Information architecture is a significantly specialized field that is usually inadequately tackled among large enterprises. It has further impacted sectors including the healthcare sector which is vital in the current society. Information architecture is the organizational design of common information environments. It is also the art and science of structuring and marking platforms, intranets, online societies, and software to back findability and usability. Information architecture entails a model or concept of data that is employed and applied to activities which necessitate explicit details of complex information systems (Robinson, 2020).
Therefore, nurses can use health information technology in their daily practices to improve patient care and job satisfaction. This paper aims to discuss information architecture, its application in nursing and how it is used by physicians in their practices to improve patient security and job satisfaction.
There are various information needs within a healthcare organization that are differentiated to accommodate the managers and the needs of a physician. For instance, a healthcare organization needs the health information system (HIS) which is designed to manage the data collected and stored in a healthcare company. The information collected comprises data collected by lab physicians, nurses, private and public clinics data, and hospitals. These facilities usually gather, store, manage and share patient electronic medical records (Robinson, 2020). The health information system enabled the healthcare administrators to address medical malpractices faced by their organizations and claims made by consumers on treatment dissatisfaction. Conversely, the health information system is vital in helping the nurses and lab physicians to track patient information thus ensuring successful treatment.
Similarly, the practice management software is an information system that aids healthcare organizations’ administrators and nurses with the handling of daily operations of the facility. These operations include the scheduling of consumers and medical services billing. Despite their employment from single doctors to enormous hospitals, all healthcare practitioners have adopted practice management systems (Zajac et al., 2021).
The system’s objective is to automate management roles which are normally conducted as part of healthcare facilities doing business. Furthermore, the master patient index (MPI) is a healthcare software system that links patients’ records to multiple databases (Mohr et al., 2017). The MPS entails information for all patients registered within a healthcare organization thus creating an index on all the records for the specific patient. Therefore, the system helps managers to successfully handle the operations of their organizations through minimizing duplication of patient records. It further helps nurses in evading inaccurate consumer information that could lead to patient claim denials.
Similarly, the clinical decision support assesses information from clinical and management systems. The system’s objective is to help healthcare practitioners in making informed clinical choices. The information available offers data to medical experts who are formulating diagnoses or forecasting clinical situations, such as drug responses and interactions (Lloyd & Ferguson, 2017). Finally, the laboratory information system enables doctors and lab physicians to manage inpatient and outpatient analyses for hematology, immunology, microbiology, and chemistry to acquire clinical information (Zajac et al., 2021). Therefore, a standard information system should manage consumer demographics, registration information, specimen record, processing, and outcomes.
In conclusion, health facilities are constantly pursuing innovative ways to enhance patient results and improve an effective facility. Health information technologies have enhanced the healthcare delivery, reduced costs, and promoted patient safety in various organizations. Furthermore, it has enabled practitioners to enhance their care delivery to patients since they are able to conduct analysis of diseases and formulate accurate treatments for the illnesses. Therefore, the healthcare information technologies are changing the way healthcare organizations operate relating to management, nursing practices, and patient satisfaction thus should be investigated further to determine their efficiency in the healthcare industry.
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