INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND CHANGING OTGANIZATIONAL CULTURE NURS 8210

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND CHANGING OTGANIZATIONAL CULTURE NURS 8210

A healthcare information system is defined simply as a system designed to manage healthcare data (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2017). The healthcare information system above is mainly divided into two parts, the information system for patient care and managerial information system. The information system which supports human resource, administration and hospitality management activities are arbitrarily placed under the managerial information system. Clinical among other functions relating to patient care are placed under information system for patient care. The main function of the clinical information system is to support or facilitate direct patient care functions. All the data concerning the patient are stored in a well-designed patient information database. Managerial data are stored in the managerial information database (Carvalho, Rocha, van, & Abreu, 2019). During patient care, providers can record, submit, and retrieve data efficiently through electronic medical record software.

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Currently, electronic health records and hospital information systems are considered as a major part of several healthcare systems across the world. The use of healthcare information system has several benefits to both the patient and the healthcare system among other stakeholders. Some of these benefits include easy access to information, increased healthcare professional’s productivity, minimum time wastage, reduced medical errors, increased work efficiency, improved patient safety, improved patient satisfaction, improved patient outcome and improved clinical management (Khalifa, Alswailem, & 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, 2015). Studies also show that healthcare information system reduces the expenses which are associated with paper medical records, improve the accuracy and efficiency of billing and cording and lastly, increase data security and retrieval ability.

Despite the benefits associated with health care information system and electronic health records, there are still several challenges encountered. Some of such challenges include interoperability, where different software is required to exchange data with each other. This has been a point of improvement for many years to enhance the effectiveness of the healthcare information system (Farzandipur, Jeddi, & Azimi, 2016). Purchasing the software among other facilities required to implement the system is also expensive limiting its extent of use. The other challenge facing healthcare information systems is the availability and integrity of the operations data. Mostly, the hospital information system is designed in such a way that they are only clinical and accounting focused and hence may lack data required for operational studies.  Keeping the patient data safe and confidential is also hard as a security bridge has been an issue with electronic health records for years. However, with time, these challenges will have been dealt with and healthcare facilities will be able to benefit maximumly from a healthcare information system.

References

Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2017). Health care information systems: A practical approach to health care management. San Francisco, CA Jossey-Bass.

Khalifa, M., Alswailem, O., & 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, EUSPN 2015. (January 01, 2015). Hospital information systems (HIS) acceptance and satisfaction: A case study of a Tertiary Care Hospital. Procedia Computer Science, 63, 198-204.

Farzandipur, M., Jeddi, F. R., & Azimi, E. (January 01, 2016). Factors Affecting Successful Implementation of Hospital Information Systems. Acta Informatica Medica: Aim: Journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina: Casopis Drustva Za Medicinsku Informatiku Bih, 24, 1, 51-5.

Carvalho, J. V., Rocha, A., van, W. R., & Abreu, A. (January 01, 2019). A Maturity model for hospital information systems. Journal of Business Research, 94, 388-399.

The Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine (2011) notes that “the nursing profession is the largest segment of the nation’s health care workforce.” Nursing’s three million–plus members are known for their ability to react quickly and efficiently on the front lines of patient care. This agility is lost, however, when the nursing profession fails to evolve with the field of information technology. Have you witnessed any unintentional barriers that have excluded nurses from quickly adopting and accepting informatics systems?

Those nurses who apply strategies developed by change management experts can help expedite the adoption process by positively addressing staff concerns and implementation challenges. In this Discussion, you explore change leadership strategies through a role playing activity.

Reference:
Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine. (2011). The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health [Consensus report]. Retrieved from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies website: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/The-Future-of-Nursing-Leading-Change-Advancing-Health.aspx

To prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources, focusing on the findings of the TIGER Leadership Collaborative.
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• Consider the TIGER Nursing Informatics Competencies model from a leadership standpoint.
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• Engage in the following role play: Your practice setting has appointed you to lead the implementation of a new information technology initiative. As you plan for this undertaking, you consider the various challenges that this implementation may bring to your practice.
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• Select an information technology initiative that your practice could benefit from (i.e., a new information system, point-of-care service, robotics machinery, mobile devices, etc.).
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• What change management strategies might you utilize to facilitate a quick and successful implementation?
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• What potential barriers might the initiative bring to the practice? What leadership strategies could shift the culture toward a smooth transition?

By Day 3 post a cohesive response that addresses the following:

• Briefly identify your practice setting and the information technology initiative you selected. Provide a rationale for your selection.
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• Evaluate the potential barriers to implementing your hypothetical initiative.
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• Identify the change management strategies that you would use to facilitate a successful implementation. Identify key resources that you would need to promptly overcome potential barriers.
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• Appraise the leadership strategies that you would employ to establish a culture that supports the new information technology initiative. Reference the TIGER Informatics Competencies where appropriate.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

By Day 6 respond to at least two of your colleagues in one or more of the following ways:

• Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
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• Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
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• Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
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• Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
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• Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
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• Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you learned and/or any insights you gained as a result of the comments made by your colleagues.