1.pdf

Cortes, P. (2011).  Hospital Information Systems: A Study of Electronic Patient Records
JISTEM Journal of Information Systems Technology Management 8 (1).

Fichman, R. (2011). The role of information systems in healthcare: Current research and future trends. Information Systems Research, 22 (3): 419–428. Retrieved from the Trident University Library.

VIDEO: Improving the Usability of Health Information Systems. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJYle4pu5I

discuss proposed changes in the Quality Assurance program secondary to a "never event" occurring in your organization

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(3 pages) You are attending a general meeting with management to discuss proposed changes in the Quality Assurance program secondary to a “never event” occurring in your organization [you can consider any never event offered by the AHRQ]. After the presentation and during a question and answer period, several nurses indicate that the “never event” occurred because of inadequate staffing. Several surgeons joined the nursing staff in these allegations.
  1. What would your response be to their statements?
  2. Discuss what a “never event” is.
  3. Discuss what never event occurred that was discussed at this meeting. You must pick one never event such as wrong site surgery, wrong medication given, wrong blood transfusion given, etc.
  4. Discuss how you would go about examining the validity of their statements.
  5. What measures you would implement on an ongoing basis to prevent a recurrence of the “never event”.
In this module, you also learned about 4 approaches to quality assurance- TQM, CQI, Lean & Six Sigma.
  1. Which of these approaches would lend to preventing a “never event”? Justify your answer.
Cantrell, S. (2016). Tooling up to prevent never events. Northfield: Healthcare Purchasing News. Dimsdale, J. E. (2017). Assuring quality health care outcomes: lessons learned from car dealers? Patient Related Outcome Measures, 8, 1–6. Gleeson H, Calderon A, Swami V, et al. (2016). Systematic review of approaches to using patient experience data for quality improvement in healthcare settings. BMJ Open 2016;6:e011907. Ha, C., McCoy, D. A., Taylor, C. B., Kirk, K. D., Fry, R. S., & Modi, J. R. (2016). Using Lean Six Sigma methodology to improve a mass immunizations process at the United States Naval Academy. Military Medicine, 181(6), 582-588. Health and medicine – health organization and management; University of Malta details findings in health organization and management (continuous quality improvement in a Maltese hospital using logical framework analysis). (2017). Health & Medicine Week, , 5215.
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