QUESTIONS: 1) What surprised you in the reading below and why? 2) Is there anything in the reading that you disagree wit

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QUESTIONS:
1) What surprised you in the reading below and why?
2) Is there anything in the reading that you disagree with?
3) Is there a recent news item, conference that you
attended that is related to the reading below?
THE READING:
Summary
In summary, global health is emerging for traditional healthcare
participants and new players ushering in non-healthcare giants as
well as innovators currently not yet detected broadly. No matter
the technology used, health professionals must be involved in HIS
development every step of the way to create the kinds of systems we
need in today’s challenging health and healthcare environment.
Since each and every health profession now includes HIS in order to
perform its work, clinical, business, and technology health
professions now can only be done proficiently with HIS knowledge,
ability, and activity. The U.S. health system has perhaps some of
the greatest challenges to overcome compared to other countries,
due to long-term reliance on the fee-for-service reimbursement
methodology which is now transitioning to a value-based
system. Countries internationally have endeavored to implement
HIS support systems and infrastructures for their citizens, and
none is without issues nor successes. In the U.S., provider
organization reliance on the HIS vendor marketplace as the source
of solutions, and vendor influence within the government, among
other factors, has complicated and increased the cost of automation
of health care beyond what it costs in other industries. As health
systems and providers transition their focus from acute care to
population health management, emphasizing prevention, predictive
analysis, and early intervention, chronic care management and care
coordination now dominate the scene, while our structures, systems,
reimbursement methods, and professionals are also transitioning
from fee-for-service, acute, medical scenario to value-based
reimbursement and care processes.
Basic administrative and clinical functions automating the
majority of health activities and healthcare organizations are in
place or underway in most nations, albeit using different types of
systems, strategies, and financing mechanisms. The majority of
healthcare organizations—as a result of the efforts of many
professionals in the management, clinical, and technical ranks—have
implemented core business systems in the areas of finance, human
resources, supply chain management, and other administrative
functions. Clinical functionality has been introduced into and is
being used in the majority of healthcare organizations, similar to
how EHR systems are now implemented in some form in U.S. hospitals,
clinics, and provider practices. Given expectations from earlier
efforts to automate health care, compared to the current HIS and
their use, these issues listed above should be taken into
consideration, and do form the basis of the content, comments and
information covered in this text. This text is not written to
simply teach students about the current state of HIS and how to
sustain and manage those systems, staying in the current state of
affairs. Rather, the goal of this text is, yes, to help
students learn about HIS top to bottom, but to also understand what
is wrong with and lacking in current HIS approaches, systems and
their uses.
Health professionals around the world play a key role in
understanding and knowing how to improve HIS uses, management,
applications, and foci in order to improve clinical and cost
outcomes across the board. As we enter the next wave of HIS
activity, 60 years since the genesis of HIS, let us take stock of
the good, bad, and ugly, so that healthcare outcomes improve.
Patient experiences should resemble what they experience elsewhere
in their lives as consumers, and the precious lives and careers of
health professionals must be spent as wisely and productively as
possible. Students of the health professions and the industry they
are in would benefit greatly from studying the evolving progress
and challenges of HIS into consideration. After all, these
professionals are some of the most important knowledge-workers on
the planet, enabling real progress to be achieved in health status
of populations and the delivery of health services, while improving
all healthcare workers’ daily experience (Glaser, 2016).