NSG 3039 Week 4 Project Informatics in the Clinical Setting Informatics in the Clinical Setting

NSG 3039 Week 4 Project Informatics in the Clinical Setting Informatics in the Clinical Setting

Improving healthcare quality focuses on reducing the cost of care which a top priority in healthcare reform process. Informatics is one aspect of improving healthcare quality because of the benefits that it provides to practitioners and healthcare organizations. informatics entails the practice of deploying information technology to organize and evaluate health records to ascertain improvement in overall patient outcomes (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2018). By conducting an interview with a clinical system analyst in my hospital, I discuss her role and her perspective on its impact on patient safety and quality of care. The essay discusses different aspects of their role and associated factors and challenges. The essay also discusses insights gained through the interview and impact of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators and the Joint Commission’s Patient Safety Goals. The article also highlights the impacts of governing agencies on care delivery through the utilization of Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) framework in a clinical setting.

The interviewee, Miss Weinstein, is the clinical systems analyst at our organization. Giving a description of her role based on her job title, Miss Weinstein asserted that she develops and builds content used in the electronic health records (EHR) systems and ensures that it is usable for medical recording purposes. The system should also be  efficient for nurses to document patient information. The position also entails building all evaluation tools and protocols for the EHRs system. The analyst also builds a care for particular patients by tailoring it to meet the diagnostic needs (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2018). She is one of the members of the informatics team at the facility. Weinstein has an Associate’s degree in Nursing and got her role due her experience working in clinical practice and having proficiency in computer. She is highly proficient in policies and has a desire to help enhance patient safety through information technology. The interview also entailed a discussion of the challenges that informatics specialists face like need for increased organizational resources for advanced training. She was also categorical that informatics will continue to play a critical role in care delivery focusing on patient safety and improvement of quality care. Therefore, she emphasized the need for increased integration of informatics in nursing and other areas of healthcare provision.