What are some challenges in adopting HIT to CQISolutionAssum

What are some challenges in adopting HIT to CQI?

Solution

Assumption

HIT means healthcare in information technology

CQI means Clinical Quality Improvement.

Clinical Quality Improvement (CQI): Ensures a comprehensive approach to integrating clinical knowledge into health IT. Provides subject matter expertise on policies, standards, and tools that give providers and consumers the information and tools needed to identify high risk conditions,assist in decision making, and measure care quality.

All industries are besieged by claims that Internet-based content, services, and applications can solve a wide range of problems that have plagued prior efforts to implement other information technologies. In health care, these problems include the difficulty of integrating a diverse, heterogeneous set of legacy systems; a lack of data standards; the complexity of medical practice; and complex, politicized health care organizational structures.

It is not clear whether the traditional hurdles to implementation of complex clinical information systems, such as the electronic medical record, are significantly lowered by the use of the Internet and related technologies. For example, although the capability to provide access to a set of services, content, and applications through a wide array of workstations and other devices might reduce the support costs for an application, it is not clear that the aggregate cost of the application infrastructure is reduced.

Some of the challenges are

Standards Development and Harmonization- This is important for interoperability of various systems, testing of features and for intergrity of data. This is yet to be done.

Health Information Exchange- This includes engaging HIE participants and assisting them to implement HIE services, and providing a focus on the right set of standards, protocols, legal agreements, specifications, and services needed to manage the exchange of health information.

Certification and Accreditation: Provides vendors and developers with clear criteria for developing their products by issuing certification criteria for the Certification Program.

Awarness among patients or end user: This will help in engaging consumers directly with IT system to empower them to meaningfully use their health information and actively participate in their health care through improved access to health information