Informatics Discussion

Running head: INFORMATICS DISCUSSION
Informatics Discussion
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1INFORMATICS DISCUSSION
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In health care system, data are the raw facts and considered the fundamental cognition
components on which the baseline constructs of health care facilities and services are
dependent. Data are considered the common denominators; they are often provided by the
patients and their families and can be electronic facts and attributes. Interpretation of these
facts and attributes are stored in databases to promote safe storage through attaching clinical
meaning to them (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2014). These then transform the data into
information. Clinical interpretation through application of conceptualized approach by the
responsible person through a person al perspective incorporates knowledge which is the
continuum of flow (Ronquillo et al., 2016). Thus it can be clearly said that, the most
abundantly occurring raw resources are the data which lay the foundational platform upon
which the information and knowledge are constructed. Data to information to knowledge
involve a hierarchical pyramid.
An example of this can be explained from my practice in hospital settings where
patients are tested for the presence of RBC as a proportion of blood. The women are
prescribed to undergo haematocrit test to determine the RBC proportion in blood. The
proportion of RBC among women, for example, 32 percent denotes the data fact. Interpreting
this value suggests that the proportion of RBC as 32 percent is below the normal range for
women population; this is the information obtained through meaningful interpretation
(Ronquillo et al., 2016). Evaluating this value with the prognosis of any disease such as
increased risk for anaemia denotes the inclusion of conceptualised con text which is
knowledge.