Answer for DNP 805 Select a specific health care technology-related regulation, law, statute, or ethical standard that applies to informatics Re: Topic 1 DQ 1
The COVID-19 pandemic hit our health care system and that there is an urgent need to focus on evidence-based implementation of digital health. This gains is important since there is frequently need to focus on providing telehealth and telemedicine since patients are not being seen in the clinics. This pandemic has created a unique opportunity to create quality data which can enable the achievement of the “Learning Healthcare System (LHS)” paradigm which implies that knowledge generated within the health care systems in the daily practice is used systematically to produce the continual improvement in care. International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) adopted an evidence-based approach toward deployment of digital health technologies during the current COVID-19 crisis. This helped all clinicians to assess patients while they are at home and not worrying to go out. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines in its web site eHealth as “the use of information and communication technologies for health care purposes.” With this, health informatics can assist IT to support patients with their practice of health. Accessing their health is important and should be done effectively and safely. It will have an overwhelming benefit for both patient experience and outcomes and of utilizing telemedicine. Studies should focus on improving access, reducing technological barriers, and policy reform to improve the spread of telemedicine.
I think it connects with GCU Christian worldview and i agree telemedicine and telehealth can support our health care industry especially right now that we are on pandemic. Some patients are still afraid to go out and see their primary doctors and they want to talk to them thru telehealth. We should have guidelines and privacy to remember at all times for ethical decisions.
References:
International Medical Informatics Association IAHSI statement to WHO on the use of informatics in pandemic situationsAccessed December 1, 2020 at:https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/statement-from-the-international-academy-for-health-sciences-informatics-iahsi-the-academy-of-the-international-medical-informatics-association-imia-to-the-director-general-of-the-who-on-the-use/
