HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS

HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS

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Health Care Informatics

Healthcare informatics is a dynamic sector, and it undergoes changes in a high rate. The health level seven standards are evolving with an aim of solving problems present in the healthcare facilities. The healthcare informatics allows development of speedy processes so that the problems in healthcare do not increase or spread to other levels. The health level seven integrates the healthcare enterprise cooperation to enhance appropriate addressing of existing problems. Health level seven is the highest level of international standards for open systems interconnection. The methods of integrating, sharing and retrieving information is changing with advancement in technology. Information movement is currently fast, reliable and gets to the appropriate people. The language structure of the data and documents are in the code-form such that only relevant authority can understand the content of the information. The data security level is high hence minimizing data manipulation (Dolin & Alschuler, 2011).

The current issues surrounding the health level seven standards are on data exchange and timing of transmitting data. The data security checks are upgrading, and the participants in data transfer need to avail the identification. The negotiations procedures and mechanisms are improving leading in improvement of the data exchange structuring. Improvement in healthcare level seven leads in improvement of care delivery and optimization of the workflow. The activities taking place in the healthcare system are becoming clear to all the executive members. Knowledge transfer among the executive members and stakeholders is the target of the current changes. The health level seven standards want to develop Standards Developing Organization (SDO), and Profiler and Enforcer Organization (PEO) for review processes in the healthcare system. The organizations aim in creating a framework for transferring necessary information from system to the system in multiple healthcare enterprises (Sahay, 2011).

The ASTM Health Record Content Standards was the first electronic health record system. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is a body that checks the laboratory standards, exchanges messages, and maintains electronic health records. The standards are changing through securing the information and the whole database system. The parts that have not changed are on the pathologists’ nomenclature. The nomenclature for pathologists was developed in 1965, and it is still used in the current 21st century in the pathology department. The changes in the ASTM Health record content standards are slow and systematic. The standards deal with logical data organization that requires minimal changes in order to ensure reliability and continuity of services. The major information structures and content are present in the ASTM. The patient variables are the major information dockets to consider in offering services to the clients (Ferranti et al. 2006).

The information of the patients in ASTM Health Records is essential in diagnosis, education and treatment of the patient. The current issues in the ASTM Health Record Content Standards are on implementation of physical issues relating to the model of the reporting the health records. The information should be in the global database and should guide the appropriate authority in getting details of the patient charges, billing system, and patient care. The documentation process and administrative issues are among the issues surrounding the standards. The electronic health records should cover all the healthcare services and should acknowledge patient records. Consistency of the data is of the essence in order to have integrity of the data. The relationship of the existing data from different sources should be clear and easy to make a follow-up (Blobel, 2004).

References:

Blobel, B. (2004). Authorisation and Access Control For Electronic Health Record Systems.

International journal of medical informatics, 73(3), 251-257.

Dolin, R. H., & Alschuler, L. (2011). Approaching Semantic Interoperability in Health Level

Seven. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 18(1), 99-103.

Ferranti, J. M., Musser, R. C., Kawamoto, K., & Hammond, W. (2006). The Clinical Document

Architecture and the Continuity of Care Record: A Critical Analysis. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13(3), 245-252.

Sahay, R., Fox, R., Zimmermann, A., Polleres, A., & Hauswrith, M. (2011). A Methodological

Approach For Ontologising and Aligning Health Level Seven (HL7) Applications. In Availability, Reliability and Security for Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems (pp. 102-117). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.