Health informatics professionals

Health informatics professionals

Order Instructions:

Health informatics professionals are responsible for promoting and maintaining data quality standards.

As organizations continue to adopt information systems for managing health information, the

implementation of standardized clinical vocabularies and terminologies will change how health

information is exchanged across the continuum. In this task, you will locate three journal articles that

discuss how the use of standardized clinical vocabularies and terminologies will support data quality

requirements for the health record and success of health information exchange among organizations

and within geographic regions.

A. Create an annotated bibliography of three journal articles that meets the following requirements:

€¢ Journal articles must be from scholarly, professional journals. This includes professional journals from

the medical field, allied health professions, information technology, and healthcare informatics.

€¢ Journal articles must have been published within the past three years.

B. Discuss in your annotated bibliography (suggested length of two paragraphs per article) how the

articles you selected aIDress data quality.

Below are some points that you could consider in your discussion:

€¢ How data quality is improved by the use of standardized terminologies

€¢ How data quality requirements may be included in organizational policies or processes

€¢ How standardized terminologies impact the way statistical data is gathered

€¢ How standardized terminologies influence clinical documentation and practice

€¢ How movement toward standardized clinical vocabularies and terminologies serves as a foundation

for the National Health Information Network (NHIN)

€¢ Why standardized terminologies are critical to large health information exchanges

C. If you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.