Clinical Applications
Trident University
Erica Montgomery
MHM/514 Health Information Systems
May 4, 2015
Dr. Thomas Esch
Structure impact the delivery of health care
• Improves Quality of Care
• Decreases Medical Errors
• Better Privacy and Security
Introduction
• Advances in Medical Terminology
• HIPAA
• EHR
• Virtual Office Visits
• Software Replacements/Upgrades
• Ongoing Training
• Remote assess to Patient Records
Impact of future evolutions of delivery health care
• Virtual office Visits
• Patients access to Person Health Records (PHR)
Implication of Privacy &
Security management
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA)
• Administrative Simplification
• Privacy Rule
• Security Rule
• Transactions and Code Set Standards
• Identifier Standards for Employers and Providers
• HIPAA Enforcement
Identified steps in system development life cycle
Training And implementation • Ongoing Education/ Training
• Monthly Meetings
• Opening Communication
Maintenance components necessary • Hardware upgrades and replacement
• Regular Software updates
• Training of end-users
• Developed group curricula
• Individual session
• Hands-on training
• CBT (computer based training)
• System support
• Reinforcement logs
How data can be used
• What are data?
• Types Data Usage in Health Care
• Internal Usage
• Patient-specific
• General
• External Usage
• Quality of Data
Evaluated effectiveness
• Definition of EHR
• Description of EHR
• Use of EHR
• Access to EHR
hardware issues
•Stability of the server
•Reliability
•Performance
•Stability
•Client Hardware
•Fixed Workstations
•Ease of Access
•Economical placement
•Mobile access
•Laptops
•Software
•Databases
•Collection of programs
•Data collection
•Cache Operating System
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