This paper will analyze the content of a health website that is used to manage health information.
Authority
Cerner is a big company that has been there for many years. It is a household name in many healthcare systems. Cerner Software is a health care management system that was developed by Cerner Corporation. Cerner Corporation was developed in 1979 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The company has all its modules in one platform, called Cerner Millennium 2007. The modules range from administration, financial, and clinical.
The company also designs individual systems which include laboratory systems and records management. This way, the clients are able to purchase individual modules and are not compelled to buy the whole system (Poissant et al, 2005). Cerner provides training and support for all their clients so that there is smooth running of their systems at any given time. The source of information is the directors and the public relations department of the company itself.
Objectivity
The content of the website is easily swayed by the corporation. This is because the information and the whole website are owned by Cerner Corporation. This corporation deals with medicine and health information and services worldwide. Cerner as a company has been in existence for a long time. They, therefore, have control of information on the website. There are no adverts on the website. The website is flat with no adverts toned on it. The author of the website can easily be identified. This is so given the fact that the website belongs to a well-known corporation. One can easily identify the person who did the website by going to the contact us page.
Coverage
The website covers every aspect of health information. It has an online record system that is used to track the health information of the company. There is a lot of information that is tracked on the website. What is more, it has a database. The data for this information system range from ambulatory, inpatient, and payer environments. The database is the foundation of its big repository of applications. The databases are designed so that it provides scalability (Poissant et al, 2005).
The fine-tuning that was made to it was to endure that the response times were greatly reduced within the hospital and that data integration would be improved within the hospital What With Cerner, the security has been implemented from the authentication of the people using the systems and even the physical security. The doctors, for example, have to go through an authentication process where they are either allowed or denied access to the system. They have been assigned strong passwords to ensure that they are not cracked (Margaret, 2006). The non-medical staff, except some ICT staff, has no right whatsoever to the data in the system.
Accuracy
The website is accurate in most of the presentation that is made. It has accurate spelling even for medical terms. All of the words that are typed on the website are accurate. For the pages which I went through, I have not found any misspelled words or any form of typographical errors. Yes, the website has a date which is written at the footer of the website. This shows that the website was created in the year 2010. There are no references which are listed on the pages of the website. All of the links that are listed on the website are working.
Quality of the content
The content is easily readable because they are well laid out on the page. This is because it has subtitles that show the various subsections of the content. These subsections show the various sectors of the website like pharmacy issues, health information, and ambulatory services. The website uses only one version of the language, English. One can navigate from one page to another as they are organized so. It has a powerful search mechanism where the users can filter the information based on the country they are interested in.
Overall impression
I would recommend this website for anybody looking for health information from the Internet. It is one of the best sites ever created. It has comprehensive information for all matters pertaining to health.
References
Margaret, M. (2006). “Case Study: Factors in Defining the Nurse Informatics Specialist Role,” Journal of the Health Information Systems Society, Spring. Vol. 20, Issue 2, p 30.
Poissant, L., Pereira, J., Tamblyn, T., & Kawasumi, Y. (2005). “The impact of electronic health records on time efficiency of physicians and nurses: A systematic review.” Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.