Proposal Review

Prior to beginning work on this interactive assignment, you must read  Chapters 1 through 3 from the Wager, Lee, & Glaser (2017) text and  the sample student proposal listed in the Required Resources section.  Additionally, you must have completed your Health Information System  Case Selection and Proposal as Week 1’s assignment before working on  this interactive assignment. This assignment is a culmination of your  Week 1 Health Information System Case Selection and Proposal. You will  summarize your Health Information System Case Selection and Proposal  from Week 1 and then post it to the designated area for your Journal  entry for one classmate to review.

Your initial post must include the following components:

Summarize key points of your Health Information System Case Selection and Proposal from Week 1 to Defend the rationale and solution for your chosen case study.Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your Health Information System Case Selection and Proposal.

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Health Information System Case Selection and Proposal
Natesha Finch
MHA 616 Health Care Management Information Systems
Instructor: Rafael Caycho
Date: November 7, 2022
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Health Information System Case Selection and Proposal
Effectively, running healthcare facilities require health information systems. They make
patient data available for access to medical practitioners. The Patient-Centered Medical Home
(PCMH) model is a treatment model that delivers high-quality, cost-effective primary care. It
coordinates patients across the health system utilizing a patient-centered, culturally appropriate,
and team-based strategy. It transforms how primary care is delivered and organized by putting
patients at the forefront of care. The ABC Health Care Organization uses this model to
administer patient-centered treatment. The Organization has patient care assistants (PCA) who
provide a broad range of services to patients in their homes. Their work needs constant data
updates and reviews, which are utilized to aid in adequately managing illnesses. As such, the
organizational to automate its model to provide efficient patient service. Its introduction helped
in information entry, reviews, and management, which has dramatically assisted illness
management, including keeping records of patient’s health status.
“ABC Health Care” had many significant problems, particularly within the emergency
department (ED). The ED is the Organization’s public relations, clinical and financial backbone.
It admits 24% of patients out of the 34,000 patients it sees annually, which constitutes 51% of all
inpatient admissions. This current issue has led to the unwillingness and inflexibility of ED
medical practitioners to change. This has become a barrier to quality in the ED. Also, the
absence of the data required to improve, measure, and define the ED is incorrect and inaccurate.
Despite having a health information system at its disposal, the Organization still faces the danger
of jeopardizing the electronic data and endangering patient safety. The Organization receives its
information system technology from one vendor. The firm’s TechMed system is twelve years
old. It supports admission, discharge, transfer capabilities, patient accounting, and hospital
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billing, including patient entry and inpatient charge, medical records coding, and abstracting
(Wager et al., 2017). It enables patients to peruse their medical records and data. Patients can
know the medications they may receive, access appointment information, and enjoy patient
confidentiality. The medical practices engaged by the “Health Care” Organization provide
accurate, secure, timely, and consistent data that is fit for both healthcare providers and patients
in the ED.
The type of information and data generated by the Organization include medical records
of patients, hospital records, basic healthcare statistical reports, results of medical examinations,
and administrative enrollment and billing records. These data and information play a crucial role
in understanding the operations conducted in Health Care. The data helps to measure health care
quality provided in the emergency department (ED). The firm constantly generates data and
information from different sources, which is managed by a health information system (HIS). The
data is collected and stored, and it is susceptible. The accuracy of patient confidentiality and data
collected by the health information system is crucial to the health facility. It gathers, store, and
send electronic medical records of patients. It should generate enough data possible for every
individual to access, as data security is crucial. To increase security for sensitive data, the
Organization utilizes cloud-based storage. This includes the billing of medical services and
scheduling of patients. Therefore, the critical goal of the “ABC Health Care” Organization’s
information system (IS) is to automate administrative tasks to increase patient-staff interactions
and streamline the facility’s workflow.
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References
Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2017). Health care information systems: a practical
approach for health care management. John Wiley & Sons.
Hemmat, M., Ayatollahi, H., Maleki, M. R., & Saghafi, F. (2017, Winter). Perspectives in Health
Information Management, 14, 1-19. Retrieved from
http://perspectives.ahima.org/futureresearchinhit/