Health informatics tools
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Background
To provide the safe and effective delivery of medical care, virtually all clinical staff use a number of front-line Health Informatics Tools in their day-to-day operations. The need for standardization and refined development of these tools is underscored by the HITECH act and other efforts to develop electronic medical records. (Often, the development of these electronic processes is hampered by the conversion process from older paper processes, which were developed before the stricter development guidelines required in an electronic environment.)
To successfully implement each of these tools, hospitals generally must define who is responsible for, and a prescribed manner of building, testing, approving, coding, publishing, implementing/educating, and tracking the tool.
Health Informatics Tools
Front-line Health Informatics Tools generally include, but are not limited to, one of the following :
1. Clinical Policies
2. Clinical Protocols (aka Clinical Algorithms, Clinical Pathways, or Clinical Guidelines)
3. Clinical Order Sets
4. Clinical Documentation (aka Forms or Flowsheets)
5. Clinical Templates
6. Clinical Procedure Document
7. Clinical Staff Education Modules
8. Clinical Patient Education Modules
9. Clinical Staff Schedules
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