Topic – Usability of Health Informatics Applications
Objectives:
- Identify the essential components and key players in the delivery of health care in the United States.
- Examine federal government mandates and their effect on health care delivery.
- Describe various federal and state regulatory bodies and their influence on health care regulations and polices that impact that field of informatics.
- Discuss the development of health informatics as a discipline, profession, and specialty.
- Differentiate areas of informatics practice.
- Discuss the significance of health informatics within healthcare delivery.
Discussions
Discussion 1
Discuss the primary components and stakeholders in the U.S. health care system. Of those stakeholders, who do you think exerts the most influence over the delivery of health care? Is that positive or negative, in your opinion? How might changing the balance of power among influencers affect health care?
Discussion 2
Informatics impacts the delivery of care and health care organizations in a variety of ways. Besides influencing the practice and environment of patient care, in what ways do informatics and informatics professionals interact more broadly across organizations and health systems? What broader value does informatics contribute to the delivery of health care across organizations and systems?
Here are several articles/websites that may assist with your discussions:
Backgrounder: Making Sense of the U.S. Health Care System: A Primer (2021) https://evidencenetwork.ca/backgrounder-making-sense-of-the-u-s-health-care-system-a-primer-2/
International Health Care System Profiles: United States.(2020). https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy-center/countries/united-states
- American Medical Informatics Association. https://www.amia.org/
- American Nursing Informatics Association. https://www.ania.org/
- Healthcare informatics. (2017). https://www.himss.org/resources/healthcare-informa…
Assignment
Evolution of Health Informatics Paper
The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the evolution of health informatics as a discipline and its evolving impact on the delivery of health care. For this assignment, write a 750-1,000-word paper that addresses the following:
1. Summarize the evolution of informatics as a discipline, including a few specific milestones/events and explanation of how a variety of practice areas emerged?
2. Discuss key legislation, policy, and state and federal regulatory bodies and their influence on the development of the discipline and contemporary scope of practice for informatics professionals.
3. Discuss how the development of health informatics as a discipline, profession, and specialty has influenced health care organizations and contemporary delivery of health care.
4. Discuss how foundational organizations, such as AMIA, AHIMA, HIMSS, HL7, and ANIA have impacted the health informatics discipline.
5. Discuss how you believe health informatics will continue to impact health care organizations and the delivery of health care in the next 3-5 years.
Integrate evidence from four or five sources in your paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
***Articles: Here are several articles/websites that may assist with your Week 1 discussions:
- Health Informatics and Why Participatory Healthcare is Key to Its Future. Retrieved from org/epatients/2020/04/health-informatics-and-why-participatory-healthcare-is-key-to-its-future.html”>https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/2020/04/health-informatics-and-why-participatory-healthcare-is-key-to-its-future.html
- The Role of Health Technology and Informatics in a Global Public Health Emergency: Practices and Implications From the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2020).
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