Hulda Boateng’s Padlet by Hulda Boateng https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh en-us 2022-09-05 11:27:15 UTC 2024-09-12 04:01:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1791903559/0e27a474873a100201b767c5e17e9106/IMG_0801.JPG Week 1: Health Informatics boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2283415447 Health informatics in the healthcare industry uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. It also provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies, and so on. Most importantly, it allows patients to provide their providers with vital information and share it with family, friends, and other patients. Hence, the patient exerts greater control over their care with the help of informatics.]]> 2022-09-05 19:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2283415447 Week 2: Informatics Competencies boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2283462488 This week, we expanded our knowledge of health informatics by learning about informatics competencies, which focused on TIGER's initiative to educate healthcare professionals about the use of informatics in their practice. I learned that this initiative was designed to address skills that all nurses will need in the 21st century. Upon my research, I found this article explaining how informatics competencies for nursing leaders were used to address computer skills, informatics knowledge, and informatics skills. The study also identified areas related to nursing leadership, including front-line managers and nursing executives. Moreover, participants of this study determined that differences in competencies for nursing leaders were due to different roles or positions they play in the field.    ]]> 2022-09-05 21:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2283462488 Interoperability in Healthcare boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322216852 2022-10-01 19:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322216852 Transforming Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322241262 The purpose of a quantitative descriptive study conducted in 2012 was to identify the gaps between the informatics knowledge and skills self-reported by novice nurses and the informatics knowledge and skills demonstrated in acute-care settings by novice nurses as reported by nurse managers. ]]> 2022-10-01 20:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322241262 Meaningful Use boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322242064 This week, I learned that Meaningful Use sets the specific objectives that eligible professionals and hospitals must achieve to participate in the EHR Incentive Programs. I also learned that the “Meaning Use” program, was designed to be implemented in three stages of legislation to promote a complete and interoperable EHR and HIT systems in U.S. hospitals, and nurses have been involved with every phase of its implementation to ensure usage and adaptation to evolving policies affecting EHR. During my search on the process of meaningful use establishment of this program, I found articles that explained the history of the stages of the meaningful use program, its implementation, and why physicians needed a pause to implement stage 3. 
The first(focuses primarily on the CPOE initiative for physicians) and second stage(implementation of quality indicators that required electronic data to be collected as an integral component of HIT systems) of MU was successfully implemented. However, the third stage, which focused on care quality outcome measures, was not executed but replaced by Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) before it was established in 2017 as a result of the 2015 final rule, which focused on using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology (CEHRT) to improve health outcomes. This delay happened because the American Medical Association (AMA) and 41 medical societies urged the administration to pause the final stages of the federal government’s Meaningful Use program in light of critical changes to Medicare. The coalition of physician organizations believed that locking in Stage 3 rules for the Meaningful Use program would be an unwise step that undermined the implementation of Medicare payment reforms. Moreover, they also believed that pausing Stage 3 would have allowed them to evaluate their environment and work with the administration to implement the needed changes to the Meaningful Use program currently under consideration.


]]> 2022-10-01 20:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322242064 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322242282 For this week, we went over EHR and EMR and its role in clinical decisions, and I learned the difference between EHR and EMR because I used to use these terms interchangeably. When it comes to electronic medical records, they are digital versions of the paper charts in the clinician’s office. It contains the medical and treatment history of patients in one practice. EMR  also allows providers to track data over time, easily identify patients due for preventive screenings or checkups. But the information in EMRs does not travel easily out of the practice, and patient’s record are sometimes printed out and delivered by mail to members of their care team. When it comes to EHRs, it focuses on the total health of the patient. Thereby going beyond standard clinical data collected in the provider’s office and including a broader view on patient’s care. EHRs are designed to reach out beyond the health organization that initially collects and compiles the information that can be shared with other health care providers, such as laboratories and specialists. ]]> 2022-10-01 20:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322242282 Health Information Exchange boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322242428 2022-10-01 20:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2322242428 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2325854794 The focus was not on information technology knowledge and skills, as it was understood that the novice nurse would not have the skills of information technology. At the end of the study, the results showed novice nurses (with less than two years' experience) were most highly skilled in e-mail, internet usage and search engines, word processing, lab results retrieval, keyboarding, and online classrooms/education; they reported novice nurses being least skilled in electronic
publishing, computer languages, graphic development, webpage design, and coding for billing purposes. Thereby revealing informatics knowledge and skills gaps reported by new nurses.
This study did an excellent identifying the gaps in the use of informatics. If nursing programs and clinical facilities collaborate to close these gaps, it will provide trained and novice nurses with safe and efficient patient care and meet documentation requirements.
]]> 2022-10-04 14:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2325854794 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2333679761 2022-10-10 14:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2333679761 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2333681074 2022-10-10 14:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2333681074 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2342270691 This study explains how misdiagnosis disproportionately happens to patients whom doctors have labeled as “difficult” in their electronic health records and how black patients may be subjected to systematic bias in physicians’ perceptions of their credibility. 


]]> 2022-10-17 00:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2342270691 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349387513 This week, we discussed how health information exchange data is found and collected in the U.S. healthcare system. We learned that health information exchange enables healthcare professionals to securely share patient information to reduce the delay in the treatment process. 
When it comes to data, they are raw numbers collected and stored at the level that it was obtained. However, datasets include a vast amount of medical data, measurements, financial data, statistical data, demographics, etc., gathered from various healthcare data sources.
During my search, I found this article that discussed how most studies are done to evaluate the use/impact of HIEs on health care healthcare outcomes, and a few used HIE data to answer a research objective that was not specific to HIE use.



 
]]> 2022-10-20 16:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349387513 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349394208 2022-10-20 16:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349394208 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349424089 2022-10-20 16:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349424089 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349428500 2022-10-20 17:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349428500 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349443486 2022-10-20 17:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2349443486 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2362689224 For this week, we learned about telehealth. We discussed the benefits and challenges that telehealth can impose on our healthcare system. Telehealth has the potential to improve patient care. But sometimes, it can also be a disadvantage depending on the extent of the care needed. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to experiment with the use of the telehealth system. We witnessed the benefits and the challenges of utilizing telehealth during the pandemic. Some benefits of telehealth were access to care, its convenience, provider stress reduction, and increased patient satisfaction. Patients living in areas with a shortage of healthcare facilities do not have to travel long distances for care but can access a provider in the comfort of their homes. Regarding the challenges, telehealth has limitations with performing physical exams, technical difficulties, overutilization, etc. ]]> 2022-10-31 04:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2362689224 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382262652 For this week, we learned about games that are available to educate patients with a newly diagnosed specific disease. I understand that gamification is defined as the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context to engage users and solve problems. Additionally, gamification is also a way to collect data that is costly to manage with other methods. 
We were also introduced to different games that may benefit patients during the beginning stages of a specific medical condition. The game I explored was Rufus, the Bear. It was an exciting game. However, it took a while before I understood the game. This game is beneficial to a child after being diagnosed not with T1DM, not only to help learn where the best place to inject and test and the foods to eat but to learn how to inject and test their blood sugar levels. Understanding how and where to test and inject is critical as a person with type 1 diabetes needs multiple injections and measures their blood glucose many times in their lifetime. Overall, the game will benefit children, especially those ages (4-14) who have been newly diagnosed with TD1M.]]> 2022-11-14 05:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382262652 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382264364 This video previews what alert/ alarm fatigue is and describes the types of alarms in the hospital setting. Studies have shown that electronic systems has become more prevalent in the healthcare settings but the number of audio continues to increase dramatically. ]]> 2022-11-14 05:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382264364 Rufus the Bear boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382266974 This game explores foods, especially the number of carbs you can consume and how to manage type 1 diabetes mellitus, and the safe check your blood sugar level, and administer insulin shots. It also incorporates sports activities. Hence, ensuring that diabetics patients understand they do not have to restrict themselves from a workout. But instead, be on the lookout for hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia during the activity, which can be done using a continuous glucose monitor.]]> 2022-11-14 05:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382266974 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382292838 For the week, we discussed how informatics could improve healthcare quality and learned about alert fatigue. The term alert fatigue refers to how busy workers become desensitized to safety alerts and, as a result, ignore or fail to respond appropriately to such warnings. The rapidly increasing computerization of health care has produced benefits for clinicians and patients. Most healthcare technologies—computerized provider order entry systems (CPOE), intravenous infusion pumps, or cardiac monitoring devices—provide auditory or visual warnings to clinicians to prevent or act in unsafe situations. These warnings are well intended and, in isolation, may be helpful. However, in the current highly computerized clinical environment, an individual clinician interacts with many different alert-generating devices—meaning that every day, clinicians are on the receiving end of a staggering number of alerts. Thereby causing clinicians to ignore the bothersome, clinically meaningless alarms and the critical alerts that warn of impending severe patient harm. But one of the ways we could prevent alert fatigue in our healthcare industry is to increase the alert specificity by reducing or eliminating clinically inconsequential alerts.]]> 2022-11-14 05:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382292838 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382552080 This article explains the barriers and benefits that the healthcare industry may face with the use of telehealth and how legislative initiatives have advocated for further telehealth advancements, especially with the rapid implementation of telehealth in the times of coronavirus disease 2019. Upon my search, I found out the the areas that have advanced with the help of telehealth are behavioral health, reproductive and maternal birth, etc.
Even after the pandemic, telehealth has made it convenient to still connect with my therapist on various occasions whenever I need to, and I thank God that Telehealth is here to stay!!!]]> 2022-11-14 09:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382552080 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382553118 This is a picture of a physician connecting with her patient outside of the hospital. ]]> 2022-11-14 09:05:01 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382553118 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382605738 This study was done to determine how effective machine learning prediction models can generate automatic alerts from CDSSs to directly assist physicians in making beneficial clinical decisions and help shape prescribing behavior. They had one model, the Artificial Neutral Network(ANN) learning machine, which excellently performed well in predicting individual physician responses to an alert from a disease medication. Although this research is still in progress and has not yet been introduced, I think one of its cons can be clinicians' dependency. Some clinicians may become very dependent on such a model to the point that they might not look at patients' labs to ensure they will getting the right medication. However, I believe one area that this model may succeed will be urgent care clinics. ]]> 2022-11-14 09:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2382605738 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2397257012 Privacy and security of health information are paramount in today's technologically advancing world. The increased use of electronic health records, smartphones, patient portals, etc., is changing the look of our healthcare system.  This video explains the background and current state of the regulations for protecting patients' health information privacy, confidentiality, and security. Although our healthcare system does its best to maintain privacy, some people that I know (older adults) still do not trust that their data are protected. However, one of the ways we help people with this mindset is to l updated them on technologies or educate them on the security systems that have been put in place to protect their privacy. ]]> 2022-11-24 22:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2397257012 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2408309479 Data visualization is the presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format. It enables decision-makers to see analytics presented visually, so they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. It is also a process of unifying diverse medical data from various sources and transforming it into visual content (infographics and mini-infographics, charts, tables, timelines, scatter plots, or others). The purpose of visualization is to help medical staff interpret data analytics results faster, recognize trends, and make better decisions. ]]> 2022-12-04 22:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2408309479 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2408357082 This video details how data visualization has evolved from 30,000 BC to the present. He categorized the progress of data visualization into four areas, speed, data storage, automation, and accessibility. It is amazing how each category has improved over time due to advanced digital technology.]]> 2022-12-05 00:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2408357082 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2408369926 A picture displaying how data can be visualized or interpreted. ]]> 2022-12-05 00:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2408369926 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417307705 This review I found examines confidentiality, consent to health care, and research involving adolescents regarding legal and ethical aspects. Adolescents were more likely to seek health care if their provider assures confidentiality. But there has to be a balance between the needs of the adolescent patient, parents, and provider.  However, providers must seek permission for consent and must consider the adolescent's ability to understand the medical treatment or the research in which the adolescent is requested to be involved. Under all circumstances, adolescents' permission for medical treatment and research is always mandatory. Although it is mandatory, I believe involving adolescents in research should be based on a careful assessment of risks, benefits and an understanding of the developing capabilities of the adolescent.]]> 2022-12-12 05:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417307705 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417314834 This week, we reviewed the importance of legal and ethical laws governing our healthcare system. Ethical and legal principles evolve in healthcare similarly to how they grow in society as a whole because the ethical and legal principles that govern society govern healthcare as well, with some alterations due to the specific legalities involved with the practice of healthcare. Legal principles deals with the practical regulation of morality or behaviors and activities. Laws tell us how to behave under specific circumstances and prescribe remedies or punishments for individuals who do not comply with the law. However, ethical considerations determine what is good and which behaviors are desirable by higher principles. ]]> 2022-12-12 05:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417314834 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417316147 2022-12-12 05:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417316147 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417321689 It is the process of studying data to find out the answers to how and why things happened in the past. Usually, the result of data analysis is the final dataset, i.e., a pattern, or a detailed report that you can further use for Data Analytics.  ]]> 2022-12-12 05:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417321689 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417322360 2022-12-12 05:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417322360 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417328150 Types of Data Analysis methods that we discussed were descriptive analysis, prescriptive analysis, and predictive analysis. However, I found other types of data analysis, which were Diagnostic Analysis (gives a detailed explanation of a particular scenario by understanding behavior patterns), Statistical Analysis (a statistical approach or technique for analyzing data sets to summarize their important and main characteristics generally by using some visual aids).]]> 2022-12-12 05:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2417328150 boatengh https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2418252605 2022-12-12 18:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/boatengh/k1ejix12m1rg1onh/wish/2418252605