Information system management
Running head: SHARING DATA
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Data Sharing
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Introduction
Adopting an electronic health record is one of the practices that will facilitate the sharing of data in the midtown family clinic. In the contemporary world, nurses and other health professionals widely share health records to facilitate treatment and research. An electronic system of sharing data ensures that data is shared efficiently. Physicians and nurses expand their knowledge in treatment and diagnosis by sharing data with other health facilities. The sharing of healthcare data facilitates research on treatment and diagnostics. The sharing of medical records electronically will be essential in the midtown family clinic, considering the limited number of health professionals in the clinic from the facility's limited capacity. Electronic healthcare records need to be supplemented by appropriate technology.
Need to share data
Health insurance companies and need to share data
The systems of billing in the midtown family clinic are nearly manual. This makes it tedious to process health insurance claims. There is intensive paperwork during the billing process. The clinic incurs extra costs by adopting an approach that sends billings to a third party company to bill the patients. The long process is encouraged by the unavailability of an electronic healthcare records system that could facilitate data sharing (Pisani et al., 2016). The outsourced medical billing company takes the responsibility of sharing a patient’s claim with the insurance company to bill the patient. The long process of billing insured patients could make patients annoyed and frustrated by making visits to the midtown medical facility. By adopting an electronic healthcare system, the midtown family facility can facilitate direct information sharing with health insurance providers to ensure that the premiums are updated. The system could also ensure that claims are made directly from the midtown family care facility to the companies' health insurance provider. This will not only facilitate the sharing of information but also simplify the process of billing patients at the midtown family clinic. By adopting an improved medical records information technology, the front office nurse will have improved output. Data sharing will eliminate the need for paperwork. Sharing data will allow the insurance company to give access to the midtown family clinic. The midtown facility could check the patient medical billing by merely logging into the patient's insurance provider's account. By sharing data with medical insurance companies, costs involved in using a third party company will be eliminated.
Laboratories and the need to share data
In the midtown family clinic sharing laboratory results process is manual. Manual records are prone to errors and loss. In many cases, where records are shared manually, cases of loss and damage are common. Patients' records can easily be misfiled, which could be detrimental to patients by offering different medications (Shen et al., 2019). Retrieving a patient’s information is difficult when the records are manual, unlike in the electronic cases where retrieving a patient’s information is simplified by entering a unique code assigned to a patient or patient name, and the laboratory details emerge. Data sharing ensures that records from the laboratory are shared on a timely basis to the physicians, making treatment more efficient. By sharing electronic patient records, risks of data loss are minimized. Sharing of data retains secured patients records in the facility database. This process could make it simpler when a patient visits the facility at a later date. The laboratory results are easily retrieved, reducing the time taken to serve a patient.
Types of data to be shared data interchange standards
Sharing data is critical data, especially in healthcare facilities. Policies guiding healthcare practices maintain that a patient has a right to confidentiality. Data should only be shared to facilitate the medication and treatment of a patient without disclosing the patient's identity. The process of disclosing a patient's data should ensure that the patient provides consent (Dyke et al., 2016). A patient should also be offered an opportunity to choose treatment, engaging the patient's family in one of the categories of data shared in healthcare is diagnosis data. The sharing of diagnosis data facilitates the tracking of diseases and making discoveries into new emerging diseases. Sharing patient's age patterns facilitates making decisions and making predictions of which categories of age are more vulnerable in the cases of disease emergence. The use of electronic healthcare systems will help in sharing the medication data. After receiving a subscription, patients receive drugs from the clinic pharmacy. Sharing data electronically will encourage efficient service to the people and reduce the administration of the wrong medication (Majmder & McGuire, 2020). Another category of data shared by the electronic system is the data on patient enrolment. Sharing of the enrolment data facilitates the process of making decisions on enrollment patterns and developing insights into the facility's capacity. Data interchange standards are essential in the midtown family clinic. There is constant communication between medical devices and electronic healthcare records. Devices such as ventilators send data to a patient's health care medical records. Digital imaging communication is another category of interchange standards that could be achieved by the midtown family clinic.
Summary
Data sharing is critical in modern-day healthcare facilities. Data sharing makes the service process efficient, with patients having to wait for a minimal time. The transmission of electronic patient’s data eliminated the risk of loss and alteration of data. Several data interchange standards could apply to the Midtown family clinic. The data shared range from clinical to financial information in improving the safety of patients.
References
Pisani, E., Aaby, P., Breugelmans, J. G., Carr, D., Groves, T., Helinski, M., ... & Mboup, S. (2016). Beyond open data: realising the health benefits of sharing data. Bmj, 355, i5295.
Shen, B., Guo, J., & Yang, Y. (2019). MedChain: efficient healthcare data sharing via blockchain. Applied sciences, 9(6), 1207.
Majumder, M. A., & McGuire, A. L. (2020). Data Sharing in the Context of Health-Related Citizen Science. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 48(1_suppl), 167-177.
Dyke, S. O., Dove, E. S., & Knoppers, B. M. (2016). Sharing health-related data: a privacy test?. NPJ genomic medicine, 1(1), 1-6.