Hci 600 topic 5 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Currently, the hospital in which you work has implemented a new clinical practice that will reduce the amount of radiation to a child's brain. The child enters the emergency room with a head injury and a Glasgow Coma Score of 14 or more, and the child is not vomiting. It has been asked that the physician not order a CT scan. To ensure that all physicians are in compliance with the practice, a report will need to be generated for the chief marketing officers at each facility. To generate the rep...

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?

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