Problem
You will be responding to the following discussion question based on your your University of Arizona Global Campus major of study (e.g., Health Information Management, Nursing, Health Administration, Health and Human Services, or Public Health).
Read the following scenario:
• Cherry Health System (CHS) consists of a general hospital, a women's hospital, 20 doctor practices comprised of doctors who work for CHS, and an ambulatory surgery center. The leadership of this facility has decided they would like to take the existing paper-based consumer education pamphlets on tobacco education and deploy them to the ambulatory population of CHS who visit the doctor offices and surgery center. They would like to use the informatics tools, principles, and content available through smokefree gov. as a basis for this education. In order to identify patients who can benefit from this informatics solution, they asked administrators in the physician offices and the surgery center to print a report of patients who currently use tobacco from the CHS electronic health record (EHR). As a professional in your field of study, you have been asked to provide input into the design of this informatics solution.
Based on the above scenario:
• Provide a rationale as to where in the Hierarchy of Informatics (Chapter 35, page Figure 35.6, page 608) the CHS tobacco informatics solution would be categorized.
• Based on your major of study and the patient education informatics tools. Discuss three informatics functions that your design for the tobacco education solution would include.
• Identify at least two program evaluation methods (found in Chapter 4 of the course textbook) that you would recommend to CHS leadership to evaluate the effectiveness of the tobacco education informatics solution.
Scenario
Cherry Health System (CHS) consists of a general hospital, a women's hospital, 20 doctor practices comprised of doctors who work for CHS, and an ambulatory surgery center. The leadership of this facility has decided they would like to take the existing paper-based consumer education pamphlets on tobacco education and deploy them to the ambulatory population of CHS who visit the doctor offices and surgery center. They would like to use the informatics tools, principles, and content available through smokefree.gov as a basis for this education. In order to identify patients who can benefit from this informatics solution, they asked administrators in the physician offices and the surgery center to print a report of patients who currently use tobacco from the CHS electronic health record (EHR). As a professional in your field of study, you have been asked to provide input into the design of this informatics solution.
Provide a rationale as to where in the Hierarchy of Informatics (Chapter 35, page Figure 35.6, page 608) the CHS tobacco informatics solution would be categorized.
In the Hierarchy of Informatics diagram presented in chapter 35 of our text, the Cherry Health System (CHS) tobacco informatic solution would be associated within the Public Health and the Clinical Informatics domains (Nelson & Staggers, 2018). The tobacco informatic solution would fall under the Public Health domain because it would be utilized to inform the public populations on tobacco education which is a public health issue. As to the domain of Clinical Informatics, clinical information would need to be gathered, analyzed, and evaluated to determine which part of the patient population of Cherry Health System would benefit from this information. Tailoring the demographic to those who have a use of tobacco products or are exposed to them. This would eliminate distribution to those unaffected or not exposed to tobacco use.
Based on your major of study and the patient education informatics tools available. Discuss three informatics functions that your design for the tobacco education solution would include.
As a major in Healthcare Administration, three informatics functions that would be included in the design for the tobacco education solution would be
Identify at least two program evaluation methods (found in Chapter 4 of the course textbook) that you would recommend to CHS leadership to evaluate the effectiveness of the tobacco education informatics solution.