Health Informatics of Hospital | EHR System

Running head: HEALTH INFORMATICS
Health Informatics
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

HEALTH INFORMATICS1
Introduction
This reports aims to discuss about the hospital, which wants to strengthen the use and
focus of the evidence-based practice. This report focuses on the obesity area of the hospital. The
organization needs to set the performance goals for the vital areas like BMI (Body Mass Index),
promote the performance of the care and to implement the assessment for the populations of
targeted patients. This report will evaluate the EHR system of the hospital that includes the
guidelines and the electronic documentation.
Question 1
Computer-based interactive system offers the potential for promoting the patient and the
physician compliance to the TLC and other recommendations for the health behavior change.
The EHR (Electronic Health Record) system can be emerged for the prevention and management
of chronic disease. The EHR system integrates the data sources by presenting the opportunities
for the providers and the patients for managing the psychosocial data elements and behavior and
formulates the intervention plans through the decision support that is evidence-based (Zhou et
al., 2016). The key elements are the information of provider’s identification, information of the
patient’s identification, risk factors, vital signs, health patterns, care episode, surgical procedures,
nursing minimum data set, health problems and diagnosis, preventive measures, medication
information, examinations and tests, functional status, medical statements, tissue donor will,
technical aids, living will, consent information, care plan for follow up and discharge summary.
These are the effective data elements that must be included in the EHR system for meeting the
goals of the organization.

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Question 2
Alerts on the information system is set in a way so that if any patient is flagged for the
particular problem during the screening. It allows for the team of healthcare for anticipating the
needs and requirements of the patients and the implement of the care plant, which can be
conductive for solving the problems of the patients. This can alert as well for making sure that
the particular protocols for the particular problems or disease of the patients are put in thee place.
For instance, when any patients are the fall risks in the system of electronic healthcare record, the
staffs will be able to see that as the flag or the alert in the information system (Hayes, 2014). In
this way, the team of the healthcare organization can use the alert and defaults in the information
system for achieving their goals.
Question 3
After the screening, the following strategies can be followed for the effective patient
outcomes.
Promote well-informed diagnoses: The quick and accurate diagnosis is the vital aspect of
improving the outcomes of patients.
Support planning of optimal treatment: Without being effective, the treatment may be efficient
or vice versa (DiCuccio, 2015). Ensuring that the treatment is effective and efficient can be
economically and medically successful the healthcare organization.
Take care of the clinicians: The antagonistic atmosphere for the nurses and the clinicians
translate into the inferior outcomes for the patients.