HCI 600: Foundations of Informatics (HCI600)

The purpose of this assignment is to examine the importance of informatics and evolving trends in personalized or precision medicine. As a health informaticist, create a 10-slide presentation to your clinical staff discussing the following: 1. Discuss the role of personalized or precision medicine and the advantages and disadvantages of personalized or precision medicine in the delivery of health care. 2. Discuss how the fields of personalized or precision medicine and informatics have mutual...

Discuss an example of a mobile device or social or health-related application you use in your everyday life that stores personal health data and could potentially benefit your health. How could the technology or application be improved and utilized in the health care setting to provide a more detailed or holistic picture of a person's health status to providers?

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.

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?

What are the primary challenges with integrating data from personal devices and applications with data within an EHR? Do you think most consumers are comfortable with sharing their personal data in the clinical environment? Supposing the sharing of such information is beneficial for consumers' health, what can be done to help consumers overcome their reticence?

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.

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?

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 the importance of health information exchanges in sharing data among clinicians when they are using different EHRS. What standards and regulations are most important for dictating how health data are shared within and across organizations?

The purpose of this assignment is to investigate solutions to challenges with interoperability in healthcare delivery environments. To complete the assignment, you will select a problem with interoperability you have witnessed in your current or past work environment, evaluate options for addressing the problem, and recommending a solution based on evidence. Write a 750-1,000-word paper that addresses the following: 1. Describe the problem with the lack of interoperability witnessed in the h...