Your initial outline for your course project paper is due this module. Prepare a 1-2-page document that outlines how you will organize your course project paper. Your outline will be the skeleton from which you will write your project. Your outline should contain an idea for your introduction (the full introduction will be created in Module 03) and at least 3 headings for sections  that explain and analyze how technology has been used to improve healthcare delivery and information management for your selected topic (from Module 1), as well as implications, challenges, risks, and opportunities. You may use any standard outline format. Be sure to use correct grammar and spelling.
Module 01 Project – Topic Introduction
Healthcare Information Technology in Nursing Homes Administration
Healthcare Information Technology in Nursing Homes Administration
Administration of Healthcare Information Technology in Nursing Homes
I chose NHA because nursing home managers are using healthcare information technology more and more to improve patients’ and residents’ safety, quality of life, and staff productivity.
Three ideas can help explain how healthcare information technology affects NHA. First of all, there are general systems like doctor entries and electronic health records. Second, minimum data sets are included, such as the residents’ functional abilities and information about their health assessments. Third, there are other health information systems, including billing for patients, payroll for members, and human resources. These ideas are based on two new ways of doing things: point of care and electronic drug administration records (Ko et al., 2018).
HIT can help the NHA in many ways because it has the potential to do so. HIT works well to connect the radiology, pharmacy, and lab systems in a nursing home. US hospitals prefer to send patients to skilled nursing homes to keep them from going back to the hospital and to reduce the health burden. For HIT to be used in nursing homes, it is best to work with hospitals. To safely move a patient from the hospital to a nursing home, doctors, pharmacists, and nurses must talk to each other and share information about the patient’s records, medications, and treatments. So, using HIT lowers the chances of medical mistakes and bad things happening (Alexander et al., 2017).
Residents can stay in a nursing home for a short time or for a long time. After getting medical care, short-term residents can leave. Long-term residents get care from people who are in charge of them. It doesn’t include taking care of people and getting better medical care. It makes things like bathing, dressing, and eating easier to do every day (Zhang et al., 2016). The fact that the patients have multiple illnesses at the same time makes it especially important to give them health care and care in prison. Here, HIT has a part to play. Computerized HITs can be used to track the appearance of new symptoms. It will keep doctors up-to-date so they can give better care (Powell et al., 2020). Policymakers should come up with ways to make it easier for HITs to be used in all areas of nursing homes.
References
Alexander, G. L., Madsen, R. W., Miller, E. L., Schaumberg, M. K., Holm, A. E., Alexander, R. L., Wise, K. K., Dougherty, M. L., & Gugerty, B. (2017). A national report of nursing home information technology: year 1 results. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA, 24(1), 67–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocw051
Ko, M., Wagner, L., & Spetz, J. (2018). Nursing Home Implementation of Health Information Technology: Review of the Literature Finds Inadequate Investment in Preparation, Infrastructure, and Training. Inquiry: a journal of medical care organization, provision, and financing, 55, 46958018778902. https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958018778902
Powell, K. R., Deroche, C. B., Carnahan, E. J., & Alexander, G. L. (2020). Exploring Resident Care Information Technology Use and Nursing Home Quality. Journal of gerontological nursing, 46(4), 15–20. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20200303-02
Zhang, N., Lu, S. F., Xu, B., Wu, B., Rodriguez-Monguio, R., & Gurwitz, J. (2016). Health Information Technologies: Which Nursing Homes Adopted Them? Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 17(5), 441–447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2016.02.028
