Hci 600 gcu - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Discuss how personalized medicine can create an environment where patients feel comfortable self-reporting and how personalized medicine can aid the provider in creating a trusting relationship. Explain how a Christian worldview could guide interactions with patients using personalized medicine.

What are the primary challenges for interoperability? Discuss an organization that is working to promote interoperability within the clinical environment. Describe one of their initiatives, its benefits and challenges, and its impact on the delivery of care.

Very large amounts of data are collected and stored within healthcare settings every day. Additionally, multiple stakeholders need to use some of this data for a variety of purposes. Discuss the primary challenges of storing, retrieving, and using all this data in a meaningful way. What role does the informatics profession play in managing this data and in assisting others in accessing, interpreting it, and utilizing it for a variety of purposes?

What are the primary advantages and disadvantages of the EHR and its relation to CPOEs and eprescribing? How do these impact clinical documentation and patient care?

Discuss how informatics and data collection help to create better systems that incorporate new technologies and care delivery models. Other than within the field of personalized medicine, how do you see informatics supporting innovation in health care?

Discuss the primary regulations related to patient privacy and security that affect the how information is stored, retrieved, and utilized in the health care environment. What are the major challenges facing health care organizations as they work to implement regulations and standards, including meaningful use criteria.

Discuss various occasions in which predictive analytics are helpful and important in the health care setting. How does this impact the health informatics?

Discuss three kinds of clinical decision support and how do you think each is useful. What drawbacks, if any, do you see with each type?