Report on HIT Professional Advice
Summary
. Health care is an expanding industry, technology can do so much to increase patient care, and overall efficiency. In safeguarding patients’ information, Many authorization factors can make the application available (i.e. email or username, password or thumbprint). Russell is amongst the people who are eager to change the face of healthcare by increasing quality, decreasing cost, and streamlining the whole process. HIT specialists are now essential within the healthcare industry.
Introduction
I needed professional advice on Health Information and Technology. I was looking for an expert in the field of HIT with years of experience to give me an overview on how they worked, difficulties encountered during work, views on HMIS, the importance of information technology, and the future of health care. I conducted an online search, which was followed by one on one interview with Russell Branzell who is the president and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
Body
After a full search from the internet sources, I found an online interview with Russell Branzell. Russell said, “health care industry is at inflation point. Due to large scale changes like payment reforms, a shift towards globalization was entering a new error of technology, which comprises synthetic intelligence, neural networking, and drones. Mobile devices have matured, and reduced limited communication. This devices have not only been introduced in the health care but also in other industries as well
Russell also believes that healthcare had undergone technical changes in the past, but not like the one we are experiencing. “Previously we have introduced software that helps to organizations to turn digital. The next wave of technology will take place in a shorter period probably over the next five to ten years. The impact will be that it will create a competitive environment. The way we deliver will completely change.”
How is the industry going to change with the incoming new technology? “To catch up with the speeding technology, healthcare has more education, more engaging, and a lot of networking. We are going to operate in new ways, which is exciting, and a little bit scary, it is also an amazing opportunity to do neat things in this industry.”
The online interview left a lot of questions unanswered. I had to book a personal interview with Russell. After waiting for an extended period, Russell managed to call me to his office, where we talked. Russell is an IT specialist with over 20 years of experience. Russell has worked in a variety of information technology firms, which gave him a clear perspective of healthcare, and IT. Before Russell became the CEO of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, he had been working as a virtualization engineer, system administrator, and senior network administrator.
Russell explains to me why HMIS is so important to him. Russell said, “Health care is an expanding industry, technology can do so much to increase patient care, and overall efficiency. Health information technology agrees that healthcare systems must widely incorporate electronic health records (EHRs) with valuable components like computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and e-prescription to form cost-efficient healthcare structures” (Singh & Sittig, 2016). I asked Russell about time, cost, and delivery of excellent services linked with HMIS. Russell says that “these services are helping to decrease cost, and increase quality care.” I asked him to explain, Russell said, “these services reduce the cost material, despite having an extensive upfront fee. Treatment pads with expensive safety features will not be needed in such high quantities, and an overall decline in paper usage.”
“Different HMIS has been developed and designed by different IT technicians, the same instance with patient record systems under the NHS system. Different developers use different programming languages in building their HMIS, which makes sharing of application nearly impossible because of programming language unsuitability” (Lyon, Wasse, Ludwig, Zachry, Bruns, Unützer & McCauley, 2016). I asked Russell, “How does web service application address the issue of multiple languages?” Russell said that web service is a standard protocol. A web-based system can pull data from other sources, and receive information as well. Developers make APIs to allow web services apprehend a piece of code, and interrelate with their applications.
“How safe is the patient’s information while using web services for HMIS?” many authorization factors can make the application available (i.e. email or username, password or thumbprint). Other forms are based on certificates, meaning, the app will trust your computer if you have your certificate intrusion prevention services (IPS), and intrusion detective services (IDS) lock the system after someone makes more than ten attempts with failure to log in, which makes security breaching difficult (Wachter, 2016). “Healthcare industry is undergoing structural changes by bringing into line HIT with the delivery of care to advance control costs, excellence, and enhance the competence of the system. The main aim is building a national health information infrastructure that gives room for health information to be shared between consumers, providers”.
Conclusion
Russell is amongst the people who are eager to change the face of healthcare by increasing quality, decreasing cost, and streamlining the whole process. HIT specialists are now essential within the healthcare industry. Systems employed by IT specialist will also back an organizations legal agreement, reduce spending, and protect patient’s safety through providing information such as audit trails, and support doctors in prescription, and medical conclusions. I preferred direct interview to online learning because, the candid interview was much educative, and answers were given to satisfactory. Online learning was a bit difficult because there was no further explanation when the points were not clear. The project was so educative; I got to learn the HMIS systems and their operations. Russell also got to answer all the questions in clarity.
Recommendations
Patients should also help in protecting their information by avoiding to login in their hospital portals in public cyber cafes, which increases a lot of cybercrimes. Patients should ensure their passwords are also well protected. Physicians should also ensure they feed the correct information in the system, to avoid confusion, which may lead to wrong prescription to the patient.
References
Lyon, A. R., Wasse, J. K., Ludwig, K., Zachry, M., Bruns, E. J., Unützer, J., & McCauley, E. (2016). The contextualized technology adaptation process (CTAP): Optimizing health information technology to improve mental health systems. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 43(3), 394-409.
Singh, H., & Sittig, D. F. (2016). Measuring and improving patient safety through health information technology: The Health IT Safety Framework. BMJ Qual Saf, 25(4), 226-232.
Wachter, R. (2016). Making IT work: harnessing the power of health information technology to improve care in England. Report to the National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology in England. London: The Stationery Office.