Legislation/Policy. Technical Standards. Technology Changes
The Cures Act was created to improve medical applications and develop a network to deliver new technology to patients. It is also focused on addressing society’s global socially-dependent problems. In addition, it is responsible for eliminating the blocking of information that could technically hinder the development of medical networks. Under the Cures Act are HL7v2 messages designed to communicate clinical data, streamlining IT processes. The V3 documentation is responsible for online surveillance, while the FHIR API regulates transmission volumes and public access rules (Spanakis et al., 2021). While the tools listed above are common and well-developed, there is a need to shift HIE toward more innovative technologies. It includes expanding the use of cloud technologies that will combine high-speed access to information, transmission, and online monitoring.
Cultural Change. Public Health
Operational programs are often user-friendly in technical terms, but patients are far from always comfortable using them. What is needed is the development of a more user-friendly, intuitive operating system with which there will be no questions asked when obtaining health information. It will facilitate two-way communication between patients and medical staff (Menachemi et al., 2018). In addition, the relevance of public health forces one to strive for more understandable and accessible information. Consequently, it can help eliminate the social causes of disease and improve patient information hygiene.
Threats. Economics
All operational changes are closely related to security issues because users want to be assured that their data is protected. When developing software, medical IT professionals should consider that the provision of new application features must be secure. In addition, all operational processes should be monitored and have different access levels. It will allow patients to know only personal information and physicians to limit access to its dissemination outside the application (Esmaeilzadeh & Sambasivan, 2017). Any proposed new application capabilities should be geared toward enhancing communication and improving its quality. Facilitated data transformation and transfer processes will only be valid if the user’s connected devices are limited to avoid leaks.
References
Esmaeilzadeh, P., & Sambasivan, M. (2017). Patients’ support for health information exchange: a literature review and classification of key factors.BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(33). Web.
Menachemi, N., Rahurkar, S., Harle, C. A., & Vest, J. R. (2018). The benefits of health information exchange: an updated systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA, 25(9), 1259–1265. Web.
Spanakis, E.G., Sfakianakis, S., Bonomi, S., Ciccotelli, C., Magalini, S., & Sakkalis, V. (2021). Emerging and established trends to support secure health information exchange.Frontiers in Digitical Health, 3. Web.