Meaningful Use in HIT Implementation
Meaningful use is part of the efforts by Medicaid services and centers of medicare centers. The initiative aims to implement ECR incentives that promote the development of robust HIT infrastructure. One of the meaningful use objectives is to implement HIT infrastructure that improves quality, efficiency, and minimizing health disparities. It calls for the health centers to develop regional extension points that enhance the transition to the HER use through training. The paper will analyze HIT adaptation as information system implementation to achieve quality and efficient health care.
HIT adaptation is a critical implementation to achieve quality health care that entails adjusting the underlying conditions to make the alignment. It involves three key elements; user training, workflow redesign, as well as technical maintenance. About implementation shifting from refocusing & acceptance to adoption shed light on the factors that interfere with the link between HER application and quality health care. Its implementation should adopt the Donabedian Model to HIT resources in their clinical use. The outcome (quality) refers to the impact of HIT application in Health care as evaluated by CQMs. The consensus is that the implementation procedure will be subjected to regular systems upgrades & optimizations, resulting in outcome variability through the process. It is possible to evaluate the success of adaptation by considering a variety of factors such as training, competency, interactions, technology acceptance, etc.
According to the information technology model, IT is the robust and multidimensional structure that is impacted by many factors in individual and organization category. The inspiration of the members boosts the journey to find success in the organization. The socio-technical framework explains the eight dimensions of HIT in a robust health care system. The results are expected to be the adoption rate, CQMs, and acceptance. It makes it possible to create process measures from a personal and entity point of view while engaging other multidimensional approaches to evaluate adaptation. However, it is essential to think of other factors that come into play, such as expenses, communication routes, cultural conflicts, and interdisciplinary committees. The implementation process constitutes a significant factor since it is the only to enable the transfer of knowledge beyond the clinical environment. Evaluation of the adaptation should take both longitudinal approaches with a variety of data periods to understand the causal relationship. It achieves the outcome of realizing the difference between HIT use the result of medical care. It places one in the position to gather issues that are associated with poorly built software, suboptimal functionality, and workarounds. Also, it is possible to fix the sheer complexity of systems that results in adoption challenges. In solving the above issues, one will have successfully shifted from adoption to adaptation, significantly improving health care.
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