Workflow redesign for quality improvement
The course on health information management and informatics has significantly helped me to achieve the goals of creating workflow redesign within a quality-improvement strategy to improve the practice setting, evaluating current health information systems used in healthcare organizations, evaluating advanced analytics techniques currently being used in health care and evaluating ethical/legal and safety issues that arise in using, designing and managing health information technology. Throughout the course, I have developed the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enabled me to achieve the above course goals. Typically, health information management entails an emphasis on the information technology required to store and retrieve patient data securely and accurately as well as the management of processes and people. Health informatics emphasizes more on technology to enhance patient care delivery, data analytics, and utilizing data. The knowledge of health information management and health informatics was crucial to achieving the course goals.
In module 1, I acquired knowledge and skills about the significance of using workflow redesign for quality improvement that entails developing a project charter, which includes twelve areas and a workflow design. These knowledge and skills are important to achieve the goals of the course. At the end of the course, I was able to develop workflow redesign within a quality-improvement strategy to improve the practice setting. Creating workflow redesigning is enabled me as a nurse professional to research workflow analysis, which is important since it serves as a nurse administrator by identifying non-valuable activities, redundant steps, and well as delays within the process. Identifying these aspects is important to come up with a more efficient way of providing care to patients. The performance measures, including cost per unit service, process steps, and turnaround times knowledge is crucial for continuous improvement programs geared towards ensuring patient get the best care. Moreover, I learned how workflow analysis could be conducted using interviews.
Additionally, through the course, I achieved the goal of evaluating current health information systems used in a healthcare organization to come up with areas that can be improved to enhance the patient’s health. Evaluating the current health information system provided me with valuable information on how I can adopt the same health information system to ensure patient data is confidential and health care processes run smoothly. Evaluation is important since it helps in supporting an evidence-based approach to practice delivery and assisting in judging whether it is achieving the required performance. Accordingly, it can inform decisions regarding the effectiveness of service as well as changes that can be considered to improve service delivery (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017). Normally, the evaluation of service delivery is a crucial aspect of nursing practice. The knowledge gained from evaluating current health information systems used in healthcare organizations is relevant to my nursing career since it encourages me to think about the evaluation of practices and services that differs from audit and research and why I should always use evaluation in my practice when implementing health information systems.
Moreover, I gained substantial information about advanced analytics techniques that are currently being used in health care that was in line with attaining goals, of course. Advanced analytics techniques are crucial in healthcare since they help in detecting early signs of a patient deteriorating in the general ward and the intensive care unit. Moreover, it helps in the prevention of avoidable downtime of the medical equipment. Evaluation is important because the skills gained can be used to improve healthcare. For instance, using artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous in health care and largely through advanced analytics applications. Essentially, evaluating advanced analytics techniques skills fuels optimism regarding the use of advanced analytics to enhance health care. I learned careful and objective considerations need to be made prior to implementing advanced analytics solutions. Critical evaluation before, during, and after its implementation ensures the elimination of waste, good outcomes, and safe care. Moreover, in module 3, I gained skills and knowledge on creation as well as maintenance of Big Data that is defined in terms of variety, velocity, and volume. Big Data has outgrown conventional storage facilities besides containing a vast amount of unstructured data. The collection of data over time within the healthcare setting becomes out of control as well as overwhelming. Big Data means a lot when it comes to healthcare, thus it needs to be taken with a lot of care. Evaluating advanced analytics techniques currently being used in health care has given me significant insights into how I can analyze Big Data to make sense of health care.
Furthermore, after the course, I was able to achieve the course goals of evaluating ethical/legal and safety issues that arise in using, designing, and managing health information technology. In module 7, I gained significant information on the importance of patient safety when it comes to the implementation of healthcare information technology. Again, I learned the clinical impact of unintended healthcare information technology errors that I need to be keen to avoid. A variety of legal and ethical issues usually arise with the growing use of HIT in a clinical setting (Kaplan, 2020). Whereas confidentiality and privacy of patient information is a crucial consideration in an electronic system, issues related to utilizing the systems to enhance patient safety entails changes to the standard of care about using electronic records instead of paper records, guaranteeing accurate information and user training in the medical records.
In conclusion, the course on health information management and informatics has significantly helped me to achieve the course goals. In module 1, I acquired knowledge and skills about the significance of using workflow redesign for quality improvement that entails developing a project charter, which includes twelve areas and a workflow design. Creating workflow redesigning is enabled me as a nurse professional to research workflow analysis, which is important since it serves as a nurse administrator by identifying non-valuable activities, redundant steps, and well as delays within the process. Additionally, through the course, I achieved the goal of evaluating current health information systems used in a healthcare organization to come up with areas that can be improved to enhance the patient’s health. Moreover, I gained substantial information about advanced analytics techniques that are currently being used in health care that was in line with attaining goals, of course. Advanced analytics techniques are crucial in healthcare since they help in detecting early signs of a patient deteriorating in the general ward and the intensive care unit. Furthermore, after the course, I was able to achieve the course goals of evaluating ethical/legal and safety issues that arise in using, designing, and managing health information technology. In module 7, I gained significant information on the importance of patient safety when it comes to the implementation of healthcare information technology.