Taking a Health Informatics course in a graduate nursing program: Textbook used

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Taking a Health Informatics course in a graduate nursing program:

Textbook used is Health Informatics An Interprofessional Approach by Ramona Nelson & Nancy Staggers. ISBN:978-0-323-10095-3

p. 376, Discussion Question # 2

Using the Informatics Capability Maturity Model as a guide: Describe the current state of health IT governance at your magnet hospital organization?

The Main points of this Informatics Capability Maturity Model are:

Managing information: senior management sees information as being core to business success and exploits it to improve service quality, efficiency, and productivity

Using business intelligence: executives and managers embrace business intelligence and use it to set and manage business strategy.

Using information technology: IT is a key focus of the business strategy encompassing all aspects and elements of its business provision.

Aligning business and informatics: governance processes support and sustain the integration of strategic business planning and health IT planning.

Managing change: governance arrangements are a core aspect of organizational control, with demonstrable reporting lines to the executive board level and with clear ownership and control responsibilities embedded within the organization.

Explanation / Answer

Current state of Health IT governance at Magnet hospital organization:

The informatics capability mature model is a qualitative self assessment tool that will help to determine how capable of this organization from informatics perspective. This can be evaluated through these five dimensions,

1, Managing information

2, Using business intelligence:

Business intelligence plays acrucial role in reducing the cost, increase the revenue and improving the patient safety and outcomes within the standards and regulations. It plays a major role in financial operations including identifying both highly profitable and underutilized services, monitoring the cash flow and generating compliance reporting.

3, Using information technology:

Using informatiormation technology, not only it helps to store, but also helps to communicate, share information, and take action that will improve the quality of life. It include,

Electronic health records- That will help to store health information and it allows the doctor to keep the track of patient health information and enable them to access information and also it helps to share the information to the specialists when they need it.

Maintaining personal health records

Personal health tools like smartphone apps to monitor the fitness, cellphone text reminders to take medicine on time

4, Aligning the business and informatics:

In hospital, aligining of business and informatics helps in adressing the rural ambulatory practices, maximise the system functionalities, analyze the data to identify missed oppurtunities and to monitor for improvement in outcome/mange the patient population with in practice.

5, Managing change:

Managing change includes evaluating, planning,and implementing the operations, tactics and strategies and make sure that the change is worthwhile and relevant. In trying to manage the change at the organizational level, hospital may experience some of the challenges, the nedd for an effective fall prevention program, an interdisciplinary approach and shared ownership and accountability not penetrating through all the levels of staff. This can be overcome by strong link to leadership, clear aim, access to rersources to accomplish aim.

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