The information life cycle provides the framework for accessing and sharing health information. The initial phase is identifying the systems and procedures for collection. The identified system is the Electronic Health Record (EHR), which supports a shift from paper patient records. The move enhances efficiency in collecting, processing, and storing crucial patient health information (Galetsi et al., 2019). The system facilitates easy access to demographic information, HIV test results, physician visits, and treatment. EHRs also make the care team aware of progress based on electronic notes from physician and specialist visits. Systems and procedures is among the sections from which to retrieve information about the patient’s status and patient-centered interventions implemented to optimize care outcomes. The second phase of the information flow cycle is documentation that meets standards for interoperability. The primary consideration is ensuring that systems exchange information efficiently and securely and that only authorized users access sensitive health records (Sorbie, 2020). Automated documentation enhances the ease of accessing and processing patient admission, discharge details, and other relevant details.
This proposal also accommodates the integration of health information into HIE. The process will streamline sharing of patient-level health information between doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers due to improved speed and safety of information flow. The integration will also prevent costly and redundant tests. For the fifth component of the cycle, which is storage, the electronic health record will automatically save the relevant information about patients’ HIV status and treatment pathways. Further, controlling access will involve efforts to ensure that information that goes through a doctor’s office undergoes an extensive review. Control of access will also influence retrieval of information based on the care team’s access to details about hospital stays, HIV test results, treatment, and progress reports. All information kept under the patient pseudonym with documentation containing the patient’s real name must be kept under lock and key (Abouelmehdi et al., 2018). Patient information will be protected under numerous passwords changed often and available only to those specific office members who have been trained and sworn to privacy. The last phase of the cycle is destruction, which will entail shredding, burning, pulping, or pulverizing paper records to ensure the refuse is indecipherable.
Using information from a HIE allows the care team to use a secure and centralized repository of patient data aggregated across facilities and EHRs. The process makes it easier for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals to access accurate and complete details about a patient and treatment pathways. Using information from a HIE improves the quality of patient care and enhances clinical knowledge based on opportunities to obtain, process, and share accurate and complete medical information, surveillance, disease projections, and patient satisfaction surveys. In this case, the care team recognizes the need for enhanced vigilance when submitting information to an HIE. The efforts reduce the risk of inaccurate data collection, patient matching gaps, and inefficient organizational workflows (Oachs & Watters, 2020). This way, the care team dedicate time and energy towards delivering the best, efficient, and high quality. It is easier for the care team to have a complete view of a patient’s medical and treatment history and deliver services that match clients’ expectations and organizational strategic priorities.
The personnel to complete the health information review include physicians, nurses, pharmacists, the nurse informaticist, and lab technicians. The group is responsible for documenting details about treatment progress and emerging issues related to the patient’s HIV status. The team requires critical thinking, analysis, and problem solving skills. Notably, the training will focus on guiding the care team to think through problems and analyze them based on efforts to enhance efficiency in processing and sharing patient health information. Data analytics skills are also crucial for the team to process raw data and interpret findings to identify improvements necessary to optimize care outcomes. There will be strategies employed to help the personnel implement the review study. The efforts will focus on providing evidence-based and patient-centered care. Training and education will allow the care team to acquire essentia