Health informatic quiz PDF

Preview

Summary

assignment...

Description

Health Informatics Quiz Student name: Tejashree. G. Vernekar Student number: s5119804

Question 1) Joe is 55 years old, and works as an engineer in Brisbane. He has COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that affects his breathing. He is complaining of symptoms that indicate that he is in the early stages of heart failure as a result of his COPD. The last six months have been hard on Joe as he’s been in hospital twice and visits his GP monthly because his condition is not stable. He has two specialists (respiratory and heart) but his family doctor (GP) and pharmacist are the main healthcare people with whom he interacts. He’s having problems with his medicines – the hospital changes his script when he’s admitted and the GP adjusts them as his health changes. Recently a project was implemented to connect the pharmacy, GP and hospital information systems but there are problems. Critically analyse the challenges faced by the project and any solutions you propose to deal with these challenges. Answer: The most common treatment used in health care are the medicine which contributes the most significant improvements in health of an individual when the medicines are taken appropriately. Communication between different health professionals is important for safe and potent delivery of health care. There can be several problems occurring while taking the medication history of a patient. The main error occurs when the patient is brought to the emergency department where the individual do not bring their medication chart and prescribed medicines or the allergy chart. Poor documentation of the medicine can also cause an error. As Joe is mainly dependent on the family doctor and the pharmacist he can run into trouble if his family doctor changes his medicines according to his health change these practice can be harmful or may be not but still there is a risk. The project can face challenges like the missing documents, changes in medicine; miscommunication between different health care individuals and also under

privileged people does not understand the prescribed medicine history which can cause them to give wrong information regarding the past medical history. But the problem here with Joe is, family doctor is changing the medicine according to his health which at certain stage is good but the motive of the specialist doctor is different and the family doctor may not be able to understand the specialist doctors motive which may not help Joe to cure from his disease as early as the specialist doctor wants. Previous Australian research on the accuracy of medication charts on admission to hospital had shown that there was one omitted medicine from the medication history among every two people admitted. The important first step here in project planning is collecting data from the patient if the patient does not provide detail information about the medical history or background the system will fail. This problem can be solved by taking proper case history of the patients which will help the doctor to provide proper medication and the system failure error can be reduced. Solution to this problem is creating a proper database of medical history of the patient and taking proper case history will also be a key factor in proper planning of the project. Keeping the records properly and able to retrieve the data at correct time will be helpful for the doctors. Hospital should create an online portal so that any individual entering the hospital or is previously a member should update their health history so that a proper health history is maintained and even if the patient comes in an emergency ward the hospital already has the patient health record and the further process and medical checks can be done smoothly. The solution to this type of problem cannot be full proof. But still the regular upgradation can be helpful in minimizing the errors. Proper working relationship between all health care professional are essential to the delivery of personalised and effective patient services.

Reference:

1. Easton K, Morgan T, Williamson M. Medication safety in the community: a review of

the literature. Sydney: National Prescribing Service; 2009. 2. Hodgkinson MR, Dirnbauer NJ, Larmour I. Identification of adverse drug reactions using the ICD-10 Australian Modification Clinical Coding Surveillance. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research 2009;39(1):19-23. 3. . Kalisch LM, Caughey GE, Barratt JD, Ramsay EN, Killer G, Gilbert AL, et al. Prevalence of preventable medication-related hospitalizations in Australia: an opportunity to reduce harm. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2012;24(3):239-49. 4. Pharmacy Practice Research Group (1997) Final Report of the Community Pharmacy Model Practices Project. School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5. QUMCIT (1999) Project News. Quality Use of Medicines in the Community Implementation Trial Newsletter No 1, November 1999.

Question 4) Robots are becoming accepted as an innovation for the future of caring for older people, keeping them in their homes longer and supporting meaningful independence. You are a senior manager of an urban aged care facility. You have been tasked with selecting, implementing and maintaining robots as part of an innovative service that your organisation provides to older people living in the community that surrounds your aged care facility. Briefly describe how the robots can be used for

older people. What are the benefits and challenges associated with older people using the robots?

Answer: Regardless of developments that make it simpler for seniors to continue living individually instead of moving into exceptional offices, most elderly individuals in the end require a hand with tasks and other regular exercises. In recent years, variety of industries is using different type of robots to make their work more easy and efficient Robots that are intended to help individuals, bolster them, or give the patients, debilitated, youthful, old or powerless individuals with required care, in better places and circumstances like homes or healing centers (Vallor, 2011). Elderly care the robot is still at an early stage and it requires time to implement real time robot that can do your everyday tasks. Robotics the robot is called as “aging companion” , Hasbro Joy for all Robotic cat is the other robot targeted mainly elderly care application. The robot can remind human companions to take their medicines or can arrange cabs for them. Making an appointment with the doctor is also important. The stability issues of more seasoned individuals likewise implies that they thoroughly rely upon others to deal with their everyday life at home, and that they are unequipped for going out shopping, or going by individuals. What's more, a few types of memory misfortune are normal with developing age, not to overlook dementia as a present test. Next to the physical shortcoming in performing individual issues, elderly individuals more often than not require somebody to help them to remember the need to finish different activities, or educate them regarding the situations for, and components of those exercises (Sharkey and Sharkey, 2012). Elderly individuals are for all time presented to the danger of falling over or becoming ill, or getting confounded or lost. They ought not be allowed to sit unbothered, but rather be gone to and be offered friendship, fondness and care. There are different sensors used to check

our heart beat so robot can be used to check the elderly person heart beat and can send the reading to the doctor so the risk can be minimized. There different types of robots which can be used for entertainment purposes, like you can watch your favourite TV show, listen to music by just giving them commands. Robots can be used for lifting tasks and helping the elderly people with their everyday work and can be a great companion to live with. Using robot at aged care facility can be beneficial for example, nowadays lot of robot comes with inbuilt screen and phone one can give just a command to call their family members and a video call or audio can be placed.. Different challenges can be faced even though the robot is doing your daily task you can’t rely on the robot that they will perform their task efficiently. Picking and placing elderly people using robots still requires a human presence to check that there is no risk. The main challenge is selecting a robot and once a robot is selected how much will it cost is a real concern, so accordingly budgeting should be done. A few exercises will even now require human parental figures, and there are individuals for whom mechanical help will never be the appropriate response. However, you can wager that robots will enable seniors to age set up. One of the nerves communicated about the idea of future dependence on robots in minding is that careing robot would disconnect the elderly from whatever is left of society (Sparrow and Sparrow, 2006). Borenstein and Pearson (2010) contend that robot carers will replace human ones. They contend that if the robots that are intended for future prevail with regards to achieving more elevated amount errands that request proficient abilities in mind taking, they, no doubt,will oust human carers from the scene quite as a result of monetary interests. Regardless of whether clients lean toward robots for straightforward and evidently unsophisticated unsocial undertakings in human minding, it will impact the social existence of older folks. Dealing with senior citizens isn't isolated from routine family unit exercises, for example, cleaning.

Appropriately, it is contended that, in such cases, senior citizens will lose the uncommon chances of human contact. On the off chance that the control of robots is given to elderly individuals, there is the likelihood that things will turn out badly. Be that as it may, this raises a contention on other questionable issues, for example, the degree of concurrence with the elderly individual's wants, and the relationship of the control perceived for elderly individual and their psychological status (Parks, 2010; Sharkey and Sharkey, 2011a, 2012; Sharkey and Sharkey, 2010a, 2010b). Reference: 1. Broekens, J., Heerink, M., & Rosendal, H. (2009). Assistive social robots in elderly care: a review. Gerontechnology, 8(2), 94-103. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/049e/c0283895a5c5eda0ee6d2946d9ff35beeb46.pdf 2. Canada, A. S. o., &. (2010). Rising tide: The impact of dementia on Canadian society: Author Toronto,, ON, Canada. 3. Hendrich, N., Bistry, H., & Zhang, J. (2015). Architecture and Software Design for a

Service Robot in an Elderly-Care Scenario. Engineering, 1(1), 027-035. Retrieved from http://fulltext.study/FC01D391-099B-4C31-92518C67A6DE2EA3/FinalDownload/DownloadId-C5742F8 7F28ECF54D8F0C062BFF88681/FC01D391-099B-4C31-92518C67A6DE2EA3/download/480105.pdf 4. IFR. (2014). World Robotics 2014 Industrial Robots. International Federation of

Robotics. Retrieved from http://www.ifr.org/news/ifr-press-release/global-roboticsindustry-record-beats-record-621/s 5. Kartal, B., Nunes, E., Godoy, J., & Gini, M. (2016). Monte Carlo Tree Search with Branch and Bound for Multi-Robot Task Allocation Symposium conducted at the

meeting of the The IJCAI-16 Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Service Robots doi:http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bilal/papers/AAAI16_MCTS.pdf...