Analyzing Workflow for a Health IT - HIM6114 Assignment 3

Running head: ANALYZING WORKFLOW FOR A HEALTH IT
HIM6114 Integrated Electronic Medical Records
Assignment 3
Student Name: Margaret Normeshie
Assignment Topic: Analyzing Workflow for a Health IT

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Introduction
As the technology is developing rapidly, the application of the technology is also
affecting many private and government sectors. Health sectors are also affected highly by
this evolution. Health IT implementation has been adopted hugely to simplify the critical
and time-consuming processes such as integrating health records, workflow and many
more. The development of EHR systems into clinical workflow results a huge success to
integrate electronic health records. However, health sectors must analyze their workflow
process before implementing an EHR system. Four article associated with the health IT is
chosen and reviewed with proper comparison to offer a broad understanding of the
current development status and provide a future recommendation.
Review
Lydia Washington, the author of the “Analyzing Workflow for a Health IT
Implementation: an Often Short-shrifted Step is Essential in Successful IT Deployments”
widely discussed about the impact of workflow on EHR systems. This article provides
the basic understandings of some tools and technique to identify the environmental
factors for workflow analysis as well. It focuses on the workflow analysis and the
utilities associated with it. It also widely described the key process which are essential to
enable the optimal workflow (Meeks et al., 2014). According to Lydia, the data capture
by human-computer interface in health sectors provides many opportunities to improve
clinical and business process.
On the other hand, “Computerization of workflows, guidelines, and care
pathways: a review of implementation challenges for process-oriented health information
systems “is well written and organized by the Phil Gooch and Abdul Roudsari. They

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provides a clear understanding of various theoretical frameworks and formalisms for
workflows, modelling clinical guidelines, pathways. This article mainly focused on the
issues associates with developing process of HIS that workflows, model guidelines and
care pathways (Nguyen, Bellucci & Nguyen, 2014). They followed a qualitative approach
to support their founding. This article defines that the development of system supporting
individual clinical decisions is evolving toward the implementation of adaptable care
pathways on the semantic web, clinical and use of workflow process.
“Health Information System Implementation: A Qualitative Meta-analysis” is an
example of well written article which consist of many vital details associated with the
health information system implementation. This paper provide a brief description of the
current implementation process with the limitation. According to the Bahlol Rahimi,
Vivian vimarlund and Toomas Timpka the current implementation level does not met the
exceptions. They performed qualitative analysis to support their finding. Tacticalons,
strategic and operational act are also taken into consideration including compatibility
between training and education. This paper is able to produce a clear result as a high
order schema and not a predictive theory.
“Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a
consolidated framework for advancing implementation science” provides a broad
reflection on effective health services which are successfully implemented or fails to
provide expected outcomes. It describes the significance of formative outcomes over
summative outcomes including the overlap consideration theories for effective
implementation (Khodambashi, 2013). The writers follows snowball sampling approach
to recognize the empirical support to develop constructs across published theory. This