justify to your organization's chief information officer (CIO) the need to integrate all clinical and administrative departments into a health information management system in your organization. Address the most significant and current health information exchange (HIE), EHR, HIPAA, and HITECH regulations in your state. After creating your slides, audio-record (no more than five minutes) how you would present this information to the CIO?

 

health information system is important in the healthcare in the following ways: eases gathering, compiling and analyze health data to manage patient health. it allows collaborative care through ease accessibility of common health records from one department to another. guarantees security to patient data and loss of patient data is minimized. assures organized and coordinated treatment process. they provide framework that helps interact with their patient in a better way and eventually care to them in a an efficient manner. in maintains less paper work and thorough automation errors are minimized, it saves on time as patient data is readily available.

Current regulations on HIE,EHR, HIPAA and HITECH includes: the privacy act of 1974 that safeguard the confidentiality and integrity oh patient information. guidance on the patient right that patient should be provided with simple and timely means to access and obtain individual health information. HIE should be open and transparent. should emphasize on type of information to be collected, used and disclosed. should provide patient with timely means to dispute accuracy or integrity of the health information. the best way of presenting this information to the chief information officer is by face to face. this is because it offers room to persuade and express information in a well manner.