Barriers to Healthcare Informatics Flashcards
What are the barriers to PHRs?
- Privacy
- usability
- access to computer or internet
- physical disabilities
- Access to PHR system
- Cognitive disabilities
- Low literacy in computer or reading
- low health literacy
- Terminology
- Familiarity and comfort
- Ensuring accurate data
What are the barriers to Telehealth?
- Legal barriers
- Speed and connectivity
- Reimbursement and accountable care organizations
- Cost
- Resistance to change
- Security and privacy concerns
What are barriers to mobile health?
- lack of physician support
- lack of existing technology
- Concerns about regulation and efficacy of applications
- Security
- Difficulty understanding the technology
- mobile does not mean only mobile
- User-friendly
- human appeal
- lack of support
- connectivity
What are barriers to Games for Health?
- Lack of expertise/knowledge in practical application
- Lack of interest by consumers
- Low content familiarity
- Game design literacy
- Production cost
- Limited consumer acceptance
- Unkown practical application
- Low familiarity with the technology
- Reliability of the technology
- Low availability
True or False: The 21st Century Cures Act asserts that putting patients in charge of their health records is a key piece of patient control in healthcare; therefore, barriers to their health information must be addressed through the use of advanced information technology measures
True
What are the five common applications of consumer health informatics?
- personal health records
- telehealth
- mHealth (mobile health)
- Games for Health
- Health 2.0
What is mHealth?
The use of wireless devices and sensor networks to access healthcare information or services from the community or to transmit healthcare information to healthcare professionals
Data integrity
a comprehensive term that encompasses the notion of wholeness when data is collected, stored, and retrieved by the user
What is it that the PHR (Personal health record) can do that the EHR cannot?
It allows users to electronically collect, track, and share past and current information about their health or someone in their care
Data mining
A process that uses software to uncover relationships within large data sets via the use of AI, statistical computation, and computer technology
Predictive analytics/predictive modeling
Uses past and current data to forecast the likelihood of an event
Data cleansing or data scrubbing
removing incorrect, incomplete, duplicate, or improperly formatted items using special software designated for this purpose
What task is a high priority for an informatics clinician when implementing new technology for patient data collection?
Identify and define the goal of the technology
What barrier to healthcare informatics use does the HITECH Act aim to reduce?
Financial
consumer health informatics
a field within health informatics devoted to the consumer, or patient, view
