Health Informatics and Inform Systems Report 2022

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Health Informatics and Inform Systems
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Abstract
Health information system implementation brings about improvement in quality of
patient care, avoiding data errors and ensuring the reduction of operational cost. It is as a result
of implementation of health information systems that management process become more
organized. This report is aimed at making operations more manageable for the nurses, assistant
nurses, and doctors in handling blood sugar patients. This is after healthcare experts in our
healthcare center complained of the large number of blood sugar patients that made it difficult
for them to handle the patients manually. This problem can be solved by the application of health
informatics and inform systems. This is to ensure that accurate reading are done at accurate time
are taken down at specific intervals. This is aimed at making work more relaxed in our
healthcare center. An annual budget was calculated to ensure these devices are available
throughout the year and no shortages in case the hospital receives a higher number of patients of
blood sugar.

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Health Informatics and Inform Systems
Health informatics is also known as health information systems. Health information
systems provide electronic access to medical records for health care technicians, doctors,
insurance companies, nurses, hospital administrators, and patients. The system is powered by
computer technology, knowledge, and communication systems. Information is important patient
care, the field of health informatics has improved over past years and thus improving how the
data is acquired, stored and used to interpret the state of a patient.
After thorough research on the products that can carry out the three mentioned processes
automatically, I came up with three products namely; Continuous glucose monitor, freestyle libre
flash glucose monitor and the Abbott’s device. However, the most considered product among the
three was the device called continuous glucose monitor (CGM). This device is designed in a way
that it can detect trends and patterns using sensors. The monitor can show the patient's sugar
level at intervals of one to fifteen minutes. These trends and patterns detected by CGM give the
health specialists insight into the patient's level of blood sugar (Rodbard 2016). By so doing, it
produces data that help in coming up with ways that can manage the condition of s patient.
Freestyle libre flash glucose monitoring system is another device that will help our
patients monitor their blood sugar levels. It uses a small sensor that is usually attached to the
arm; patients wave the reader device over it to check the blood sugar levels. These readings
change over the past eight hours (Fokkert et al. 2017). The third product is Abbott's device. This

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is recommended only for adults with type 1 or type 2 blood sugar (Say et al. 2013). It operates
using sensors and sends data to the reader. The only differences between the chosen products is
that only continuous glucose monitor is more reliable than the rest. This is because it can be used
to serve adult and children patients unlike Freestyle libre flash glucose that is only used by
people in aged of 18 and above while Abbott’s device is only recommended to adults only. After
all research is done, nurses and doctors will hold a meeting that will consist of some
administrative agents. This will help them handover their report to the administration so as
improvements can be made.
Cost of Purchase
Considering the adequate network infrastructure in our healthcare Centre and ample
space in the data center, this allows a suitable environment for the installation of a continuous
glucose monitor. Each bed should have one; this is to ensure close monitoring of each patient at
the same rather than the manual monitoring done by nurses and assistant nurses that is tiresome
and may involve plenty of errors. Manual monitoring is tiresome considering the number of
patients; some healthcare centers receive a massive amount of diabetes patients. Considering that
our healthcare system has two hundred and fifty beds occupied by patients suffering from blood
sugar, this means the purchase of these continuous glucose monitors should be four times the
number of beds. This is to cater for the new patients that the healthcare system receives in a
single month. The healthcare Centre record about 400 patients of blood sugar every week. We
only admit the patients that are in a critical condition. The rest are given a prescription of the
right medicine they should take and advised to come back for a checkup after a duration of time.

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Therefore, our healthcare Centre requires a minimum of 1000 continuous glucose
monitors every month. These devices come with their screens; the screens go for 1500 US
dollars each. This means we need 1.5 million US dollars for the screens in a single month.
Moreover, these devices require a transmitter battery that enables the sensors to coordinate with
the display. These batteries can be changed once a year. The batteries cost 500 US dollars. In a
month, we need 1000 cells that will sum up to 0.5 million dollars. The best sensors are the
Dexcom; these go up to 349 US dollars for a single piece (Fonda et al. 2016). In a single month,
the sensors needed will cost up to 349,000 US dollars. The total cost of these devices in a single
month will sum up to 2,349,000 US dollars.
To conclude, in a year, this project will need 28,188,000 US dollars. This is to ensure
strict and close monitoring of blood sugar patients throughout the year has been done without
any interruptions. The nursing staff has concurred and supported the budget. The implementation
of these projects will have a more positive contribution to both the patients and the medics in our
healthcare Centre.

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References
Fokkert, M. J., Van Dijk, P. R., Edens, M. A., Abbes, S., De Jong, D., Slingerland, R. J., & Bilo,
H. J. G. (2017). Performance of the FreeStyle Libre Flash glucose monitoring system in
patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and
Care, 5(1), e000320.
Fonda, S. J., Graham, C., Munakata, J., Powers, J. M., Price, D., & Vigersky, R. A. (2016). The
cost-effectiveness of real-time continuous glucose monitoring (RT-CGM) in type 2
diabetes. Journal of diabetes science and technology, 10(4), 898-904.
Rodbard, D. (2016). Continuous glucose monitoring: a review of successes, challenges, and
opportunities. Diabetes technology & therapeutics, 18(S2), S2-3.
Say, J., Tomasco, M. F., Heller, A., Gal, Y., Aria, B., Heller, E., ... & Colman, F. C. (2013). U.S.
Patent No. 8,612,159. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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