journal entry 4/ module 4 / week 7 / Gino Fideles

                                                                                                             

                                                                                                             Gino Fideles
                                                                                                             Module 4

Transitioning to a Data-Driven,  Informatics-Oriented Department

Dooling, J. A., Houser, S. H., Mikaelian, R., & Smith, C. P. (2016). Transitioning to a Data-Driven, Informatics-Oriented Department. Journal Of AHIMA, 87(10), 58-62.

This article  is chosen because   of the articles relationship as to how healthcare are no reliant on data, and how data plays a big part as to how hospitals and other healthcare entities are getting reimbursed by the Medicare.  The article is an informative article that    informs readers on how reliant healthcare system are now on data and informatics to sustain their daily operations.

There is no problem addressed but rather, the article addresses ways to which data and informatics are  used to the extent it is  to manage daily healthcare operations, reimbursement ; and how  data driven environment drives   healthcare organizations to  be even more  reliant on data  and informatics  as solutions to manage  daily operations; as well as  basis to which healthcare and business decision making are made. The article states that as more healthcare organizations become larger and more sophisticated,  strategic planning  daily operations,  service development, organizational partnership and   forecasting of services   are reliant on data for  decision making (Doling, Houser  & Mikaela 206, p. 58). The solution was increased informatics transition   to support Health information management (HIM) decision making and operations Dooling et al. 2016, p. 58). The implications it may have for healthcare delivery is that it makes healthcare more data driven and focused on obtaining data to ensure its continued operations. It’s a double edged sword because it makes healthcare organization   people more reliant on data and technology which makes their job easier, efficient and effective; decreases healthcare costs at the same time, it also takes valuable skills away from themselves and   reduces the familiarity to the notions that workers, clinicians and their patients are not machines to which   data can be extracted upon.  A learning  from this article is that  data  and technology that houses or provides  it are good measurements of performance  of a healthcare organization and it makes  work lighter easier  efficient and effective; at the same time it is also important to  have contingent operational plans   that   healthcare  administrative  personnel should be trained in  cases where data  management becomes unavailable  or untrustworthy  to rely on.

References

Dooling, J. A., Houser, S. H., Mikaelian, R., & Smith, C. P. (2016). Transitioning to a Data-Driven, Informatics-Oriented Department. Journal of AHIMA, 87(10), 58-62.