The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the opportunity, and importance, of the health informatics discipline demonstrated by the widespread utilization of health informatics applications, especially eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine. Discuss any eHealth/Telehealth/Telemedicine application you may have used during the COVID-19 pandemic to access/provide healthcare services. What was your experience of using it and how would you compare it with an in-person visit to your provider? What specific policy changes allowed for the expansion of eHealth/Telehealth/Telemedicine? Are those changes permanent? Identify one positive and one negative consequence of such expansion. Could the negative event be minimized? How?
HIMS 655 ASS5
As a HIM director of a healthcare system, you have been assigned to lead a team of individuals to develop a rationale for a Health Data Governance Program. In your first team meeting the agenda is to discuss various aspects of successful Health Data Governance Program. Discuss with your team