Man has this year gone by and in two weeks it will be Christmas, and
then New Year. I have learned a lot since I started this program and
hoping to get into an office working as a Medical Support Assistance,
at the VA Hospital and/or the two clinics. Had my interview with a
three-member panel, on the 10th of Dec., and will know if I got
picked for either another interview or the next step to be onboarded,
which is fine by me it will last 3 years since they go through a lot of
people at those front desks. Anyways, wish me luck on to the next
step.
How do you think the evolutions of communication and technology
affect the HIM professional?
The way I see things from my point of view is that it will change
along with the communication and technology, that will most likely
help the HIM professional, this is by far the best way that it will help
out anybody's system if they are on top of the operation. If one part
of the system goes down, then another part will not be able to
function without the main system, and then you will have to go back
to doing everything by hand with paperwork files. This has happened
to me at my hospital where I had worked at, go thing we kept our
medical records of the patients, so that they were able to go to their
appointments without missing a beat.
Consider the barriers of growth for HIEs in the future.
January 22, 2013 - Although health information exchange (HIE), both
the data exchange itself and the organizations that facilitate this
exchange, is still in its easily stages of development, a significant
number of barriers have emerged that could potentially threaten HIE
from getting off the ground, let alone sustaining its growth. Recent
comments from William Yasnoff, MD, PhD, the President of the
Health Record Banking Alliance, characterized the current status of
HIE as an “unmitigated disaster” as a result of technical, regulatory,
administrative, and other barriers.
Data ownership
Who owns data is a problem for many healthcare and health IT
professionals? Whether ownership belongs to government,
providers, or patients, it carries with it a host of concerns.
Patient involvement
Giving patient control over their health information seems like the
logical solution to the problem of ownership, but the reality is that
patient control necessitates active participation by these individuals
who may or may not care about HIE.
Sustainability
At the end of the day, HIE costs money. And as it stands right now,
no one is really sure who should pay for it. Without a means of
supporting its operations, the organizations facilitating HIE won’t be
able to begin searching for solutions to the above problems.
Standards, interoperability
Getting information to move successfully between provider as well
as state and federal agencies represents the top challenge to health
information organizations (HIOs). Although these organizations have
proven the ability to receive information, they have realized that a
lack of consensus in terms of standards prevents them from pushing
data effectively and economically.
From what I can understand from this is that HIE, can be costly if not
under controlled to prevent the system from being a virus or worse.
This can be a very bad thing if it gets out of hand.
What are the top barriers to health information exchange?
https://www.ehrintelligence.com/news/what-are-the-top...
ByKyleMurphy,PhD
