Identify an initiative where informatics, information, and communication technologies can improve healthcare quality or population health outcomes. This can be any technology, from EHR, clinical decision support (CDS), telehealth, POC technology, or emerging technology, where you can use your knowledge to implement an innovative quality improvement to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce health inequities.
Outline
1. Introduction (1-2 paragraphs)
• Briefly outline the Background of the initiative and the purpose of the paper
2. Healthcare Quality Outcomes, Safety, and Informatics (2-4pages)
• Informatics Concepts
• Discuss the role of informatics in the use of epidemiological data to improve patient safety, reduce health disparities, and improve population health outcomes.
• Identify the advanced-level competencies and knowledge of informatics concepts the graduate nurse needs to lead an interprofessional team in using EBP in the application of information and communication technology to support patient safety and population health outcomes.
• Role and Professional Responsibility
• Identify system improvement strategies to address health inequities and disparities. Including the graduate nurse’s professional and ethical responsibility in using informatics to identify gaps and inequities in vulnerable populations, including outcome monitoring and evaluation to improve healthcare quality and population health.
3. Clinical Workflow Analysis Process and Change Management (2-4pages)
• Health Information Technology (HIT)
• Identify the benefits of the identified innovative HIT in improving patient safety, healthcare quality, and value-based care.