Prompt 1
Clinical informatics is vital in quality improvement because it links big data and its applications in aspects such as point-of-care clinical decision-making, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence. It is important to ensure healthcare investment returns are demonstrated by the population’s general health, quality, and operation efficiency. It is the process that fashions how data is retrieved, stored, analyzed, processed, communicated, and presented. Clinical informatics utilizes data and makes it become actionable information (Otokiti, 2019). It brings evidence-based practice to healthcare by introducing provider expertise, the latest research, and patient expectations to guide care-related decisions. From a biblical perspective, evidence-based practice is essential since it provides an opportunity to support facts with evidence. For example, in the book of Deuteronomy 19:15, the bible says that no single person shall rise up against another on account of inequity; only through evidence of more than one individual shall the issue be confirmed (The King James Bible, 2020). Relating the biblical perspective to clinical practice, then several proofs of quality improvement based on clinical informatics must be used to enable it to be included in evidence-based practice.
Prompt 2
The absence of system interoperability is a primary barrier to using technology to improve the U.S. healthcare system. An improved healthcare system is possible if different systems, applications, products, or devices can communicate and connect in a coordinated manner. The coordination allows easy access to data, improved workflow and efficiency, and sound cross-organizational coordination. Technological advancement can improve data access, cross-organizational collaboration, and data transmission (Lewis, 2022). Moreover, these processes help an organization achieve higher efficiency levels and reasonable information control.
The U.S. healthcare system lacks interoperability because major Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs) do not provide any incentives for genuine national interoperability. Healthcare systems are primarily customer-centric institutions operating on minimal margins, which compels them to restrict client information to retain them (Capminds, 2020). It is a practice that restricts the full embrace of interoperability in the American health system. Some healthcare facilities use outdated systems, which are expensive to upgrade, making it challenging to embrace interoperability (Patzer, 2020). These factors by American health institutions and EHRs are a major barrier to interoperability, which can improve the quality of health services. The same biblical understanding applies only until it has been proven, severally, that the U.S. healthcare system lacks interoperability should it be associated with the inability to achieve higher efficiency levels and reasonable information control.
References
Capminds. (2020). Hidden secrets of healthcare interoperability challenges. Web.
The King James Bible. (2020). S.I.: Project Gutenberg.
Lewis, S. (2022). Interoperability.TechTarget. Web.
Otokiti, A. (2019). Using informatics to improve healthcare quality. International Journal Health Care Quality Assurance, 32(2):425-430.
Patzer, A. (2020). Why a lack of interoperability in healthcare is a detriment to patients. Forbes Magazine. Web.