Overview
Answer the Questions at the end of Chapters 1 & 2.
Essential Activities:
- Read Chapter 1: HIS Basics - Definitions, Context & Scope
- Read Chapter 2: Scope, Definitions, & Conceptual Model of HIS
- Read Chapter 1: Introduction to Deep Medicine
Notes:
- This assignment must be formatted in APA Style 7th edition.
- Textbooks included in PDF File
Chapter 1: HIS Basics - Definitions, Context & Scope
- Describe why a basic understanding of the fundamentals of HIS is important for any healthcare provider, support staff, or leader.
- How might the work of launching an implementation differ from that of HIS ongoing maintenance?
- What kind of new knowledge does HIS help create?
- Name one organization or govern mental department that oversees HIS- related regulation.
- Describe the beginnings of HIS. What functions did the first HIS support?
Chapter 2: Scope, Definitions, & Conceptual Model of HIS
- What are the key steps in the progres sion of HIS according to the HIS con ceptual model? What is the relationship between the various layers?
- Why is it necessary to be attentive in entering data elements that may not have a clear relationship to the work being done? How does the information use or data collection of a laboratory technician in a hospital differ from that of a public health administrator at a county agency or a specialist physician at an outpatient facility?
- As more healthcare provider organiza tions adopt EHRs, what do you think will be the effect on healthcare-related research? On public health issues?
- Why are healthcare organizations just in the beginning stages of engaging patients in their care? Do you think HIS has anything to do with this change? Do you think this will have a benefi cial effect for the organizations? For the patients? Explain.
- Insurance companies use a lot of data from provider organizations’ HIS to process claims and calculate reimburse ment. How important is this practice to the overall healthcare process? Given that this process involves money for the provider organizations, which is more important: HIS for patient care or HIS for gaining reimbursement for that care?
- Military personnel and veterans often get their care from military or VA healthcare providers, but some of their care is received in non-military set tings. How might clinical data from one setting be sent to another for purposes of caring for these military patients?
- What are primary uses of HIS? What are secondary uses of HIS? Which of these can best help the U.S. healthcare system improve?
- Public health reporting and surveillance systems have gotten much more attention since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Do you think this is justified? Who do you think should be responsible for surveillance— healthcare providers like hospitals and physician offices or the government?