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Nutrition Informatics: Information Technology Transition For Registered Dieticians, Arlanda Bell
Nutrition Informatics: Information Technology Transition For Registered Dieticians, Arlanda Bell
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The passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) has created a growing push for healthcare organizations to no longer use paper based records and convert to an Electronic Health Record (EHR). Along with the adoption of an EHR comes a necessary change for ancillary services like nutrition and dietetic services because it affects patient care as well. In order to maintain a professional standard in patient healthcare as other health disciplines have done, the development of nutrition informatics model has become necessary. Nutrition informatics will prove to be a necessary addition to the developing …
Information Governance: An Investigation Of Interface Errors Between Source And Receiving Systems, Michelle R. Mitcheff
Information Governance: An Investigation Of Interface Errors Between Source And Receiving Systems, Michelle R. Mitcheff
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The monitoring of interoperability of information in healthcare organizations is of increasing interest due to patient safety, operational and financial considerations. This monitoring is referred to as information governance (IG) and is a complex topic based on several underlying concepts. Interfacing information at the foundational, structural and semantic level is necessary for meaningful use of health information. Issues that arise range from incongruent transfer of information from source systems to receiving systems, discrepancies in the source system and receiving system and failures in interfacing information. This research project examines information governance from the perspective of failures in interfacing information from …