MED INF 404 Health Care Operations
"This course examines the entire information technology needs of every part of hospital organization and management, including patient access services, ambulatory care, clinical practice and organization, nursing services, managing facilities and resources, personnel and staffing, and finance" Reflection I found this course to be a challenge for me but as all of the rest of the courses in the MMI program had proven; it was relevant in broadening my knowledge of other facets of the healthcare industry. My entire career in healthcare IT has been focused on the ambulatory, outpatient setting, so when taking this course I felt myself at a disadvantage because I wasn’t familiar with hospital organizations, infrastructures or workflow. Our team project paper gave me the opportunity to dive right in and gain a better understanding of a hospital organization. The topic of our project was to provide the risks and benefits of implementing meaningful use (MU) in a hospital setting. One of the articles we read for class, “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century”, resonated with me because it focused on the improvement of patient care. The article which was put out by the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America. It focused on six aims for the quality of healthcare improvement: safe, effective, timely, patient-centered, efficient, and equitable. After taking this course, I changed my approach of how I present our EHR system. The original purpose of an EHR was to make life “easier” for clinicians and their staff. I’m not sure we’ve completely accomplished this goal but if we shift the paradigm to looking at an EHR as a solution that will help achieve the six aims, maybe it will help improve the adoption rate. Source: MMI Program
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