Overview
The purpose of this assignment is to identify the challenges of health information systems and how they interface with one another.
An effective digital health information system relies on a broad spectrum of technical, clinical, and administrative stakeholders to gather and analyze patient data and then use that information to improve the quality of care offered. Within the health care environment, health information systems are used to ensure patient privacy and security, inform optimal decision-making, and assist in operational efficiency, which further enhances the services that clinicians, hospitals, technology developers, researchers, and policymakers are able to provide.
Choose a challenge for health information systems that most interests you and write a 750–1,000-word response about how you envision yourself addressing the challenge. Include the following points in your response:
- Define the six major challenges for health information systems.
- Defend where your selected challenge fits into the list of six major challenges for health information systems, and at what perceived priority the selected challenge should be addressed.
- Propose correction of the selected challenge.
- Discuss future challenges related to your suggested correction of the selected challenge.
- Explain how to reduce the negative impact of such a new challenge.
- Conclude with a discussion of the evolution of health information systems and what some of the future challenges may be with the implementation of existing technology in health care.
- extra credit: not to include in paper. Do the existing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Protected Health Information (PHI), and other security measures promote trust in health care organizations to aggregate, mine, and analyze data? What would the benefit of analyzed data be? Provide an explanation of at least two specific examples.