Health Information, Big Data and the quality of care: a conversation with Chief ONC Judy Murphy
Who is responsible for the large amount of electronic data in the system health care in the United States? What is done to keep safe health information in the day and age of big data? Does the data also collected to good use?
Judy Murphy RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN, deputy national coordinator for programs and policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), recently spoke about these issues "health information, Big Data and the quality of care," a part of the school of George Washington University in the series of conferences nursing deans. the event was co-organized by the GW Virginia Campus Science & Technology.
About Judy Murphy
Before joining ONC in 2011, Murphy had over 25 years of iT health and nursing experience. She led the electronic health record program (EHR) implementation since 1995 in one of the first major health systems to adopt EHRs, Aurora health care, a system of 0 ambulatory care centers, 15 hospitals, many home health agencies and 30,000 employees.
ONC, a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is in charge of health information technology (IT) efforts such as providing technical assistance and resources for the entire US health care system. The office supports the health IT infrastructure, exchange of information on health, governance of the Nationwide Health Information Network and Policy and Strategic Planning IT health. The ONC was created in 04 by decree, and was commissioned by the Health Information Technology for Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) and economic.
Key Takeaways
Many topics were raised during the discussion of an hour, including some of the audience, but the speech largely focused on the various challenges and medical informaticists nurses. medical and nursing informaticists to bridge the gap between clinical practice and health IT by helping to implement new information systems.
- Most of the major problems in the field of IT and IT health can be attributed to the novelty of the discipline.
- There are still the necessary development in several key areas for interoperability between systems.
- While many see the adoption of EHR systems and interoperability as the greatest challenges facing health IT by integrating data collection and references to EHRs in everyday workflows are complex pressing issues.
- patient involvement has the greatest potential to improve health outcomes, and health IT the data is the "way to action."
- security issues are also a higher priority than data espionage, theft of financial identity and medical identity theft are ongoing issues for health care providers -. it is their responsibility to ensure the safety and conformity to the 1996 liability Act Health Insurance Portability and (HIPAA)
Leveraging Big Data
as EHR concerns, the type of input issues. text-based data can not be easily codified so that it can be shared between systems or even within a system. many practitioners prefer data basic text, because it is similar to their usual way of doing things and seems more flexible in terms of customization that the drop down menus or multiple choice entries. Designs should focus on ease of use - making it easy to integrate health IT into the daily workflow of practitioners and support staff. Murphy stressed the importance of education professionals to not only use the functionality of the EHR, but also to help practitioners integrate the EHR in practice daily. She cited the problems of use with many platforms that make it difficult to fully engage with the patient and simultaneously enter the required information, which can affect workflow.
Improving health
Murphy promoted patient participation as a "blockbuster drug of the century" and data such as the "way to action." She believes EHRs and large data will go a long way toward promoting the participation of patients access to their personal data can be an entry point and motivator for engagement.
in addition to promoting better health outcomes, patient involvement also helps to shift the responsibility the sole responsibility of the health service to a partnership between the provider and the patient.
another advantage of sharing data is shared responsibility; everyone who interacts with the patient has the opportunity and responsibility to take action. If pharmacists, nurses, physicians, patients and caregivers all have access to the same information, specifies that follows the patient wherever he / she goes, there are many more opportunities for someone to ask " the right questions. "to illustrate this type of longitudinal care, Murphy cited a new partnership with urgent care clinics in large chains Walgreens and CVS pharmacies, which have developed their own EHR systems.
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Conversations around the distribution, storage and data security in the health care industry are far from over. As big data has its foot on the ground, there will be a great need for innovation and standardized best practices that stakeholders work together to ensure that protocols and reliable results, efficient and patient-centered.
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