SNHU - HIM 500: Future of Health Informatics, Reflection, Application

This journal assignment reflects on the future of health information management, considering the impact of technological advancements on the field. It also involves reflecting on a key concept learned in the HIM 500 course, focusing on its significance and practical application. The journal further details a plan for applying new knowledge to the student's program at SNHU and their current or future profession, emphasizing the role of healthcare management systems in assisting nurses and enhancing patient care through efficient data management and improved productivity. The importance of electronic health records and their impact on healthcare workflows are also addressed, with references to relevant academic articles.

Running head: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS
Healthcare Informatics
[Name of the Student]
[Name of the University]
[Author note]

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1. Future of health information management
Digital revolution is having a widespread impact on the healthcare industry. Healthcare
field has been associated with the usage of various kind of technologies ranging from the
medical mobile applications to vital-monitoring wearables. It is seen that the smart technology is
taking over the healthcare world by the remodeling of the process of delivering care to the
patients. HIM or the Health Information Management has been evolving and has been associated
with putting an emphasis upon the paper medical records in order to play a key role. This is done
so as to ensure the fact that the information related to health is available in order to facilitate the
delivery of healthcare on a real time basis along with taking of critical healthcare related
decisions (Nguyen, Bellucci & Nguyen, 2014). This field has been associated with centering on
the information of the patient but despite of this the precise role has been influenced after the
adaptation of the new technologies and the other changes as well which are affecting the entire
healthcare system. Evolving of the role played by the HIM professionals is also taking place and
besides this in many cases it has been seen that the data kept in paper forms are being eliminated
as healthcare organizations are moving towards the usage of the electronic health records or
EHR. The growth in the shift toward technology is already being felt across the healthcare
industry, and this is happening mainly due to the reason that many of the past roles of HIM was
recorded on paper medical records which are now being eliminated and replaced by new roles
focused on patient’s electronic health records.
2. Reflection
Budgeting is generally considered to be a process associated with the creation of the plan
so as to spend the money and this spending plan is generally called the budget and by creation of

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this spending plan would be associated with allowing the determination of the advances weather
there is enough money in order to proceed with the things that have been planned. Budget is
generally considered to be the part of healthcare informatics the main things that are to be
included in the budgeting includes the resource hours, the cost of the hardware required by the
which are associated with the providing of healthcare. Along with the cost of the software are
also to be included as well as the cost related to the providing of trainings, cost for providing live
support, contingency plan and many more (Rumball-Smith, Shekelle, & Damberg, 2018). After
completion of successful identification of budgets, the general calculations would be helping
further in making other estimations as well.
3. Application
Healthcare Management System is associated with providing helps the nurses in the
process of providing assistance to the physician. An important role is played by the nurses in the
medical practice and they are having their hand in almost each and every aspect of care and are
associated with providing an invaluable insight. The selection, implementation and the
optimization of the decisions would be very helpful in the process of avoiding the issues related
to workflow and would also be encouraging the staffs to embrace the new technology and this
would be done by including the nursing staffs in this process (Weaver et al., 2016). The health
care informatics is very much essential for the nurses in order to provide care in an effective and
efficient way along with monitoring the health of all the patients. The HMS in the future would
be helping the nurses to come more efficient and along with identifying the data trends at faster
rate (Nelson & Staggers, 2016). The HMS would be increasing the productivity of the nursing
staffs as well. This also provides the nurses with an immediate access to the information of the

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patients which helps a lot in quick prescription refills and also prevents the misfiled charges as
well from slowing the work.
References:
Baumann, L. C., & Ylinen, A. (2016). Electronic Health Record. Encyclopedia of
Behavioral Medicine, 1-2.
Carayon, P., Wetterneck, T. B., Alyousef, B., Brown, R. L., Cartmill, R. S., McGuire, K.,
... & Weinger, M. B. (2015). Impact of electronic health record technology on the work and
workflow of physicians in the intensive care unit. International journal of medical
informatics, 84(8), 578-594.
Nelson, R., & Staggers, N. (2016). Health Informatics-E-Book: An Interprofessional
Approach. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Nguyen, L., Bellucci, E., & Nguyen, L. T. (2014). Electronic health records
implementation: an evaluation of information system impact and contingency
factors. International journal of medical informatics, 83(11), 779-796.
Rumball-Smith, J., Shekelle, P. G., & Damberg, C. L. (2018). Electronic Health
Record. American Journal of Managed Care, 24(1), 26-31.
Weaver, C. A., Ball, M. J., Kim, G. R., & Kiel, J. M. (2016). Healthcare information
management systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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