Health Informatics Risk Analysis

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Health informatics is a developing field that focuses on information technology, communications, and healthcare to improve the quality and safety of patient care. It utilizes informatics concepts, theories, and practices to actual situations to realize better health outcomes, including collection, storage, analyzation, and presentation of data in a digital format. Health information technology endorses health information management across computerized systems and secure exchange of health information between consumers, providers, payers, and other covered entities. As an expert in these disciplines, a rural hospital has asked for help in with risk analysis and management processes to investigate the programming error. A root cause analysis …show more content…

Since threats evolve quickly, the benefits of establishing a risk management system is to make sure risks to encourage proactive management, identify and treat risks throughout the organization, improve controls, and incident management, and effectively allocate and use resources for risk treatment in an effort to minimize any losses. There are five basic principles in the risk management process these steps combined together provide a simple and effective plan to alleviate risk. Identify the risk by detecting, recognizing, and describing any potential threat that might affect the organization objectives or goals. Analyze the risk to determine the probability and significance of each risk to develop an understanding of the nature of the risk and its potential harm. Next determine that extent whether the risk is tolerable or severe enough to warrant treatment then indicate where falls on a scale or ranking system. Consider the top ranked risks then prepare a plan to remedy or amend these threats to achieve and maintain acceptable risk levels then last monitor, track, and review …show more content…

There are many different reasons why stalling the adoption would seem like a good idea most of it based on the cost, other issues such as privacy and security can be a major deterrent as well. We all know that it is wise to be prudent and cautious about embracing a new modus operandi, wanting confirmation, and documentation that a new way of doing things will benefit the organization and the patient. EHR adoption is the first step in transforming healthcare. A software designed specifically to save healthcare organizations time and effort in processing patient information. Health IT reported that, “94% of providers report that EHR makes records readily available at point of care and 75% of providers report that their EHR allows them to deliver better patient care” (USA.gov, 2014). Three key elements to EHR adoption, which are communication, better clinical decision

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