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To provide the safe and effective delivery of medical care, virtually all clinical staff use a number of front-line health informatics tools in their day-to-day operations. The need for standardization and refined development of these tools is underscored by the HITECH Act and other efforts to develop electronic medical records. Often, the development of these electronic processes is hampered by the conversion process from older paper processes, which were developed before the stricter development guidelines required in an electronic environment.
To successfully implement each of these tools, hospitals generally must define who is responsible for, and a prescribed manner of building, testing, approving, coding, publishing, implementing/educating, and tracking the tool.
Front-line health informatics tools (sometimes informally called the "clinical informatics toolbelt") generally include one of the following:
Clinical informaticists create clinical changes by properly constructing and implementing these tools.
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (January 2017) |
To provide the safe and effective delivery of medical care, virtually all clinical staff use a number of front-line health informatics tools in their day-to-day operations. The need for standardization and refined development of these tools is underscored by the HITECH Act and other efforts to develop electronic medical records. Often, the development of these electronic processes is hampered by the conversion process from older paper processes, which were developed before the stricter development guidelines required in an electronic environment.
To successfully implement each of these tools, hospitals generally must define who is responsible for, and a prescribed manner of building, testing, approving, coding, publishing, implementing/educating, and tracking the tool.
Front-line health informatics tools (sometimes informally called the "clinical informatics toolbelt") generally include one of the following:
Clinical informaticists create clinical changes by properly constructing and implementing these tools.