Health Informatics and Inform Systems Report 2022

Running head: HEALTH INFORMATICS AND INFORM SYSTEMS
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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