Health informatics sharing information: weekly discussion post
In your opinion:
- Volumes of healthcare data are collected daily. Have you encountered errors in your personal data or those of a family member, as it was collected and stored? Can you recall what the error was related to and perhaps how it had happened? Were there any negative outcomes?
- After reviewing the youtube video let’s go through the discussion together, one question at a time:
- https://youtu.be/mUgEgkV16Bw
- What parts of the data information lifecycle are discussed in this article?
- Who are the stakeholders in this “chilling reality “?
- From the lens of the stakeholders- what are some of the many possible changes that might be implemented to lower these statistics?
- Discuss as a data consumer, what elements of data quality are important in reducing medical errors?
Answer preview
Yes. My grandmother had been diagnosed with acute congestive heart failure, and the nurse instead indicated chronic systolic congestive heart failure. There were severe consequences in relation to this error, such as; incorrect treatment was administered. It was also painful and expensive.
- What parts of the data information lifecycle are discussed in this article?
Data information goes through three stages, from data to information and from information to knowledge. Data is defined as the organized number of words such as texts, and information is termed as the organized number of words that are interpreted, communicated, or given some context or meaning, and knowledge is the information taken and inferences drawn from human
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