31 Aug Application: Improving Patient Health Through Standardized Representations of Health Information
Application: Improving Patient Health Through Standardized Representations of Health Information
In health care today, standardized representations of information are routinely used by providers to support and facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
To prepare for this Application Assignment, review the information presented in this week’s Learning Resources about the relationship between the standardized representation of health information and the delivery of care to improve patient health. Consider your own health care organization (or one with which you are familiar) and reflect on the work that providers do there on behalf of patients and the various ways in which standardized health information is used in that work.
To complete this Application Assignment, write a 2- to 3-page paper in which you build a multi-stage scenario that involves a patient who has been hospitalized with a particular diagnosis and that reflects”for each stage of the scenario (i.e., at each stage of the patient’s care)”the identification of an applicable health information standard.
First, explain what the patient’s diagnosis is and identify which system you would use to classify it, why you would use that particular system, and how that system would work to classify the diagnosis.
Second, specify a procedure or medication used to treat the patient, then identify what system you would use to describe that treatment and why.
Third, once the patient is ready to be discharged from the hospital, indicate whether that patient is fully recovered or needs follow-up care, then identify what data set standard or data interchange standard would be appropriate for use at this point in the process and why.
Lastly, explain how the use of health information standards contributed as part of an overall continuum to the delivery of patient care and, ultimately, to the improved health of the patient.
Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. To ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct, refer to APA Style: .
