A Report on Healthcare Data Mismanagement and Its Impact

This report examines the critical issues of healthcare data mismanagement and its impact on patient care. It highlights problems such as inconsistent and inaccurate data records, leading to potential misdiagnosis and improper treatment. The report discusses the consequences of data loss, misinterpretation, and lack of integrated health systems. The report presents real-world examples, such as the NHS and University Hospital Birmingham, to illustrate the severity of these challenges. Furthermore, the report touches upon the role of national health insurance in addressing healthcare costs and its potential impact on the economy. The author emphasizes the importance of improving healthcare data management to enhance the quality of healthcare services and patient outcomes. References are provided to support the analysis.

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Health facilities try as much as they can to provide timely, quality, and effective services
to patients. However, it is undeniable how crisis arises in the quest for improving healthcare
(Campbell, 2009). Some recurring issues include inconsistent data records and inaccurate data,
causing wrong patient treatments thus increased deaths. This is as a result of a lack of safe,
secure, and integrated health systems to manage health records. Misplaced and misinterpreting
health records denies patient quality treatment (Enthoven,1978). Lack of dynamic technology to
monitor health resources lenders the quality of services poor. Research shows that in 2019, the
National Health Service (NHS) misplaced a record of 10,000 from 68 NHS hospitals. Following
to wrong treatment on patients. In 2017, 9132 documents went missing in the UK. University
Hospital Birmingham lost around 1,179 records. Bolton NHS Trust misplaced around 2163 (Li et
al., 2010). The lack of proper systems to store and standardize data results brought about
inaccurate data and unavailability of data records. As discussed above, data records
misplacement and mishandling is a recurring problem that has caused so much damage.
The health sector is in turmoil because of the many challenges it is currently facing.
There are too many strikes by workers concerning payments, misplaced data records and misuse
of health data and resources among many others (Quadagno, 2006). Everyone has a significant
role to play in improving the quality of healthcare services. The national health insurance insures
the entire population against challenges of cost in regards to their health. The protection reduces
the hustle patients go through while seeking for medication, thus prolongs life (Li et al., 2010).
Where the unemployment rate is high, the government incurs the expense. Secondly, it’s an
added expense to the country’s population. ‘Defend truth’ magazine notes down that this is a
significant expense to the country that can easily lender the country bankrupt (Quadagno, 2006).

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The insurance is however beneficial and well serves the nation if at all the country can cater for
that.

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References
Campbell, R. J. (2009). Thinking lean in healthcare. Journal of AHIMA, 80(6), 40-43.
Quadagno, J. (2006). One nation, uninsured: Why the US has no national health insurance.
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Li, M., Yu, S., Ren, K., & Lou, W. (2010, September). Securing personal health records in cloud
computing: Patient-centric and fine-grained data access control in multi-owner settings.
In International conference on security and privacy in communication systems (pp. 89-
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Enthoven, A. C. (1978). Consumer-choice health plan: inflation and inequity in health care
today: alternatives for cost control and an analysis of proposals for national health
insurance. New England Journal of Medicine, 298(12), 650-658.